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The Frosted Battle Mobile is an enemy in the Duke Nukem 3D expansion pack Duke: Nuclear Winter replacing the Pig Cop Tank.

It is first encountered in the first level of Nuclear Winter, Deja Vu.

Description[]

The Battle Mobile functions in exactly the same way apart from the cosmetic change and the driver.

It is armed with two machine guns, lasers for long distance, and mortar shells.

Even though it doesn't have a self-destruct button at the rear, as the Pig Cop Tank does, the mechanism still exists so the player can still hit the back of it to trigger the detonation.

The only real difference, between it and the Cop Tank, is that the driver is a Snowman, who'd often deploy after it is destroyed.

Appearance[]

It is essentially an armed snowmobile with weapons driven by a Snowman.

Combat Analysis[]

Weapon effectivenesses
Mighty Foot
MightyBootSprite
50 kicks
Pistol
PistolSprite
85 shots
Shotgun
ShotgunSprite
6 shots
Chaingun Cannon
ChaingunCannonSprite
55 shots
RPG
RPGSprite
3 rockets
Pipe Bomb
PipebombSprite
4-6 bombs
Shrinker
ShrinkRaySprite
Not effective
Expander
MicrowaveExpanderSprite
11 shots
Devastator
DevastatorSprite
16 rockets
Laser Tripbomb
LaserTripbombSprite
5 mines
Freezethrower
FreezethrowerSprite
25 shots
Incinerator
Incinerator
N/A
  • The values given for the Shotgun and the explosive weapons are minimum values only.

Behaviour[]

The snowmobile is a slow and heavily armored target and will mostly use its machine guns on Duke. Staying in front of it is ill-advised as the damage output is relatively the same when facing the Cop Tank as well being at risk of being shelled by the occasional mortar shell as it pours down a barrage of bullets.

While powerful, the Battle Mobile is slow on the turn and thus it finds difficulty in tracking a fast moving player whom can whirl around and strike the self-destruct sequence though this is a hazardous task at best. The self-destruct sequence is exactly the same and the driver will most certainly eject upon its destruction.

Trivia[]

  • Even though the Frosted Battle Mobile is clearly a Pig Cop Tank with different sprites, the player can still make it self-destruct just like the Pig Cop Tank; Even if there is no visible way of triggering it.
  • Despite the fact that the snowmobile possess only frontal two machine guns, they inflict the same damage as the two turret guns found on the Cop Tank.

Gallery[]


Duke: Nuclear Winter
Levels Deja Vu | Where It All Began | Land of Forgotten Toys | Santa's Corporate HQ
The Backdoor | Christmas Village | Here Comes Santa Claws
Items Access Card | Holoduke | Jetpack | Night Vision Goggles | Portable Medkit
Protective Boots | Scuba Gear | Steroids
Health: Small Medkit | Large Medkit | Atomic Health | Armor
Weapons Mighty Foot | Pistol | Shotgun | Chaingun Cannon | RPG | Shrinker
Microwave Expander | Pipe Bomb | Devastator | Laser Tripbomb | Freezethrower
Enemies Common enemies: Assault Captain | Enforcer | Assault Trooper | Pig Cop
Protozoid Slimer | Shark | Turret
New: Flying Frosty | Frosted Battle Mobile | Groan | Grunt | Snowman
Boss: Santa Claws
Expansion packs
and add-ons
Duke Assault | Duke Caribbean: Life's A Beach | Duke: Nuclear Winter | Duke It Out In D.C.
Duke Xtreme | Duke!ZONE | Duke!ZONE II | Plutonium PAK | Unofficial expansion packs
Main game: Duke Nukem 3D
Fan community User maps | Mods & Total Conversions | Speedruns
Source ports | High Resolution Pack
Other Difficulty | Hazards | Multiplayer | Cheat codes | Quotes | Music
Simply Silly Software | Duke Nukem | Feminist Elven Militia | Present
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