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Okay, TL: DR, tanks and shit

I had this the making for close to a year, just finished at the time of posting. Next I'll do support vehicles and that description will be longer then this one.....XDLOLOLOLOL.

Details for each vehicle provided within the image and below.

Shapes for company, number for brigade, color for regiment, a line under the shape denotes a headquarters vehicle, and a number outside the shape identifying a particular vehicle.
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Oceanic had maintained since the Second World War of 1914-1919 a small yet consistent pool of 'Tractors', so named in this world as a cover to their true intentions, other nations referred to theirs as Landships, Ironclads, or Battlecrafts, and other armored vehicles in the interwar years. The only opportunities for fighting were the long running "Disturbances" in the overseas territories of Trevantia, and occasionally police actions during riots and strikes.

Come a looming conflict with the Empire of Miramar and the larger Elvas Pact, it served to spur armor development at a rate not seen since the last war. Said developments culminated in the FV39 Harrier Light Tractor, the FV40 Prince Medium Tractor, and the FV41 Schiltrom Heavy Assault Tractor, created just in time for what would become World War III in 1940. The Harrier, a development of the design of the Mammoth-Hawley LCT-2, was a light infantry support and reconnaissance tank (usually grouped in the both the last and headquarters company of an armored regiment), the Prince served as the standard tank of the Oceanic Forces, while the heavily armored Schiltrom was a breakthrough tank.

For a time, the three aforementioned tanks held their own but, as the armies of Miramar and Luscania developed more powerful vehicles, Oceanic had to respond in kind. At first responding to the issue of armor penetration, a special Tractor Destroyer, the FV42 Hellion, was created using the then new and powerful 17-Pounder, a carryover from it's Meridian Treaty Organization (MERTO) ally Nuevo Valence. Due to armor deficiencies with the FV39, the newer FV43 Lancer was produced, a Nuevo Valencian design that was started just after the beginning of the war, and itself used a modified 17-pounder for lighter vehicles. The Lancer never wholly replaced the Harrier, a common trope throughout the war with new vehicles as older ones were rebuilt for support roles, training, or simply being dumped off to less important parts of the front.

The Year 1943-44 was seminal for tank development, as the genesis for post-war and modern era armor was established off early and mid-war requirements. Miramar had fielded early in 1943 the 85mm armed Carro de Combate (CdeC) 43 'Rex Juan'. It was a heavier, harder hitting change of pace of from it's 75mm-armed relatives, and was able to cleave through both the light and medium tanks Oceanic and Nuevo Valence were using. The best response that could be found was the 17-Pounder gun, an improvement from the 75mm guns that were common among tanks of this period. However, this necessitated the development or modification of new vehicles to carry it. The first that came were redesigns of the Prince, simplifying the design to a single turret that was originally built around a 75mm gun, but mid-development was upgunned to a specially modified 17-Pounder.

The redesigned Prince, now the FV40b, was only a interim measure that was deployed until sufficient numbers of FV43 'Defier' were produced, but the end of the war saw almost half of all Princes built converted to FV40bs. The tractor that was to supplant it, the Defier, was an different creature from the Prince, being a native Nuevo Valence design brought into Oceanic usage for the duration of the war, being entirely built around the 17-Pounder gun, rode on a bellcrank suspension system, and a more powerful 600hp engine that could power it to 30mph.

Neither however were enough to face off a threat that came in spring 1944. Reports in late 1943 came of a vehicle, later identified and deployed as the Carro de Combate 44, called the 'Rex Fernando', armed with a 100mm main gun. Developed alongside it was a redesigned, heavier variate of the CdeC 43, the long barreled 85mm 'Rex Juan II'.

Neither, however, were heavy tanks, a class that had been rare in the war so far due transportation issues on both sides, but just bigger then a medium tank. This had been found out around the same time Nuevo Valence and Oceanic were jointly working on a tank inspired by the successes of the Defier, it's engine, and an experimental 105mm anti-tank gun. Both sides called the vehicles 'Universal Tractors' as they had the firepower and protection of a conceptual heavy tank, but were about the size or bigger than a medium tank, with the mobility of such.

