User:Impurest Cheese/Type 55 Land Clearance Vehicle


 * The Type 55 Land Clearance Vehicle or Ogre as it would be know by the UNSC was a Brute Heavy Tank designed to uncover mines safely and carve safe paths through enemy lines for other vehicles and infantry.

History

 * The Type 55 Land Clearance Vehicle could be one of the oldest vehicles invented by the Jiralhanae. Early expeditions by the Covenant found the inhabitants using huge vehicles to bulldoze land for cities and factories. The vehicles would also be used as makeshift rams against the Covenant before the Brutes were converted by the Prophets.


 * Like most of their pre Covenant technology these vehicles were rarely seen off Dosiac due to their primitive nature compared to Covenant Vehicles such as the Type 52 Assault Gun Carriage . One legacy of these pre Covenant Vehicles did remain as the Elites would start using the boost function which had initially been for maneuvering and accelerating into and out of battle as crude battering rams against enemy infantry. After the Great Schism the Brutes would rely more on their own technology and the primitive vehicles returned to the battle field. After the destruction of the Ark the Jiralhanae Weapons Guild started to create the Type 55 Land Clearance Vehicle for various Chieftains to use against each other.


 * The return of Lepidus with the Fist of Rukt unified the Brutes and all the vehicles, troops and weaponry was pooled together for use against off world enemies. Interested in the Type 55 Land Clearance Vehicle, Lepidus proposed changes to the vehicle to change it into a tank used for carving up infantry formations. In five years the Brutes had a large number of Type 55s in their possession and with the first field tests on Harvest a success took over form the Type 52 Assault Gun Carriage as the Covenants main tank. The Type 52 would see continued service but would serve more as mobile artillery then a battle tank.

Weaponry

 * Like most Brute Vehicles, the Ogre was designed for head on attacks. Armed with a 90mm canon the Ogre could take down the heaviest Scorpion Tank which formed the bulk of the enemy armor that apposed it. The Gun was situated on a turret at the rear of the tank with the 68mm canon positioned next to it. The smaller 68mm Gun was mainly used against lighter vehicles as the Brutes saw it wasteful to destroy a light vehicle with the larger gun.


 * For defense against infantry the Ogre is equipped with a pair of Type 42 Chemical Sprayers. These flamethrowers are able to burn through trees and cause structural damage to buildings allowing the tank to smash through what is left with its heavy front armor. Fuelled from a pair of exposed tanks this is considered the Ogre’s main weak spot.

Type 82 Mine Plough

 * On the orders of Lepidus the Jiralhanae Weapons Guild attached a pair of solid steel ploughs on the left and right side of the tank. The mine plough was tested and was resistant enough to survive the blast of a Lotus Anti Tank Mine at close range. In the field the brutes also use the Mine Plough as a primitive ram and it is not uncommon to find marines pinned to the front of the Ogre.

Compatibility

 * Brutes
 * Elite
 * Spartans

UNSC Remarks

 * “Ahh”


 * “My God what the hell is that”


 * “The Ogre is huge, hideous and the last thing the rest of my squad saw before leaving this world. I only survived thanks to the Spartans arriving when they did.”