Well. This took a lot longer than I thought. Well, meet Dave (don't call him Davy or Crockett, he doesn't like that). He's what's known in the Dystopian Wars universe as a mobile airfield; a land-based aircraft carrier that is both as silly as it is awesome. While you might think that such a contraption would be limited to a support role, you'd be surprised just how effective most mobile airfields are at being frontal assault units, thanks mostly to their thick armor and wide variety of weapons. Some of the largest machines in all of Dystopian Wars lore, they are often the flagships of any armored battlegroup due to their value, sheer size, and the nearly limitless supply of warplanes on-board they can spew out.

Dave here is an Alamo-class mobile airfield, serving as a capitol landship within the Federated States of America Army. Often shy and quiet-spoken, his only friends are the many planes he carries around all day, but their high mortality rate takes its toll on him. His crew does their best to keep him happy, but the only way the poor, big guy is ever going to end the perpetual cycle of loss is to one day retire and live quietly in a reserve depot somewhere with other, retired landships and warplanes. Still, his frequent bouts of depression only fuels his fury on the battlefield, his massive batteries of weapons laying into anything and everything that threatens him, his country, and most of all, his friends.

The Alamo-class is named for the full-scale replica of the Alamo mounted on its front deck (because 'Muricka), and is more artillery-focused than most of its contemporaries, especially with its enormous frontal bombards (those big, angled, brass tubes in the front). While these guns are frightening, the Alamo has a variety of side-mounted and deck-mounted broadside guns, which are of the typical Gatling-style, rotary autocannon variety seen in other FSA vehicles, and it is, by default, armed with a battery of rockets mounted atop its command citadel. Some variants allow the rockets to be replaced with either a shield generator (yes, those exist in steampunk, alternate-history 1870) or a kinetic generator (essentially a reverse tractor-beam that shoves things around), giving it some more interesting abilities in exchange for a slight reduction in firepower. As with many DW vehicles, I wish there was more, in-depth lore and technical data on each machine, and about the only other factoid I can determine about mobile airfields is that they're well into the tens of thousands of tons. To give a sense of scale, I put little Stan (my previous FSA pic) next to Dave as a comparison, and you can see how big the planes are on his flight deck. Also, landing on a deck that has an enormous, command citadel hanging directly above it must be a nightmare; there is NO room for error for those planes.

Ugh. I don't think I would have finished this image if I didn't like the Alamo so much (it's one of the few FSA units I really like). This was around 10 hours of work, about twice as long as my previous DW works, which means that my aspirations to draw more landships (or airships or battleships) in the future may be a bit limited. I was able to save some time by copying and pasting the wooden paneling lines on the decks, but even with that I spent a huge amount of time on this sucker. Still, I'm happy with how Dave turned out, and I might draw him again someday...with a noticeably lower level of detail.