Armored Battle Crew - WW1 tank management - now available on Early Access

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/814740/

Armored Battle Crew is a Tank and Crew Management Simulation game, where your skills as a Tank commander is tested. Customize your tank carefully and make strategic battle choices to achieve mission success! The fate of your crew lies in your hands!

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/814740/announcements/detail/1706201820612157150

2019 is here, and we've got victory in our sights!
5 January - Gattai Games

Hey Tankies!

It's the first #ScreenshotSaturday of #2019 and we've got victory in our sights!

First person sights that is! Jump into a weapon port, set your sights on an enemy and blast them away! Take matters into your own hands and stop blaming the crew!

It has been a much requested feature on our Discord[discord.gg] and we did it! Swing by our Discord and your next request may become a feature!

Best,
The Armored Battle Crew

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/814740/announcements/detail/1706202908639665627

NEW Tank Alert! Whippet Good!
18 Jan @ 2:22pm - Gattai Games
Hey Tankers!

Guess what?! A NEW Tank joins the fray! (Among other things)

The Medium Mark A Whippet is the lighter and faster cousin of the Mark V Tank. It brings terror to the battlefield with a small 3 man crew, light weapons and extra mobility! Can you tame the whippet?

Here's the full update list.

New Aim Mode
Think you can aim and shoot better than your crew? Take control and mow down the enemy.

Revamped Signal Support
Signal support has been re-balanced to serve more specific purposes. They can be called in from the signal module by using Command Points earned in battle.

• Infantry Rifle Corps
  Call in troops to secure Victory Points. Can be helpful to turn the tide in your favor!
  
  
• Royal Artillery Corps
  Call in powerful artillery strikes. Expensive and long cooldown but decisive when used at the right moment!
  
  
• Defense Tactics
  Bonuses to vehicle health, resupply speed and capturing speed. Useful when supporting friendly infantry!
  
  
• Infiltration Tactics
  Allows your vehicle to capture Victory Points, awards bonuses to captured Command Points and calls in Trench Raiders to follow your vehicle! Great for penetrating enemy territory!

New Campaign mission
We have added a new mission, Hamel’s Doorstep. Assist the infantry in their assault to dislodge German resistance in the village of Hamel.

New Weapon
The Godsal Experimental AT Rifle
A new light weapon designed to combat enemy tanks. Provides good armor penetration, fast reload but relatively low damage. Can be repurposed as a close-mid range sniper rifle when needed.

Slow Mo Feature
We have added the highly requested feature to toggle speed between x1 and x0.3. Useful when micromanaging your crew!

New Enemies
More enemy threats spotted! Can you adapt to and defeat them?

As always join us on Discord [discord.gg] to contribute to the development of the game, and get you friends to Wishlist Armored Battle Crew if they haven't already!

Thanks a lot!
Armored Battle Crew Team

 

[Haba]

You call that a "tank crew"?

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

I would be ok with something smaller.

Spoiler

Those things were really behemoths compared to FT-17.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Released into early access.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/814740/announcements/detail/1604890306660365829

Sneak Peek: RNAS Armored Car
Dear Tankers,
Today we will take a quick look at the upcoming speed demon!

Background

The first British armored car squadron was created by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in 1914. Rolls Royce Silver Ghost car chassis was modified with an armored body and a fully rotating turret to form the RNAS armored car.

Although the armored cars were not suited to the muddy and trench filled battlefields in the Western Front, they were put to good use in North Africa and were famously used by the Lawrence of Arabia against the Turkish.

Swappable Turrets

A new feature that will come with the armored car is the ability to change the turret in the garage! RNAS armored car will come with 3 turrets.

Turret 1

A fully enclosed turret to provide maximum armor protection to the crew. The main drawback is the slow rotation speed of the turret.

Turret 2

To adapt to the hot desert in North Africa, the roof of the turret is removed to improve air ventilation. This also increased the rotation speed of the turret.

Turret 3

In this version, the turret is replaced with a gun mount in an attempt to equip the armored car with a cannon. You can mount twin machine guns, cannons, and large flamethrowers. But beware as the turret has a limited arc of fire to the front.

That's all for now.

Do join us on Discord to chat about the game and tanks!
Leave a comment or like if you love what you are seeing!

Armored Battle Crew Team

https://steamcommunity.com/games/814740/announcements/detail/1591383308590859078

Sneak Peek: Sandbox Game Mode
Dear Tankers,
We are very pleased to announce the new upcoming sandbox game mode!

