How to make a basic Tank

Overview

This is the first Real guide about building a basic Battle TankIn this Guide i will teach you how to build a basic Battle Tank and teach you the fundamental skills of tank building

Section 1 Basic Knowledge

Battle Tanks are heavy armored vehicles. Their main armor is on the side and front, the back is lightly armored. The main armaments are heavy cannons and secondary armaments, machine guns. These vehicles are very heavy and do not move very fast, their tracks are able to hold this weight much better than wheels. Because of the nature of these vehicles the word “Tank” has been used even video games lets say WOW the tank has the most armor and health where the healer would heal him just like in Robo Craft the healer needs to be on the tank while they are in the front lines. I do not like land vehicles and i am not very good at making them. so i break it down even further to different Classifications. These Classifications are more based around ships for star made the concepts are the same.

Turtle Philosophy

One way to use armor effectively is to strategically place armor to defend key parts of the Tank. For an example, a heavier Tank might have heavy armor on the front, allowing it to withstand punishment as it dishes out damage. A lighter Tank might place armor on the back or sides, relying on agility to evade attacks from the front and armor to absorb attacks from blind spots.

Armor does not have to be localized to just one part of the Tank, however; armor scattered around the ship still falls into this ideology.

Onion Philosophy

Another way to use armor to build up layers farther and farther away from the core. For an example, the core room may consist of a box of hardened hull blocks. Doors from the core room would lead to short corridors; bridges that span a blast gap to the next layer of the ship. This can continue on repeatedly, resulting in a ship that remains strong even after the outer hull is breached.

Knight Philosophy

A third method is to simply build up a thick layer around the entire Tank, the Tank becomes very resistant to attacks, regardless of direction.

Section 2 Getting Started

As i described some of the classifications in the first section. My build for this guide is the Knight Philosophy. If this is your first time being on one of my guides i go about making new designs by using the free light blocks and I start with a 1X5 design or a 5X1 depending on how you read it some people go (Height X Weight) or (Weight X Height) but as far as i am going for this guide i will be using the first 1 ( H X W )
Then i extend the build so it is now a 15X5
Then i made sure that my tracks would fit as you can see they do and should.
Since they fit i went to the center of the blocks should be number 3 on the weight.
and went to the bottom and extended them down by 2
and i moved the tracks to these

Section 3 Finishing up

I go to the dead center and place the cockpit inside the tank to give it more cover
Then i line the tracks with armor blocks these equal to 4X20 and i do this for both sides,
if you are confused how i did this i made these armor blocks starting with the chassis so it should not look like this and match to 20×13 but if you are looking at it like the picture is facing then that flips to a 13X20.
Here is the other side.
and here is the finished tank with guns, also built up with armor around the cockpit
and with electroplating
Now this is a basic guide for a tank and i told you what i choose which was the knight now you do not have to do what i did and make it this bulky and big you can make it smaller and put armor blocks around KEY parts to keep it going that is also fine just remember the main concept of a tank is to be the one in the front take all the hits and dish out a fair amount of damage as well, and i think i have done that here.