Quick Facts

Series

1.	Into Hostile Territory
2.	Steamtank Surprise
3.	Scattered To The Wind
4.	The Chain Gun And You
5.	Plunderbeard Must Be Found!
6.	Plunderbeard's Journal
7.	Chasing Icestorm: The 7th Legion Front
8.	Chasing Icestorm: Thel'zan's Phylactery
9.	Finality

Storyline
Dragonblight The Liquid Fire of Elune Kill the Cultists The Favor of Zangus The High Cultist Rifle the Bodies Prevent the Accord A Strange Device Projections and Plans The Focus on the Beach Atop the Woodlands Search Indu'le Village Let Nothing Go To Waste Slay Loguhn Spiritual Insight Elder Mana'loa Freedom for the Lingering Conversing With the Depths The End of the Line Gaining an Audience Speak with your Ambassador Report to the Ruby Dragonshrine Heated Battle Return to the Earth Through Fields of Flame The Steward of Wyrmrest Temple Informing the Queen The Obsidian Dragonshrine No Place to Run No One to Save You The Best of Intentions Defiling the Defilers Culling the Damned Neltharion's Flame Tales of Destruction Cycle of Life The Plume of Alystros Seeds of the Lashers That Which Creates Can Also Destroy Mystery of the Infinite Mystery of the Infinite, Redux Naxxramas and the Fall of Wintergarde Flight of the Wintergarde Defender Return to the High Commander The Demo-gnome The Search for Slinkin The Bleeding Ore Leave Nothing to Chance Understanding the Scourge War Machine Rescue from Town Square Find Durkon! Secrets of the Scourge Mystery of the Tome Understanding the Language of Death A Righteous Sermon Into Hostile Territory Steamtank Surprise Scattered To The Wind The Chain Gun And You Plunderbeard Must Be Found! Plunderbeard's Journal Chasing Icestorm: The 7th Legion Front Chasing Icestorm: Thel'zan's Phylactery Finality An End And A Beginning To Fordragon Hold! Audience With The Dragon Queen Galakrond and the Scourge On Ruby Wings Return To Angrathar Imprints on the Past Orik Trueheart and the Forgotten Shore The Murkweed Elixir The Forgotten Tale The Truth Shall Set Us Free Parting Thoughts What Secrets Men Hide Frostmourne Cavern Nozzlerust Defense Stocking Up Shaved Ice Soft Packaging Something That Doesn't Melt Hard to Swallow Lumber Hack Harp on This! Slim Pickings Messy Business Stomping Grounds Apply This Twice A Day Worm Wrangler Really Big Worm

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Comments

Comment by smokeh

The Plague Wagons are all around the Carrion Fields. The entrance to the Mausoleum is at 85.50.

Comment by Lonos

The Mausoleum is in the middle of the ruin city, NOT the one near the fortress

Comment by Gargoyle

Currently bugged on Lightbringer, confirmed it with a GM. You can't drop off the soldiers at the mausoleum. They are working on the issue.

Comment by Damiani

This is the best quest ever.

Comment by xaedyn

Something hilarious you can do with this quest: if you're on a pve server, you can drive the tank around and find horde players and use the soldiers in the front to kill them, and you dont get flagged or anything, totally hysterical

Comment by 140141

might want to note that this is a building in the middle of the fields at 85.7 49.9. the little hole in the ground at 82 50 is not where you drop off the npcs. took me forever to get this right

Comment by Zuluhn

This frekin quest starts in silithus? WTF!

Comment by 121353

You all seem to be speaking in fragments & I still have no clue what you are talking about. If you dont have specific helpful information, please refrain.

Comment by 121353

Ok

1. Get in the tank
2. Click 1. to kill anything that attacks you.
3. If the attackers get close click 2. This will freeze them in place so you can back up & hit 1 to kill them.
4. Once you are near the Plague Wagon, click 3. This will dispatch a gnome from your tank. The gnome will destroy the plague Wagon.
5. When you go to the building in the middle of the fields at 85.7 49.9, hit 4 to dispatch the soldiers from your tank. They will take care of that business.
6. Destroy your last Plague wagon as described above.

