Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Troop Crawler

"Let's get these men to the battle."

-Troop Crawler

The ZSL-92 "Tie Jun", commonly known as Troop Crawler is a staple unit for any Elsword commander, effectively filling in different support roles for helping the advance of the Elsword horde. It is the Empire's basic armored personnel carrier (APC) vehicle as well as their basic stealth detector and anti-air unit. This unit is planned to be voiced by *TBA*

Tactical analysis

 * Plenty of room: The Troop Crawler of Luresia serves to bring as many easily trained troops to the front as quickly as possible. With its 8 off-road wheels, it can do that on any terrain with ease.
 * Rapid Fire: The Troop Crawler is armed with two anti-air Gattling cannons which can easily put hundreds of holes into any aircraft foolish to stray within range of its guns.
 * Next stop, the front line: All Troop Crawlers are also equipped with a propaganda speaker to buff and heal their passengers in combat and stealth detection systems to stop any infiltrators.
 * Everyone heads down: Unfortunately, the Gattling cannons cannot fire at ground targets, as its targeting system is not calibrated to do so.

Overview
A favorite by Elsword generals despite its considerable years of service, the Troop Crawler is still active within the Imperial Army, delivering the fighting men of the Imperial Army to the front lines safe and on-time. However, seeing the effectiveness of propaganda effects in battle and seeking a way to enable Imperial forces to access it earlier, the Imperial high command commissioned minor modifications allowing it to be fitted with speaker towers, encouraging those surrounding it to fight with undying resolve, healing injured infantry and repairing damaged vehicles. It also remains one of the only transports to be fitted with sensory gear suitable for the detection of hiding enemies, and plays a vital role in guarding Chinese holdings from infiltration.

History
For all its tanks and all its men, the Empire was lacking a single effective anti-air vehicle. This deficiency, as it were, was left unaddressed until the Empire assault on (Nanjing) during the Split, which resulted in terrible casualties on both sides. While the Empire upper echelon was willing to write off the loss of the thousands of men who had crewed the Battlemasters and fought with rifles, both General Tao and General Kwai were incensed by the loss of twelve Overlord tanks and the inglorious retreat of an Armageddon cannon, both the fault of Voshkod Twinblades.

Following this, both generals angrily demanded an effective anti-air vehicle of some sort (even though they had rejected suggestions for such a thing previously). With the backing of two generals behind the demand, General Leang and her experimental technology division were ordered by Chairman Mao to work on a solution to the problem, and develop an anti-aircraft system.

The initial plan was to mount a 37mm cannon on the vehicle and use that. However, because of the cannon's slow rate of fire, Leang's division soon switched over to Gattling weapons, which would be able to maintain an extremely high rate of fire without overheating. Development of anti-aircraft Gattling weaponry soon progressed from the stage of hand-cranked Gattling cannon prototypes to Gattling cannons powered by gasoline-powered motors.

Radar sets reverse-engineered from downed fighters allowed the Gattling cannons to use radar tracking, making them far more efficient at following and shooting down aircraft than before. With the Gattling cannon to be mounted on a Battlemaster chassis, the Type-61 Gattling Tank was ready to go into service.

It didn't, however, thanks to the suggestion for the improvement of the Gattling Tank made by a soldier. General Leang did not have the soldier punished, but instead had him transferred to her division (after all, it was a suggestion for an "improvement" to an existing project). Despite complaints from the other generals, the production of the Gattling Tank was delayed for three weeks while the vehicle was completely revised as per the soldier's suggestion.

At the end of the three weeks, the new Type-90 Troop Crawler (which killed two birds with one stone by combining an APC and an anti-aircraft system into a single vehicle) went into mass production. The design soon proved itself to be an excellent one, with its one flaw being its inability to target ground units, and throughout the war, and in modern times, thousands were produced.

After the war with the MLA, the Empire went out of its way to develop better tools for IED detection and counter-guerrilla operations. The Forward Recon Kit was regarded as the most promising and cost-effective project. It provides the ever-reliable Troop Crawler with a large dish capable of scanning far into unknown territory with a powerful, highly concentrated probing beam. In addition, the vehicle is equipped with reactive armor to protect the passenger compartment from attacks, increasing the overall survivability of the Crawler in a hostile environment.

Trivia

 * The appearance of the Troop Crawler in Elysea's Conflict is based on the ZSL-92 model from The End of Days with the Paradox Gattling Crawler AA gun.

Guardians of the Tacitus

 * Stryker ICV (Aquila)
 * M113A3 (Task Force Eagle)
 * ACCE (Task Force Eve)
 * Archon ARV (Alliance)
 * Goliath APC (ADI)
 * Type 73 APC (Protectorate)
 * Sudden Transport
 * Lynx (Andora)
 * M113 Ultra (Community)
 * Troop Crawler (Empire)

Destroyers of Balthazar

 * BTR-90 (Voshkod)
 * Scarab APC (Brotherhood)
 * Ratel (Black Hand)
 * M112A1 Retriever (Horde)
 * BTR-50P (MLA)
 * Kamaz Armored Truck (Collective)
 * BTR-60 (Encantadia)
 * Dump Truck
 * ... (Scrin)

Neutrals

 * FV432 APC (Coalition)
 * Rhino Transport (Astarte Legion)
 * Heretical Tranport Truck (Heralds)
 * ... (Order)
 * M113A1 "Jackson" (Survivors)
 * Testudo (Syndicate)
 * Devilfish
 * ... (Conglomerate)
 * Taurox (Legion)

Expansion

 * ... (ASA)
 * M113A1 "Safari" (Bastion)
 * APC Creep (Rangers)
 * ... (Pirates)
 * ... (Ascalia)
 * Civet Mobile Gun (Elona)
 * ... (Dominion)
 * ... (Security)
 * ... (Ascendency)

DLC

 * ... (Federation)
 * ... (Corona)
 * ... (Party)
 * ... (Skynet)
 * ... (Dominion)
 * ... (Elemental)
 * ... (Autocracy)
 * BTR-70 (League)
 * ... (Swarm)
 * Sdkfz 251 (Pirates)
 * Fahd (Elona)
 * SKOT (Ascalia)
 * Guarani (Confederation)
 * Patgb 360 (Kingdom)
 * ... (Goo)
 * Ratel (Security)
 * ... (Imperium)
 * ... (Dynasty)
 * Land Rover (Warlords)
 * ... (Cult)
 * BTR-80 (Raiders)
 * Transport Lorry (Theocracy)
 * IFV-6c Panther (ASA)
 * Underhive Transport Truck (Insurgents)
 * Bastion M113A1 APC (Bastion)
 * ... (Guardians)
 * ... (Hierarchy)
 * ... (Sundered)
 * Cheetah Transport (Ecumene)
 * Universal Carrier (Concordat)
 * Piranha IV (Contingent)
 * ... (Rangers)
 * XM1283 APC (Eden)
 * ... (InGen)
 * ... (Hallows)
 * M3 Half-Track (Commune)
 * Desert Chameleon (Clique)
 * Ho-Ki (Guild)
 * Millipede AIC (Threat)
 * HH-a Javelin (Traders)