Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Howitzer Crew

"Howitzer Combat!!!"

-Howitzer Crew leaving the Boot Camp

The Howitzer Crew is Alliance of Hawke's Dwarven weapon crew infantry, relying on Howitzer. Planned to be voiced by *TBA*, emulating the voices of the Dwarven mortar crew from Warcraft III.

Tactical analysis

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Overview
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History
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For the forces of the Alliance, protecting one's country is the ultimate goal. In the GVAW the Alliance's various armies stood their ground on their soil against the communist onslaught. Then in the Cold War, with the help of the Peacekeepers, they held the line against Voshkod and their allies. Today, to better protect Alliance lands, the armies have adopted a combination of mobile defense and search-and-destroy tactics.

Most of these tactics dictate a similar strategy: Tanks, APCs, and infantry will secure an optimal location on the battlefield (one with high ground, easy to dig in, etc etc) while Ranger Battle Cars hunt down targets. Once the Dwarven soldiers have an area locked down, they will advance with artillery coverage from location to location engaging enemies along the way and by the time they reach the enemy base, it will have been pounded into the dirt by airstrikes and artillery. When the Alliance needed an artillery piece that can hit hard and far, the Pershing Howitzer gave them just that.

Meant to be a low-cost, foot mobile artillery piece, the Pershing is equal to its older relative. The Pershing can hit far-out targets with its 105mm howitzer and can maintain a rate of fire comparable to autoloading howitzers like the Eclipse or the Zephyr, allowing it to provide sustained fire support.

Of course, the Pershing suffers from all the disadvantages of towed artillery. The gun's crew, not to mention the gun itself, is completely exposed to enemy fire, and the Pershing lacks the mobility of self-propelled artillery like other SPGs of similar type such as the NLOS-C and Zephyr.

The Pershing has already begun its deployment in Lustria where is considered a rousing success. Hills captured by Alliance infantry are fortified with sandbag nests and dug-in vehicles to hold off enemy forces. Then, Condor Transports and Battle Cars (or sometimes just the crew) pull the howitzers to the top where they can rain fire over a large area on Lizardmen targets. These tactics have proven so successful nearly every country has adopted the Pershing and sales have shot through the roof.