You figure you have only a few minutes before the firstfightersarrive, and your radar is showing the bandits already.Friendlyfighters are on their way too to intercept and clear you ifat allpossible. But deep inside you know that they arelargelyoutnumbered and you are on your own. In a Tank. AgainstF16s.
Luckily your prototype is heavily armed. Your heavy machinegunhas armor penetrating capabilities and will not run out of ammoforthe upcoming shoot out. Unheard of in a Tank: you have anon-boardSurface-to-Air Missile (SAM) launcher. This will be averyunwelcome surprise for the enemy pilots and you can alreadyimaginetheir faces when their radar shows your missiles .. toolate.Speaking of radar: your tank deploys onboard radar and yourenemieswill light up as a christmas tree on your lcd monitor. Rangeisabout 150 Kilometers and hostile fighters will show asredtriangles. Friendly fighters will be green, you hope youcandistinguish them when emptying your weapons on your enemies.Yourlast weapon is your good old large-calibre cannon in a rotatinggunturret... with a twist. The shell are so powerful that anythingoranyone in 200 to 300 meters range of the explosion will not livetotell.
So brace yourself and get ready for what will probably beyourvery last encounter. Keep an eye on your radar and on the airandshoot the bloody bandits to become a real Tank Hero. Yourprototypetank can never get in their hands, so surrender is not anoption.Good luck commander!
Controls
You can use on-screen joysticks both for movement andaiming.Aiming can also be controlled by Tilt/Accellerometercontrols. Inthe option screen (available in-game and in the mainmenu) you canset what controls to use and the sensitivity. Thegreen tank willchange to red indicating the armor condition. Whenyour armor iscompletely destroyed, a next blow will destroy yourfancy tankprototype.. Beware!
The Tank
You control the next generation world of class Tank. Itsfeaturesare the best of worlds from the all-famous Leopard, TigerandChallenger tanks and it is a direct successor of the AbramsCombattanks currently in use. A tank is an enclosed armoredmilitaryvehicle; it has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads.Originallyinvented during WW1 to break through trench lines, thetank didn’treach its full maturity – or potential – until WW2,when it became asignificant factor in warfare, both tactically andoperationally.The tank’s contribution to operational success wasso considerablethat an entirely new tactical and technologicalsystem of anti-tankwarfare was developed, using bazookas,minefields and even anti-tankdogs (with varying degrees ofsuccess). But today the concept of thetank is one hundred yearsold, and since its heyday 70 years agothere have been countlessdebates over whether tanks still have aplace in modern warfare.Regardless, the story of the tank since WW2has not been ofobsolescence but of evolution.
Tanks were no longer produced in such vast quantities aftertheend of WW2, but they continued to be developed and hoarded byColdWar countries, largely as a threat of force initiative – muchlikeatomic weapons. There is no doubt that the tank remains afearsomedeterrent even to this day; news reports that tanks havebeen seenmoving into any skirmish area around the world immediatelyraisesalarms. They’re big, they’re scary, and when we see a tank weknowthe battle is getting to be a Fury, so expect them to be aroundforquite a while yet.