Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Apocalypse Tank

"Armageddon is here..."

-Apocalypse Tank leaving the Tank Factory

The LNF-1 (after Lunafreya Nox Fleuret) Apocalypse Tank is the premier superheavy MBT of the Socialist Union of Voshkod. Planned to be voiced by ???

Tactical analysis

 * Unstoppable: The Apocalypse Tank can simply roll over anything that survives its main guns. Main battle tanks, let alone smaller vehicles, can easily be crushed under the Apocalypse tank's treads.
 * Tusk in the wind: Complementing the Apocalypse cannons are four "mammoth tusk" rockets that can handle infantry and aircraft to a limited degree.
 * The sinister M-Harpoon: The Apocalypse can effectively spear and reel in other vehicles using the M-harpoon, or even drag itself toward structures. However, the magnet requires an extreme amount of energy, so the tank's main guns are rendered inoperable while the M-harpoon is active.
 * Built to Destroy...Tanks: While the Apocalypse Tank has nothing to fear from lesser vehicles, its crew's limited visibility combined with its armor-piercing ammunition means it is less effective against very small targets, namely infantry. Commanders also admit that the Apocalypse requires anti-air support. And while its rockets can handle both it lacks the firepower to handle swarms.

History
"Guys, we have bigger problems, an Apocalypse tank..."

-From an Abrams driver upon stumbling an Apocalypse during the Voshkod Invasion of Aquila

With a nickname like "Apocalypse", the Voshkod superheavy battle tank has certain expectations to live up to. And, unfortunately for the Union's enemies, it does. This monstrosity of a machine, while clearly slower and less maneuverable than the typical modern tank, overcompensates for any of its limitations with two extremely powerful main guns, each one markedly stronger than the main gun on a lesser tank. Even amid all the calamities of war, the choking black smoke and piercing shriek of grinding metal emanating from an Apocalypse Tank is the stuff of nightmares for combat veterans--including Garleans, who seem to fear the Apocalypse Tank as much as anyone.

On the whole, the Voshkod is extremely proud of the Apocalypse, which is widely featured in military multimedia propaganda, military recruitment mailings, motivational posters found in businesses and classrooms, and more. While a cadre of schoolmasters denounced the naming of the vehicle as an act of fear-mongering, the Voshkod government quickly quelled these concerns by insisting that the name was intended to give hope to the people -- here is a tank that can withstand anything, they proudly said. The schoolmasters held fast, claiming that the name betrayed evidence of the Union's dissolution into an agenda of mutually-assured destruction with their main enemy, Aquila. They remain incarcerated.

The Apocalypse Tank even became popularised in a morning cartoon show and toy line ("They Are Not Guardians"), at which point it truly became an icon not in the Voshkod military arsenal, and all over the world. Such mainstream success is impossible to anticipate completely. However, the plant responsible for it, Arkhangelsk Tank Plant (ATP), boldly promised the Garlean regime that the Apocalypse would revolutionize modern vehicle warfare by trivializing other, lesser tanks. This proved to be quite true. While the Apocalypse Tank is very expensive to produce for all its Garlean excesses whether on the field or in rear factories, it is virtually unstoppable on the ground.

The Apocalypse is such a massive vehicle that ATP engineers installed a second set of cutting treads into its massive hull, enabling it to simply roll over just about anything that survives long enough to get in its way. To further offset the tank's relatively slow speed is a now-standard magnetic harpoon secondary weapon, one of the first practical military tools based on the Union's continuing research into magnetism. Essentially this works like an industrial-strength grapple that can be used, for example, to tow fast-moving enemy vehicles in closer for the kill -- straight into its "meat grinder" chain-treads, which can carve through metal much like their namesake.

For all the fervor, fear, and excitement caused by the Apocalypse Tank, it is to be expected that the design would draw some disdain. Outspoken critics and foreign protesters of Arkhangelsk's most famous work (with respect to the far more common Kodiak Tank and upcoming Armata program) point to its horrendous top speed, as well as its complete lack of anti-infantry defenses, as evidence of sheer hubris on the part of the Apocalypse Tank's manufacturers. ATP, in turn, openly brushed aside these claims as "idiocy", announcing simultaneously that the Apocalypse Tank would go into mass production that same year. At any rate, because of this tank's notoriety, the identities of Apocalypse Tank crews are kept secret by the Voshkod. It is difficult to imagine what sort of person would be fit to operate such a weapon, let alone what the experience of this would do to that person.

Trivia

 * The Apocalypse's design in Gaiaterra is the combination of the Red Alert 2 and the Mental Omega designs with the main guns and ability are from Red Alert 3.

