"The First Tank/Mistake!"/"The Battering Ram!”
The project to build the first armoured attack vehicle in the Gotha Empire spanned nearly three decades, a low priority at first, but fierce fighting against the Macchi Republic accelerated the project, went from concept sketch to deployment in six short months. The Type 1 reflects the idea that the tank ought to be a sort of mobile form of the concrete pillboxes coming into use at the time, though plagued by many problems, it was successful enough that it soon became the most produced tank in the war. It's official acronym is “SbRd-AnZg Ausf I”, this is ignored by everyone outside of official communications.
The Wandelburg was wildly successful and saw widespread production and deployment, but it was obvious from its first use that it had serious deficiencies, its successor, the Rammbock, is a refinement than revolution, it has half as many machineguns, mostly relied on the one mounted in a casemate on a right sided cupola that can cover a wide arc, it's also over a metre shorter, with improved flared armour, a smaller crew, and better all-terrain capability.
