Skaar-Cleaver-T3

HV, Tier 3, Unlock Level 15, Class 1

Works in both vanilla and Reforged scenarios

The Cleaver is a mid-game shielded light tank designed specifically for taking on shielded POIs. Its compact design allows it to hide against the wall of a POI to avoid fire from its turrets. The two front plasma turrets will target the base to drain the shield, while the rocket and minigun turrets protect you from drones and ground troops. The vehicle has no fixed weapons, so you can concentrate on monitoring your shield strength and positioning to avoid turret and drone fire.

If your shield goes down you still have a bit of redundancy to help you survive. Generators and fuel are divided between both sides, and there are two independent ammo controllers to keep the vehicle firing. In general I also recommend splitting your ammo into small stacks so that if container extensions get destroyed you don't drop all of your ammo at once (see picture for reference).

This ship was balanced for the Reforged scenario. It runs at 99% CPU efficiency but that should give you no problems. In vanilla you have some extra CPU overhead available if you want to customize it with a different turret configuration. In both scenarios it runs pretty close to generator redline when at full thrust while the shield is recharging, so be aware of that when customizing.

The "Park mode" signal switch shuts off the thrusters and hover pads to allow the Cleaver to operate as a sentry while you go off looting.

Works well on 4G planets with a full load of ammo.

Construction:

• Hardened steel, with container extensions on bottom

Offense/Defense:

• Shield
• 2 plasma turrets
• 2 rocket turrets
• 2 minigun turrets

Storage:

• 2x 2,125 ammo controllers

Equipment:

• Detector
• Wifi
• Fridge
• Spotlight
• Hover boosters