Missile Command

It's that spooky season has returned and an anniversary of sorts too!

It was three years ago this month that I started playing Armored Warfare and it has been a very inconsistent journey, full of detours, distractions and disenchantment. However, history has this nasty habit of repeating itself, or coming full circle, depending on a person's perspective.

When I started this blog, it was with this article and I see an underlining, reoccurring theme making an appearance here too. First, both of them contain a Soviet era vehicle, both are a "limited time" acquisition and both are a lot of fun to use (for me anyways).

 

The tier III T-62 Veteran not only introduced me to the game, but it also opened my eyes to the other tank games I was playing at the time, firmly entrenched in the World War Two era (although War Thunder and World of Tanks did partially cover the pre and post war years, the bulk of the machinery offered was from 1939 through 1945). The way I saw it, Armored Warfare picked up where the other titles had left off, with the action taking place in a near future time with more modern equipment.

Although I would make the occasional visits to World of Tanks and War Thunder, I would eventually drop them altogether and tried to focus more on Armored Warfare....

....but a Chinese title called Final Fire entered the scene.

At the time, Final Fire offered a much wider vehicle selection than Armored Warfare and I found the variety very appealing. However, there were two major barriers that prevented me from investing too much time into it, language and lack of gamemodes, outside of Player versus Player (Armored Warfare has a pretty solid Player versus Environment mode that has yet to be improved upon by any other tank title, that I have seen).

There was more than just other tank games to pull me away from Armored Warfare too. From flying in World of Warplanes to....

....racing around on tracks and off-road terrains (okay, dropping games from this genre isn't going to happen, in fact there is a bit of a crossover between Armored Warfare and driving that I am working on), fighting in modern armored vehicles just fell to the wayside.

Despite all of that and more from real life, the game was never uninstalled from my computer.

When I could find the time, I checked out the forums, watched the odd video, tried to keep up on things that were going on and changes taking place. It took an Anniversary Gift Tank to bring me back.

The IT-1 is the same T-62 Veteran that brought me to the game in the first place, albeit with two major differences. One is the tiers. At tier III, the T-62 Veteran is very well suited for it's taskings within those operational confines. Now bump that same tank up a couple of tiers and give it something new to shoot with?

Which brings me to the second degree of separation, the armament. 

So, strip off the main cannon from the T-62 Veteran and equip it with a missile system to face tougher enemies with....