Battle Tanx: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''2001 A.D. -- The world as you know it is no more. A deadly virus has wiped out 99% of the female population and the few surviving women are now worshiped as QueenLords. You are Griffin Spade, warrior and Battlelord in a post-apocalyptic future. With only the BattleTanx at your command, you must save mankind from extinction! Fight your way across the wasteland that was once America and rescue the QueenLords from roving gangs of mercenaries and thugs.''|The game's box, and a fair summation of the first game.}}

 

 

In the original ''BattleTanx'', the player controls Griffin Spade, a tough guy from [[New York City|Queens]] whose fiancee Madison is one of those taken by the U.S. Government to a secure facility. After surviving the apocalypse, and armed only with an M1A1 Abrams, Griffin begins a mechanized trek across the remains of the United States, blazing westward through Chicago, Las Vegas, and finally San Francisco, crushing rival gangs, rescuing other captured women, and forging his own army in his search for Madison. The two are finally reunited when Griffin storms the Quarantine Zone on Alcatraz Island, incidentally leaving them in command of the most sizable and least malevolent faction in the former United States. A port for [[Game Boy Color]] was released in 2000, which featured the storyline and gangs of the first game, but with music taken from the second.

=== The games provide examples of: ===

* [[Apocalypse How]]: Humanity gets hit with a double whammy here, with [[World War III]] being the minor one. The real problem was a plague that wiped out 99.9% of the female population (with the scarcity of females being the reason for the war). This means that what was previously a Class 1 catastrophe has a very real possibility of developing into a Class 3 (human extinction), given that there is only a single woman for every thousand men.

* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The Storm Ravens and Iron Maidens gangs.

* [[Area 51]]: One of the battlegrounds of the first game, complete with a trio of destroyable UFOs.

** [[Mighty Glacier]]: The Goliath, a behemoth with a [[BFG|really big cannon]]. Slow as Christmas but able to laugh off round after round of enemy fire. Also commonly mounted on a side-scrolling rail in front of fortresses as a sort of detachable gun turret. Also capable of making pancakes out of Mototanks and Rattlers.

** [[Crippling Overspecialization]]: The Rhino tank-hunter, which sports a huge fixed gun and a heavily-reinforced front. Unfortunately, its sides and rear are extremely vulnerable, and it can't engage targets who flank it. Also strangely susceptible to fire attacks.

** [[Do a Barrel Roll]]: The FLP-E or "Flippy" tank. It's small, has a light gun, and not much armor, ''but'' has modified tracks, a gyro-stabilized cockpit, and angled jets on its flanks. The result is a tank that can flip itself sideways over and over, dodging incoming fire and generally [[Confusion Fu|baffling its opponents]].

** [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: The Marksman, a tank with light armor but a big-honking laser cannon. The vehicular equivalent of a [[Cold Sniper]].

** [[Kill It with Fire]]: The Inferno Tank, light and fast with a heavy [[Fire-Breathing Weapon|flamethrower]].

** [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: The Hornet, a tank capable of spamming rockets, or even firing them around corners.

** [[Jack of All Stats]]: The right honorable M1A1 Abrams, mainstay of the U.S. military and all-around solid tank.

** [[Fragile Speedster]]: The Mototank, a tiny wheeled vehicle with dual machineguns and light armor. Capable of streaking about and running circles around larger tanks, but lacking in firepower and capable of being flattened by heavier tanks. Also the Hovertank, a [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|flying tank]] that moves extremely fast, can move in any direction without turning, and doesn't set off standard landmines. A third is the Rattler, which is basically the Mototank with [[More Dakka]].