Jackson APC

**Key Features** | »» Reinforced armour plating»» MP122 loudspeakers»» .50 cal Browning HMG»» Extra-safe seats»» Impressive collection of sound records

*"There stands Jackson, like a stone wall!"*

- Continental Gen. Barnard Bee

## Tactical Analysis

* **Can Take a Hit**: As an armoured personnel carrier, the Jackson can transport up to six infantry. Providing support fire with its Browning .50 HMG, alongside robustness and amphibious capability.

* **Playing Dixie**: To further encourage their troops, the crew of the Jackson can shout either quotes from the Constitution or simple shouts of encouragement from roof mounted loudspeakers, raising troop morale and encouraging nearby Continental forces to fight with more ferocity than normal. But the power to the engines is shifted to the speakers.

* **Stop For Nothing**: With a complete disregard for obstacles standing between them and their destination, Jackson drivers are known to simply roll over infantry who try to stop them, and will smash their way through barricades as though they weren't there.

* **Gimme That Back!** Crews who have been on the battlefield for a long time will usually salvage 20mm autocannons from downed Liberators and Hydrofoils and mount them onto their APC alongside the Browning, giving the Jackson a better weapon against vehicles.

## Operational History

The M112A2 Retriever, or just Retriever, was a standard infantry transport introduced at a late stage of the Second World War (from 1953 to 1955), for the Allied Nations, and afterwards - for the Peacekeeper Divisions, until the development of the Riptide in 1962.

The well armoured, slow-moving American made APC was intended to replace older half-tracks like the Whippet, although complete displacement of German trucks hasn't been reached. Originally, Retrievers had .50 cal heavy machine guns in special mounts, but when they were consigned to the Boneyard, the Allies stripped them of their Brownings to mount them on the first generation of Riptides.

When the Continentals recovered the Retrievers from the Boneyard and the M2 from Riptide factories, they gave them the nickname of Jackson, in honour of the famous *"Stonewall"* Jackson of the original Continentals - although veterans of the Second World War sometimes joke by confusing those names. The refurbished Jacksons often have a MP122 speaker system, designed to simulate the effect of Soviet propaganda, and in addition allow the crew to affect the course of the battle by shouting cheerful chants, which they take upmost delight in doing.

## Global Upgrade

**Health**: Sandbags and barbed wire are attached to the front and sides.

**Power**: A large ammo box is attached to the Browning with ammo sticking out, and two loudspeakers are attached to the back (increase buff effects by 50%).

**Speed**: Large exhaust pipes stick out on the sides.

**Rate of Fire**: Browningbarrel is upgraded to six rotary barrels, gain two smaller speakers on the side (increase buff radius by 25%).

**Armour**: Bulldozer plow is attached to the front.

**Vision**: Syndicate cameras are mounted on top of driver hatch.

## Behind the Scenes

* The Jackson is based, more or less, on the APC from Red Alert 1, which is in turn based on the United States' M113 armoured personnel carrier.

## Just the Stats

 **Armour Type** | Heavy Armour

 **Kill Reward** | 6000

 **DPS** | 90