Tanks of the Azerothian Union

The Azerothian Union and it's revolutionary predecessor over the last 40 years, has had many types of tanks. From the humble Steam tank to the advanced AD-5.

Steam Tank:
Early on during the Great Unification, the Union used Dwarven steam tanks as their first armoured vehicle. Union Forces found the Steam Tank as unreliable and inaccurate to hit anything that wasn't a building.

Compared to the other two Tanks of the era, the OD-1 and VL-1, the steam tank was in limited service, usually left to militia units for intimidation purposes against Horde or Alliance partisans.

OL-1
The OL-1 Heavy Tank was the first tank that was produced by the Azerothian Union. It first rolled off an Orgrimmar Factory Line in 2028, after being quickly designed by the Sporcyist Revolutionary Engineering Committee. The OL-1 heavy tank was quickly pushed into service. The Tank it self was unreliable, but it out preformed Steam Tanks in many areas, including anti-infantry and anti-armoured capabilities.

Armed with one 57mm cannon and six 7.9mm machine guns, the OL-1 was the most heavily armoured vehicle on the battlefield. On the field, the tank quickly got the nickname of "The box of doom" due to it's firepower, armour and square shape.

By the end of the Great Unification, the OL-1 was only used during heavy urban combat, being too unreliable and slow for battles in the open where Artillery could easily target it with it's top speed only 4 km/h offroad.

VL-1
The VL-1 light tank was pushed into service in the last months of the Great Unification during 2030. The VL-1 was found to be much more effective than the OL-1 with it's rotating turret.

The VL-1 was a lot more lightly armed and armoured than the OL-1, with the VL-1 only mounting a single 37mm gun and one 6.5mm machine gun. Though introduced a lot later and being less heavily armoured, it was given a much more warm welcome and loved by Revoultionary forces, with the tank being given the nickname of the "Weeble Tank" Due to it's small stature.

The VL-1 had little effect on the war effort, but it served as inspiration to future Azerothian tank design. The Weeble has been acknowledged as the grandmother of the modern Azerothian tank.