TGMC:Assault Crewman
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| VEHICLE CREW | |
 Assault Crewman |
Access: N/A Difficulty: Hard Rank: Lance Corporal (Starting), Corporal (25 hours), Sergeant (100 hours), Staff Sergeant (300 hours), Sergeant Major (1000 hours) Class: Navy Supervisors: Field Commander Duties: Pilot the tank, push the frontline, oneshot the queen, cry when behemoth oneshots your tank. Guides: This is the guide. Quote:"Surprise surprise. Yet ANOTHER round with Bill Torres playing as Assault Crewman. It's only been the fiftieth time this week. Ever notice how Bill ALWAYS gets assault crewman from round start? You think this is a coincidence? I think not, especially with allegations that Bill has hired coders to rig the ready-up job selection proc. Do you think a person like him wouldn't alter his own ready-up RNG to ALWAYS PLAYASSAULT CREWMAN? I don't think so. Admins? I leave the case in your hands." |
Introduction
Your job as the Assault Crewman is to man the MT Bateng – A powerful offensive tank. At minimum one crewman is required to drive the tank, and the other is required to shoot it.
Communication
As a Assault Crewman you have access to the following radio channels Default radio commands:
- .v for Command
- .u for Requisitions
- .m for Medical
- .s for Fire Support
- .e for Engineering
- .q for ALPHA SQUAD
- .b for BRAVO SQUAD
- .c for CHARLIE SQUAD
- .d for DELTA SQUAD
- , for General radio
Tank Preamble
You cannot enter or load the Tank without the Large Vehicle skill, and you cannot drive or fire the Tank without Large Vehicles 3. Marines can be given a loader instruction manual to boost their Large Vehicle skill by one – and this will allow them to enter and load the Tank (but they will not be able to drive or fire it). Assault Crewman start with one loader manual, however more cannot be ordered. Pick who you choose as your loader carefully. Up to 4 crew may be in the Tank at the same time, should you somehow get your hands on more manuals or Assault Crewmen.
While the Tank is immune to gunfire and incendiary weapons, it can still take damage from explosions, lava, xeno slashes, acid spit, acid clouds, Warrior punches, Crusher charges, Behemoth Earth Pillars, Warlock Psychic Blasts/Lances and Psychic Crush.
Marines can fire past armoured vehicles with any IFF weapon or while in aim mode. If they need to get past the vehicle, they can jump ontop of the vehicle, and walk over it normally. Any marine on top of the tank while it moves will get knocked off (and potentially crushed if they land in front of the vehicle) unless they have at least one empty hand. Xenoes can also hop on top of the vehicle, but won be thrown off if the vehicle moves.
The tank will knock any mobs out the way when they move into them, damaging them in the process (fairly significantly in the case of humans) except for a Crusher, who will not be knocked back or take damage. Vehicles take no damage from knocking a mob out the way, even if they’re trying to run over a Crusher.
Most walls (including resin walls) or dense objects (including barricades and MG emplacements) can be crushed by armoured vehicles by simply ramming into them, though walls will take some time to get through. The vehicle takes no damage while attempting to destroy walls or dense objects. Feel free to make as much space as you need, while avoiding the wrath of any engineers trying to make barricades. Certain walls, like outer hull, heavy reinforced walls, dense ice or cave rock cannot be destroyed by being rammed. Cave rock however can be cleared by someone with a Plasma Cutter.
Initial Preparations
First of all head to the Hangar bay. You'll find the Vehicle Bay, where you can buy your Tank using the Vehicle Part Fabricator. Only one Tank can be bought (without admin intervention). Lower the lift, and purchase the equipment and modules you want from the UI. A total of 20 rounds can be bought per weapon - with weapons with multiple ammo types you'll need to split the difference between them. You can toss any magazines in by clicking the tank entrance with the munition in hand - but you can't toss other things in like backpacks without actually entering the Tank itself. Additional ammo can be ordered from req as needed.
Tank Equipment
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A cannon that fires powerful explosive rounds or grenades. LTB shells are loaded one at a time, grenade magazines have 10 rounds. You cannot load both magazine types at the same time. LTB rounds can be ordered for 10 points per shell via requisitions. Grenade magazines cannot currently be bought. LTB rounds are capable of gibbing marines. Be EXTREMELY careful where you aim!. |
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A chaingun with a high rate of fire. Has IFF, but very noticable damage falloff at range. Good for keeping xenoes off you in a pinch. 150 rounds per magazine. Additional magazines can be ordered from Requisitions for 10 points each. |
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A minigun which has IFF properties. 75 rounds per magazine, but ammo dries up quickly. Additional magazines can be ordered from Requisitions for 10 points each. |
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Driver Module Increases the speed of the Tank. |
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Gunner Module A periscope with nightvision that gives you a wider view of the battlefield. You cannot fire while zoomed in |
Manning the Vehicle
To enter the Tank, you need to drag click yourself to the vehicle, while standing at the entrance. This entrance is at the rear of the tank, make sure you're standing directly in line with the center of the Tank..
