Introduction

Within this section, I shall have the pleasure of providing you with a brief introduction to but a small section of the armored vehicles within the GDS arsenal.
As chief officer of the Armored Legion I can state without embellishment that we field the greatest machines to ever enter the realm of warfare; armored land trains, mobile fortresses, rapid assault mechs and highly adaptable battle tanks are among the many choices we have when it comes to fulfilling a mission’s requirements. At many a time, I have heard gloom filled statements such as “Armored warfare is dead” or that battle tanks have no place on the modern battlefield given the rise of autonomous munitions and precision strike missiles.
To that, I say that those who claim as much have not made an astute observation insomuch as they have merely recognized the true ceiling of their capabilities.

Armored warfare is an artform, a coordination of ponderous machines and unwieldy weapons systems that require a thorough understanding of their nature before the first command is issued. In my experience, most would assume that the only controls a tank possesses are that of forward, reverse, and a singular lever for firing the main gun.
In the grasp of ignorance, it would certainly be so.

When used as a sledge as one does when splitting a stump, armored vehicles will give just such a result; a great strike forward to split an object down the middle only to become stuck to the point of uselessness. This narrow application of tactics will certainly allow for the continued propagation of the belief that armored warfare has no place on the modern battlefield.

Armored warfare is indeed useful as a sledge, yet it is also a mighty chisel; a violent strike in a precise location to break through even the hardest of materials, the chisel immediately freed and ready for the next pass.
Within our arsenal, GDS possesses both sledges and chisels that are brought forth to maintain the central purpose of the Armored Legion; we control the land, and all that move upon it.

The Armored Legion is made up of drivers, tacticians, gunnery specialists, ordnance handlers, artillery coordinators, logistics masters, terrain engineers, mech pilots and so much more. All of whom have refined the art of turning the heaviest vehicles imaginable into finely tuned weapons of calculated ruthlessness.

Our selection of armored vehicles can accommodate any mission requirement, whether that be controlling a section of a continent with a single armored land train, or raiding an enemy position with such haste that they never have a chance to so much as call for reinforcements.

As you will come to see in the following pages, our shared expertise in the practice of overwhelming firepower and frightening mobility is only matched by one additional trait we all share.

We’ve quite the endemic case of tinnitus amongst our ranks.