If you're going to march into a hail of machine gun fire, there are definitely worse places to be than stationed behind a rolling wall of bulletproof metal.Īs fun as this might sound, tanks are instruments of war. Thankfully, unlike knights, tanks don't spend most days getting drunk and picking fights with their own men.

Tank battalions comprise the backbone of any American ground assault and, like knights, the armored divisions (which include any type of armored vehicle, as opposed to the peasants, er, soldiers, marching on their own) are incredibly difficult for the enemy to dispatch. The tank is the modern equivalent of the mounted knight. Do you remember what New York looked like at the end of The Avengers? Amateur hour. That's 3,064 tons of steel rolling at them with enough firepower to level a major city in under three minutes.

That means that in most battles, the enemy will face at least forty-eight tanks. A tank battalion is typically made up of four companies, a company of three platoons, and a platoon of four tanks. That's the sound the enemy makes as your sixty-eight-ton M-1 Abrams rolls across their domes.

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