Kalran: Tales of the four nations/Albatross

"Nutcracker ready!"

-A Nutcracker entering the battlefield

Tactical analysis

 * Bust them open, like walnuts: As an aging bomber. The Nutcracker mainly serves as a strategic bomber for the Navaheim, crippling enemy bases with sonic bombs that shakes apart structures, destroying most buildings with ease.


 * Give them, the shocker: The Nutcracker also carries another type of bomb, which it can switch to dropping instead. Tesla bombs, which are small but numerous, stuns vehicles and electrocutes any unfortunate infantry, and leaves an electrified field for a significant amount of time, which lets them be be used for land denial.
 * Run away, like the wily rabbit: Due to its size, the nutcracker also have rather massive spiral engines which create an excessive amount of steam. Which the can vent outward to cover themselves, while activating their illusion generator. Either letting them sneak past AA defenses to strike critical targets, or to escape from a hairy situation


 * Trapped, like fish in a barrel: The Nutcracker does have its share of weakness for its price. Fast moving ground based AA systems can avoid the deadly rain of bombs from the Nutcracker while dishing out hurt and the bombers lack of anti-air weaponry means that interceptors can easily bring them down