Post by asil on Nov 7, 2009 17:03:32 GMT -5
Code Name: Panzer-Tiger
Cost: 7,000 for Typical Setup
Basic Frame: None, Original Design
Manufacturer: Panzer-Krupp Metalworks, for the EU Army, particular the German Territorial Army.
Operator: None
Accommodation: 2
Equipment and Design Features
Typical Setup: HITAI capacity (not included), 1x Integrated 105 mm Panzer-Krupp Cannon, 2x shoulder-mounted machine guns, 2x concealed grenade launcher, 2x antipersonnel machine gun, and pick one of the following: (1x light cannon, 1x minigun, 1x assault rifle, 1x Heavy Assault Rifle, 1x Zweihander)
A two-pilot knightmare, the Panzer-Tiger is a heavy knightmare built to take on anything from fortifications to aircraft to battleships. It requires two pilots, a Devicer and a Gunner. The Devicer controls the anti-knightmare weaponry whereas the Gunner directs the Huge Artillery Gun mounted on the Tiger's Back. Intergrated directly into the frame, this cannon hurls exploding, armor piercing or incendiary rounds that will easily shred a knightmare or an aircraft. Because of its heavy armor, the Tiger is very slow and not especially nimble, and so it requires two shoulder-mounted machine guns to defeat close-range knightmares. Because it cannot fight at melee combat, the Panzer-Tiger is generally deployed with one or two Landwehrs or Schutzes. Panzer-Tigers are deployed generally with a group of close-combat knightmares or at the back as mobile artillery. Obviously an immensely expensive knightmare.
Description: A huge knightmare, the Panzer-Tiger towers over the average knightmare, and is endowed with a large amount of armor. Its "head" resembles the beak of a bird or the front of a jet fighter, and broad shoulders to allow two pilots.
Development RP: Daunted by the immobility of heavy artillery but also put off by the weakness of the Panzer-hummel, the Panzer-Tiger was meant to incorporate elements of both the Knightmare frame and the artillery gun. Technicians in the EU early on saw the weakness of sending in the Panzer-Tiger alone, and thus only released the Panzer-Tiger alongside the Panzer Schutze, a smaller knightmare built to defend the huge Panzer-Tiger. Panzer-Tigers were sporadically deployed in Scandinavia and Africa, but floundered in the sands of the Sahara.
Code Name: Zweihander
Cost: 550
Manufacturer: Panzer-Krupp Metalworks
Part Type: melee Weapon
Construction Type: Physical
Equipment and Design Features
Built based on the weapon of the Landsknecht and Doppelsoldners, famous mercenaries of Germany in the middle ages. Basically a long, heavy blade deployed for hand-to-hand combat. Its weight makes it difficult for most knightmares to use, but its massive cutting power and wide hilt make it an effective offensive or defensive weapon, in addition to a cheap one. Not as powerful as a Kaiten Yaibatou or MVS weapon in its power, nor very long-lasting against energy-based weapons, but its weight more than makes up by smashing enemy knightmares off their feet.
Code Name: 1x Integrated 105 mm Panzer-Krupp Cannon
Cost: -- (included in cost of Panzer-Tiger--cannot be deployed on any other knightmare).
Manufacturer: Panzer-Krupp Metalworks
Part Type: Rifle
Construction Type: Physical
Equipment and Design Features
Essentially the same heavy weapon deployed on tanks before the advent of Knightmares, the 105mm Panzer-Krupp Cannon is built directly into the Panzer-Tiger knightmare's back. Its power would knock the average Knightmare over and requires the Panzer-Tiger's huge bulk to handle. It can fire a range of shells that include Anti-Armor, Incendiary, Exploding, and Gefjun Field Shells.
