Vulcan

Vulcan
Technical Information
Affiliation	East Europan Imperial Alliance Ausbruch X-0 (temporarily)
Length	8.28 m
Width	3.38 m
Height	2.97 m
Weight	65 tons
Top speed	64 km/h
Engine power	1000 hp/2500 rpm
Power/Weight	15 hp/ton
Gameplay Information
Hitpoints / locations	Ch 4: 3500 HP, 550 def (hull) Ch 6: 3800 HP (hull) Ch 9: 4500 HP (hull) Ch 14: 9000 HP (hull)
Weapons	Mustela P-43/2 71/88mm cannon Uranus 9mm machine gun
Appearances	Chapter 04: The Battle of Siegval, Part 3 Chapter 06: The Point of No Return Chapter 09: The Winter Witch Chapter 14: Azure Flame

The Vulcan is a boss tank used by Klaus Walz in Valkyria Chronicles 4.

Vulcan Procus
Technical Information
Affiliation	East Europan Imperial Alliance Ausbruch
Length	8.28 m
Width	4.60 m
Height	3.60 m
Weight	72 tons
Top speed	64 km/h
Engine power	1200 hp/2500 rpm
Power/Weight	17 hp/ton
Gameplay Information
Hitpoints / locations	Ch 15a: 15,000 HP (hull) Challenge Skirmish 2: 25,000 HP, 1100 def (hull)
Weapons	Mustela P-43/2 71/88mm cannon Uranus 9mm machine gun
Appearances	Chapter 15: A Reason to Fight, Part 1 Challenge Skirmish 2

Profile

Vulcan

The state-of-the-art heavy tank of Ausbruch. Despite weighing over 50 tons, the ragnite engine in the drive unit allows for continuously variable transmission, and thus high mobility. Judging by the countless speed tests it went through in development, speed was a high priority for the engineers who devised it. It has a rotating turret, and has excellent firepower.

Vulcan Procus

The heavy tank of Ausbruch's leader, Walz, modified for Valkyria support. When Crymaria's Valkyria powers are at their highest, her shots are extremely powerful, but widespread and hard to direct. The antenna on the tank's cannon can absorb and retain some of her power, allowing the tank to fire a stream of concentrated energy.

Gameplay Information

Vulcan has some unusual abilities for a tank in Valkyria Chronicles, in particular that its secondary machine gun, mounted on the hull front, is capable of piercing vehicle armor, allowing it to deal significant damage to the Hafen and destroy the Cactus in short order. Moreover, it has the ability to deliver Interception fire on the tank's own turn while it is moving. All variants of the Vulcan's MG have the "Attack Down" debuff, though it only affects armored units.

Like the turret of a Heavy Imperial Tank, Vulcan's frontal gun turret is a distinct target with its own hitpoints, and can be destroyed independently of the tank itself. It also shares the Heavy Imperial Tank's requirement to treat the turret as a distinct unit that must be controlled separately from the rest of the vehicle, though this is greatly mitigated by Vulcan's ability to fire the gun without even entering Aim Mode. All of this means that potentials like Tank Slayer, which activates only when two or more tanks are nearby, can be procced using only the Vulcan and its turret.

Unlike most other Valkyria Chronicles tanks and vehicles, the Vulcan and Vulcan Procus have their radiator mounted on the top of their hull, underneath the gun barrel just in front of the turret. This prevents infantry or vehicles on the same vertical plane as the Vulcan from attacking the radiator, and makes it essential to either use terrain with Lancers to get above the vehicle, or target it with Grenadiers using anti-tank mortars.

In the battle against the Vulcan Procus, Walz has a special Order he will start using on Imperial Turn 2 called "Partnered Blitz." This immediately summons Crymaria Levin to stand on top of Vulcan Procus' turret. While in this state, both the Vulcan's secondary turret and Crymaria will fire interception fire while Vulcan Procus is moving, and after its normal move and Crymaria's, the vehicle will set a gigantic rectangular artillery strike marker each turn, indicating the area of effect of a Valkyria-powered cannon blast that will destroy any unit that remains in the marker, regardless of intervening cover: this is effectively a miniature Valkof. However, there are areas of loose ice that Vulcan Procus tends to park on top of: attacking one of these with an explosive weapon will knock Crymaria off the vehicle and prevent that turn's cannon blast from being fired.

Trivia

• Bears a very strong resemblance to the Panzerjäger Tiger (P) "Elefant", save for the fact that it has a turret in the place of the Elefant's casemate, though the turret still strongly resembles the Elefant's casemate.
• Rather than the rear entry being a large circular door in the back of the casemate / turret as on the Elefant, the Vulcan has a ground-level rear door more reminiscent of a number of self-propelled howitzers: the only common tank with such a feature is the Israeli Merkava.
• The frontal "Gatling Turret" (which is actually just a regular machine gun) is based on the prototype Kugelblitz AA gun under development in Germany towards the end of WW2. Vulcan's version only really differs in that it has one gun instead of two.
• Vulcan was the Roman equivalent of the Greek smith-god Hephaestus, associated with fire in all its aspects including forges, metalworking and volcanoes.
• Procus is the second declension masculine form of the Latin proci and is used in its form meaning "wooer" or "suitor," referring to Klaus Walz's relationship with Crymaria.

Gallery

Vulcan leads a charge by Ausbruch during the battle for the Siegval Line.

Vulcan

Vulcan w/ reinforced armor

Vulcan Procus