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[NS] Mjolnir Sunderer

A tank.
⨴ Find a covered position, anchor to the ground, and fire upon targets from range. The armour is decent, but it won't save you if someone hoses you down with a stream of 4x explosive cannonballs.
⨴ Equipped with 4x autocannon for pelting things behind cover and ticking heavy vehicles to pieces.
⨴ See screenshot reel for HUD labels.





Where lighter vehicles merely harassed, the Mjolnir had the ability to match an Auraxian soldier in battle, at least for a short time. Heavy armour allowed it to survive powerful blows. Its railgun could pierce their weakened shields and armoured forms, if given an opportunity. All of these mounted on a ground platform saved precious resources compared to an aircraft of equivalent make.

Being more expensive and less mobile limited how they could be deployed, however, and they were mostly seen as part of evacuation defense. Auraxians quickly learned to identify them as priority targets, making them even better distractions than Sleipnirs where evacuees could afford to deploy them.


Placed #3 in CMC-1: Armored Fighting Vehicles!
The Sleipnir was supposed to be my entry, but it got crushed by Rekt_Rekt, so I've taken the lessons learned and applied them to this vehicle. It's better defended and more suited for long-range fire from cover rather than knife-fighting.

Comprehensively crushes the Arbitrator in every way. For a while, I wasn't sure it would, but it surprised me in how well it improved during the course of development.

- No treads because I hate treads and there's a block count limit for the contest.
- No pintle turret because I don't have four hands.

Surface hulls for ground vehicles were risky business due to their brittleness, but Fnom3 introduced us to making them colliderless and binding the hull indirectly - surfaces only break if their own joints to other blocks break, and not the other way around. This allows them to flex on impact instead of just shattering, and helps to keep weight down because the surfaces don't need to survive as much. Both the Sleipnir and the Alsvidr benefit from this innovation.

Sunderers are heavy assault craft.
They are designed to dispose of hardened emplacements and large vehicles. They deliver destruction from afar upon bunkers, tank columns, airships, and any other target which is more than a swarm of harassers can handle but not quite enough to justify orbital firepower.

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