This quest is fun for driving around and shooting, but really ticked me off as far as 'WHAT THE HECK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO!"

And YES, I DID read the quest. Don't even start!

:-)

Comment by 266964

If you try to dispatch your gnomes and they won't come out, log out and turn off your addons. This is also the case for the quest where you pick up the helpless villagers, and "I've got a flying machine!"

Comment by 69178

A couple things can go wrong when doing this quest.

Your action bar can be off, (if you use a third-party bar mod, such as Bartender) which is remedied by holding, SHIFT and using your mouse wheel to scroll through bars.

Also;
1. You can leave your tank, and hop in a new one.
2. Abandon quest, leave tank, accept quest, get in tank.
3. (Last resort) Log-out, log-in.

Note: It'd be wise to avoid players of the opposite faction. There are two gunners on the er... bow of your tank. They will automatically target and fire upon said player for very little damage.

Luckily, the player can defend itself by casting or attacking you, directly -- not the cute tank with thousands of 'HP'.

This causes you to be jettisoned from the tank and killed, having to start over.

Happy tanking!

Comment by aminmelalae

Duke August Foehammer is at 90:46

Comment by 322889

While doing this quest I got my tank stuck sideways on one of the wagons, so I abandoned quest to startover with a new one, but am no longer able to get on tha gryphons in Wintergarde to be dropped Into Hostile Territory.....how do I get tha quest again?

Comment by 333606

Wrong the Crypt located at 85.7, 49.9 is not considered outside of the Carrion Fields, it's no where near outside of it. It's straight down the hill from the place where you get the siege tank.

Wrong^2. The crypt is located outside Carrion Fields and will dismount you. You have few seconds to dismount and deliver the tank. You are correct about where the building is located.

The other thing to note is you want to be sure and drop off the guys (number 4) not just abandon your vehicle.

Comment by 369972

THIS QUEST SUCKS CUS:
CANT DROP GNOMES AT WAGONS.
CANT LEAVE THE TANK.
CANT EVEN LEAVE THE TANK IF I ABONDON THE QUEST.

Comment by 451821

,I dont do well with these quests and I always die like a complete idiot so if you are like me and you need to find out how to get back to the guy who gives the quest the coords are 89,46.

Comment by mstieler

Since no one else has linked it, Plague Wagon for those of you looking for a map of them.

Comment by 235214

Just for a laugh I tried to attack Kreug Oathbreaker in the tank for the quest to kill him. Unfortunately only the soldiers on the tank can damage him (the tank attacks - zay do nothing!) and he will melee the soldiers so they will die quickly.

I can confirm that now, at 85,49 where I dropped the soldiers off, you do NOT get the "out of bounds" warning and can safely drop them off with no problems.

Comment by 323584

Some of the comments from the soldiers:
"Driver, I hear you single-handedly airlifted our villagers out of this hell-hole. Is that true?"

"So does anyone know anything about Thel'zan? Who is he? How did he come to leading the scourge armies on the ground?"

"I've never seen destruction like this..."

"Look at this mess... The Scourge will play for this!"

And finally: "Keep the chatter down, people. We need to stay alert!"

Comment by 258282

I cant help but notice that the soldiers stand on the tank like it was an...i dunno, Scorpion Tank?

Halo reference anyone?

Comment by Xbander

The most interesting thing you learn from this quest lore-wise is when the 7th Legion Engineer in your tank says:

"Did I ever tell you soldiers about the time I destroyed the Thandol Span? Yep, weren't no dark irons destroyed that bridge. Was me!"

Since the engineer you drop off by the button on your action bar is a Gnome...

This means that half destroyed bridge of the Thandol Span was taken out by a Gnome, and an Alliance one at that! What if this had been known during the time of the Dark Iron quests?

Comment by lightsage

Tanks are located at 90,46.

Took me a while to find them, quest description doesn't give you any hints on the location of the tanks.

Comment by 634297

Ive no idea what's the 7th Legion Elite safety Dropped off, I haven finish my quest yet because of
7th Legion Elite Safety Dropped Off

Comment by Quilan

hate to bring this up but anyone notice the FIRST LINE when you hand this quest in to Ambo Cash?

