Bastion Tanks

The Bastion Tank serves as one of the CMC's largest ground based vehicles. Serving a variety of roles such as Artillery, siege vehicle, ground support, mobile commander center and mobile fortress.

These colossal tanks are most often used in planetary defense and are often the center point of an army.

History
Developed soon after the start of Project Warmind in 3999 and first deployed in 4007, after two teams competed with designs that met the CMC's specifications.

The concept of a large, multi-turreted breakthrough tank was not a new one for Humanity, as several had been designed and used before the DeadLands Crisis. However none had ever been designed to be so large. As the need for such a huge tank never arose on Earth.

Design
The Bastion Tank was designed to serve as a forward operating base, artillery platform, mobile fortress and siege breaker all in one. The two designs submitted to the CMC were both chosen for further research, however during this process it was decided to combine the designs into one.

Eventually it was decided that a number of variations would be needed, and thus over the course of the war the Bastion Tank design has been altered to serve a number of different roles.

MK 35 Bastion
The standard Bastion tank design that served as the basis for all future variants. The standard Bastion specifications are as followed:


 * 190.1 meters long
 * 73 meters wide
 * 77 meters tall
 * Weighing 6441.6 tonnes
 * Clad in Titanium G5 welded Composite reactive armour
 * Top speed of 35 mph

MK 35 Transport
The transport variant was designed to accommodate a larger amount of vehicles or troops within its hangar. This can allow it to carry four Winston Land Fortress's in two columns as opposed to the hangar of the standard variant which can only accommodate two. However its standard munitions stores were reduced to make room.

MK 35 Artillery
The Artillery variant carries a number of larger artillery pieces rather than the standard armament emplacements. The Artillery variant has a reduced transport capacity, with the room taken up by ammunition stores.

Crew Compliment
The Standard Bastion contains a total crew of 58. Including:


 * Tank Commander (Traditionally Captain or higher)
 * x2 Second Officers
 * x5 Drivers
 * x25 Gunners of various roles
 * x5 Communications officers
 * x5 Deck officers
 * x5 Ammunition Officers
 * x10 Engineers

Bastions also come equipped with a number of Synthetic Souls which fulfill a variety of roles.