Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Char B1

"Combat Engineering Vehicle here!"

-Char B1

The Char B1 is a former Orlais heavy tank from the interwar era, now used by the Aristocracy of Encantadia as their support defense tank mostly operated by the Florans. Planned to be voiced by

History
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The Char B1 was a notable tank from Orlais and it was a specialised break-through vehicle, originally conceived as a self-propelled gun with a 75 mm howitzer in the hull; later a 47 mm gun in a turret was added, to allow it to function also as a Char de Bataille, a "battle tank" fighting enemy armour, equipping the armoured divisions of the Orlesian Infantry Arm. Starting in the early twenties, its development and production were repeatedly delayed, resulting in a vehicle that was both technologically complex and expensive, and already obsolescent when real mass-production of a derived version, the Char B1 "bis", started in the late 1930s. A further up-armoured version, the Char B1 "ter", was started production in 1943 V.C. and 1500 were built prior to the Great Voshkod-Aquilan War and 120 of it are deployed in Orlais Encantadia. The Char B1 ter was not a terribly effective battle tank against the T-34, T-55 or the EGs including the Ursa in GVAW, but was occasionally used as a linebreaker.

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