T12 "Actaeon" Tankette

"This complete overhaul of the T3 Armoured Car is reinforced with tank armour. While these extra defenses lower the T12's overall speed and handling, the addition of treads provides increased performance in less than ideal terrain."

- In-game description

A colonial Armored Car variant possessing superior armor, tracks, and a fixed KRN886-127 Gast Machine Gun but with a fully open-topped crew compartment.

Description
The Actaeon has slightly more durability than other ACs but it's its vastly superior armor (comparable to a Light Tank in terms of deflection rates) and its superior firepower (12.7mm MG instead of 7.92mm) that makes it shine. The MG even has a longer range than comparable machine guns.

But it pays a hefty price: the machine gun is fixed with only 120 degrees of traverse and the entire crew compartment is open top, exposing the crew to plunging fire from mortar shrapnel shells, frag grenades, and elevated infantry.

Its tracks can be disabled.

Tactics
Its lack of a fully traversable turret make the Actaeon not suited to hunt partisan, but its improved gun, increased accuracy and range, and improved frontal armor makes it better suited for frontal attacks, building destruction, and infantry support.

Do be warned, the improved armor doesn't grant you immunity to even small anti-tank weapons like 13.5mm. Your vehicle still has barely more health than a regular AC. Once your armor is reduced, anti-tank weapons have the same effect on you as on any other AC.

The main purpose of the superior armor is to make the vehicle very resistant to both small arms and heavy machine gun calibers. As such, the Actaeon Tankette can fight any other MG-mounted armored vehicle and mostly likely win. It can even take on 14.5mm Anti Infantry Flak Gun and win due to its high resistance to that caliber and due to the long range of its 12.7mm MG.

Your machine gun can destroy light structures and has more than 35 meters of range and good accuracy. Use it to your advantage by attacking infantry and light structures far from you without having to get close to danger.

Weaknesses
The Actaeon has three main vulnerabilities:


 * Its open top makes the crew easily killed by an infantry flank with small arms and frag grenades, and by fire from elevated positions.
 * Its slow speed combined with tracks that can be disabled can make it extremely slow and vulnerable to flanks.
 * Its superior armor only counters weapons that try to penetrate armor, the vehicle is vulnerable to every other type of explosives, just like any AC, such as Anti-Tank Mines (instant death), Anti-Tank Sticky Bombs, and HE Grenades.

With those vulnerabilities, the Tankette absolutely needs infantry support, even more than other ACs.