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I'm not even sure how it happened, but earlier today I stumbled into some Swiss tanks. Probably that glorious 81mm rocket launcher that's on the Monsterjager and looking into the other platforms it was on. We'll get back to that later, but in short it's a Swiss weapon.
Turns out, Switzerland developed a lot of armoured vehicles over the years. I'd daresay just enough to build a solid enough TT branch. Now, my proposal is for them to slot neatly into the Independent tree, along with Israel and hopefully Japan and Sweden.
So, what have I proposed? Two and a half lines, with some additional premiums just for good measure.
The medium line is as good of a starting point as anything. We start off with an early 30 ton medium tank, with a direct lineage to the Panzer 61 and 68 MBTs. Era 2 is solely Pz 68s, with Era 3 consisting of a 120mm variant, a Leopard 2A4 (because everyone operated Leopard 2A4s) and the top of the tree Panzer 87-140, a 140mm armed Leopard 2A4. It wouldn't be a Swiss CW line without this vehicle.
Our next line is our lights. Era 1 consists of two SPAAG variants of the AMX 13, adopted as the LPz 51 in Swiss service. Era 2 starts off with a IFV variant with no ATGMs, and the rest of the tree is a variant of the MOWAG Tornado. This is a vehicle that was in development for many years and was unfortunately never adopted. There's a bunch of turrets and guns to pick between, and as such the line ranges from effectively a Marder 1A1 equivalent to something closer to a Bradley. Top of the tree is another IFV design, armed with a 30mm and four 76mm ATGMs.
Our final line is the TDs, as there's another vehicle a Swiss tree is required to have.
To start off, we have three different turreted 90mm TDs. There is a turretless design we could use, but I know how popular the Jadgpoanzer 3-5 is. It's very similar to that.
Era 2 includes one of those turreted 90mm tanks, but the tier 2 is a Tornado armed with that 81mm launcher that led me here in the first place.
Tier 3 is the Taifun II. A casemate equipped 120mm armed tank destroyer that looks ripped from WWII. Personally, I do not think that this is Era 3 material, but it's basically on the borderline. That being said, I can think of no other Era 3 machines and as such the line ends here, allowing linkage into the other two lines.
As for premiums, we have a good selection honestly.
Firstly, another 90mm armed light/TD. This time based on the HS.30 chassis. This is the chassis the Monsterjager is based on.
Next, a Gepard SPAAG turret on a Panzer 68 chassis.
Next, the tank that beat the MOWAG Trojan, a CV90 variant. Much lower tier, because there's no ATGM capability on any CV90 variant aside from the one we already have. I don't know how that works exactly.
The next tank might look out of place, but it's a Jordanian M60 regunned with a lightweight Swiss 120mm gun that also was tested on the Panzer 68 and a CV90120.
Our final premium is a prototype MOWAG Tornado armed with a 105mm gun. I envision a Swiss version of the Marder VTS-1.
There's also Centurions and the usual export affair. Technically, you could probably shoehorn Austrian vehicles in here as well. Plenty of options there, including yet another 81mm rocket system.
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