"Sandstorm" Rocket Buggy

freedom fighter · General **Joined**: 14 May 2009

"Rocket Storm's good to go!"

Weapons: "Rocket Storm" Mortars
Armor: Light
Speed: Very Fast
Cost: $800
Purpose: Anti-Armor Siege
Requires: Motorpool, Communications Array
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Veteran Upgrades:
-Improvised armor (+25% health)
-Engine tuneup (+25% speed)

Elite Upgrades:
-Repair toolkit (self-repair)
-Improved targeting (-50% rate of fire)
-Artillery training (+1 range)
-Tiberium munitions (+25% effective vs vehicles and structures)
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"The ultimate harassment tool. A bare bones buggy powered by a powerful engine is already so fast that few can keep up with it, why not mount rocket launchers on it's back while you're at it? Only absolute nutters would dare drive this thing, which is wholly unstable at high speeds and has practically NO armor. But as the Sandstorm driver's creed goes, "Scoot n shoot!" Its fast for a reason.

The "Rocket Storm" launchers can be set to two firing modes: the standard mode burst fires 4 rockets over a low arc while the barrage mode fires twice as many rockets, practically it's entire payload, high through the air and over longer distances at the cost of compromised accuracy and slower reload. More stability is also required when using the latter, limiting top speed and the ability to shoot on the move.

Either ways, it boils down to pounding a single target or bombarding unsuspecting groups of enemies, hauling ass before they retaliate, then come back to do it all over again just when they thought they're in the clear ad infinitum."

- The Safekeeper, entry #231

Notes:
-This unit is unique to the Wasteland Scavengers subfaction
-Deploy to toggle between standard and barrage fire mode

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freedom fighter · General **Joined**: 14 May 2009

The Sandstorm now has a turret and can fire on the move. It also got a new weapon which means ditching the anti-tank missiles. It can still switch between two firing modes via deploy: the default fires four rockets in a burst with a tight spread while the "barrage" mode fires eight rockets in a high arc over longer ranges at the cost of lower accuracy, slower firing rate, slower movement speed, and being unable to fire while moving. Both have a small delay between shots.

The former is useful for concentrating firepower on a single target while the latter can bombard multiple targets within a wider area and is also effective against larger structures.

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The future belongs to The Forgotten!