Lilac Tank

The **Lilac Tank** (formerly the *Green Tank* and the *Cream Tank*) is an Enemy Tank in Micro Tanks. It is introduced in Mission 20. It is the ninth enemy tank type the player will encounter.

## Attributes

The Lilac Tank possesses high speed, much higher than that of the player's default speed. Its weaponry is simple and consists solely of a Missile Bullet. Its rate of firing has one of the highest erraticities in the game, meaning the gaps between firing vary extremely widely, making the timing of their next shot very unpredictable. Overall, however, they have a low to medium firing rate. This tank does not lay mines or have any other weapon or mode of attack.

This tank adds a ryde cymbal to the musical score.

## Behaviour

This tank is fast, smart, and extremely defensive. Everything in the behaviour and attributes of this tank is geared towards defence. Its fast speed makes it harder to hit. It does not actively try to pathfind towards the player, nor does it chase the player on sight. This tank strongly reacts to the presence of player's bullets, running away if there is a bullet anywhere near. Due to the speed of this tank, it can outrun a bullet that isn't speed-boosted. This is the first tank that actively runs away from bullets, and will do so very readily. It will even back itself into a corner or onto a wall.

When this tank is cornered, it has one more defensive strategy: it can and readily does shoot down the player's bullets. This tank, like the Lime Tank before it and several tanks after it, aims defensive shots at player bullets if a bullet gets near. Due to the fact this tank possesses missile bullets, it can fire at the player's bullets with a lot more precision than a tank with slow bullets could, due to the shorter time the missile takes to reach the player bullet.

When firing, it does not fire straight at the player. There will be some degree of uncertainty where it fires, and may even sometimes aim for where the player *will be*, rather than where they are.

This tank actively pathfinds towards Enemy Speed Boost power-ups.

## Loot Table

The Loot Table of the Lilac Tank without the Tank Fortune perk enabled.
 Extra Bullet
 Range Boost
 Faster Bullet
 Extra Life
 Shield
 Mega Bullet

## Trivia

* This was the twelfth tank to be created.
* This tank was originally green. However, Cinnabar felt there were too many green-coloured tanks in the then roster of 12 tanks. As such, he changed the colour to Cream, but never felt the colour was "right for the tank". At the time, Cinnabar was having major issues getting the game to remember the colour of randomised tanks in levels with random tanks. His friend had been requesting a Lilac Tank for a long time. Cinnabar agreed he would change the then-Cream Tank's colour to Lilac if she helped him figure out the aforementioned colour caching issue. Cinnabar changed the tank's colour to Lilac and in Test Build 6, his friend's changes were implemented.
* Due to this tank's two colour changes, the files and code still refer to this tank as either green or cream. For example, this tank's chassis object is referred to as GreenObj, and its bullet is GreenBulletObj.
	+ The turret, however, is CreamTurretObj. This is because by the time independent turret objects were created for tanks (when the 2.0 model of the tanks came out in January 2022), the tank's colour was Cream.
	+ The actual Green Tank which was added later is known in the files as Green2Obj.
* Even some places in the game's code with global variables refer to this tank as either green or cream.
* Other colours Cinnabar considered for the first recolouring were Tan and Peach.
	+ Notably, Cinnabar rejected Peach because it was too similar to the colour of the background. This then planted the idea for a future tank that is deliberately stealthy, the Peach Tank.