It might seem redundant at first, but switching the viewpoint to the defense of a super-heavy tank changes everything.
—Even the most skilled gunner can't attack what they can't see. For a behemoth like the Giant Rat, riddled with blind spots and lacking mobility, this is a great advantage.
Its own thick armor;
a Lightning Protection Shield capable of distorting trajectories covering its entire body;
and the addition of invisibility to conceal its weak points;
These three layers of defense rendered the Wehrmacht's own active main battle tanks powerless, let alone the light tanks in Roland's ragtag team.
At this moment, the Giant Rat truly was an unstoppable moving fortress.
"This isn't a fight, it's a unilateral slaughter—if a war correspondent were here, they would definitely write that in the newspapers. Maybe they would add some personal bias and political slogans, like 'Alfheim's science is the best in the world.' But none of that matters to me now."