FV4005 Stage II

FV4005 Stage II is a Tank Destroyer found in Armor Blitz.

## Background

"What we do now, the battles we fight, the people we save... this is what defines us."

-Seren

## Strategy

* Seren is a fragile yet explosive tank buster, especially with her active skill which recharges quickly. Use heavy tanks or a high evasion medium to absorb punishment while situating Seren directly behind to avoid flanking lanes. However, artillery with high splash radius and damage such as S-51 and GW Tiger will obliterate Seren: To avoid such a situation, deploy medium tanks on her flanks or use emblems that increase Seren's range.

* An optimal emblem set-up should focus on crit chance and multiplier, as it's pretty much the only way to meaningfully boost her per-shot damage to let her do what she does best. If her skill crits with a high enough crit multiplier, she can even one shot Maus before the latter activates her Aegis skill.

* Boosting raw damage is fine to maximise the lethality her ability. But due to her already high per-shot damage, the flat increase provided by emblems won't be that significant, so don't stress over it.

* Accuracy will be good to help Seren snipe evasion-heavy tanks, such as T-62.

* Attack speed is good to increase her DPS even further, but is not really necessary as her main role focusses on her ability, which isn't going to recharge faster. Boosting attack sped to 0.27 is good enough to let Seren's ability activate every third shot.

* Her already high penetration can make further penetration boosts useless on most enemies. (The opponent will need 600+ armor and then some 5% damage reduction just to make her base penetration fully effective. It will pretty much be fully utilized only against enemies who have activated defensive abilities that grant damage reduction.)

* A useful secondary stat to boost on her could be move speed, to let her access the frontline quickly in order to do her work. (Especially considering she tends to be deployed later than everyone else, due to her high cost as well as needing advance protection.) Also useful in case she gets distracted by enemies on the flanks due to her big range, and needs to catch up with the main group.

## Trivia

* FV 4005 Stage II does not have an auto-loading mechanism that the stage I did, which may attribute to Seren's slow attack speed.

* Turret thickness was about 14mm thick and could be penetrated by large caliber machine guns

* Never commissioned despite admirable performance in trials as vehicle role became outdated in favor of Anti-Tank Guided Missiles

* Only one FV 4005 Stage II was built and armed with an 183mm gun which sits on a spare Mk.VIII Centurion hull

* Displayed at Bovington Tank Museum

* Seren has the greatest range out of all non-artillery units in the game.

* She also has the highest per-shot damage in the game.

* She also has the highest base penetration out of all tanks in the game. Against an appropriate opponent with high armor/damage reduction, she has the best DPS in the game, period, despite her underwhelming attack speed. (And she'll lose only to M3 Satan in terms of DPS-to-cost.)

* Seren is an attractive and professional woman who is very capable in combat, although she claims that she still has much to learn about the world. She has a very friendly and calm personality, although she can also react when annoyed.