The first Chyweethls were built in the late 1640s and a model of the Chyweethl has been in service with the Coftyran Mechanical Corps ever since. The only thing the modern design has in common with its older brethren is overall shape and the use of the chained-pedrail system. There have been seven major revisions and countless smaller revisions over the intervening 140 years.
As with most of Coftyr’s tractor designs the Chyweethl forgoes a turret and instead uses the weight saved to mount a larger main gun. This requires the driver, commander and gunner to train together constantly. The limited traverse of the main gun requires the driver to assist in aiming by tweaking the throttles left and right to rotate the tractor.
The Chyweethl uses a chained-pedrail system for locomotion. The system benefits from ease of maintenance in the field and excellent cross-country ability. However, the system is extremely difficult to use on the newer paved roadways. Travel of just a few miles on pavement will require replacement of most of the pedrails and causes serious wear on the chained rail. This has made it difficult to strategically reposition Chyweethl equipped units.
Organization
The Mechanical Corps encompasses not only the tractor
units but also the motorized transport and scouting
units of the Crymuster.
Chyweethl Regiments consist of five compa-
nies of tractors. Each company contains an HQ of two
tractors and two sections of 8 tractors each. This gives
the regiment a total strength of 90 tractors. Sub-gates
along the wall are typically assigned a company or two
of Chyweethls while the main gates may have an entire
regiment assigned. Before the Crusade, Chyweethls
were also organized into Breach-Regiments that were
stationed a few kilometers behind the Wall and used
to support areas that were faltering under siege. Most
of these Breach-Regiments have been broken up and
reassigned to defend the Wall as these units have been
replaced by the newly designed Paerydyn.
There are currently 51 Chyweethl regiments.
This is down from 78 at the outset of the Crusade. As
units have been wiped out or whittled down they have
been combined into new parent units as much as possible.
Coftyran factories are only producing a trickle of
Chyweethls as most production is geared towards
supplying the rhyfler and artillery arms of the
Crymuster.
