How about vehicles that have been revamped for combat purposes?

[Aldones]

If this war is as big as it sounds, then it stands to reason that occasionally it would be practical for would-be commanders to take advantage of old pre-existing vehicles for combat purposes when easy access to tanks and tank factories isn't an option.
It's easy to picture something the A-team might build, or any of the vehicles from Mad Max, but that's not exactly what I'm going for. For one, it wouldn't really fit the game's image very well at all. add to that Shadow Revolution's shiny, high tech theme, and this is really just an idea for a plausible Liberation front unit.
Imagine you're part of the old world order, and you want to fight back against the OoN. They keep backing you against the wall, and you're running out of functioning units, but hey, this is America and you've got one of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34R4J...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UVUvuQx0zo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRSBU...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovt9l...eature=related (skip to about 56 seconds in)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV5f4sClkhA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrqsD...eature=related (holy crap!)
You get the idea.
They're big, armored, and built to carry really heavy stuff. Impromptu weapons platform?
The pros would be extreme cheapness: they're already built, just weld something dangerous to the roof and armor over the wheelwells/driver's seat. instant disposable tank. Some of them are so monster truck they could probably crush your average tank of today.
The cons are obvious. they're not designed for battle. Controlling them would feel clumsy at best. The weapon of a desperate tank commander or someone with lots of guts/insanity.
I don't think it would be for PvP at all, but it would make a really interesting PvE mission in story mode. A last ditch attempt to take back a OoN controlled weapons depot using only non-conventional vehicles and gear.

[Leo Ryell]

That could also be a superweapon of sorts. Send in a large number of old units to tank/absorb damage while your own units come in from behind and attack.

[Aldones]

They would make really eye-popping decoys, wouldn't they?
I don't know if unconditional suicide is an appropriate theme to model a unit around like it was in dune 2 or the Homeworld expansion, but you could put an awful lot of explosives into the back of one of those babies, too.

[Myll Erik]

Neat idea.

[Leo Ryell]

I don't know if unconditional suicide is an appropriate theme...

Maybe they can rig up some sort of mechanism to hold the gas pedal down and steer forward. It wouldn't be perfect, so when you used the superpower, the vehicles will go forward for the most part, but would also start to veer off a bit. Some may even flip over early, or crash into other videos and explode prematurely

[Aldones]

Yeah! And I really like the idea of an enemy you have to try to defeat at extremely long range, because you know that when it finally explodes....

Seeing a group of those slowly plowing toward my defenses would be such a trip.

[Icefrenzy]

I would actually love to see this implemented... Seeing salvaged Buggies roam around and do some distractions and maybe scouting

[Obliterati]

interesting subject.

The army and airforce is actually testing new hardware to adapt civilian vehicles into combat vehicles currently. A prop plane for instance can replace a jet with a much smaller pricetag, and can arm many of the same weapons, has shorter runways, easier to work on etc.

Another example is apperently a humvee costs close to 150 grand, but a suburban with a add on armor kit is projected to cost 1/3rd that.

[General2]

Back in the day, in the early beta and early demo of World in Conflict, a squad of infantry could commandeer almost any civilian vehicle on the map. Unfortunately this caused server bugs.

[Icefrenzy]

Back in the day, in the early beta and early demo of World in Conflict, a squad of infantry could commandeer almost any civilian vehicle on the map. Unfortunately this caused server bugs.

LOL!! The comment at the video made me die XD *we're going on a field trip to the frontlines.*