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The Archer class Ares tripod is a four legged tripod that walks in a dog like manner. It was slower than the Achillies class and Spartan class tripods and was a new design. It was made to fufill an anti air solution and used a quad cannon turret that faces upwards. The Archer class was 3 to 5 feet taller than the Achilles class and mounted a small cannon that faced forwards and could aim left and right, up and down. It essentialy was a side cannon. The Archer class tripod also mounted an Heat ray and an enclosed under belly full turret machine gun that had a gunner inside for ground infantry defence. The Archer class had 7 crewmembers and had a rear escape pod and a fire proof bridge.

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The Archer class was propsoed after the first conflict with the Galatic Empire as all of ARES tripods had no effective anti air support vechicle. The Tie fighters were too fast to track for missile locks and ground infantry were a huge problem for Ares tripods as they had no close ranged machine for the back or front. If a person or vechile got under the tripod they could effectively destroy the leg with no huge risk.

The Archer when deployed displayed a good support vechicle to the Achilles, Spartan and Hermes class tripods and was slower thanks to having four legs instead of three, this also gave the Archer a stable firing platform instead of rocking slightly right and left allowing good stablisation. The Heat ray was also given a wide 180 degrees firing arc and able to fire up at 45 degree angles. A sixth crewmemebr was needed for being under belly gunner nicknamed "ball turret" by the crew of the Archer. A Seventh crew member was there for gunner assistance and management of the Archer's mortars that were in the rear that made it an in direct fire support vehicle. The Archer was unable to fight armoured targets and was made for Anti personell and air operations.

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