Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/M55 "Husky" Artillery

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The M110 "Husky" Artillery. This unit is planned to be voiced by

History
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A product of (insert nation) arms factories, the M100 "Husky" Artillery Track combines a 240mm howitzer with a sturdy, wide chassis to create one of the most devastating conventional mobile artillery pieces ever developed. When it was developed in V.C., it was originally intended to be accompanied by ammunition carriers, freeing the chassis to carry merely the gun and its five-man crew; however, Allied High Command changed the requirements during development, requiring the weapon to carry a large number of rounds with it. The extra weight and space requirements increased the weight above the original target, leaving the loaded road speed of the Husky a pathetic 16 kph.

At first, the Husky was unpopular with its crews, so much so that the title became associated with military command's incompetence in both military circles and civilian media. In addition to the extremely slow speed and rather thin armor, it had a painfully slow turning speed, and most damning of all, the inclusion of the internal ammunition reserve had meant shifting the weapon so that the three-man loading crew had to leave the vehicle in order to reload the howitzer.

However, while civilian scorn remained, all complaints among military personnel vanished the moment the M100 howitzer fired its first shot. The 240mm howitzer earned a fierce reputation as the strongest artillery weapon of the war, capable of destroying structures, crushing bunkers, destroying tanks, and basically any other destructive feat imaginable. Batteries of M100s would flatten entire tank divisions from beyond visual range, and the reload times of the howitzer put the Soviet V2 launchers to shame.

As the Allies began to advance, they began to encounter Voshkod "SAM Sites", hardened underground complexes that were practically immune to conventional attack. To counter this, a new "super shell" was developed for the M100, using an experimental high-yield charge to breach these structures and destroy their interiors. Nearly 9,000 of these vehicles were deployed during the Second World War and more would be built later, though it was phased out after V.C. in favor of the UKM-13 Eclipse 100mm howitzer, which despite having a much smaller caliber was ultimately considered the superior weapon due to its greater ammo storage capacity and a greater rate of fire. Giving all of their remaining Huskies to the New California Commonwealth who might find a better use for them.

The Minutemen use a small number of M100s, as their slow speed makes them unsuited for hit-and-run warfare. They've taken to calling the vehicle the M100 after the Aquilan manufacturing designation.