"Snakehead" Technical
"G'day, mate! How are ya?"
Weapons: Heavy Machinegun (default), Recoiless Rifle (passenger), Explosive payload (Mad Bomber)
Armor: Light
Speed: Fast
Cost: $500
Purpose: Transport, Harasser
Requires: Motorpool
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Veteran Upgrades:
-Improvised armor (+25% health)
-Engine tuneup (+25% speed)
Elite Upgrades:
-Repair toolkit (self-repair)
-Larger caliber guns (+50% damage)
-Tiberium munitions (+25% effective vs infantry, vehicles, and structures)
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The Snakehead is a simple technical, nothing more than a pickup truck with a manned machinegun in the back. It's high mobility makes it perfect for scouting, patrolling, and raiding targets of light resistance. It's default machinegun is effective at mowing down infantry but weak against anything heavier than light vehicles. It can transport a single passenger who will also boost it's efficiency against heavier vehicles by replacing the machinegun with a recoiless rifle.
However, if the passenger is a Mad Bomber it will instead be armed with an explosive payload, turning it into a fast suicide bomb vehicle akin to the car bombs used by the Scavengers. Mad Bombers are known to compliment it's explosive payload by attaching one of their timed charges to it in order to maximize damage output and, in their own twisted way, for good luck. While most drivers are willing to carry out suicide attacks since it leads to a better death than a slow and painful one via Tiberium mutation, there are still those who needed some encouraging...
Notes:
-Can carry 1 passenger (size limit 1)
-Default heavy machinegun is replaced with a recoiless rifle when carrying a passenger (except engineer and beast infantry) or an explosive payload when carrying a Mad Bomber
