the Night Blaster

Cobra's Maggot vehicle is a powerful artillery piece that can easily dominate a battle field. It can either function as a whole, or split into three distinct components, depending on the situation. It's very versatile, which is why the Joes nabbed a few.

Once they captured a Maggot or two, the Joes' Night Force team refurbished the things and, after giving them a spiffy black paint job, rechristened them the Night Blasters. As a whole, Gi Joe's Night Blasters have the following vehicular capabilities:

Anti-tank Vehicle: the front half of the Night Blaster can detach from the front in order to more rapidly maneuver in combat situations. Faster and rather heavily armed (compared to the other two components), the anti-tank vehicle has these vehicular statistics:

Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle: this rear portion of the Night Blaster can detach from the anti-tank vehicle (and the gun emplacement, if desired), in order to surveil a battle field. Though unarmed without the gun emplacement on top, it is useful for directing a firefight from afar.

It possesses these vehicular statistics:

* -1 CS if the gun emplacement is still mounted atop the ARV.

Body Armor: designed to go toe to toe with tanks, the Night Blaster is built tough. All three of its components are equipped with high strength, lateral dispersing protection armor, along with armored treads and the like, to provide the listed Body and Protection ratings.

Communications Gear: the Night Blaster is equipped with a gigahertz frequency, frequency wobbler clandestine operations radio system. This makes for Typical (6) communications power (with a 250 mile range) that has Remarkable (30) ranked signal encryption.

Gun Emplacement: this portion of the Night Blaster is, by itself, immobile. It can be configured in either a stand-alone position (thanks to four powerful stabilizer legs), or alternately can sit atop the battle field control vehicle to acquire much more mobility.

The main feature of the gun emplacement is, of course, the gun. This huge-barreled cannon fires 155mm rocket-assisted projectiles, each of which inflicts Amazing (50) Shooting damage to their targets, along with associated fragmentary damage to the surrounding area.

HEAT Laser: this High Efficiency Anti Tank laser is guided by gyros for a +1 CS to hit. Mounted on the rear of the anti-tank vehicle (so the front of the Night Blaster), it can cycle up to inflict Remarkable (30) Armor Piercing Energy damage with each deadly blast.

MAG-61 Radar: this lead-computing radar unit allows the Night Blaster's operators to track foes and strike effectively, even when they're moving! It can monitor an area with Remarkable (30) range, keeping track of all ground units in action within that radius.

Rotating Cannon: mounted on the front of the Night Blaster (and thus, the anti-tank vehicle), this rotary-barreled 40mm cannon is mainly used to soften up enemy personnel. It inflicts Excellent (20) Shooting damage in a short burst, +1 CS when fired fully automatic.

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