- 1: Red: Gunner seat
- 2: Blue: Driver seat
- 3: Cyan: Loader seat and periscope
- 4: Yellow: Primary breach
- 5: Green: Secondary breach
- 6: Purple: Primary ammo rack
- 7: Brown: Secondary ammo rack
To enter a seat, dragclick your sprite to the seat. To exit once you've buckled yourself into a seat, simply press resist, or click the buckled icon in the top right corner of the screen. Note that marines that have read the loader manual cannot drive or shoot the tank. If you want to leave the tank, just click on the door to the left.
Driving
Driving is pretty simple! You use the WASD or arrow keys by default to move around. The Tank cannot move diagonally, and there's a brief delay when turning 90 degrees. Remember, you can drive through walls and objects without incurring damage- don't be afraid to give something a good old ram if it's in your way. You also have Toggle Lights and Honk Horn as action buttons on the top left of your HUD, which hopefully should be self explanatory - Use the lights so you can see, use the horn to put the fear of god into those xenoes warn marines that they need to get out of the way.
Gunner
Once in the gunner seat, use Left Click to fire your primary weapon, and Right Click to fire your secondary weapon, and use middle click to toggle the safety. If it isn’t already obvious, the primary gun has a limited 90 degree fire angle. Use the directional movement keys to rotate the main gun, or alternatively just click in the direction you wish to fire. Note that turning the main gun has a delay (though you aren’t restricted in turning in 90 degree increments). Once the primary gun is lined up, just click on the tile you want to fire at. The secondary gun has no firing angle restrictions. Both the primary and secondary guns can be fired at the same time.
The tank’s current ammo is displayed to the right of your HUD. Note : The display is currently bugged and may require you exit and enter the vehicle several times to properly update the display.
Reloading
Once out of ammo, you’ll need to reload. Simply take the corresponding ammo, and load it into the primary or secondary breech. There are also ammo racks to load any spare ammo, so make use of them. Any empty shells/magazines are automatically unloaded – Try to make sure you don’t mix up live ammo on the floor with empty ones. If neccesary you can also perform an early reload by taking the magazine out of the corresponding breach with an empty hand, then loading a new magazine in. A dedicated loader can help improve your downtime, so you don't need to leave your seat and load your ammo- potentially losing track of targets and your situational awareness.
Repairing
Repairing is a simple endeavour - use a welding tool. Each repair takes 2 seconds, and increases the integrity by 5.5%. Unskilled marines attempting repairs will fumble and take longer to perform the repair. Getting out of the Tank exposes you to danger, so don't be afraid to ask others to help repair your Tank on the fly.
Playing as the Tank
The first most important thing you need to learn is that the tank will get destroyed without support. It's very easy to get overwhelmed by xenoes attacking you from all sides, and even easier to park yourself right up against a wall with nowhere to escape to. Do not charge off alone. You need to be at the front, but not so far forward marines cannot help you- but not so far back that you aren't in a position to shoot your primary weapon at anything. Or worse, so far back that marines need to backtrack to help you. If you're getting overwhelmed or feel as if you're getting left behind, use your radio to inform marines of the situation. More importantly pay attention to radio so you don't miss out on marines pushing or retreating. Communicate with your other crewman - if you feel like the driver is being too reckless with their positioning, or isn't getting in the right position to shoot at, tell them. If you feel like your gunner isn't priotising the right targets, inform him. You're two peas in the same pod, and you need to be on the same page- whether that's attacking, retreating, getting repairs ect.
The Tank isn't some invincible monstrosity, damage can slowly stack up from spits, Warlock psy beams, acid clouds or just good old slashing. Ultimately it's a support vehicle which has a very big gun on it.
Tips and Tricks
- Consider getting a M-22 welding kit (free from the surplus uniform equipment vendor) or the techinician welder pack (orderable from req, some free in engineering lockers), so you don't run out of fuel while repairing the tank. You can also keep a couple of welding kits inside the Tank as a surplus.
- The Cupola is capable of shooting xenoes sitting directly on the Tank, you need to be clicking directly on the xeno though.
- It can be tempting to take long diversions to avoid being forced to destroy a wall - Don't unless you have an escort. It's easy to get harassed by a lone xeno- who might call other xenoes in as backup.
- Warlock psy beams and Behemoth rocks can do devastating damage to the Tank. Always be careful if they're around.
| TGMC Roles 
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| TerraGov Marines | Command | Captain, Field Commander, Staff Officer, Pilot Officer, Transport Officer, Mech Pilot |
| Vehicle Crew | Assault Crewman, Transport Crewman | |
| Engineering and Supply | Chief Ship Engineer, Requisitions Officer, Ship Technician | |
| Medical | Chief Medical Officer, Medical Doctor, Researcher | |
| Marines | Squad Leader, Squad Smartgunner, Squad Engineer, Squad Corpsman, Squad Marine | |
| Civilians | Corporate Liaison | |
| Silicon | Combat robots, Synthetic, AI | |
| Xenomorphs | Tier 0 | Larva, Minions |
| Tier 1 | Drone, Runner, Defender, Sentinel | |
| Tier 2 | Hivelord, Carrier, Hunter, Wraith, Bull, Warrior, Puppeteer, Spitter | |
| Tier 3 | Gorger, Defiler, Widow, Ravager, Warlock, Behemoth, Crusher, Praetorian, Boiler | |
| Tier 4 | Shrike, Queen, King, Hivemind | |
| Others | Zombie, Emergency Response Teams, Sons of Mars, | |