The vehicle rolled out was designated the FV44 Challenger, originally to be armed with a 105mm main gun and coaxial 20mm auto-cannon. This was replaced with an 84mm '20-Pounder' gun when the original weapon couldn't be fitted, and was later earmarked for use as a towed anti-tank gun. Capable of engaging, essentially, any tank of the late war period, the trouble was that there were too few of them at the time of their deployment in late 1944, as Nuevo Valence and Oceanic were readying for a seaborne invasion of the Elvas Pact-aligned Luscania. This was augmented by the upgunning of several more capable vehicles, such as the "Black Prince", the end-state of the by-now long lived Prince line, it's heavily modified 84mm gun necessitating both a new turret and suspension system being classed as the FV40-44.

Hoping to expand the benefits of the new gun, and resulting in the last vehicles of their kind built, the 84mm armed FV44 'Assailer', and the '17-Pounder' gunned FV45 'Inciter' were the final Tractor Destroyers types acquired by Oceanic and Nuevo Valence. The 'Assailer' was a quick development of the Defier chassis created to cover the known problems that would arise with so few Challengers initially being deployed, as the combination of the 20-Pounder and the defensive tactics used by MERTO Tractor Destroyers were sufficient supplement when the invasion of Luscania began in November 1944. The Nuevo Valencian-built 'Inciter' was a sister to the Hellion, and was provided to Oceanic Tractor Destroyer Regiments first in 1943 to supplement destroyed Hellions due to the time it would take bring new ones over from home. The 'Inciter', interestingly, was found to be better suited for the role than the Hellion due to it's lower silhouette, favored in the hull down 'sniping' positions used in their purely covering and defensive tactics, though it only received a type designation as 'FV45' two years later when it was 'officially' adopted.

Intending to replace the now intensely vulnerable Harrier and prematurely aged Lancer was the FV46 Hussar Light Tractor, a 1945 design using a 17-Pounder for infantry support. The Hussar's gun and armor would have effectively made earlier Princes and Schiltroms obsolete, the latter built Princes being upgraded to 17-pounder or 84mm models, or turned into support vehicles, while the Schiltrom (out-armored) was removed from service or returned home for training use. However, problems with mounting the gun, production space, and a need for more of the proven Lancers, meant that not only would it miss the war, but it wouldn't arrive in any numbers until 1948.

In constant, tenuous, off-and-on development since the start of the war, the now 120mm armed FV45 Vanquisher was deployed in late 1945, in response to enemy deployments of heavy tanks of their own, with each year until then seeing it's design becoming bigger, heavier, and always being up-gunned. It only served in the last few months of the war on most of the fronts where enemy heavy AFVs were deployed, a period where heavy tanks developed on all sides finally began to see the light of day, if only too late.

By that time, enough 20-Pounder armed vehicles, and a litany of other weapons, had made the end of the war inevitable, and getting such a slow, massive vehicle to the front was made more superfluous given there already were tanks of similar size being used to face off against heavy enemy tanks. Primarily, this was the FV45 Renoster, a heavy assault tank intially deployed the year prior in the mold of the Schiltrom, with a 94mm '32-pounder' gun that could also be used as a heavy tank destroyer. In spite it's size, it was found to be more mechanically reliable than the Vanquisher, due to it's consistent development phase, it's armor and gun making it excellent for use against hardened defenses, along with a more useful earlier deployment period alongside the Challenger.

As with many conflicts, the technologies that won it became the standard upon which to be built on. The Challenger, Hussar, and to a smaller extent the Defier and Black Prince were the 'mailed fists' of Oceanic, Nuevo Valence and MERTO forces. But, as with everything, time took from the glory, and by 1956, though still good AFVs, a more modern combat vehicle was desired. Taking from the concept behind the Challenger, and the gun of the Vanquisher, was the FV56 Contender, at the time of deployment, the most modern and powerful combat vehicle in the world.

