Overview
Building a “Lilliputian” – midrange support tank, which destroys an opponent on the middle distance, and find his enemies vulnerabilities.
Introduction
Salute!
We continue our little “MiniCraft” guides, which normally make a smaller vehicles from 10-15 cubes for kill our opponents. In this guide you will find a miniature tank that I called the “Lilliputian”. like and always, this tank is very funny, specific, and as usual, able to kill your enemies. Do you think I’m lying? and such a machine could, perhaps, to amuse?
Well … I will prove to you that it is not. Don’t let the size of this tank to deceive you, because it can kill you in just a couple of accurate shots … Interested?
Then let’s go!
Notes: i’m from Belarus, so, i’m sorry for “ESL”. feel free to correct me.
Creation
To create this tank we need quite expensive parts. So despite the fact that Tank is designed to play on the T5 battles, but it consists of the components as much as T8 level. so here! Your armor and weapons will be on three levels above the rest players. Well … on two levels. after all the other players also upgrade their vehicles and upgrade their armor and use better weapons. And therein lies the trick of this tank. But, we talk about it later. Let’s start to build it. For this we need:
– 4 cube T8
– 4 half cube T8
– 5 triangles T8
– 6 cubes T7
– 4 half cube T7
– 2 wheels T4 (turning)
– 2 turbo engine T2
– SMG Laser T8
– Radar T5
– small overturn-device (which added jump if you hold “F”)
– and our little Astronaut
Proceed to construction. I draw your attention to the fact that the building will be like a “vertical”. Wherever your car normally have “front”, this tank have a “roof”. This design feature will make our tank is a very small size. Its height is only 2 cubes. with normal construction, the height will be a minimum of 3 cubes (1 cube + 2 pilot cube takes). In general, look at the screenshots and you understand everything. And i also made a video demonstrations below.
1) On this screenshot you can see a disassembled Lilliputian. Pay your attention on roof direction. roof should be parallel with cursor on the ground, it is important!
2) Rear view.
3) Roof full view (for ordinary car it was a “front”)
Well, like everything. As you can see it is not hard to construct. If suddenly something did not work, look at the screenshot closely, maybe you missed something, or look in the video (below)
Also, two variations of Lilliputian.
Variant #1 “Pure Fighter.” No radar, but instead this have additional T8 armor on sides.
Variant #2 “Watcher”. With radar level 5, but without armor level 8 on board. (i use this variant, but test both in real fight. imo, “Watcher” is better cuz have a powerfull radar)
So-with. Deal with construct. Let’s see a little 3min. video now!
Riding demonstration
Video from training mode, but my goal was not to kill many enemies, i want show the possibilities of movement of the “Lilliputian”, and how it behaves on the dusty roads of Mars. In the video you will see a turning on the spot, overturn, and how this tank riding over bumps and hills. It almost feels bad to turn over, and always gets to the wheels himself.
Pros and Cons
By tradition, the pros and cons of this venicle. Which will help us to understand what you can do, and what not. And how to behave yourself on the battlefield.
– Precise and powerful T8 weapon;
It better works on the middle distance, is the optimum distance for kill our opponents. In the melee combat, it works not bad too, but you have to attack first in this situation, and try to hit 2-3 shots at vulnerable points of the enemy.
– Strong armor;
Despite the small number of cubes in itself is very strong armor. it 2-3 levels above the opponent’s weapon, and even a couple of hits from the enemies laser will not be able to break it immediately. This tank is stronger than it looks.
– Low silhouette;
In the folds of the terrain we can hardly see. even snipers basically will only see a small SMG laser, and from far distance kill us from railgun – is a very difficult. The main Rule – don’t stand and move.
– Good speed and throughput;
Pretty fast speed in a straight line, the possibility of sharp turns to fast change riding direction. Lilliputian also able to easily climb into small mounds. and on large, too… sometimes.
– Good Radar.
– Vulnerability modules in the melee combat;
This is bad. Random opponent shot can damage our thrusters (which we use to turn our tank). This is bad, because tank becomes almost uncontrolable.
– Pretty sluggish turn rate.
Yea… it could have been faster, but it is not…
Iron Attack! “Features” of Lilliputian.
You can ask me: “Nepa, and how i can kill people with this thing?”
and i will answer to you: “Easy!”
Here’s an example of a solo-random battlefield. You can see the first version of “Lilliputian” on screnshot, made of T5 armor, but very dangerous.
6 frags and capture bases. Notice how far away from me my party members (except the one who stand near, he also get the 2 frags and not shirk work like the other, so my party members actually went there where no enemies! :D). I do not steal these frags, no. 4 of 6 enemies I killed myself and destroy them on 100% HP, making in each of 3-4 shots.
How did it happen? A very simple. i shoot in weak points of enemies cars.
when players reach T5 level, they get a new armor cubes and new guns. And actively set it on their cars (making the “upgrade”). But, on T5 lvl players are limited by “pFLOPS”, and very often to set the T6 guns, they need to sacrifice their Armor, or Radar, or Something else… Very often players place new armor in the front, and use lower tier armor for rear, neglect side shields, etc.
And then our “Lilliputian” find these places. Yes, T8 SMG is not have the strongest damage, but it shred into pieces T5 armor with one hit. The same goes for the lower tier wheels, and guns. All this immediately departs in to hell, if we start shoot in the opponent. 2-3 shots and you can easily turn the enemy car into the “one wheel wheelchair with a two lasers”. Not to mention the aircrafts. Any your hit in enemy airplane will be rip apart it.
In general, your main weapon is not a SMG laser. your main weapon – the analysis of the enemy vehicle. If you play in RoboCraft a long time already, you know it very well, and can determine enemy armor at a glance. Then, shoot it!
However, the fly in the ointment there and here. Electro-Plates. especially a small cars with T6-T7 lElectro-armor, can become a problem for us. These EP are bulletproof for a single SMG laser, and absorb our damage. BUT! Why shoot them if you can shoot in weak points? There is always a weak spot, you only need to quickly find where it is located, and kill the enemy before he realizes who is actually dangerous in this fight.
Conclusion
Well, that’s all. I hope you enjoyed this mini-tank. I am not the author of this tank, I spied his prototype from another player, but I have altered its structure to a playable state.
At the moment, that’s all I wanted to show you. Perhaps the time will be … and more mini-cars (or even a mini-bombers :D)
Previously in MiniCraft:
Part 1
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Part 2
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Part 3 (Bob! is a Tier1 live Legend!)
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Part 4
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