Kalran: Tales of the four nations/Balor

"No criminals shall escape our gaze."

-The Balor leaving the forge

The Balor is the defense unit of Ouroboros defense commander. Voiced by Matthew Vanston

Tactical analysis

 * Resistance crusher: The Balor might look like a clumsy walker. Nevertheless, its weapons are very real and very deadly. The Balor is armed with a microwave cannon, lances of energy that leave infantry reeling in pain and shutting down vehicles, and pepper sprayers at its base to ward off ground forces too close for the beams. And the crew will happily swap out their weapons for the more lethal thermal beam cannons and flamethrowers once lethal forces are authorized.
 * Area denial: In addition, Balors can launch a salvo of tear gas grenades, covering the targeted area in a gas that will leave infantry choking on the ground and stalling vehicles. Able to both deny the enemy ground and force soldiers out of buildings. And once lethal forces are authorized will switch out for deadlier nerve gas grenades
 * Tremble in fear: The Balor also has speakers attached on each side of the cockpit. Blaring out heavy propaganda that both emboldens nearby forces and causes enemies to doubt their cause and a powerful spotlight to find stealth units. And its height allows it to easily walk up and down cliffs and fire over buildings and walls
 * A huge target: However the huge height also makes them easy targets for anti-air weaponry. And it's rather fragile for its size

History
"STOMPERS! Everyone RUN NOW!"

-Last words of Wyatt Reid, a tenko fighter

As Ouroboros rolled their police force for the first time, they began to encounter situations for which their highly specialized armies were not suited. In the jungles of most eastern island, their wheel-based vehicles were bogged down, their oversized ships not suited for river deltas, and the dense rains, undergrowth, and trees meant a lot of covers for dissidents to avoid return fire, not to mention that some islands were too large for their relatively small force to keep constant watch. The force that conquered the islands of the inquisition looked as though it might sputter and fail against a bankrupt, corrupt government barely out of the shadow of Kyodrid colonization. Ouroboros engineers put their best engineers on creating a solution, which resulted in a typically Ouroboros vehicle of vast scale and over-engineering with a long turnaround time.

At nearly a hundred feet tall, the Balor suppression walker was built to stride above the jungle and fire down on targets that expose themselves with its microwave cannon, a low-intensity ray gun intended to cause unbearable pain to infantry hit and shut down vehicles, with three pepper spray hose at its base to ward off nearby enemy. And can easily up their beams intensity, where it can reduce infantry to ash and armor to slag, and flamethrowers.

Consisting of a small primary hull with a microwave turret mounted atop a secondary hull containing a chi reactor and locomotive mechanisms and a third turret mounted below holding three pepper spray nozzles, the four spindly legs on which the fighting machine is perched lend many unique advantages and disadvantages to the machine; though it can fire over almost any obstacle and at extreme ranges, it is a very obvious target. Thanks to weight issues and overall size, the forcefield generators are inadequate to block anti-tank weaponry, so it is forced to hit before being hit.

However, as a multirole attack platform, the Balor is without peers. The height and positioning of the microwave cannon makes it ideal for striking aircraft as well as ground targets, and its ability to light enemy positions on fire lends the machine to assaulting dense, built-up areas.

To further its ability to force the enemy out of defensive locations, the Balor can fire tear gas grenades that cover an area in irritating tear gas and can be easily switched to more lethal nerve gas. So long as the Balor is hitting instead of being hit, it can effectively support any Ouroboros advance or finding and stopping enemies advancing through their territory.

Trivia

 * The Balor is based off the Baltic eye from Wolfenstein and the colossus from Starcraft.