Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Pincer Tankette

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The Pincer Tankette is the modification of Encantadia's Pincer ICV that serves as a light artillery support vehicle. Planned to be voiced by *TBA*

Tactical analysis

 * Claws of Justice: The Pincer is a fast, amphibious, anti-infantry light tank. While not as good as its Aquilan competitors at the time in a straight firefight, its mobility allows it to perform hit-and-run attacks on targets, often retreating into a river to escape.
 * Guns Blazing: Armed with a pair of burst-firing machine guns, Pincers will have trouble dealing with vehicles, but none whatsoever picking off small groups of infantry.
 * Triple Clawed: But the Pincer's true weapon is its rack of bolt-on missiles which easily devastates most armored targets outside of retaliation range.
 * Cobbled Together: Poor armor, helplessness against aircraft, lowered speed while swimming and the lengthy reloading time, minimum range, and poor accuracy of its rocket rack are all major weaknesses of the Pincer.

History
"How the hell did that thing get behind us?"

-Peacekeeper in a dangerous situation

For the League, equipment is not always easy to come by, so they have to make do with whatever they can find. Orlesian MAT-49 machine pistols are used alongside Voshkod PPSh-41 submachine guns, snipers must make do with temperamental AK assault rifle, and homemade mortars are mounted on rusting pickup trucks.

In particular, vehicles are rather hard to come by for the League; as a result, League forces that do manage to salvage or otherwise acquire military vehicles do whatever they can to maximize their effectiveness. This can be seen in the case of the Pincer Tankette, an obsolete model of infantry combat vehicle that the Voshkod sold off to their allies when they replaced them with newer models.

To make the best use of these vehicles, League forces have mounted additional weapons or given them other upgrades, such as screw propellers that allow them to traverse water or welded-on 30mm autocannons that add some additional firepower. League Pincers often sport highly effective jungle camouflage (though this is in part due to the fact that moss has grown all over the vehicles), allowing them to blend into the jungle better than BMP-1s, though this camouflage is admittedly ineffective outside of the jungle.

One of the most notorious modifications that the League has made to their Pincers was to strap on a rack of Katyusha rockets, salvaged from abandoned BM-14 trucks to the roof of the vehicle, turning it into an improvised artillery piece of sorts. While the rockets take up the space that would normally be used to transport infantry, this modification gives the Pincer the ability to lob a devastating amount of high explosives on a target area and quickly retreat away, though accuracy is abysmal and reloading is a long, tedious, process.

Of course, following the Coatl Offensive and the arrival of Aquilan forces in Lustria, thousands of vehicles had to be abandoned by the NVA in their retreat, including countless Pincers, something which proved to be a major boon for the League. As the League was to discover in the subsequent weeks, a good number of these vehicles were still in good condition, having been abandoned after getting stuck in the mud, running out of fuel, or some other problem that could be easily fixed. Before long, the League had dredged out dozens of Pincers, as well as other vehicles, and restored them to operational condition with a few repairs.