Why I'm not wearing any pants isn't important. Let's just say I took some Scourge shrapnel in the wrong place and leave it at that, ok?

Comment by 712403

As of patch 4.0.3a this quest is bugged. You can drop off the soldiers but can't hit the plague wagons. I tired this quest several times even with all of my addons disable. Hopefully this will get fixed soon.
I found that addons don't cause a glitch and that you have to be very,very close to the Wagons to deploy the Gnomes.

Comment by 102628

Ok, this is my second character who has gotten this quest, and I am having the same frustrating problem as I did ages ago when I last did it...WHERE do I GET the steamtank? Thank you to anyone who tells me. :)

Comment by alicyndecay

What an annoying @#$%in' quest !

You drop off the retarded gnome and half the time, he doesn't even "sabotage" the plague wagons...

My advice ? don't even do this annoying quest ! Can't tell you how many goddamn times I had to go back to get a new siege wagon. Also, the 7th Legion "elites" barely do damage...

Not to mention, the endgame quest rewards are worthless and utter garbage. You're better off spending your gold in the AH for good gear. Or, if you do tailoring/LW/BS (like me), go and farm the mats and make your own.

Comment by 789647

This was a mild pain. I ran out of gnomes apparently, so I couldn't send anymore out after the first one, but I could destroy two perfectly good plague wagons before I fixed it by ~~screaming at the computer~~ getting out of the tank and getting another one, didn't have a problem after that. It was easy for me to find the mausoleum after getting all of the wagons done in the quest.

Comment by Nico2011

what a @#$% quest! i abandoned it. i think theres a bug in it, couldnt be arsed with it

Comment by 831166

Where can i pick up another tank?i forgot where they were >.<

Comment by 810483

The questgiver, Duke August Foehammer, is at 89.67 / 46.37 (Outside the barn in the Northeastern part of town). There are two tanks to his left and a whole butt-load of them in the field to his right.

Comment by 839870

I found the help I needed in the posts that were here in piecemeal fashion, so I decided to write a whole novel...

How to finish:

Jump into a tank.
Find plague wagons--when you pass over them with your mouse they highlight for you so you know what to look for.
Drive to them and kill any mobs around them. To do so, you MUST adjust the canon angle with the arrows to the left of the tank taskbar before you push button 1. If you fail to do this, you will way overshoot whatever you think you're aiming at. Note that there's also a little vertical scale between the arrows & the taskbar so you can instantly jump to the level (up or down) you want to aim at.
If mobs get too close to you, you can push button #2 to "freeze bind" them within a limited radius. You can then back up if necessary and/or adjust the canon angle so that it points correctly at the offending mob.
Drive over and stop on top of the wagon before you push button #3 to release the engineer. If you release the engineer too far away from the wagon, they will stand there and do nothing.
The only time you use button #4 to drop off the "crew" is after you've cleared all the wagons. You go in front of the crypt and perform this last action.
As part of dropping them off, it seems you also jump out of the tank, at which point you go down into the crypt to find a questgiver.

Notes:

For what it's worth, the tanks are fully visible when you turn just slightly to your left as you face the questgiver in front of the house. There's a field to the left and there are a number of tanks there.
You can enter tanks basically at will. This is helpful so that you don't have to "reset" the quest or logout/logon or disable addons. I was able to jump into several tanks after I had stranded an engineer (during the learning curve) by not letting them out close enough to the wagon. In this way I was able to then "refresh" the engineers. This appears to be what everyone seems to think is a bug...
The canon works surprisingly well. One or two "direct hits" will definitely take out all mobs. Just make sure you're targeting them correctly. You'll know by the targeting bubble that will show you where the salvo will hit.
It was my experience that, if I "stranded" an engineer by letting them out too far away from the wagon, I could go jump in another tank in order to get reset the engineers.

Comment by 861347

Where do I find the tanks?

Comment by 861347

Never mind, found it :P

Comment by 497395

ok, I'm starting to think this quest is royally bugged. I've tried it 6 times so far on my hunter, and no luck. I hop in the tank, kill anything around the wagons, and drop off a gnome practically right on top of the wagon . One of three things happens. 1.) It actually works and they destroy the wagon. This will only happen a max of 4 times. 2.) They stand about 10 feet away from the wagon I just dropped them off on and do nothing. The wagon disappears a few seconds later and I get no credit. 3.) They stand on top of or right next to the wagon, do nothing, few seconds pass and the wagon disappears, again, no credit.