Description
Okay, TL: DR, tanks and shit

I had this the making for close to a year, just finished at the time of posting. Next I'll do support vehicles and that description will be longer then this one.....XDLOLOLOLOL.

Details for each vehicle provided within the image and below.

Shapes for company, number for brigade, color for regiment, a line under the shape denotes a headquarters vehicle, and a number outside the shape identifying a particular vehicle.
_____________________________

Oceanic had maintained since the Second World War of 1914-1919 a small yet consistent pool of 'Tractors', so named in this world as a cover to their true intentions, other nations referred to theirs as Landships, Ironclads, or Battlecrafts, and other armored vehicles in the interwar years. The only opportunities for fighting were the long running "Disturbances" in the overseas territories of Trevantia, and occasionally police actions during riots and strikes.

Come a looming conflict with the Empire of Miramar and the larger Elvas Pact, it served to spur armor development at a rate not seen since the last war. Said developments culminated in the FV39 Harrier Light Tractor, the FV40 Prince Medium Tractor, and the FV41 Schiltrom Heavy Assault Tractor, created just in time for what would become World War III in 1940. The Harrier, a development of the design of the Mammoth-Hawley LCT-2, was a light infantry support and reconnaissance tank (usually grouped in the both the last and headquarters company of an armored regiment), the Prince served as the standard tank of the Oceanic Forces, while the heavily armored Schiltrom was a breakthrough tank.

For a time, the three aforementioned tanks held their own but, as the armies of Miramar and Luscania developed more powerful vehicles, Oceanic had to respond in kind. At first responding to the issue of armor penetration, a special Tractor Destroyer, the FV42 Hellion, was created using the then new and powerful 17-Pounder, a carryover from it's Meridian Treaty Organization (MERTO) ally Nuevo Valence. Due to armor deficiencies with the FV39, the newer FV43 Lancer was produced, a Nuevo Valencian design that was started just after the beginning of the war, and itself used a modified 17-pounder for lighter vehicles. The Lancer never wholly replaced the Harrier, a common trope throughout the war with new vehicles as older ones were rebuilt for support roles, training, or simply being dumped off to less important parts of the front.

The Year 1943-44 was seminal for tank development, as the genesis for post-war and modern era armor was established off early and mid-war requirements. Miramar had fielded early in 1943 the 85mm armed Carro de Combate (CdeC) 43 'Rex Juan'. It was a heavier, harder hitting change of pace of from it's 75mm-armed relatives, and was able to cleave through both the light and medium tanks Oceanic and Nuevo Valence were using. The best response that could be found was the 17-Pounder gun, an improvement from the 75mm guns that were common among tanks of this period. However, this necessitated the development or modification of new vehicles to carry it. The first that came were redesigns of the Prince, simplifying the design to a single turret that was originally built around a 75mm gun, but mid-development was upgunned to a specially modified 17-Pounder.

The redesigned Prince, now the FV40b, was only a interim measure that was deployed until sufficient numbers of FV43 'Defier' were produced, but the end of the war saw almost half of all Princes built converted to FV40bs. The tractor that was to supplant it, the Defier, was an different creature from the Prince, being a native Nuevo Valence design brought into Oceanic usage for the duration of the war, being entirely built around the 17-Pounder gun, rode on a bellcrank suspension system, and a more powerful 600hp engine that could power it to 30mph.

Neither however were enough to face off a threat that came in spring 1944. Reports in late 1943 came of a vehicle, later identified and deployed as the Carro de Combate 44, called the 'Rex Fernando', armed with a 100mm main gun. Developed alongside it was a redesigned, heavier variate of the CdeC 43, the long barreled 85mm 'Rex Juan II'.

Neither, however, were heavy tanks, a class that had been rare in the war so far due transportation issues on both sides, but just bigger then a medium tank. This had been found out around the same time Nuevo Valence and Oceanic were jointly working on a tank inspired by the successes of the Defier, it's engine, and an experimental 105mm anti-tank gun. Both sides called the vehicles 'Universal Tractors' as they had the firepower and protection of a conceptual heavy tank, but were about the size or bigger than a medium tank, with the mobility of such.

