Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Antlion Minelayer

"Mine layer reporting in!"

-Antlion Minelayer leaving the Tank Factory

The Antlion Minelayer is an support vehicle based on the chassis of the Kodiak Tank of the Socialist Union of Voshkod. This unit is planned to be voiced by Bethan Walker.

Overview
Based on the Kodiak chassis after many failed attempts of bringing the Rhino's BM-31-2 Missile Mine Launcher system to the Kodiak tank without removing the main cannon, taking inspiration from the Encantadian Scrapper Tank.

Besides expelling unwelcomed guests, the Antlion can also neutralize enemy vehicles before they could even reach the base using its Terror Mines. Originally designed by a combat engineer named Viktor Kosinsky, a Terror mine is essentially a metal box with a sensor on top and a modified Terror Drone, making it cheaper and smaller but breaking down after one use, locked in it. When an approaching enemy vehicle is detected, the Terror Drone would be released onto the surface and force its way into the unwitting vehicle——at least it was hoped so. In practice, it turns out that being stashed in a small, dark, underground cell is as harmful to a drone as to a human being. Its sensory capacity and comprehension would be severely dampened due to continuous isolation, so when released it will usually stand idle for a moment as if it doesn't know what to do next. This creates a small window for a would-be victim and its teammates to destroy the drone before getting infected. The Bureau of Robotics has repeatedly refused to comment on the reason behind such flaw, or whether Terror Drones are still controlled via direct interface with human brains.

Trivia

 * The Antlion Minelayer in Gaiaterra, uses the chassis of the Kodiak tank and the Antlion's minelaying systems from Red Alert 20XX