Matthews Heavy Tank

**Key Features** | »*"Matt-Hs5"* armour piercing cannon (2x)»Double Penworth dual drive miniguns»*"BattleThrone"* engine»80 cm of solid steel armor»Driver's Family tree

*"Nemo impune arma irae."*

-Arrogance Heavy Tank Motto
## Tactical properties

* **Heavy tracks**: The Arrogance heavy tank is the most powerful Guild tank in service designed to lead, inspire and support assaults against any and all targets, and their weapons are primed to do this, their cannons doing decent anti-tank damage while maiming structures at equal effectiveness while it's inaccurate but deadly miniguns assault infantry and aircraft, they can't fire both weapons at once.

* **Covering fire**: The Arrogance crew can also overclock their tank's engine to drastically increase the firing of their weapons and let them fire both the cannons and miniguns simultaneously without stopping, ensuring that the enemies keep their heads down or stay away. But overclocking the engine as such causes it to break down, temporarily reducing their speed to a crawl, and their unable to use it again until it can be repaired.

* **Always useful**: The only true flaws that the Arrogance tank has is that it's slow, especially once it overclocks its engines, and that it lacks in the damage department compared to more specialist units. With its name being given from the crew's arrogance in thinking they can fight without an escort, said crews often live a short life.

* **Razor's Edge**: Experienced Arrogance crews are used to working under strain, and are hellbent to prove their worth. The further their tank slips towards the eternal light of tank-heaven, the harder the adrenaline flows, and the faster they'll work, improving the Matthew's overall performance dramatically as it loses health.

## Progeny of the twin-barreled mammoth

Arkhangelsk would be a nonentity in the minds of people if it weren't for the remarkable tank that rolls out of the assembly line 24/7. Most civilians do not marvel at the sight of a Hammer tank coming out of a factory, or the facade pincers stacked in rows upon rows. A tank already went and eclipsed all of these sights. People remember Arkhangelsk for the Apocalypse.

The Soviet line of super heavy tanks has been known and feared by both civilians and military personnel for over a century, the size and sheer intimidation factor of the tanks unmatched by any other vehicle. When given a choice between the mirage tank and an apocalypse tank, even allied civilians will opt for the apocalypse tank regardless of the mirage's actually possible ambush performance against the lumbering behind of the super heavy tank. It is this factor that prompted the Communist Chinese to produce their own knockoff, and it is this factor that largely drives the Vietcong to keep up the few Mammoths they have regardless of the costs. It is the very same factor that drove the Guild to design the '*Matthews* heavy tank, a complete redesign of the JS-3 Terminator.

The Matthews is, apart from a combat unit, essentially nothing more then a propaganda statement. Build to reinforce the image of a organized resistance, designed to intimidate opponents into surrender, the Matthews' image draws heavily from the Terminator Design. Though the Matthews is no match to the current Apocalypse, the Matthews has outdone it's design inspiration, the old apocalypse tank in the encounters it has been in. Instead of designing the Matthews as a tank destroyer, the Guild wanted the tank to be a viable choice of weapon in any situation, maximizing the amount of times the enemy will have to face the Matthews, and with it, increasing the intimidating factor of the tank. The result was a fairly simplistic dual-tracked design, capable of maneuvering trough Indonesia without many difficulties and armed with a select set of weapons capable of returning fire to most common targets.

Matthews tanks are build 24/7 at the Guild's larger factories, having produced an apt number of around 50 Matthews tanks so far, meaning the Guild have one or two Matthews tanks in any important engagement. More interesting by far, however, are the two Matthews tanks build in civilian areas near Chikarang and Tasikmalaya, implying that the Matthews can be home-made, given enough time, skill, scrap metal and the inconspicuous draining of all fuel tanks in a 50 mile radius.

## Just the Stats

 **Armour Type** | Superheavy Armour

 **DPS** | 25

 **DPS** | 40

 **DPS** | 40