Unfortunately for the peoples on frontier of human settlement warfare was found them all too often. In some cases they faced violent wildlife, in other they faced attacks by native sapient and in others they faced assault by rival colonists or internal upheaval. In such cases efforts had to be made to make. When it came to outfitting vehicle forces. When said threats arose they often had to improvise much of their defensive and offensive capacity from civilian equipment. Among the most common way they did this was the Combat Wombat, a modification of the Wombat universal utility truck. There were thousands of variants on the general theme, but most of them had some improvised armor attached to it's superstructure and some weapons. In the crudest cases it was simply punching gun ports in the hull and bolting strap metal on. On the other end of the spectrum vehicles were made on their chassis with extensive modifications. This one has a modified robotic manipulator armor outfitted with a machine gun and serves as a basic armored personnel carrier. Other Combat Wombat served as armored cars, self propelled artillery, anti-aircraft vehicles and other such functions. While outperformed by more ground up designs, in the right hands Combat Wombats could be surprisingly effective.