What is a sandbox game mode?

The sandbox game mode will be a new addition to the game on top of the current campaign and custom battle. It is a hybrid of a editor/battle system where you can edit the mission in editor mode before hitting the start button. Once you are done battling, you can stop and get back to the editor.

What are the main features?

The main features that will be in the first build are:

• Deploy units for Player and Enemy faction
  
• Wide range of units (Infantry, Crew served weapons, Tanks, Planes)
  
• 3 Type of AI (Defender - Hold Position, Defender - Attack Victory Point, Assault - Attack nearest enemy)
  
• Set Time of the battle (Dawn, Morning, Afternoon, Dusk, Night)
  
• Set Difficulty (Easy, Medium, Hard)
  
• Choose the player vehicle (All tanks created in the garage will appear as a dropdown list for selection)
  
• Set the spawn point for player vehicle
  
• Save/Load mission

Features that will be considered further down the road:

• Able to switch faction (You can play on the side of enemy)
  
• Able to deploy units of various nations
  
• Place barbwires, mines, resupply points, buildings etc
  
• Spawner to spawn units overtime
  
• Simple editor for scripted events
  
• Custom victory and defeat conditions
  
• Steamwork integration to upload/download sandbox mission save files

ARTILLERY ONLY!!!

Do join us on Discord to chat about the game and tanks!
Leave a comment or like if you love what you are seeing!

Armored Battle Crew Team

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

i'm still trying to picture a ww1 tank going ftl.

 

[mondblut]

i'm still trying to picture a ww1 tank going ftl.

And not a word in this thread makes it any clearer. GTA must be a FTL-like too by the look of this.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

i'm still trying to picture a ww1 tank going ftl.

And not a word in this thread makes it any clearer. GTA must be a FTL-like too by the look of this.

I didn't come up with better term for vehicle crew management focused game at the time.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

no no guys, i meant, a ww1 tank literally going ftl.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

no no guys, i meant, a ww1 tank literally going ftl.

1.Order gearmen to set stick 2 notches under ´ludicrous`.
2. Secure the tea set.
3. Rev the engine, I guess.
4.???
5.FTL.

 

[Galdred]

no no guys, i meant, a ww1 tank literally going ftl.

It cannot be worse than this!

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

dissing on the galaxy express. you truly are the scum of the earth.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/814740/announcements/detail/1658940477386567446

Poll Result and Sandbox Update
Dear Tankers,

Poll Result

We are pleased to announce that Mark IX will be the next vehicle to be added to the Garage!

Here is the final tally from Discord and Steam:

Mark IX - 113 votes
Whippet Mark B - 75 votes
Austin armored car - 38 votes

A quick recap of the stats (subject to changes):

Crew: 3
Special features: 10-12 storage slots
Weapon: 2 x MG (Front and rear)
Possible additional weapon: Around 5 gun ports on each side (left and right)
Engine: 150 hp
Top Speed: 6.5 km/h
Default Armor: up to 10mm
Weight: 37 tons

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Sandbox Update

We have integrated Steam workshop for the upcoming sandbox game mode. You will be able to upload and download custom sandbox missions.

We have also created 2 new maps for the sandbox game mode.

Hill (A well fortified hill surrounded by open field and plain)

Desert valley (A farm in the river valley surrounded by desert and mountain)

Armored Battle Crew Team

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/11/22/the-flare-path-sidetracked-by-steam/

Cacophonous, airless, unreliable, and relatively thin-skinned, first generation landships were often more hazardous to their crews than the enemy. You wouldn’t guess this from playing Armoured Battle Crew, a likeable £15 Bomber Crew-like currently in Early Access.

Like Bomber Crew, ABC spurns the opportunity to educate and evoke, choosing ‘entertainment’ over ‘realism’ at almost every turn. I approached it the way a cheerless, ageing schoolmaster approaches a pupil doodling Hawker Harts during a Classics lesson, but soon found myself smiling rather than censuring.

Controlling one of the game’s rowdy rhombuses is really rather fun. Because the trundlers struggle on slopes and often need a little run-up to crush, fell or mangle obstacles, WASDing your way about the stylised, pleasingly destructible battlefields takes thought and manual dexterity.

There’s also crew assignments to think about. The Mark V that is the game’s main attraction (Whippets and Rolls-Royce armoured cars are also provided) bristles with weaponry, and manning every MG and 6-pounder in the heat of battle is usually neither practical or advisable. At least one member of your crew will need to work his socks off as a mechanic/medic/ammo gopher if you’re to have any hope of keeping your charge mobile and malevolent.

