Oh, we have tanks... tanks with big guns. Big guns, big trees, and bigger budgets. Soon you all will see the fruits of my madness, if only I could get the mobile tree defence system to work and color coordinate everything.

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You strapped a potted eucalyptus to the top of a sherman tank?

...I thought it was actually an M1-A1 Abrhams.

Yes what else are the droptroopers going to hang onto? As a sidenote it was very hard to train the droptankers as they are to short for a conventional sized tank. I thought about miniture tanks but realized that they wouldn't be as effective as their fullsized counterparts. I then realized I would just have to increase the size of the crews so one droptanker could steer and another could work the pedals.

PS- I have no idea how tanks actually work. So if they don't have pedals freaking sue me

...actually tanks use a type of dual joystick control (at least in the old days) to maneouver. Pulling back on one while pushing forward on the other allowed you to literally pivot the tank. I don't remember if there was an actual brake pedal.

It was a proud day when my droptankers working in tandem first rolled into battle against the fraggles. It was quite a sight seeing them pull, levers and push pedals in an awe inspiring display of drop unity and accompolising together what separately they could never do.

I remember the joystick part seeing it in recruitment videos, I just can't remember if there were pedals.

Brother Angelone, if you want pedals in our droptank, there will be pedals! Nothing is impssoible for our R&D department!

Perhaps they should research something more sturdy than a nylon strap to hold the trees atop the tanks; before the fraggles start sniping them?

(That image creates an interesting idea, take a non-functioning (cheaper) WW2 tank, put a eucalyptus tree, unpotted, on top of it. Now pack plenty of dirt around the tank and roots. A few years of root-pruning and watering later and you have a really cool piece of artwork.)

geronimoooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOuhohOOOOOOOOOOOO...*splat*

*applaudes*

*groan* i think i broke mr woodpecker

*Hands Witness a Dropbeer* Good show

Wonderful drop sir. Bravo!

Has the conspiracy made any headway into SR4 yet? If not my droptankers will lend their might to correct that oversight.

Somehow I can't get the picture of drop bears pedalling their droptanks into combat out of my head...

I really hope Grinder referred to eucalyptus petals, not pedals .

Wasn't the VW bug originally developed to carry weapons in the front, but then never used because the war ended? Perhaps the legions could use those. More space-specific, has pedals, and much better mileage! (No VW Beatles though, hate those)

No, it started development before war began in the early 30's and was envisioned as the 'People Car' by the Germans. I think it was then pressed into the war.

edit: fixed. it was envisioned to fit 2 adults and 3 children. It started production during/around ww2 so there were some militarized version, but also civilian versions were made for the elites. Anyway, it wasn't made originally for military use.

danke

How many Drop Bears can we fit into a VW Bug, and how do we get it up a tree?

...sounds like a Greek Row stunt from the Drop Bear National Academy...

I wonder if 'O' reads this thread?

Nice!
Ooo... research have commenced for reanimating any of our 'fallen' brethren as shock troops.

Could this be some sort of subliminar messsage ? What is that zombie pug, anyway ?

ALERT......ALERT......ALERT

security breach code red

Michael Savage of "The Savage Nation" tonight mentioned something about someone converting the Koala's of Austrailia and Tasmania. I didnt catch the whole comment i wasnt listening closely and he immediately went on to something else afterwards.

I chuckle to see how low Drop Bears have fallen in significance ...

even among the encyclopedically-inclined

It fills me with such delight to bear news to you that a number of your 'illustrious' alumni seem to be suffering from hallucinations, seeing Drop Bears where none exist.

Well then Mister, if they do not exist how come I saw one depicted in the movie "The Wild" now on Pay-Per-View and on DVD? Huh huh! Answer that one mr. smartie non-believer, soon food for the flames of righteousness! Die non believer!!!

Note that I never said they were non-existant. Merely that they were the subject of hallucinations at a time and place where there was none. I guess all that rabid devotion to rodent-kin has affected those formerly well-honed reading skills.

Hallucinations of drop bears? That wasn't supposed to happen until phase....

oh drek...

Sorry, we had a leak.

...it's been rumoured that the menches at SK R&D have been working on Gummi Drop Bears. They taste so good then rip you apart from the inside.

Where do Drop Bears come from? (Yes, I looked in the encyclopedia, but don't know the reference.)

Drop Bears normally come from above. Unless you're in space, where they can come from any direction.

I'm working on fixing that whole "gravity" problem now though. Soon no direction will be safe!

Drop Bears don't take direction well anyway.

Target: Awakened Lands

know thine enemy Fortune?

Really, it's only logical. After all, how is metahumanity expected to be able to understand the true insignificance of the fuzzy little rodents if they are not exposed to the appropriate documentation?

Exposure. We have plenty of left overs from the experiments you can play with.

That's what 's really going on in the top levels of the Renraku Arcology now-a-days.