Huascar Battle Tank

### Tactical Analysis

* **Rulers of the Empire:** The Inkarri's answer to tank armour, the Huascar typically picks off enemy tanks with its rather average tank gun.

* **Inti, take the wheel:** A special technique, however, enables Huascar drivers to disable their main gun and plaster the entire tank with obsidian spikes. This allows them to do suicide-run maneuvers swiftly to the field, impaling everything they bump into.

* **Hua-*scars* last forever:** Huascars are vehicles; vehicles fall easier to anti-tank weaponry. It follows that such armaments such as railguns and rockets will bring them to their Maker.

* **Eat my smoke (literally):** An experimental upgrade allows Huascars to give off *intense* amounts of soot once they've activated their obisidian spikes, slowing and blinding foes unlucky enough to be caught.

### Background

**Excerpt from a letter by Lt. Benjamín Conde addressed to an unknown person:**

*"To Pachacuti Almighty, The Second of His Name, The Rightful Successor to Atahualpa of the reborn Inca empire, yadda, yadda, yadda...*

*The Holy Warriors are in a dire need of new tanks.*

*Granted, that many of our foes have their own hands in mechanised warfare; namely, the PMC's we do battle with have armoured fighting vehicles of their own design, while the Humanitarian Guard utilises walkers to face us in the field. And so you know, our mud traps might bog them to hell, but the rest of the Holy Warriors have little to no anti-armour weaponry, causing them to withdraw momentarily when the tanks start rolling in. Even our mighty Pachamamas are far too valuable to be destroyed in the battlefield, you know that a truck that causes volcanoes to erupt is one of our trump cards that we shouldn't use willy-nilly.*

*To be honest, I, along with some of my colleagues, didn't defect to the Inkarri just so we can fall to the sear gas and gyrojets of the heathens. I wanted to see those damned corporatists out of our country for good so we true Peruvians can finally rule our own country with no need of being vassals paying tribute to that new breed of conquistadores. So, please Pachacuti, get your ass off that llama farm and realise that we're living in a world of tanks; the only way to survive in it is to have some tanks of our own.*

*Even if you won't heed this and just punish me by forcing me to pull levers in your personal  ~~hellhole~~  abode, me and some of your friends had took the liberty of 'borrowing' some money from this temple's donation box to buy many of those Scorpion tanks that II sells in hopes that we can get a referral discount by purchasing many of their crap. I do believe those tanks can't only take care of our tank problem, but provide hit-and-run fire that befits our tactics also, something you'd only understand if you had actual strategic acumen and not being some kind of nutjob. Thank you."*

**"I am greatly tempted to punish you for your insubordinate behaviour and general misconduct against your superior, but I would have to let this pass in favour of your helpful proposition for the bolstering of our forces. The Almighty recommends that you must prove that your idea will stand the tests of battle lest He will indeed go through the punishment He has prepared for you."**

**Content of a letter by Pvt. Adan Márquez addressed to Lt. Benjamín Conde:**

*"We've got good news, bad news, and worse news for today.*

*The good news is that our contacts in the Peruvian and Bolivian national armies were willing to provide some of their own tanks and even credits so we can purchase more tanks from International Inc. I swear, they just keep calling for the "independent militia needing battle tanks" that our lackeys and proxies keep telling them! With this number of Scorpion tanks we can at least have an advantage against those Legion battle cars and even Technate walkers. They would fire at those vehicles while acting as bait for them to chase our Scorpions as they spring our mud traps.*

*The bad news is that our enemies have started to target our Scorpions with heavy-calibre weapons. Many of them aren't exactly known for their sturdy armours; even a well-placed artillery shell is enough to considerably damage them. By now, these railgun-wielding mercenaries we're facing proved that their weapons can penetrate through the tank and kill the crew inside.*

**"The Almighty has heeded your words, Lieutenant. He speaks that your men shall take apart those contraptions as he will send some of his own to install his personal modifications on them.**

**Content of a letter by Pvt. Adan Márquez addressed to Lt. Benjamín Conde:**
***"Spikes?** Really?*