Okay, I'm in dire need of help.

I need to animate a slake like creature. But I have no time or patience to animate and rig every little part. I know it can be done MUCH easier. Basically I need to animate and pose it like that of Tank Treads (or train model following a curved path). unfortunately I haven't a clue how to do that. Every tutorial I find is either:

-Missing
-Too Old
-Without volume (video)
-Too fast (video)
-Too Complex
-Different language.

 I (along with MANY others) need to know how to create such animations and models.
I thought I had it but glitches/errors keep happening.

Here's what I've done so far (that does not always work when I try it).

1-Create model > Subsurf > Covert to Mesh and delete original
2-Apply an Array Modifier
3-Add an Empty and applied the mesh's Object Offset (in the array modifier) to the Empty.
(This tends to only create larger versions)
4-Created a Curve (Path option will not let me exclude)
5-Applied mesh to Curve (through Curve modifier)
(I've tried applying the Array to the length of the curve but removes all but 3-5 array copies).

Even not set to 3D, the path has the same effect to the array. If I move certain points of the curve/path it moves the glitch up or down the path.

Please Help! :(

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