Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Wolfhound Tank Destroyer

"Wolfhound is on the battlefield..."

-Wolfhound Tank Destroyer

The Wolfhound Tank Destroyer is the superheavy MBT of the Alliance of Hawke. Planned to be voiced by *TBA*.

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History
"You call that armor?"

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There are few things more feared than a Voshkod tank division. Throughout the timeline of Elysea, the Voshkod have repeatedly demonstrated the superiority of Voshkod armor, smashing aside the puny tanks of other countries with horrendous ease. And throughout the wars, the Alliance have always tried to counter Voshkod armored superiority. Of these methods, one of them was the construction of ever more deadly tank destroyers, such as the Mirage Tank, Paladin Tank Destroyer, Ironforge Tank Hunter and the Jagdpanther.

During the Great Voshkod-Aquilan War, the Jagdpanther and Jagdtigers had performed well, ambushing Voshkod tank columns and destroying them from the rear. However, despite the TD's record, some, such as the Dwarves, felt that it wasn't enough. Following the end of the war, the Dwarves set about designing and building a new tank destroyer to supplant the Jagdpanther in their armies, believing (rightly) that the Voshkod might decide to invade again. After a lengthy development, the Dwarves unveiled the new Wolfhound mere months before the Voshkod invaded Hawke, opening the Hawke front again in 2004 V.C. Roughly a hundred or so Wolfhounds had been deployed when Ironforge fell for the 2nd time.

Unlike the Jagdpanther and the Mirage, both of which utilize stealth to spring traps on Voshkod forces and strike at their most vulnerable points, the Ironforge Wolfhound is far more direct. It forgoes stealth for range and power, mounting a long-barrelled "Light of Orlais" Spectrum Cannon, a weapon so powerful as to rival the dreaded Drakon cannons, as it can destroy both armor and infantry. A powerful optics pod combines all of the tank destroyer's targeting equipment into one, compact package.

It didn't disappoint. Certainly, the tank could not conduct ambushes the way the Jagdpanther and Mirage could, but the range and power of its Spectrum Cannon made that unnecessary. The Wolfhound could destroy T-64 Rhino Tanks and even the newer Kodiak Tanks from ranges in excess of several kilometers, easily outranging between the 85mm and 125mm guns of the Voshkod tanks, and could also disperse its beam when it fires, shortening its range but letting it slag swathes of tanks clustered together.

Unfortunately, the Wolfhound was not available in sufficient bulk for them to significantly influence the outcome of the Voshkod invasion of Ironforge, having only just entered production. Despite this, the losses they inflicted on the Voshkod tank divisions were staggeringly out of proportion to their small number, and a deeply humiliating blow to the Voshkod belief in their armored supremacy, so much that the few Wolfhounds that the Voshkod captured were quickly destroyed and their crews executed, the Voshkod believing that no Allied vehicle should be capable of wreaking such havoc on their tanks. Less than fifty of these vehicles, all from the 305th Panzer Battalion, were able to avoid destruction by escaping to (insert). And in the aftermath of the war, the Wolfhound was officially inducted into the Alliance military, with the Wolfhound crews taking pride in taunting the Voshkods on their inferior armor.

Guardians of the Tacitus

 * Paladin/Plasma Paladin (Aquila)
 * Chevalier/XF-32 F.I.S.T. (Task Force Wolf)
 * Wolfhound Tank Destroyer (Alliance)
 * Mammoth Tank (ADI)
 * Type 40 Yonmaru/King Oni (Protectorate)
 * Super Goliath/Queen Oni (Asur Command)
 * Greater King Oni (Exo-Command)
 * Jagdmammut (Andora)
 * Overlord (Empire)
 * Conqueror Tank (Grand Chase Royal Guards)
 * Emperor Overlord (Elsword's Royal Force)
 * K3 Grey Tiger (Community)
 * Sensenmann Tank (Lotus Clan)
 * Wasteland Superheavy Tank (Wolf Clan)

