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10-08-2019, 11:52 PM | #1 |
Crimson Guard
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"The Joes stay frosty with their newest arctic combat vehicle. The Avalanche is a virtual rolling arsenal of weaponry, packing a 35 mm autocannon and coaxial machine gun mounted in a remote turret. For taking on enemy armor, the Avalanche carries eight ATGMs and also pair of rear mounted landmine launchers, each with 36 antitank mines that can launch to the sides or the rear.
The Avalanche's lack of a high caliber gun and limited protection for the driver mean that it is not suited to fighting as a tank up close against heavy enemy armor. But its unique weapons combination makes it very adept at both defending against waves of advancing enemy armor and at supporting offensive operations from afar." Front by Magnus-L, on Flickr Avalanche by Magnus-L, on Flickr UAV storage by Magnus-L, on Flickr UAV by Magnus-L, on Flickr Avalanche and UAV by Magnus-L, on Flickr The Avalanche is another strange looking vehicle from the vast G.I.Joe universe. It is big, tracked, and heavily armed and armored and it isn't quite a tank. But what is it? A missile-armed tank destroyer? A mine layer? A mini air vehicle carrier? It's unlikely that a single vehicle would be all these things at once, but I tried to retain all these functions in a way that seemed just a little more plausible and believable. The result is a fairly major redesign. I could have ended up with a cleaner look if I had placed the turret centrally, but I wanted to keep the asymmetry, which seemed to me characteristic of the original design. I was torn between this canopy, which connects it to the original aesthetic, and an armored driver's position that would have been a lot more realistic for an armored vehicle, but the big canopy just looked right. I changed the mini aircraft to a UAV, and found space for a second crewman behind the driver. Last edited by Stormgard; 05-14-2020 at 08:21 PM.. |
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