Theme Song: Operation Ground and Pound - Dragonforce
Personality: Ground Pounder lives for one thing, and one thing only to destroy and demolish everything the Autobots stand for. Not because he believes in the Decepticon cause, but basically because the Autobots want to limit the amount of fire power he can have and how to use it, the Decepeticons enjoy using excessive force. Ground Pounder is a complete infantrybot in his fuel pump. He enjoys nothing more than going around and causing wonton destruction. He once ran over a puppy-bot, laughed, then blew up the pound and laughed some more. Right in front of Auto-tikes! Ground Pounder refuses to hide, he hates ambushes with his entire spark; he wants the enemy to know he's there, hence the bright yellow paint color.
Ground Pounder enlisted in the Decepticon cause after listening to an endless buerocratic debate about laser control and yadda yadda yadda. As his body count rises, so does his rank. He's not a smart tactician, just ruthless and merciless. Depending on the mood he's in, he'll usually go for the quick one shot kill with his cannon. If he's not having a good day though, he likes to get up and personal and pummel the autobot into multiple pieces or he also loves to dismember an Autobot limb from limb with his lightsaber. Has a sick and sadistic sense of humor. Loves to take Autobot limbs and fire them as rail gun rounds out of his cannon. Another favorite tactic is to charge at an opponent with his high speed and at the last moment transform and flatten the Autobot in his treads. Ground Pounder will often pull forward and reverse over the corpse just to hear the sound of the metal crunch.
Opponents tend to underestimate him because he's a tank, they know he carries large amounts of firepower and armor, but belies that bulky body is an extremely fast and agile Con. He can run circles and do somersaults and other acrobatic tricks, unfortunately, his shocks aren't up to it all the time and more than once he's had to see Anaphylactic Shock for serious joint repairs. Ground Pounder hates going to medical, he wears his scars with pride and considers maintence a "crutch". Loves to drive Anaphylactic Shock crazy by getting him "contaminated". Much to the amusement of the rest of the team, but they warn him, keep messing with the Doc and you may find yourself needing him and he won't touch you.
Abilities: Ground Pounder can reach a ground speed of 75 mph and travel 600 miles. His armor is pretty much immune to most forms of ammunition. His weaponery is formidable, he carries a 180mm smooth bore cannon, which can also act a as a rail gun, that can fire a varity of chemical, incindiary, sabot, electromagnetic, and high explosive shells a distance of 3.5 (or 100 miles in rail gun config) miles and can nail a soda can at that distance. His turret can rotate 360 degrees in a little under a second.
Weaknesses: As mentioned before, Ground Pounder thinks he's lighter than he really is and while doing his acrobatics, a joint may fail disabling that limb. His autoloader is prone to jamming causing the shell to go off inside of him, severely damaging him. His turret also has a tendancy to jam, especially in the middle of combat. When charging his rail gun mode, leaves him vulnerable while weapon charges, also drains a large amount of energy leaving his reserves low.
Ground Pounder's recent battles
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