Destroyers of Balthazar

 * Apocalypse Tank (Voshkod)
 * Catastrophe (Kvant Division)
 * Blackbear (Zenit Division)
 * Stealth Tank (Brotherhood)
 * Gorkanaut (Horde)
 * BRDM-1 "Roach" (MLA)
 * Shturm-S (Nightborne Chemical Division)
 * Colossus Tank (Collective)
 * Shagohod Tank (Encantadia)
 * Sentinel (Hathoria)
 * FCM F1 (Adamya)
 * Annihilator Tripod (Scrin)

Neutrals

 * Land Raider Phobos (Coalition)
 * Hekaton Land Fortress (Primaris Votann Guards)
 * Fellblade (Heralds)
 * Cataphract Land Ironclad (Order)
 * Sidewinder Burrow Tank (Survivors)
 * Kronos Heavy Tank (Syndicate)
 * Stormsurge (Tau Merchant Guards)
 * Mastodon Walker (Conglomerate)
 * Baneblade (Legion)

Minor Factions

 * TS-77M (National Guard)
 * Topolov Tesla Cruiser (GSEL)
 * Mazdak Supertank (Shock Division)
 * King Mastiff (Irving's Raiders)
 * X-66 Mammoth Tank MkI (Zemurian Armed Forces)
 * ... (Amiri's Hunters)
 * ... (Militia)
 * ... (Secret Police)
 * ... (Rearguards)
 * Telescope Truck (Network)
 * Inferno Fortress (Amazons)
 * ... (Enclave)
 * ... (NCC)
 * ... (Red Line Union)

Bonus Factions

 * T-140 Angara (ASA)
 * Voidpanzer (Bastion)
 * Linebreaker Creep (Rangers)
 * Ariavanna Tank (Pirates)
 * Rakshasa Land Cruiser (Elona)
 * Lion Heavy Tank
 * Oblivion Tank
 * Gorgon Mammoth Tank (Ascalia)
 * Thor (Dominion)
 * Super Merkava (Security)
 * ... (Ascendancy)

DLC

 * UNSC Elephant (Federation)
 * Federation Mastodon
 * Zhurong Assault Tank (Corona)
 * ... (Party)
 * Executor Tripletank (Skynet)
 * SKS 300 "Kaiser" (Elemental)
 * PZM-24 "Tur" (Mondstadt-Polania Outriders)
 * SHM-70 "Gulay-Gorod" (Snezhnaya-Rusviet Vanguard)
 * M-19 "Knox" (Inazuma-Usonia Expeditionary Force)
 * AT-AT (Autocracy)
 * BZ-75 (League)
 * League EG-11 Mammoth Tank (Itza)
 * Ultralisk (Swarm)
 * Machu Pichu Advanced Tank (Confederation)
 * Strv 2000 (Kingdom)
 * Scorpion Grav-Tank (Aeldari Guard Corps)
 * ... (Goo)
 * Maus (Imperium)
 * E-100
 * Doomsday Ark (Dynasty)
 * ST-II (Warlords)
 * Envenomators (Cult)
 * Dais of Destruction (Raiders)
 * Sigmar Tank (Theocracy)
 * Lindwyrm Assault Transport (Nord Warriors)
 * T28 (Insurgents)
 * Apexia (Guardians)
 * Gondwana Heavy Tank (Hierarchy)
 * ... (Sundered)
 * Ifrit Tank (Ecumene)
 * Black Prince (Concordat)
 * Sabretooth Heavy Tank
 * Super Conqueror
 * Akula Tank (Contingent)
 * Cerberus (Eden)
 * Facemelter Assault Vehicle (InGen)
 * ... (Society)
 * ... (Conclave)
 * ... (Hallows)
 * MBT-70 (Commune)
 * ... (Lordships)
 * ... (Directorate)
 * ... (Columbia)
 * Soban (Clique)
 * O-I (Guild)
 * Tanker Bug (Threat)
 * O-75b "Ares" (Traders)
 * EG-14 Terminator (Entente)
 * Tyrant (Oblivion)
 * Judgement (Corporation)
 * Arrogance Heavy Tank (Institute)
 * Mazdak Supertank (Commonwealth)
 * ... (Nimbus)
 * ... (Carnival)
 * ... (Wraiths)
 * ... (Chronophage)
 * ... (Privateers)
 * Aegis Leviathan (Foundation)
 * Hellsword Uberpanzer (Spartacus)
 * Morgan Breakthrough Walker (Regency)