#battletanx

Mototank

For this second to last entry for the week, I debated what I wanted to put here. I could go for one of the many tanks with a unique weapon, but most of those would be the Inferno again but with a different gun, and hovertanks already exist in some form, and the rhino tank is hard to do without facing being a thing in tactical combat. So, I decided on a tank that was a staple of both games in the series, the mototank.

For as long as there have been vehicles with engines, there have been those who have modified them to go faster and do other things, and nowhere in the Battletanx series is that more true than the mototank.

Picture if you will, a trike motorcycle body, but replace the engine with a larger one salvaged from a larger vehicle, along with the treads from a military half-track (see, it has treads, so it’s a tank now), then slap what appears to be the glass canopy of an attack helicopter along with armor paneling around the whole thing to give adequate protection to the rider, and then bolt a couple of heavy machine guns to the top, and voila! You have a mototank.

This cobbled-together monstrosity of a vehicle was a staple of the Skull Riders tribe (essentially a collective group of former biker gangs) during the early days after the bombs, but they eventually branched out to other weapons as they began circulating. Regardless, these machines rely on their high speed to outmaneuver other tanks and attack from ambush or bypass their foes completely. Sadly, even with armor-piercing rounds, they’re not likely to win any direct confrontations without the use of sub weapons, so they either zip in to deliver said sub weapons, or rely on hit and run tactics to avoid coming under fire, because they sure can’t take a hit, especially against Goliath tanks, which can not only one-shot them, but even run them over entirely if they’re not careful.

So with such a zippy tank at our disposal, let’s see how it translates to Starfinder!

“Mototank” modified armored motorcycle

Item Level 5; Price 6480

Medium land vehicle (5 ft. wide, 5 ft. long, 4 ft. high)

Speed 25 ft., full 525 ft.

EAC 17; KAC 19; Cover partial

HP 50 (25); Hardness 5

Attack (Collision) 5d8B (DC 15)

Attack (Squad Machine Gun) 1d10, analog, automatic

Modifiers +2 Piloting, -1 attack (-3 at full speed)

Systems armored, racer; Passengers 1

Description

If you try using most Game Boy Color cartridges in a Super Game Boy, you'll get a variety of error screens like so...

Battlezone: Rise of the Black Dogs is published by the same publisher as asteroids hyper 64, the developer is different but the visual quality is about the same;;; this one is a 3D shooter, sort of like star fox assault but with only the tanks? you can walk out of your ship-tank but you probably want to stay in all the time, it controls like Armourines so I imagine that was the usual way to do 3D shooter controls back then... It was... an ok game I guess, you do lack a lot of information honestly, in terms of feedback, but it is playable and I could see someone who has no other games having fun with this one lol

I actually plaied BattleTanx: Global Assault before playing the original, because it has co-op so I plaied it with @twinklesfound as usual, we had fun lol, it is a mess in the sense that we barely ever knew what we were supposed to do??? the first mission literally ended while we were figuring out the controls still... But it is fun to just go around exploding things together, and they have quite a bit of variety in the tanks they let you pick from (you can switch every time you die/start a mission) OH and there is a lot of story, that has aged terribly hah, and that woman over there is the villain, she looks so funny flkghslkhgs I actually plaied BattleTanx: Global Assault before playing the original, because it has co-op so I plaied it with @twinklesfound as usual, we had fun lol, it is a mess in the sense that we barely ever knew what we were supposed to do??? the first mission literally ended while we were figuring out the controls still... But it is fun to just go around exploding things together, and they have quite a bit of variety in the tanks they let you pick from (you can switch every time you die/start a mission) OH and there is a lot of story, that has aged terribly hah, and that woman over there is the villain, she looks so funny flkghslkhgs Oh yeah and one more thing... it doesnt have tank controls ironically hah and the tanks move super fast too, which adds to the fun I think lol

Ok I plaied BattleTanx (the original) too I ended up finishing it too, it is a lot harder than the first because it is kind of unbalanced (the longer you stay in a stage the more stuff they throw at you, and it is definitely a more barebones version of the sequel (you can't even change tanks) but it was fun, and short, enough to just go ahead and finish the campaign