Platoon

The Platoon is taking an aim... - Your cue to start praying. The Platoon is a tank-like optional boss enemy from Fear & Hunger 2: Termina. It appears primarily in masochist mode. It is always accompanied by a Commander.

Location
The combination of Sylvian trooper and Platoon is a guaranteed encounter in the final hallway toward Kaiser, in White Bunker. Moving down the corridor causes a small animated scene before immediately initiating combat.

You can chase and catch the Sylvian trooper when she, upon seeing the player, initially walks farther into the corridor. This will initiate a fight and unique dialogue from the Sylvian trooper (something like, "impatient, are we?"). If you can defeat her on your opening turn you will not have to fight the Platoon. If you fail to defeat her in the first turn the Platoon will arrive, to which the Sylvian trooper will say, "Dimwit. Took you long enough", and the battle will progress as usual.

Combat
Thematic to the Platoon being a tank engine entity, it sports an absolutely massive health pool. The platoon can dish out melee attacks by swinging its canon and dealing high damage. It poses a bigger threat while the Sylvian trooper is also still alive, as by her commands she will force the Platoon to use its cannon. Taking one turn to take aim it will use its mortar artillery and aim at the party, initiating a coin flip check. If the player fails the check the mortar will explode one of the characters, causing damage that is bigger than their maximum health. Without any item to prevent this it will serve as an instant kill move.

Trivia

 * The platoon and Sylvian trooper combo are one of the winners of a monster design contest held in the official discord. It was designed by community member Vladstori.
 * The original design was named Spank tank, which is also the name the Platoon's image has in the game files.


 * It is one of the four enemies who appear more frequent/exclusively in masochist mode.


 * The Platoon appears to be a weaponized version of the Human Hydra.