Tank Commander

A big believer in tanks. Likes to crush enemies with heavy armour.

### Unlock Cost

Mobile: Beat a game on Brutal or higher with Warlord/2USDPC: Beat a game with Warlord

The Tank Commander is a Unique governor in Rebel Inc, which was released in Update 3. The Tank Commander was one of the first Unique govenors to be released. The Tank Commander can be unlocked by the "Tanks and Caves" expansion, or by playing each map in the Brutal Difficulty.

## Specialty

### **In-game Popup:**

***The Tank Commander equips starting Soldiers with tanks, regardless of practicality. If only the Insurgents would stay still...***

Some of Tank Commander's Soldiers are replaced with Tanks - Powerful war machines that easily devastate insurgents but with significant drawbacks.

Most Civilian Initiatives, Garrisons, Drones and Airstrikes will cost more to fund. National Travel Logistics and all Roads cost less.

All Civilian prices increase by $1 and then increase by 17%. (Road initiatives are still slightly less expensive)

### Unique Initiatives

* Deploy Coalition Soldier 1/Deploy National Soldier 1/Deploy National Soldier 2 (Military) - All of these units work normally, but they cost more time and funds to train, yielding Tank units instead.
* Tank Justice (Government) - Reduces corruption & support level.
* Fuel Hoarding (Military) - Accelerates allied military units, reduces support level.
	+ Fuel Hoarding reduces global support by 3 and increases global hostility by 3.9 (Stronger than Warlord's Civilian Shakedowns), but only reduce logistics costs by 1.

* Advanced Driving Classes (Military) - Removes the regional support penalty caused by Tanks and prevents them from damaging road infrastructures. Cost increases with the amount of active tanks
* Extra Tank (Military) - Gives an upgrade token that converts a regular soldier unit into its tank counterpart.

## Strategies

### Advantages

Tanks are extremely strong. Unlike soldiers, they can easily win fights without extra support, especially in flat terrain. They can also block insurgents per usual, and the support loss could be easily countered with Advanced Driving Lessons, which is cheap anyway. Fuel Hoarding and cheaper Road initiatives can also drastically improve logistics, making the already devastating war machines as well as any other units even faster.

### Weaknesses

Tanks themselves contain multiple disadvantages and deprive him of infantry units necessary for various other purposes. They cost more, cannot support other troops, don't gather intel (which in turn can delay battles for a couple of turns), take longer to train, can't assist rollouts, severely antagonize local populations(In fact, it's only when tanks are fighting in a city that you can call it "severely antagonize"), receive no benefit from most upgrades (can still increase support level with Interpreters and its respective upgrades, and will stop intel decay) and cannot enter rough terrain. For the vehicles to enter combat in Remote zones with mountains and forests you'll have to ensure the natural presence of a highway or an active Main road initiative in relevant region - They will refuse to enter those with dirt roads. Combined with Airstrikes, Drones and Garrisons costing significantly more and the low amount of avaliable National soldiers can also complicate Remote situations - Inaccessible terrain prevents Tanks from blocking insurgent camp spawns, forcing players to make very careful use of Coalition Soldiers.

The increased cost for most civilian initiatives and specific military ones can also exacerbate the stabilization issues, as even with the sheer might of Tanks withstanding high intensity conflicts, they can't do much without other units covering their weaknesses.

## Governor Bonuses

* Show Trial for Drug Kingpin always results in the Kingpin being killed by a Tank, reducing Opium production.

## Trivia

* Under normal circumstances, Tank Commander has the fastest units in the entire game.
* While nowhere near as the Warlord, Tank Commander does have some questionable methods in regards to using Tanks:
	+ His initiative "Tank Justice" involves running over corrupt individuals with Tanks.
	+ His governor bonus on the "Drug Kingpin Captured" decision implies he arranged for a Tank to kill a Kingpin in a staged accident.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/news/155-rebel-inc-update-3-the-tanks-and-caves-expansion-is-live-now-on-ios-and-android