Azure Tank

The **Azure Tank** is an Enemy Tank in Micro Tanks. The earliest mission it can appear in is Mission 23, but this may not always be the case since the tanks in that mission are randomised. If the Azure Tank does appear in this mission, it will be the tenth tank the player encounters.

## Azure Tank

### Introduction

Mission 23 (earliest possible appearance)

## Attributes

The Azure Tank moves at a fairly fast speed, faster than the player's default speed. This tank features the standard weapon set. It can fire Bullets that move at the standard slow speed, and ricochet once. It can also lay mines, albeit nowhere near as frequently as the Purple Tank. This tank's firing rate is moderately high. This tank features no other attack methods or special weapons.

This tank was designed to be "the average tank". Its attributes are geared so that, unlike previous tanks, there is no single stat that is high or very high, but rather its stats are decent or good all around. This tank can be thought of as the "all around decent tank". It is fast, but not the fastest. It is smart, but not the smartest. It has a good firing rate, but not the best. It can lay mines, but at a fairly low rate. It can also be considered an upgrade to the Yellow Tank, providing a more challenging version of "the average tank".

This tank does not add any new instruments to the musical score, but has the effect of making all instruments up to and including the ryde to play even if there is just one Azure Tank on the screen.

## Behaviour

This tank is all around the average, generic tank. It plays defensively, but not as defensively as the Lilac Tank. It is not aggressive and does not pathfind to the player, nor does it chase the player on sight. This tank reacts to the player's bullets, being likely to retreat if there are lots of bullets on the screen. It backs away and runs from bullets, but not as fast or as readily as the Lilac Tank. The tank does, to a little degree, try and aim to a degree for where the player will be rather than where the player is.

Like other defensive tanks, this tank can shoot down your bullets, but is not as good at it as other tanks. Especially since its bullets are the standard bullet and not a missile. It does not fire defensive shots as often or with as much precision as the Lilac Tank, but does so more often than the Lime Tank.

This tank occasionally lays mines at random. It does not specifically lay mines near the player or near Wooden Crates.

This tank actively pathfinds to many enemy power-ups.

Overall, this tank possesses moderate intelligence. It is not the smartest, but it is decently smart. This cements its position as the all-around generic tank, and an upgrade to the Yellow Tank.

## Loot Table

The Loot Table of the Azure Tank without the Tank Fortune perk enabled.
 Extra Bullet
 Range Boost
 Faster Bullet
 Extra Life
 Shield
 Mega Bullet

## Trivia

* The Azure Tank was a late addition, being added after all the "original 15 tanks" were added. As such, it was retroactively integrated into many missions starting at 23 in the form of being in their random pools. This is why there is no fixed first mission of introduction for this tank.
* Cinnabar realised there was no "generic tank that isn't a complete moron", since the most 'generic' tank before the addition of Azure was Yellow. After Yellows were nerfed, this left a hole of a "generic yet competent" tank.
* An Azure tank existed as a sprite long before the tank was created, as Cinnabar wanted to see what an Azure Tank would look like. It was originally rejected because its colour was too similar to the player's.
* The Azure Tank is considered the closest match-up to the player.
* Although Azure is the tenth tank in introduction order, it is actually ranked between Lime and Brown. It gives 2 medals and not 3 per kill, and it appears earlier in Survival gameplay than you would expect given its position in the Main Campaign.
* Although Azure Tanks can appear as early as Mission 23 in pools of randomised tanks, there is no mission which has them as fixed tanks until Mission 33.