Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Marauder Tank

"Marauder tank assembled!"

-Marauder tank leaving the Arms Dealer

The Marauder Tank is the MLA's main battle tank that plays a crucial part in armored assaults. Its firepower dramatically rises with salvage upgrades. This MBT is planned to be voiced by *TBA*

History
Despite their work being the stuff of legends among MLA sympathizers around the world, the names of the original creators of the Marauder self-propelled assault gun will most likely remain a historical mystery. All that is known is that a group of five Night Elf women released a viral video on the internet in the mid-2000s V.C. in which they provided a literal step-by-step 'tutorial' on how to build a crude armored fighting vehicle using off-the-shelf tools, metal scraps, and a truck engine based on the White Guards T-63 tanks, the original Marauders. Most preposterously, the guide suggested that an externally mounted camera connected to a consumer-grade television and a re-wired video gamepad could be used to monitor the vehicle's surroundings and help control its movement. This raw ingenuity did not go unnoticed by the Moonlight Liberation Army, whose followers in Kalimdor, Suramar, and (insert Draph location) soon followed their example and proceeded to build their own 'tanks' to engage Guardian forces head-on, with faith, courage, and craftiness making up for a lack of modern machinery and scarce parts for maintaining their Scarabs, even the Stormrage Cell, who is the only one that has the far superior T-63, are using this Marauder copy as they find it harder and harder to get parts to maintain their T-63s.

It was also designed to survive the hot days in the Askairan deserts, with special filters made to prevent the engine and vital components from clogging with sand or overheating. Its only real weakness was its lack of a moving turret, an intentional tradeoff made by its designers to simplify the design. However, this meant that the Marauder was vulnerable to being flanked, and could not retaliate when retreating. Despite this flaw, the MLA had a design that was more than a match for even the most modern main battle tanks the Guardians and Destroyers had to offer.

Indeed, the life of a MLA tanker has been a dangerous one ever since the start of the War Against the MLA but those who managed to survive throughout the decades have become hardened veterans and their heavily customized Marauder tanks are a testament of this experience. Armed with twin 88mm guns and protected by a variety of armor scraps cobbled together from foreign tanks of various ages and nationalities, the Marauder remains the most lethal ground combat vehicle in the arsenal of Malfurion Stormrage and should never be underestimated. By the early 2010s V.C., many Marauder crews had figured out how to equip their vehicles with fully rotating turrets without diminishing their engine power during a forward charge, thus finally turning their Marauders into actual tanks at long last.

Trivia

 * The Marauder Tank in Gaiaterra is the ROTR version

Guardians of the Tacitus

 * M1A2 Abrams (Aquila)
 * Legion Tank (Alliance)
 * Goliath Tank (ADI)
 * Type 10 Hitomaru MBT (Protectorate)
 * ... (Andora)
 * ... (Empire)

Destroyers of Balthazar

 * ... (Voshkod)
 * ... (Brotherhood)
 * ... (Horde)
 * Marauder Tank (MLA)
 * ... (Collective)
 * ... (Scrin)

Neutrals

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

DLC

 * ... (Federation)
 * ... (Corona)
 * ... (Party)
 * ... (Skynet)
 * ... (Dominion)
 * ... (Elemental)
 * ... (Autocracy)
 * ... (League)
 * ... (Legion)
 * ... (Swarm)
 * ... (Pirates)
 * ... (Elona)
 * ... (Ascalia)
 * ... (Confederation)
 * ... (Kingdom)
 * ... (Goo)
 * ... (Community)
 * ... (Security)
 * ... (Imperium)
 * ... (Dynasty)
 * ... (Warlords)
 * ... (Cult)
 * ... (Raiders)
 * ... (Theocracy)
 * ... (ASA)
 * ... (Insurgents)
 * ... (Bastion)
 * ... (Guardians)
 * ... (Hierarchy)
 * ... (Sundered)
 * ... (Ecumene)
 * Chieftain (Concordat)
 * Churchill
 * ... (Contingent)
 * ... (Rangers)
 * ... (Eden)
 * ... (InGen)
 * ... (Hallows)
 * ... (Commnune)
 * T-64 (Encantadia)