Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/M26 Pershing "Bernard"

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The M26 Pershing "Bernard" is a formerly a Aquilan heavy tank that introduced in the 1940s V.C. up until 1958 V.C. and later the Minutemen's superheavy MBT used by the Voshkod Exiles. This unit is planned to be voiced by Keythe Farley

History
"You've got to be kidding me..."

-Aquilan Ranger, upon seeing a Pershing in Minutemen colors

The M26 was the culmination of a series of medium tank prototypes that began with the T20 in 1942 V.C., and it was a significant design departure from the previous line of Aquilan Army tanks that had ended with the M4 Sherman. Several design features were tested in the prototypes. Some of these were experimental dead-ends, but many become permanent characteristics of subsequent Aquilan Army tanks. This series of prototype vehicles began as medium tank project that was similar to, but more modern than the recently-introduced M4 Sherman, and ended several years later as the Aquilan Army's first operational "heavy" tank, which was supposed to only have one 90mm cannon but was scrapped early in development for a pair of cannons, feeling that it needs more firepower to properly combat the Ursa and delays of the M103 development, though it came at the cost of speed and logistics.

Development of the M26 during the Interwar was prolonged by a number of factors, the most important being opposition to the tank from Army Ground Forces. However, during the war, the tank losses experienced in the GVAW against a concentrated Voshkod tank force composed of some 400 T-34/44/54/55 tanks, as well as EG tanks and other Voshkod armored fighting vehicles, revealed the deficiencies in the M4 Shermans, M46/47 Pattons and tank destroyers in the Aquilan units. This deficiency motivated the military to ship the tanks to the front, and on 22 December 1954 V.C., the T26E3 tanks were ordered to be deployed to the front.

When the New California launched the Daly Offensive, they did so with the backing of the Aquilans, which provided them with many surplus vehicles, including fifty Pershing tanks. The Aquilan tanks were, for practical purposes, unstoppable by the NCC, at this caliber. And was the lynchpin in pushing back the Red Line Union and Minutemen until the former were given more equipment and the latter began using counter tactics that they were able to beat these machines. With the Pershing being an unstoppable juggernaut of the NCC, only limited by its difficulty in transporting over water, until the bombs fell. Where many Aquilans and Voshkod thought they were destroyed as almost all of them were in the frontlines, which were ground zero.

That was until a massive fire broke out at the warehouse containing the Aquilans mothballed Pershings. Destroying every blueprint and the disappearance of every Pershing that wasn't destroyed. Which was chalked up to an accident.

However, rumors have spread throughout Voshkod and Aquilan posts that the Pershing is in fact still in operation and realized the truth. The Minutemen had stolen their Pershing and blueprints with the fire as a cover-up, and now drive it through their massive tunnel network to battlefields across Embry. The Minutemen had modified it further with a nuclear engine, a pair of anti-air/anti-infantry rocket pods stolen from Apocalypse tank plants, and tunneling equipment, which would later be used to make the Sidewinder, letting the new M26 Pershing "Bernard", to strike anywhere before retreating and solve the sea transport issue by simply tunneling beneath the ocean. Though once the Minutemen had made the Sidewinder they abandoned their Bernards, since they consider it too cumbersome for their tactics, with only the Voshkod Exiles still preferring them, due to their preference for heavy armor like the Voshkods.

Guardians of the Tacitus

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 * Jagdmammut (Andora)
 * Overlord (Empire)
 * Conqueror Tank (Grand Chase Royal Guards)
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 * K3 Grey Tiger (Community)
 * Sensenmann Tank (Lotus Clan)
 * Wasteland Superheavy Tank (Wolf Clan)

Destroyers of Balthazar

 * Apocalypse Tank (Voshkod)
 * Catastrophe (Kvant Division)
 * Sentinel (Zenit Division)
 * Stealth Tank (Brotherhood)
 * Gorkanaut (Horde)
 * BRDM-1 "Roach" (MLA)
 * Shturm-S (Nightborne Chemical Division)
 * Colossus (Collective)
 * Shagohod Tank (Encantadia)
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Neutrals

 * Land Raider Phobos (Coalition)
 * Hekaton Land Fortress (Primaris Votann Guards)
 * Norsca War Mammoth (Heralds)
 * Cataphract Land Ironclad (Order)
 * Sidewinder Burrow Tank (Survivors)
 * M26 Pershing "Bernard" (Voshkod Exiles)
 * Stormsurge (Syndicate)
 * Mastodon Walker (Conglomerate)
 * Baneblade (Legion)

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