Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Mortar Truck

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The Mortar Truck is the primary self-propelled mortar vehicle (mortar carrier) of League of Lizard Khanate. Planned to be voiced by.

History
"Where the HELL is that mortar fire coming from?"

-Marine under fire from Mortar Trucks

Hit-and-run is the primary tactic used by the League to weaken and Aquilan forces in their vicinity. Every infantry, every vehicle, and every last tank (except for the Mammoth and 113 Armor Hunter), is tailored to suit the role of hit-and-run. This unorthodox tactic has proven highly effective against mobile Aquilan units, but when the Aquilans succeed in securing a foothold and setting up a frontal outpost, there is little the League can do.

Their infantry squadrons are easily mowed down by M60 emplacements, and their thin-skinned vehicles are ill-equipped to deal with Multigunner turrets. In the end, such attempts to weaken the Aquilan foothold in the area only result in countless League casualties.

With Aquilan outposts springing up left, right and center, the League had to act fast before the Aquilans finally overran them. The primary flaw with their tactics was that their troops had to close the distance with the enemy before they could engage their targets. While this was effective against unprepared ground forces, Aquilan sentries are far more alert and would open fire before the League got close enough to engage. League soldiers quickly noticed this problem, and set to work in creating a weapon which could engage Aquilan static defenses from beyond their effective range.

The solution was simple but brilliant. Using bits of steel, lengths of copper pipe, and a homemade furnace, a League soldier, either Saurus or Argonian was able to create an improvised but effective mortar that could lob 88mm shells with some degree of accuracy to hit targets up to a kilometer away. The homemade mortars were then mounted onto rusting pickup trucks, creating a relatively fast light artillery platform. The idea quickly spread, and soon Mortar Trucks were appearing within the League ranks.

Capable of bombarding Aquilanemplacements and then disappearing without leaving a trace when they pushed out, the Mortar Truck soon became a sentry's worst nightmare. Overnight, the construction of Aquilan outposts slowed dramatically as the Aquilan struggled to reinforce current bases with M198 Artillery platforms and fast-response F-4 Phantoms to deal with this potent new threat, and even then, most Mortar Trucks escaped unharmed after raids on Aquilan bases.

When the League was able to get their hands on a shipment of phosphorus smoke rounds (which were quite coincidentally 88mm caliber, though no one knows why), they were quick to utilize the rounds to their Mortar Trucks (since their weapons were the only ones capable of firing them), and Mortar Truck drivers soon took to producing smoke rounds of their own when the initial supply ran out.

The other disadvantage was somewhat less problematic. The rear wheels had a tendency to get stuck in the jungle mud, so the League stole a large number of broken Loshadka tracks, which the League bolted onto the flatbed. Now, the Mortar Truck was just as able to get in (and out of) range of the enemy as much as it is able to destroy them.

Guardians of the Tacitus

 * Stryker MC (Aquila)
 * ... (Alliance)
 * ... (ADI)
 * ... (Protectorate)
 * Mortar Track (Andora)
 * ... (Empire)
 * ... (Community)

Destroyers of Balthazar

 * ... (Voshkod)
 * ... (Brotherhood)
 * ... (Horde)
 * Mortar Half-Track (MLA)
 * ... (Collective)
 * ... (Encantadia)
 * ... (Scrin)

Neutrals

 * ... (Coalition)
 * ... (Heralds)
 * ... (Order)
 * ... (Survivors)
 * ... (Syndicate)
 * ... (Conglomerate)
 * ... (Legion)

DLC

 * ... (Federation)
 * ... (Corona)
 * ... (Party)
 * ... (Skynet)
 * ... (Dominion)
 * ... (Elemental)
 * ... (Autocracy)
 * ... (League)
 * ... (Swarm)
 * ... (Pirates)
 * ... (Elona)
 * ... (Ascalia)
 * ... (Confederation)
 * ... (Kingdom)
 * ... (Goo)
 * ... (Security)
 * ... (Imperium)
 * ... (Dynasty)
 * ... (Warlords)
 * ... (Cult)
 * ... (Raiders)
 * ... (Theocracy)
 * ... (ASA)
 * ... (Insurgents)
 * ... (Bastion)
 * ... (Guardians)
 * ... (Hierarchy)
 * ... (Sundered)
 * ... (Ecumene)
 * ... (Concordat)
 * ... (Contingent)
 * ... (Rangers)
 * ... (Eden)
 * ... (InGen)
 * ... (Hallows)
 * M7 Priest (Commune)