(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs18/f/2007/174/3/3/Destroyed_City_by_riancrimson.jpg)<br/>Part of level 12, the level of Layered set entirely aside  for the tournament, The Steppe is one of the massive battle fields designed to host the tournament's many battles. Once a metropolitan area, with the rise of the games the city's resident's were relocated, now it's sprawling towers and narrow streets play host to a much deadlier form of traffic. With no real height limit, and several towers to hide behind air born vehicles find themselves able to easily fire on their targets and avoid return fire. But the narrow streets of the city are also a curse....for tanks who find themselves unable to traverse the same areas of land that mechs can and as such they are restricted to the city streets, and what little protection they offer.