Flame Tank

This is my flammenwerfer, with which I will werf flammen

While the Mk IV steam tank is a somewhat unwieldy weapons platform due to its colossal size, that same size has allowed the Ordinance Department and the designers at Baldwin to install new and interesting weapons to take on the Martian Invaders.

After experiencing the might of the Martians first hand the Tank Corps submitted a request for a roughly equivalent weapons system to the Heat ray. Captured heat rays proved impossible to duplicate despite exhaustive studies, so a more indigenous solution had to be devised. The DuPont Chemical Company proposed a weapon that would spray a two part fuel onto the tripods that once ignited would burn at a temperature hot enough to roast the Invaders where they stood. Due to the size of the storage tanks required to maintain a get of flame long enough give the tripods trouble, and the actual size of the weapon itself precluded its installation on any vehicle smaller than a MK IV and thus the MK IV Flame Tank was born.

The Flame Tanks towering superstructure is needed to raise the Flame Gun to the level of the Tripods to give the weapon a greater chance of damaging the alien machine. While somewhat bizarre looking, commanders in the field have reported a surge in moral whenever the Flame Tank is deployed, its superstructure rising in defiance of the towering tripods.