Guardians of the Tacitus

 * Paladin/Plasma Paladin (Aquila)
 * Chevalier/XF-32 F.I.S.T. (Task Force Wolf)
 * Wolfhound Tank Destroyer (Alliance)
 * Mammoth Tank (ADI)
 * Type 40 Yonmaru/King Oni (Protectorate)
 * Super Goliath/Queen Oni (Asur Command)
 * Greater King Oni (Exo-Command)
 * Jagdmammut (Andora)
 * Overlord (Empire)
 * Conqueror Tank (Grand Chase Royal Guards)
 * Emperor Overlord (Elsword's Royal Force)
 * K3 Grey Tiger (Community)
 * Sensenmann Tank (Lotus Clan)
 * Wasteland Superheavy Tank (Wolf Clan)

Destroyers of Balthazar

 * Apocalypse Tank (Voshkod)
 * Catastrophe (Kvant Division)
 * Blackbear (Zenit Division)
 * Stealth Tank (Brotherhood)
 * Gorkanaut (Horde)
 * BRDM-1 "Roach" (MLA)
 * Shturm-S (Nightborne Chemical Division)
 * Colossus Tank (Collective)
 * Shagohod Tank (Encantadia)
 * Sentinel (Hathoria)
 * FCM F1 (Adamya)
 * Annihilator Tripod (Scrin)

Neutrals

 * Land Raider Phobos (Coalition)
 * Hekaton Land Fortress (Primaris Votann Guards)
 * Fellblade (Heralds)
 * Cataphract Land Ironclad (Order)
 * Sidewinder Burrow Tank (Survivors)
 * Kronos Heavy Tank (Syndicate)
 * Stormsurge (Tau Merchant Guards)
 * Mastodon Walker (Conglomerate)
 * Baneblade (Legion)

Minor Factions

 * TS-77M (National Guard)
 * Topolov Tesla Cruiser (GSEL)
 * Mazdak Supertank (Shock Division)
 * King Mastiff (Irving's Raiders)
 * X-66 Mammoth Tank MkI (Zemurian Armed Forces)
 * ... (Amiri's Hunters)
 * ... (Militia)
 * ... (Secret Police)
 * ... (Rearguards)
 * Telescope Truck (Network)
 * Inferno Fortress (Amazons)
 * ... (Enclave)
 * ... (NCC)
 * ... (Red Line Union)

Bonus Factions

 * T-140 Angara (ASA)
 * Voidpanzer (Bastion)
 * Linebreaker Creep (Rangers)
 * Ariavanna Tank (Pirates)
 * Rakshasa Land Cruiser (Elona)
 * Lion Heavy Tank
 * Oblivion Tank
 * Gorgon Mammoth Tank (Ascalia)
 * Thor (Dominion)
 * Super Merkava (Security)
 * ... (Ascendancy)

DLC

 * UNSC Elephant (Federation)
 * Federation Mastodon
 * Zhurong Assault Tank (Corona)
 * ... (Party)
 * Executor Tripletank (Skynet)
 * SKS 300 "Kaiser" (Elemental)
 * PZM-24 "Tur" (Mondstadt-Polania Outriders)
 * SHM-70 "Gulay-Gorod" (Snezhnaya-Rusviet Vanguard)
 * M-19 "Knox" (Inazuma-Usonia Expeditionary Force)
 * AT-AT (Autocracy)
 * BZ-75 (League)
 * League EG-11 Mammoth Tank (Itza)
 * Ultralisk (Swarm)
 * Machu Pichu Advanced Tank (Confederation)
 * Strv 2000 (Kingdom)
 * Scorpion Grav-Tank (Aeldari Guard Corps)
 * ... (Goo)
 * Maus (Imperium)
 * E-100
 * Doomsday Ark (Dynasty)
 * ST-II (Warlords)
 * Envenomators (Cult)
 * Dais of Destruction (Raiders)
 * Sigmar Tank (Theocracy)
 * Lindwyrm Assault Transport (Nord Warriors)
 * T28 (Insurgents)
 * Apexia (Guardians)
 * Gondwana Heavy Tank (Hierarchy)
 * ... (Sundered)
 * Ifrit Tank (Ecumene)
 * Black Prince (Concordat)
 * Sabretooth Heavy Tank
 * Super Conqueror
 * Akula Tank (Contingent)
 * Cerberus (Eden)
 * Facemelter Assault Vehicle (InGen)
 * ... (Society)
 * ... (Conclave)
 * ... (Hallows)
 * MBT-70 (Commune)
 * ... (Lordships)
 * ... (Directorate)
 * ... (Columbia)
 * Soban (Clique)
 * O-I (Guild)
 * Tanker Bug (Threat)
 * O-75b "Ares" (Traders)
 * EG-14 Terminator (Entente)
 * Tyrant (Oblivion)
 * Judgement (Corporation)
 * Arrogance Heavy Tank (Institute)
 * Mazdak Supertank (Commonwealth)
 * ... (Nimbus)
 * ... (Carnival)
 * ... (Wraiths)
 * ... (Chronophage)
 * ... (Privateers)
 * Aegis Leviathan (Foundation)
 * Hellsword Uberpanzer (Spartacus)
 * Morgan Breakthrough Walker (Regency)