Raketenwerfer Batterie

Zis is a Raketenwerfer. It werfs raketen.

"I took ballistics in High school, fascinating subject. Explosives go up, and Explosives come down""

– Anonymous Artilleryman Company of Hero's 2

Mounting 36 rocket tubes, the LARS is capable of delivering massive salvos of high explosive onto enemy forces.

In Team Yankee

Das Stats

The LARS is basically the West German version of the Soviet BM-21 Hail, serving the same role of unarmored rocket artillery. As such the best place for the LARS is as far away from the front line as you can possibly be while still being in range of its Rockets, which shouldn't be very hard as they have a range of 80 inches.

Speaking of the Rockets, they have a surprisingly good Firepower of 4+, which means that half of all of the vehicles and dug in infantry you hammer will be destroyed, and with an Anti Tank of 3 is enough to threaten light and unarmored vehicles. You can also load smoke munitions to screen your forces as PACT forces rarely have thermal vision. There is also a MG3 machine gun bolted to the top of the cabin, but if you are in a position to use it, you have seriously fucked up.

A battery of two LARS will set you back 3 points in typical over costed West German fashion, and a battery of 4 will cost you 6 points.

IRL

Developed by the Bundeswehr in 1969, the LARS was a multiple missile lancher mounted on a Magirus-Deutz truck's chassis designed to deliver a huge barrage of missiles onto a target. That is not the vehicle that appears in Team Yankee, instead we have the LARS-2 (which is what the model is, seriously Battlefront you couldn't just put a "-2" in the title?) which was the same missile launcher from the first LARS mounted on a MAN Truck. The LARS-2 began replacing the first LARS in the early 1980s where it served for close to two decades before being phased out in 1998 by the American M270 MLRS, another conspicuously absent vehicle from the game.