Finally, a Mutant Erginus rears its ugly head and one last Balam is deployed without a pilot, allowing Storm Team to assist in defeating the remaining lizards. Storm Team's main role in this mission is to assist a large EDF force protecting the Balams from sporadic giant insect attacks while they stomp around punching Erginuses, with both sides receiving reinforcements as the battle goes on. Having figured out from this experience that it is probably best to deliver the vehicles with the pilots in them, the EDF sends a phalanx of Balams to take on a force of Erginuses in a destroyed area in mission 67: Battle of Giants. Despite the force of high-energy combat threatening to permanently damage the Walking Fortress, HQ urges Storm Team to 'keep smashing him!' and eventually the Erginus is defeated. This forces a member of Storm Team to take control of it instead.

As a transport squadron moves to deliver the incomplete vehicle to fight an Erginus threatening the city, the pilot somehow manages to get himself eaten by giant insects. Though powerful, its incomplete state means it is lacking in defensive armament while it mounts two gun turrets on its hips, these are disabled on most variants due to the need to focus the vehicle's energies on close combat.īalam is the only vehicle in the game which can be controlled by any class normally, Fencers and Wing Divers cannot drive a vehicle.Ī Wing Diver regrets forgetting that today was Kaiju Punching Day.īalam first appears in mission 53: Crash. With the emergence of the monster Erginus the Balam was hurriedly made ready for combat and deployed to deal with the new threat. Balam is a 50-metre giant, a smaller variant of the Moving Fortress X-4 developed for an unclear 'operation' that concluded before it was ready (possibly a reference to Earth Defense Force 2017's Vallak Dino Mech battles) and placed in storage.

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