Is it okay to have tanks in a fantasy industrial revolution setting?
Is it okay to have tanks in a fantasy industrial revolution setting?
Benjamin Wright
Parker Miller
Yes, but they'd better have some serious drawbacks like early WW1 tanks did.
Leo Ortiz
Yes, provided the general level of technology is that of WW1 and the design of the tank is equally weird & stupid as a WW1 tank. For example stick half a dozen machine guns all over it, including the rear.
Justin Allen
Yeah, but the designs and reliability need to emphasize that its new tech and no one really knows what they are doing and how to best do it
Connor Peterson
Also: their invention needs a catalyst. For example, trench warfare.
Parker Rivera
This. Necessity, invention etc. The tank is a solution to a problem.
But if you can make personal armour that can withstand bullets reliably, then the impetus for inventing tanks will be greatly reduced, if it exists at all.
Jeremiah Baker
I came in here to post something like this, but discovered instead that Veeky Forums had formed a reasonable consensus.
Colton Cox
Yeah, why not? I have a huge boner for settings that mix magic and industrial age technology and Weird War I/II
Isaiah Mitchell
Should they be normal or magitek tanks?
Hunter Adams
Sure. But remember that "industrial" was Tolkien's orcs' shtick, no his dwarves'.
Thomas Anderson
Also keep in mind the first time they are used is going to be the most sucessful as the otherside has not ever seen it and has no explicit way to counter them, but as time goes on the other side will develop countermeasures
Easton Barnes
>Also keep in mind the first time they are used is going to be the most sucessful
Weren't the first tanks absolute crap?
Anthony Lopez
true,The MK1 had a ton of issues but the ones that didnt break down(bout 2/3rds of them did) made a big impact, after all the germans never had seen them before and having a huge metal machine trundling towards you while firing of lewis guns and 6 pounder naval guns at you would be both terrifying and effective if its still working and you cant counter it sans the artillery getting a lucky hit
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Nicholas Myers
It's okay to have tanks in an even earlier setting than that.
Bentley Allen
Magitek armor
Jacob Kelly
Yes, but they were still crucial despite their flaws as they were one of the few ways to reliably break through the enemy's front line. When they worked there was very little an unprepared enemy could do, and they were genuinely like nothing the soldiers had ever seen and had immense terror value for that.
Adrian Wright
If table haven't been invented yet then anti tank weaponry and anti armor tactics have not either.
Parker Smith
This is an okay isekai. If it didn't have the milk shit it could even pass for a real story.
Bentley Edwards
The writer still has an enormous breastfeeding fetish.
Caleb Cook
True, although you'd damn well better be able to justify it.
Ayden Diaz
where would fantasy be without all the crazy shit people did in WW1?
Dominic White
You don't need anti tank weapons if the tanks are shitty
Blake Jackson
Oh, the War Wagon goes farther back than that.