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ISDF Sabre Commander

This is ISDF Sabre Tank inspired by hovercraft from Battlezone Combat Commander.

This is a fast hovering unit suitable for both atmospheric and non-atmospheric environment. It is used for close skirmishes with enemy tanks and stations.

Required Mods:

1. Hove Engines by Takeshi
   https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1225107070&searchtext=hove+engine
   
2. Assault Weapon Pack by Ace
   https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2111400196
   The Flak Cannon can be easily replaced be the Reloadable Rocket Launcher, if you don’t want to use the AWP mod.
   
3. Gravity Engine by 寂语不言丶(optional)
   https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2657098322&searchtext=gravity+engine
   The gravity engine is used to improve the ship’s acceleration, but it’s not necessary.

Weapons:

1. 2x Gatling Guns – used mainly against smaller units and creatures.
   
2. 300mm Flak Cannon – fast-shooting highly explosive, short range weapon. Best against armors and heavy armors.
   
3. Proximity Mine – can be placed on the ground. The mine explodes when it detects enemy in the proximity. Shouldn’t be placed while the tank is moving at high speeds.
   
4. Hover Mine – fast moving, extremely dangerous and unpredictable mine that hovers over ground with high speeds. It is capable to jump over walls, obstacles and steep terrain.

Thruster system:

ISDF Sabre has hydrogen thrusters, it requires ice and electricity as fuel though. It is equipped with 8 O2/H2 Generators, that produce hydrogen on demand. It has 2 small hydrogen tanks as a buffer. Once you run out of the hydrogen, you will still be able to move with limited thrust. With this system the tank doesn’t require refueling too often. Just fill it up with Ice and you’re ready for a long journey. be careful though, putting a lot of ice will make the ship very heavy.
Press 5th button on 1st tab to turn OFF the Autobreak. This way you will have backward thrusters turned OFF, which allow you to travel large distances with minimum fuel consumption.
The tank has 2 large upward hydrogen thrusters. You can activate them for a few seconds by pressing 4th button on 1st tab. This will allow you to jump over obstacles and reduce speed while falling down the cliffs.

How to use mines:

Press 3rd button on 1st tab to release mine. After release the next one will be welded. It is recommended not to accelerate too much while the release, as mine can be pushed by your ship, flip up-side down and explode. You may change the mine type by pressing 1st key on 4th tab (“Mine Switch”). You will have to release previous mine before the new type will be ready for you. You can see all the necessary components to weld mine in the cockpit LCD screen. You can also check the warhead’s Custom Data to see what components the mine requires to build.
You can adjust mine settings to your needs. All settings can be found on 4th tab.

1. Arm warheads – this will arm the warheads during release. Be careful though, if you manage to make the mine hit something it can explode near you. You can disable this setting, to make it safer to you, but the mine will be easier to disarm by enemy.
   
2. Turn mine lights OFF, to make mines less visible to enemy.
   
3. Turn the mine rotation ON, to have more predictable trajectory of the hover mine. Whit this setting ON, the mine will generally move in the direction which you tilted the tank to, when releasing the mine.
   
4. Turn the countdown ON of the mine, to detonate the mine after 30 sec.

Docking and filling:

To land Sabre on the ground or dock to the connector, press C key and then immediately Z key. This will turn OFF Hover Engines. Once you’re docked, you can fill the tank with necessary components. ISDF Sabre will pull all necessary components for you, if the station has Isy’s Inventory Manager script.