Entlein Light Tank (Grenland version)
Description
A versatile light tank, unremarkable in speed but fair in armor. Its chassis can be configured to mount various different equipment. The standard variant possesses a 37mm cannon and coaxial machine gun in the turret, while the 20mm counterpart sacrifices anti-tank capability for anti-infantry focus.
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Lore
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Entlein Light Tank
The Vauhgran Imperial War Office was late to implement a tank doctrine into its military portfolio, only seeing its potential once running into vehicles of this type in their emerging conflict with Bluevakia. As their armored cars and cavalry units were not up to the task of fighting enemy armored tracked vehicles, it was decided to take a shortcut by sourcing a vehicle design from a neighboring country which they were on (moderately) good terms. Believing that it would not become an eventual issue to sell Vauhgray older equipment when asked by them, the Kingdom of Whitagne sold schematics for their highly revolutionary (when first built) Moineau light tank to their desperate neighbors for a hefty sum.
The Whiton design was adapted and manufactured in Vauhgray as the Entlein light tank, incorporating some much-needed modifications over the original foreign design. While the tank was the first to incorporate its main armament in a fully-rotating turret, said turret was rather cramped and only mounted a simply heavy machine gun. Vauhgran engineers created a re-designed turret which mounted a short-barreled 37 mm cannon with a coaxial machine gun beside it, allowing for the vehicle to combat multiple types of threat. Apart from the greatly improved standardized turret, extensive work was done to make several variants of the vehicle to perform various roles, as a means to maximize use out of the same chassis. Such variants included a close infantry support tank with an autocannon, turretless command vehicle with a long-range radio, and self-propelled gun with a fixed casemate-mounted 75 mm howitzer.
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The Entlein Light Tank comes from the game Airship Assault and is currently exclusive to the Grenland and Vauhgray Army.
