Odachi
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One of the most powerful conventional artillery systems deployed before the fall, the Odachi unleashes long range volleys capable of leveling enemy fortifications with a devastating weight of fire.—In-Game Description
General Information
The Odachi is a Tier 10 Heavy Vehicle, exclusively unlockable through blueprint acquisition in Events.
Weapons
The Odachi's artillery gun fires ballistic rounds at enemy targets, inflicting damage in a small hit radius.
Additionally, the Odachi can be equipped with secondary weapons. The third slot, unlocked at level 6, has the following options:
- Assegai Long Range Rockets, which contribute to siege damage by hitting enemy structures from afar, but can't attack anything else.
- Veretum .50 Cal MG, which, while particularly effective against infantry and light vehicles, hits just about anything, offering the Odachi defense from a wide variety of targets.
Gallery
Odachi's appearance on THREAT HORIZON's event banner by Ian Tolmay.
Front-quarter view of an Odachi rendered in woodlands.
Ditto, rear-quarter view.
Front view of the Odachi.
Odachi's gun details.
Front-quarter view.
Ditto.
Rear-quarter view.
Odachi's animations.
Trivia
- Tying in the melee weapon theme of T10 Heavy Vehicles, this unit is named after the Ōdachi, a long Japanese sword. This echoes with its speciality in raining fire from great range.
- Odachi's design takes inspiration from several real-life weapon systems and vehicles.
- As claimed in its Designer Diary, Odachi's tracked element stems from the real PzH2000, with the turret seemingly based on PzH 2000's Artillery Gun Module. The CAESAR self-propelled howitzer and the Unimog 2450L are also cited as influences.
- The front half of the Odachi bears an uncanny resemblance to the G6 Rhino.
- The Odachi is the fourth unit designed by its artist, Eric Bacquet.
- It is the first proper Siege Artillery unit to employ a Ballistic Mortar. Other previous artillery units have either employed Explosive Mortars or Rockets.
- Odachi is the first Siege Artillery to possess a unique "When Destroyed" animation - It gets bumped up in the air with the front wheels detaching, then they slam down, bending the gun while breaking the turret, which slumps to the right.
See Also
- Odachi's Designer Diary
- Odachi's Recon Report
- Unimog 2450L on Wikipedia
- G6 Howitzer on Wikipedia
- PzH 2000 on Wikipedia
- AGM on Wikipedia
- CAESAR Self-Propelled Howitzer on Wikipedia
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