The vehicle rolled out was designated the FV44 Challenger, originally to be armed with a 105mm main gun and coaxial 20mm auto-cannon. This was replaced with an 84mm '20-Pounder' gun when the original weapon couldn't be fitted, and was later earmarked for use as a towed anti-tank gun. Capable of engaging, essentially, any tank of the late war period, the trouble was that there were too few of them at the time of their deployment in late 1944, as Nuevo Valence and Oceanic were readying for a seaborne invasion of the Elvas Pact-aligned Luscania. This was augmented by the upgunning of several more capable vehicles, such as the "Black Prince", the end-state of the by-now long lived Prince line, it's heavily modified 84mm gun necessitating both a new turret and suspension system being classed as the FV40-44.

Hoping to expand the benefits of the new gun, and resulting in the last vehicles of their kind built, the 84mm armed FV44 'Assailer', and the '17-Pounder' gunned FV45 'Inciter' were the final Tractor Destroyers types acquired by Oceanic and Nuevo Valence. The 'Assailer' was a quick development of the Defier chassis created to cover the known problems that would arise with so few Challengers initially being deployed, as the combination of the 20-Pounder and the defensive tactics used by MERTO Tractor Destroyers were sufficient supplement when the invasion of Luscania began in November 1944. The Nuevo Valencian-built 'Inciter' was a sister to the Hellion, and was provided to Oceanic Tractor Destroyer Regiments first in 1943 to supplement destroyed Hellions due to the time it would take bring new ones over from home. The 'Inciter', interestingly, was found to be better suited for the role than the Hellion due to it's lower silhouette, favored in the hull down 'sniping' positions used in their purely covering and defensive tactics, though it only received a type designation as 'FV45' two years later when it was 'officially' adopted.

Intending to replace the now intensely vulnerable Harrier and prematurely aged Lancer was the FV46 Hussar Light Tractor, a 1945 design using a 17-Pounder for infantry support. The Hussar's gun and armor would have effectively made earlier Princes and Schiltroms obsolete, the latter built Princes being upgraded to 17-pounder or 84mm models, or turned into support vehicles, while the Schiltrom (out-armored) was removed from service or returned home for training use. However, problems with mounting the gun, production space, and a need for more of the proven Lancers, meant that not only would it miss the war, but it wouldn't arrive in any numbers until 1948.

In constant, tenuous, off-and-on development since the start of the war, the now 120mm armed FV45 Vanquisher was deployed in late 1945, in response to enemy deployments of heavy tanks of their own, with each year until then seeing it's design becoming bigger, heavier, and always being up-gunned. It only served in the last few months of the war on most of the fronts where enemy heavy AFVs were deployed, a period where heavy tanks developed on all sides finally began to see the light of day, if only too late.

By that time, enough 20-Pounder armed vehicles, and a litany of other weapons, had made the end of the war inevitable, and getting such a slow, massive vehicle to the front was made more superfluous given there already were tanks of similar size being used to face off against heavy enemy tanks. Primarily, this was the FV45 Renoster, a heavy assault tank intially deployed the year prior in the mold of the Schiltrom, with a 94mm '32-pounder' gun that could also be used as a heavy tank destroyer. In spite it's size, it was found to be more mechanically reliable than the Vanquisher, due to it's consistent development phase, it's armor and gun making it excellent for use against hardened defenses, along with a more useful earlier deployment period alongside the Challenger.

As with many conflicts, the technologies that won it became the standard upon which to be built on. The Challenger, Hussar, and to a smaller extent the Defier and Black Prince were the 'mailed fists' of Oceanic, Nuevo Valence and MERTO forces. But, as with everything, time took from the glory, and by 1956, though still good AFVs, a more modern combat vehicle was desired. Taking from the concept behind the Challenger, and the gun of the Vanquisher, was the FV56 Contender, at the time of deployment, the most modern and powerful combat vehicle in the world.