Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/M48 Patton "Mastiff"

"There ain't nothin' that can stop us!"

-Minutemen vehicle crew upon entering the refurbished Patton "Mastiff"

The M48 Patton "Mastiff" is formerly a battle tank of the Federation of Aquila until it was replaced by the later M60 tank, and serves as the main battle tank of the Survivors. This unit is planned to be voiced by

History
"She may be old, but she still kicks ass!"

-Mastiff commander Matthew Macready report after a successful ambush on an Aquilan convoy

The M48 Patton was an Aquilan tank first built in 1952 V.C., which saw extensive service during the Great Voshkod-Aquilan War and was designed as a replacement for the M26 Pershing, M4 Sherman, M46 and M47 Patton tanks. Armed with a powerful 90mm M41/T139 gun, the vehicle was designed as a direct answer to the T-54/T-55 series, then the workhorse of the Voshkods tank divisions.

Entered in 1952 V.C. (just one year before the war), it was the largest, heaviest, most advanced battle tank in the world, years ahead of its competitors. Unfortunately for the Aquilans, when the Voshkod invaded their hometown they unleashed the EG-7 Ursa Heavy Tank, which drastically outgunned the Patton. With the formation of the Alliance of Hawke somewhere, the Patton was also selected as the Alliance medium tank via Lend-Lease from their home, and after the inclusion of some engine upgrades was manufactured in massive numbers; some 35,000 tanks were produced across 20 Guardians-affiliated countries and war factories across the world during the war with even more produced afterward until M60 tank, their successor, introduced.

In combat the Patton performed admirably, usually in conjunction with older M26 Pershing, M4 Sherman, M46 and M47 Patton tanks, the M48 would strike Voshkod armored forces from beyond their maximum range with their 90mm M41/T139 guns, drawing their attention and allowing the M18 Hellcat or the older M36 Jackson to flank enemy formations and deliver risky, close range killing blows to the enemy rear armor. A majority of them, alongside manufacturing blueprints, being sent to the New California Commonwealth to help them win the Civil War.

After the war, thousands of Patton's tanks are still stored in the many bunkers dotting Embry at the tail-end of the war, where they rust inside as the crew to man them were wiped out in the nuclear exchange; and once cracked open the Minutemen began to upgrade it with heaps of newer more modern 105mm guns that were supposed to replace its aging 88m before the nuke wiped out the Commonwealth, improvised armor (mainly sandbags), and a nuclear engine seeing that other fuel sources were few and far between, becoming the M48 Patton "Mastiff".