Kalran: Tales of the four nations/Albatross

"Nutcracker ready!"

-A Nutcracker entering the battlefield

Tactical analysis

 * Busting open like walnuts: As an aging bomber. The Nutcracker mainly serves as a strategic bomber for the Navaheim, crippling enemy bases with sonic bombs that shakes apart structures, collapsing buildings with ease.


 * Giving them the shocker: The Nutcracker also carries another type of bomb, which it can switch to dropping instead. Tesla bombs, which are small but numerous, stuns vehicles and electrocutes any unfortunate infantry, and leaves an electrified field for a significant amount of time, which lets them be be used for land denial.
 * Run away, like the wily rabbit: Due to its size, the nutcracker also have rather massive spiral engines which create an excessive amount of steam. Which the can vent outward to cover themselves, while activating their illusion generator. Either letting them sneak past AA defenses to strike critical targets, or to escape from a hair situation


 * Bullseye on wings: The Nutcracker does have its share of weakness for its price. Fast moving ground based AA systems can avoid the deadly rain of bombs from the Nutcracker while dishing out hurt and interceptors can easily bring down these bombers, though their gunners do afford Nutcracker with a limited degree of protection.