Demolisher

The Demolisher is an enemy vehicle in the STICK Franchise, appearing in every games in the Franchise except Tactics.

Information
The Demolisher is an assault tank used by the STICK Army for high damage output. It has a rather low height as a tank, but it is armed with powerful weapons, both of which are not standard for a tank design.

Often accompanies Shell Tanks, the Demolishers does their work by providing support fires for the former, which is the slowest moving enemy in the game. The Demolishers themselves are also rather slow, but is still quite fast for a heavy tank, combined with their heavy artillery, they should not be reckoned with when encounter in groups. However, unlike the Shell Tanks, the Demolishers can be attacked directly.

The best strategy against them, as a Fighter, is to keep an eye on their shots while closing in on them, but you are still advised to attack the sides and not the front or back, since they are fast enough to perform roadkills on you. However, there is one Demolisher in STICK 2 that is sandwiched between 2 HMF tank carcasses that forces you to attack it head on, leaving you vulnerable to roadkill attempts. The best strategy against that particular one is to jump on it and attack it from there, then back away as it is close to destruction, and deliver the killing blow with a ranged attack, to avoid taking damage from it's death explosion.

As a Ranger, they are not much of a problem since you can pick them off from far away with your attacks, but you should still be wary of their shots, especially the Incendiary Cannon.

Early Development

 * The beta Demolisher looked like a cross between an SU-122 War Tank (the chasis) and a German Panzerkamfwagen Tank (the turret, but not the barrels). The current model is simply a modified version of the beta with concealed treads, shorthened main barrel (Incendiary Cannon) and it's side guns relocated onto the main turret (the twin cannons).

Trivia

 * 1) Despite their large numbers in the main series, they are much of a dissapointment for hardcore players due to them utilizing hit-and-run tactics, which the other enemies in the franchise doesn't perform. Making them the smallest challenge in the main games.
 * 2) However, in STICK 2D, they became as notorious as the Shell Tanks and Sky Hunters due to their shots being difficult to avoid in the game's small spaces during an enemy tank raid, combined with the fact that enemy vehicles in that game are real sized, which is unusual for Run-N-Gun genres.
 * 3) Their notoriousness are taken up a level in Chronicles, where in Normal difficulty and higher they will always follow their twin cannons with the Incendiary Cannon, which happens to frag into more bullets in that game. Also in that game where they are almost always accompanied by greater threats such as Hellish Cutters and Sniper mobs.