Hello Generals! Welcome to this week's update! These past few days, we've seen the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics, so on behalf of the whole team, we wish the athletes and all those involved the best of luck for what promises to be an exciting event.
Meanwhile, we have some new ECA goodies to show you all. In 1.9, the ECA Ammunition Reserves Generals Power has had the majority of its content re-worked to be more desirable to players, and its unlocks have had their code optimized. This has led to a new, more user-friendly Munitions Track that behaves like a Warhound with its deploy mode, cryogenic shells for the Grand Mortar, special kits for the Munitions Bunker, and the inclusion of the Gun Turret as a part of the GP. Overall, we feel these changes will make the GP a more desirable choice in the game and, thanks to its very powerful unlocks, a more impactful one, too.
The Munitions Track - or commonly called "Munitrac" by European soldiers of various nations, is an armored tractor used to ensure a constant ammunition supply for turrets, fortifications, and other static defenses, allowing them to sustain a higher volume of outgoing fire.
The vehicle itself is a product of the Third World War, designed in only a few months to be as simple, standardized, and mass-producible as possible for converted factories in the United Kingdom, Spain, and Portugal after the European arms manufacturing powerhouses in Germany and France had fallen under Russian occupation. Prior to this point, ECA frontline logistics utilized a cargo version of the Swedish Bandvagn, which suffered high attrition rates in the face of Russian special forces and artillery deep strikes on the supply lines. The Munitrac was designed to be more survivable in a high-threat environment while doing away with superfluous secondary functions to serve exclusively as a deployable firepower multiplier.
Although operated by virtually all ECA-affiliated militaries, the Munitrac became particularly iconic in its service with the Royal Netherlands Army, whose expert engineers and logisticians perfected the rapid construction of complex fortification networks not just during the ECA's retreating battle across France but also the tide-turning counter-offensives in the summer of 2048, paving the road for the liberation of Paris in a very literal sense.
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Introduced to the Czech Army a mere half year before the outbreak of the Russo-European War, the Grand Mortar is a rare super-heavy mortar reminiscent of the First World War. With its reliable autoloader and remote fire control system, it can be easily deployed in the field and operated with minimal personnel. Its primary ammunition is a high-explosive shell with incredible destructive power against all types of ground targets. Alternatively, the mortar can be loaded with special shells containing an extremely low-temperature condensate that is instantly deadly to personnel and induces structural defects in vehicles, disabling them on contact.
Following the Russian conquest of Czechia early in the war, those elements of the Czech Army that did not go into insurgency retreated west to fight another day, taking their relatively small number of Grand Mortars with them. Due to their limited availability, the tactical allocation of these weapons is reserved to the Supreme Allied Commander. As of the fall of Paris in 2047, General Willem van der Meer has been serving in this position.
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That's all for this week. We will be explaining more about the aforementioned Munitions Bunker kits very soon, so make sure you're following our socials and keeping an eye on the Moddb Page. In the meantime, go for gold, and we shall see you all at the finish line!