A slo-mo mode means things never get unbearably hectic. Dab SPACE and you’ve got all the time in the world to tell Ernest to abandon the port MG, retrieve a first-aid kit from one of the store lockers, and attend to injured Albert, while Desmond switches from firing his sponson gun to fixing it, and Francis dashes to the radio to call in an artillery bombardment.

All guns can be fired manually using a first-person view – a nice touch. There’s smoke grenade launchers on some machines, and winches fitted to the front and rear of the armoured car. As caterpillared AFVs never seem to bog, the current lack of deployable fascines and functional debogging sleepers isn’t a major concern.

For an Early Access title, Armored Battle Crew is already reassuringly issue free and generously proportioned. In addition to the clashes concocted by a well-equipped skirmish generator, eight chapters of a ten chapter Allied campaign are playable. Despite some rather unimaginative/inflexible victory conditions (‘Kill 100 infantry, three AT guns, and one mortar to prevail’ sort-of-thing), all forms of play engage.

I’m not a huge fan of all the World of Tanks-style upgrading and titivation you’re expected to undertake between outings, but if you’re the sort who likes to personalise and incrementally enhance, you’ll be as happy as Larry. There’s no shortage of tech trees to shin up, and camo patterns and decals to unlock and apply.

Although I can’t play Armoured Battle Crew for long without picturing it draped in grittier textures, equipped with more truthful arenas, and stripped of history mocking elements like airdropped supplies and automatic-repair zones, I can’t, with hand on heart, pretend that its Playmobil visuals and arcade tendencies seriously weaken it as a fun furnisher. The pre-teen Tim Stone would have loved ABC, and, truth be told, the middle-aged Tim Stone enjoys it too.

 

[Morgoth]

An often underestimated feature when going into battle:

Spoiler

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

(i guess just understanding what a "klaxon" is would be enough to understand the scene)

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

i'm still trying to picture a ww1 tank going ftl.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/814740/announcements/detail/2114943892179093897

Sneak Peek: Terrain Editor Tool
Dear Tankers,
We are very pleased to show you some of the very cool upcoming terrain editor tool features!

No Terrain is too ROUGH!!!

What can you do with the terrain editor tool?

You can easily sculpt the terrain using the brush with the mouse!

Adjust the height

Using the Height brush, you can elevate or depress the terrain. Great for giving you the height advantage or sending the enemy straight to hell.

Flatten the curve

Using the Flatten brush, you can set a height and paint the terrain to get a uniform height. Useful for making a bridge across the river without getting bitten by the crocodiles!

Smooth It

Got stuck on an uneven slope? No problem comrade, use the Smooth brush to smoothen out the rocky edges and you are good to go. You can try it out on your face too (result not guaranteed)!

Features that will be considered further down the road:

• Paint the terrain (grass, mud etc)
  
• Paint grass, flower
  
• Place barbed wires, buildings, trees etc

Leave a comment or like if you love what you are seeing!

Armored Battle Crew Team

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/814740/view/2537164599580304194

Sneak Peek: Upcoming Vehicles and WIP Features!
Dear Tankers,
More British vehicles will be coming your way! Along with some update on some exciting WIP features!

Flying Elephant
Nope, It can't fly but given the size of the tank, it is indeed an elephant! Well armored, it can easily lead the charge right into any opposition!

Austin Armored Car
Why settle for 1 turret when you can have 2? This vehicle traded speed for more machine guns!

Mine and Dynamite Launchers
Having trouble dealing with enemy tanks or field guns? You will be able to equip all your vehicles with AT Mine, AP Mine or Dynamite Launchers in place of the default Smoke Grenade Launchers. Activate them via the steering panel and they will be tossed out from the rear of the vehicle.

You can be Picasso!
We expanded the WIP in-game terrain editor with the ability to paint textures (Sand, Mud etc) and paint 3D grass and flowers. Pretty neat!

Experimental AI Tank modules!
We are exploring on how to make fighting enemy tanks more than just a slug fest. Example, destroying modules will affect the performance of the tank (damaged engine will slow the tank, damaged ammo rack will slow the reload). AI tank will get more health but destroyed module will explode and do significant damage to the tank.
TLDR: Aim for modules to destroy enemy tanks more efficiently or Knock out the crews to disable it!

Leave a comment or like if you love what you are seeing!

Armored Battle Crew Team