Description
Heavy Armor and Tank Development Technology focuses on the design and production of heavily armored vehicles and tanks, providing overwhelming firepower and protection.
Benefits
Construction output Empire-wide+0.62%
Ground defence Empire-wide+4.92%
Space defence Empire-wide+1.23%
Wages Empire-wide+1.23%
Strategy notes
Heavy Armor and Tank Development develops the GroundWarfare discipline within Fortress and Combined Arms. Hold valuable systems through shields, layered orbital defense, disciplined ground forces, and coordinated production. Its immediate value is +10% Wages; +40% Ground Defence, +10% Space Defence; +5% Production. The principal counterpressure is that siege, blockade, espionage, and expansion around fortified systems can make static strength irrelevant.
Player hints
This tier begins to define an empire. Compare its resource demand with the other technologies competing for your laboratories. Favor this technology when its GroundWarfare benefits reinforce your current economy, fleets, or frontier. Pause the branch if its expected RP per tick is too diluted or its resource costs would stall higher-priority projects.
Research cost
6.4KRP
4.8KCredits
2.08KCommon
1.6KRare
1.92KStrategic
800Fuel