Fanon:Heavy Machine Gun

The Heavy Machine Gun is a Tier 4 tank that upgrades from the Light Machine Gun at Level 45. It cannot upgrade further.

Design
The Heavy Machine Gun has a circular body like most other tanks, and has a single trapezoidal Cannon protruding from its base, much like on the Submachine Gun. However, it has a reverse trapezoidal base at the start of its Cannon, and three miniature rectangles spread out at 120 degrees each from the center of the tank to make it look like it's mounted on a tripod.

Technical
The Heavy Machine Gun further increases Reload, Bullet Speed and Bullet Damage when compared to the Light Machine Gun, but also increases spread even more. It also has very little recoil compared to the Submachine Gun due to its being on a tripod.

There is little difference between the two.

Strategy

 * Strong Against: Low RoF, Flank Guards, low level tanks, Tier 3 and 4 tanks depending on stats and class, unskilled drone users.
 * Weak Against: High Penetration, High FoV, Destroyer branch, the Overlord, Manager, Overseer.

As the Heavy Machine Gun

 * The Heavy Machine Gun's powerful Bullets and large spread are made to overwhelm enemies from multiple directions and make them run into Bullet after Bullet.
 * High penetration tanks such as the Destroyer can out-penetrate the Heavy Machine Gun's Bullets easily. To avoid getting hit by these classes, upgrade Movement Speed. The Heavy Machine Gun is an aggressive tank and as with most aggressive tanks, moving fast is crucial for attacking, dodging and pursuing smaller and faster foes.
 * In team modes, the player could cover their teammates in a shower of bullets when they are low on health, so they could regenerate their health without being disturbed; However, this strategy can be ineffective if the player’s enemies are too far away from them, and they must be specially careful when using this strategy against tanks that have focused fire.
 * The Heavy Machine Gun is very good in Survival and/or in Domination - the high RoF wipes out enemies for offense and defense and deals pretty heavy damage to Dominators despite the spread.

Against the Heavy Machine Gun

 * An Overlord or Overseer could flank a Heavy Machine Gun with their Drones. The Manager may have an advance on this since they could turn invisible, spawn Drones, and make them come out of nowhere, that way, the player could easily hit and kill it.
 * The Destroyer tree has a higher recoil than the Heavy Machine Gun, and using a bullet build, the player could recoil around the areas covered with bullets then get in close to plow through the Heavy Machine Gun’s bullets and kill it in one or two hits.
 * Tanks like the Predator, Ranger or Stalker could take down a Heavy Machine Gun out of nowhere since they have a high FoV, that way, the player may easily hit and kill it.