Guild Wars 2

The Living Story for the Crystal Desert may not arrive for a while. But to me this is one of the most exciting battle ground available.

Why is that? Tanks!!!

In Orr, the Charr tanks were often stuck in the mud.

In the Crystal Desert, the Charr tanks won’t be stuck. Crystal Desert is mostly open field. This terrain is ideal for armour warfare. The Charr tanks will be deployed here with maximum efficiency.

To me, the Battle of the Crystal Desert will settle the age old question once and for all: How to build the strongest army in the world?

Is it Kralkatorrik, who rely on ancient magic from a millennia ago to corrupt the living?

Is it Palawa Joko, who relies on an army of resurrected ancients with years of battle experience?

Is it the Pact, who relies on new technology to overcome their weaknesses?

Who is stronger? Raw power and obedience? Battle experience and tactics? Or technology and innovation?

CHIPS.6018:

The Living Story for the Crystal Desert may not arrive for a while. But to me this is one of the most exciting battle ground available.

Why is that? Tanks!!!

In Orr, the Charr tanks were often stuck in the mud.

In the Crystal Desert, the Charr tanks won’t be stuck. Crystal Desert is mostly open field. This terrain is ideal for armour warfare. The Charr tanks will be deployed here with maximum efficiency.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXsg_5RxdeQ

To me, the Battle of the Crystal Desert will settle the age old question once and for all: How to build the strongest army in the world?

Is it Kralkatorrik, who rely on ancient magic from a millennia ago to corrupt the living?

Is it Palawa Joko, who relies on an army of resurrected ancients with years of battle experience?

Is it the Pact, who relies on new technology to overcome their weaknesses?

Who is stronger? Raw power and obedience? Battle experience and tactics? Or technology and innovation?

If you think the desert is ideal for tank battle, perhaps you should study desert storm. The tanks weren’t even a factor once the air cover finished with them.

I’d think the mechanics wouldn’t be too happy about all the sand getting in the machines (or their fur, for that matter). It’d be great seeing the dialogue about that.

DarcShriek.5829:

If you think the desert is ideal for tank battle, perhaps you should study desert storm. The tanks weren’t even a factor once the air cover finished with them.

True, but air superiority is a problem with a dragon on the loose. And who knows what Joko would have to shoot at us. So we’d very likely enter the desert on foot first.

DarcShriek.5829:

CHIPS.6018:

The Living Story for the Crystal Desert may not arrive for a while. But to me this is one of the most exciting battle ground available.

Why is that? Tanks!!!

In Orr, the Charr tanks were often stuck in the mud.

In the Crystal Desert, the Charr tanks won’t be stuck. Crystal Desert is mostly open field. This terrain is ideal for armour warfare. The Charr tanks will be deployed here with maximum efficiency.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXsg_5RxdeQ

To me, the Battle of the Crystal Desert will settle the age old question once and for all: How to build the strongest army in the world?

Is it Kralkatorrik, who rely on ancient magic from a millennia ago to corrupt the living?

Is it Palawa Joko, who relies on an army of resurrected ancients with years of battle experience?

Is it the Pact, who relies on new technology to overcome their weaknesses?

Who is stronger? Raw power and obedience? Battle experience and tactics? Or technology and innovation?

If you think the desert is ideal for tank battle, perhaps you should study desert storm. The tanks weren’t even a factor once the air cover finished with them.

To kill tanks from the air the enemy needs precise air bombing. There is no such as thing in GW2. Airships may be able to carpet bomb cities, like they did in LA. Trying to hit a fast moving tank with those bombs is another story.

The dragon champions may be able to hit the tanks fairly accurately. But from what we have seen they cannot “snipe” the tanks from afar. They have to get very close to the tanks to hit them. They puts them within range of the tanks’ guns. So it is pretty much going to be 50:50 kill/loss ratio.

And the Pact got airships to protect their tanks anyways. So there will be another battle raging in the sky, while the land battle was going on.

I am not saying this battle will be easy. No far from it. The Brands and Ancients are very strong foes; capable of destroying Charr tanks from the ground. That’s why the players will be there to cover the tanks as they advance.

This will probably be the largest battle we have ever witnessed. And hence I am excited to take part in it.