Vigilo Confido Commanders!

We heard of a new Soldier Class, that is fighting out there. Maybe we should make contact and recruit some of these fighters. Now we can send Tanks on the battlefield!

Adds the Tank Class to the game with many custom soldier abilities. Also custom FX and Anim included. This is an additional soldier class and does not override other classes or gameplay mechanics.

This is the Tank Class for Long War 2 Mod.

UPDATE NEWS:
V2.0.0 BIG UPDATE / INITIAL RELEASE
- complete rework of the tank class for the long war 2 mod;
-new perks, new fx, bugfixes;
-removed gts tactics as it does not fit in long war 2 style;
-simplified chinese translation;
-own secondary weapon;
-balancing and more;

LATEST VERSION: 2.0.0
INITIAL RELEASE:  04.06.2017
INITIAL VERSION:  2.0.0

LW2 TANK CLASS

Tanks are known for their high survivability in the battlefield. By their outstanding resilience, they withstand even strong attacks.

Left Tree:   Survival
Right Tree: Battle
Primary weapon:        rifle, canon or shotgun
Secondary weapon:   tanklin

Custom nicknames, that fit in the role of a tanky unit.

SOLDIER ABILITIES

Squaddie:
Hack: Tanks can remote hack with there tanklins. The vanilla perk.
Here I Am: Become easier to hit to make the enemies attacking you and not your squadmates.
Protection Protocol: Generate with your tanklin an energyshield, which grants you different bonuses. Bonuses: Shield HP, Dodge, Melee damage reduction, Explosive damage reduction. These Boni are becoming better with higher tier tanklins.

1.SURVIVAL 2.MIDDLE 3.BATTLE

Lance Corporal:
1.Steadfast: Never panic as a result of getting wounded, or allies getting killed. Also gain immunity to stun.
2.Ballistic Vests: Gain extra points of armor, if you equipp a vest or plating on this soldier.
3.Challenge: Challenge an enemy and make him to your main foe. You gain better aim and crit and also motivating nearby squadmates if a kill is confirmed.

Corporal:
]1.Suspension: Damage reduction against reaction attacks.
2.Warning Shot: A special shot that can apply panic on your target, regardless if the shot hits or misses, but on a hit it will always graze.
3.Revenge: When targeted by enemy fire, automatically fire back with your primary weapon once per turn.

Sergeant:
1.Will To Survive: LW2 Perk.
2.Shredder: LW2 Perk.
3.Pre Fire: When targeted by enemy fire, automatically fire a preemptive reaction shot with your primary weapon once per turn.

Staff Sergeant:
1.Shock Absorbant Armor: Damage reduction from close attacks.
2.Hard Target: LW2 Perk.
3.Standby: All your reaction shots do more damage, have better aim, crit chance and can now crit.

Tech Sergeant:
1.Survival Training: Hunker Down, heal hp and from negative effects. Reduces wound recovery time.
2.Decoy: Gain one free mimic beacon to your inventory.
3.Combat Drugs: Gain one free overdrive serum to your inventory.

Gunnery Sergeant:
1.Absorption Field: A field which grants damage reduction for all units inside it.
2.Team Shield: Activate an area of effect energy shield. It grants all soldiers ablative HP.
3.Reflection Field: The unit has a chance to reflect enemy attacks.

Master Sergeant:
1.Resilience: LW2 Perk.
2.Ever Safe: You are granted an automatically Protection Protocol at the end of your turn if you only move.
3.Close Combat Specialist: the LW Perk.

TANKLIN ABILITIES
1.Self Defense Uplink: Tanks gain free melee attacks against any enemies as long as Protection protocol is activated.
2.Advanced Storage: You can now target other units with protection protocol.
3.Nano Stabilizer: Once per mission, instead of dying heal Hp and activate Protection Protocol.

AWC ABILITIES
AWC abilities can be changed in the config folder of the LW2 Tank Class, if you do not want one of them for the AWC. (F) means that these perks are by default set to false, so other soldiers can not get them.

Here I Am(F), Decoy, Combat Drugs, Shock Absorbant Armor, Revenge, Steadfast, Pre Fire, Survival Training, Challenge, Ballistic Vests, Team Shield, Warning Shot, Standby, Absorption Field, Reflection Field, Suspension;

INI CONFIG
Most values can be optimized in the correct .ini file of this mod.

LANGUAGES
English, German, Spanish, simplified Chinese;

Anyone who want to make a translation can post it in the steam translation discussion and i will implement it in the next update. Some translations are maybe not 100% correct because there were updates released after the translations were done.

COMPABILITY
This mod is only compatibel with the "Long War 2" mod. Do not use it together with the standalone Tank Class mod or the LWPP Tank Class mod.

Compatibel with other mods. Compatibel for all DLCs. Also compatibel without DLCs.
No compability bugs known yet.

KNOWN BUGS
No bugs known yet.

CREDITS
Thanks for the whole modding community. It was a real funny time for me to make this mod (sometimes also frustrating :D) and i hope you enjoy playing with it.

Thanks for "Pavonis Interactive" who made the amazing Long War Perk Pack mod.

DONATIONS
This mod like the others is for free. If you enjoy playing with the LW2 Tank Class, you can consider to vote for this mod.
If you want to make the mod author happy, you can also spend some coffeemoney (big green donation Button). I will appreciate that :)

LINKS
Also available on Steam: Steam Workshop LW2 Tank Class

FUTURE TODO
- add more custom abilities to replace the LW2 perks (i have some great ideas)
- optimize visualizations