Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Sturmtiger

"Ready to flatten the area!"

-Sturmtiger

The Sturmtiger was a interwar Ironforge assault gun built on the Tiger I chassis and armed with a 380mm rocket-propelled mortar. Its primary task was to provide heavy fire support for infantry units fighting in urban areas. A handful of vehicles are produced and fought in GVAW and today under use by the Imperium. Voiced by

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The idea for a heavy infantry support vehicle capable of demolishing heavily defended buildings or fortified areas with a single shot came out of the experiences of the heavy urban fighting in the interwar. At the time, the Ironforge Military had only the Sturm-Infanteriegeschütz 33B available for destroying buildings, a Sturmgeschütz III variant armed with a 15 cm sIG 33 heavy infantry gun. Its successor, the Sturmpanzer IV, also known as the Brummbär, was in production from early 1943 V.C. This was essentially an improved version of the earlier design, mounting the same gun on the Panzer IV chassis with greatly improved armour protection.

While greatly improved compared to the earlier models, by this time infantry anti-tank weapons were improving dramatically, and the Ironforge armed forces still saw a need for a similar, but more heavily armoured and armed vehicle. Therefore, a decision was made to create a new vehicle based on the Tiger tank and arm it with a 210 mm howitzer. However, this weapon turned out not to be available at the time and was therefore replaced by a 380 mm rocket launcher, which was adapted from a Ironforge Navy depth charge launcher.