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Land Crab Gunboat

The Land Crab Gunboat is an experimental unit made using the Land Emergence Galleon System (LEGS) technology found in a schematics cache bought off the black market.

The Land Crab was built around a NEWT frame however in order for the LEGS to fit it has been fitted with an underpowered 3-Cylinder Super-Ghetti engine. While somewhat ungainly it makes for a powerful and compact gunboat and a surprising land-ship.

A design for a twin-barrel heavy autocannon was also found in the cache. What other data remains is primarily unintelligible email jokes from a Dr Brackman including "What's my favourite breakfast? ... Cy-bran serial!...Oh yes..."

• 2x Twin HAC Turrets with alternating fire, salvo selector, auto-reload, radar+ballistics aim software
  
• 240x HE Rounds per turret
  
• Them LEGS

• Have had fun making this but ran out of steam to finish detailing & basic engine/fuel displays. Releasing as is, it was a fun experiment with making a walking boat but now keen to work on other projects and play other games.
  
• Based on the idea of an angle 'clock' from 0° to 360° at 6 degrees per tick for one 'step' per second (game is 60 LUA ticks per second) will denote as θ. From there is farmed out to 4 separate leg group azimuth (Sin based) and elevations (Cos based), clock goes up/down only when throttle is applied and resets leg pos if 2 sec without input.
  
• Side-tracked significantly when making the gun which I spend days on until relenting that I had no idea how to do drag calculations on the shell and used the ballistic calc as below credited. Still was good to learn how to do auto-reloading, implement salvo size/reset so the entire clip doesn't get drained and also allow gunfire from the helm.
  
• Added delay to leg door locks else eardums blown by simultaneous door locks
  
• Colour scheme was going for a regular naval greeny-gray with Supreme Commander Cybran style highlights for the bridge and gun.

EMP IND Newt Class 'Happy Eater' by Britzilla - General hull dimensions inspired very much by the Newt Class as it fit the LEGS

Ballistic Calculator Sample by Shairo-jp & ARCBIRD2l Used for gun calcs