Here's the other issue, for some reason, and I never had this happen on any other char, the tank will randomly self destruct. It will do this in 2 ways. 1.) The tank will stop moving, you can't move it or use any abilities, and it will say "Self-destruct Activated" and blow up a few seconds later. 2.) It will just blow up, no warning, no freezing, nothing, just blows up. This has happened both in combat mode and out of it. There is no button or ability that is a self destruct, so I know I'm not hitting a wrong button.

I've tried logging/exiting out and back in, dropping the quest and picking it back up, getting in a new tank, etc. I have no add-ons or 3rd party stuff going. I have done this quest a bunch of times on other chars, and never had an issue with it, any ideas?

Comment by Boomerasp

MoonstarGem gave an excellent example of what just happened to me. Disabled one plague wagon o.k. From then on, every attempt just led to the wagon disappearing with no credit. Quest badly bugged!

Comment by MsPhelix

See Ayli's description and note several comments about bugged Steamtanks:
My first try/tank: pressed 3 and nothing happened;
My second try/tank: Gnome dropped, said something, but did nothing;
My third try/tank: it worked - Gnome drops , says protect me/ this will take a minute, the Plague Wagon blows, and you get credit.
Did anyone bother to tell Blizzard - report the bug?
I just did.

Comment by 1011992

Still bugged 17/10/13. After a lil screaming and a lil crying I discovered that when the tank "bugs out" just go get another and it works. Takes a little longer but better than not being able to complete the quest chain. <3

Comment by 1129556

There are two places in town called "Wintergarde Mausoleum." One of them is at 85,49 and looks like a building -- this is the right place. The other is at 82,50 and looks like a hole in the ground; although your map will say you are at "Wintergarde Mausoleum" you can't drop off your soldiers here.

Comment by Takata

Well its not bugged anymore, I was able to drop off the gnomes near the wagons and they destroyed them. Just don't drop off the 7th legion soldiers at the mausoleum before you destroy all the wagons or you'll loose your tank.

Comment by 1440987

Steamtank Surprise http://youtu.be/gHQMx8EJLjw

Comment by Boxofbeer

Steamtank Surprise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6whtq541pc

Comment by LeBaiton

See previous comment. It's currently bugged again. GMs will complete it for you if you ask nicely, and they will tell you to report it as a bug for the devs.

Comment by kamiccolokuetan

Bugged but doable as of 1/29/2019. Was able to destroy 3 Plague Wagons before no more would be destroyed. Exiting the steam tank and going into another one allowed me to complete the quest.

Comment by Nordrassil1

Like most folks here are saying, this can get buggy - when you hit the 3rd action button in the tank, ensure a gnome is popping out AND building a strange machine or the quest won't give you credit, they will also have some dialogue asking you to protect them. I need to use 3 total tanks to get it done. When you use the 4th action button you'll get removed from the vehicle anyway, FYI. Not AWFUL but a touch tedious for sure; the TLDR is that if you aren't getting credit, then get a new tank :)

Links

Steamtank Surprise

Use an Alliance Steam Tank to destroy 6 Plague Wagons and deliver the 7th Legion Elites to Wintergarde Mausoleum. Speak with Ambo Cash inside the Wintergarde Mausoleum in Dragonblight should you succeed.

	Plague Wagon Sabotaged (6)
	7th Legion Elite Safely Dropped Off (1)

Description

This is a seek and destroy mission. You'll be driving a tank into the Carrion Fields to dismantle Scourge plague wagons. With the tank comes a crew of three 7th Legion soldiers. All must survive if this mission is to succeed!

You'll need to get in close to a plague wagon to unleash your engineer. Let them do their deed and move on to the next one. When the field is clear of plague wagons, head to the mausoleum in front of the ruined keep and drop off the rest of your crew. Meet with Ambo Cash inside.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Saboteur's Wrap			Ritual Neckguard
	Siegemaster's Torch Ring

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

350 reputation with Valiance Expedition

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12326))