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Good morning, everyone. We hope you've all been well.

This is a bit of a shorter update this week, covering some updated models and another forgotten render.
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The Chinese People's Liberation Army has experimented with flamethrower-armed tanks since the mid-20th century, such as by attaching numerous heavy flame projectors to T-34 tanks. By the early 21st century, a more refined successor to these early testbeds had entered service as the original Dragon Tank, which saw extensive use during the GLA War.

Against dug-in insurgents in urban and mountainous environments, the Dragon proved a terrifying and effective weapon. However, the crews reported numerous shortcomings, from a lack of proper air conditioning and cooling that provided much discomfort to safety issues in regard to the protection of fuel tanks and ease of escape in the event of a fire. Another critical problem was the lack of controllability of the flamethrower itself, as crews found themselves unable to effectively adjust the duration, pressure, and dispersion of a flame burst.

Many of these issues were addressed with the successor model developed in the 2030s. Most notably, the new Dragon Tank features an improved fire control system and a much more sophisticated flamethrower, allowing for fine adjustment of fire output. In addition to the standard "stream" and sweeping "wall of fire" attack patterns, the weapon can be set to release highly controlled bursts, producing a kind of "fire ball" that can reach targets at significantly longer distances, disperse on impact to cover a larger area and even induce a localized firestorm when several Dragon Tanks saturate the same area. Predictably, the new tank was used with distinction against GLA-affiliated forces in Africa, and it saw some success on the export market with sales to North Korea, Pakistan, and Nigeria.

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The Dragon Tank has been an integral part of the faction since its inclusion in the original game. However, its design was very... we'll be nice and say... "Unique"... Yeah, that'll do.
So we have decided to create a new Dragon Tank model that feels a little more grounded and more accurately reflects the fact that these are rather tanky units built to survive against lots of sustained infantry attacks - and to live up to the 'Dragon' moniker in the name.

There are some special things of note with this new model, the first being that much like the 1.87 Dragon Tank, the turret does change to reflect the fire mode of the Dragon Tank, may it be the 'Fire-Stream' attack or the 'Fireball' attack. Also, we have taken this opportunity to add variants to the model in line with other Chinese units, so keep an eye out on the streams to see if you can identify all of them and what makes them all different.



Ever since the devastating GLA attacks of 2019, Speaker Towers have become a universal feature of Chinese military facilities, factories, and public spaces. They are used for a variety of purposes, such as public announcements and warnings in the event of attacks or natural disasters. Outside these situations, their primary day-to-day use is in broadcasting propaganda, typically in the form of patriotic songs or uplifting messages from the local party committee. In a military context, such motivational propaganda serves to maintain and restore the strength of Chinese forces. Having become permanent fixtures in the environment over the years, the towers are often outfitted with additional equipment.

The Sensor Tower features a distinctive array of antennas capable of intercepting a variety of signals, from radar emissions to military radio traffic to common phone and wi-fi signals. These towers act as the omnipresent ears of the Chinese security services in cities and military bases, where they detect stealthy trespassers and seditious elements in the surrounding area.

(The second already known variant is the Jammer Tower, which acts as a stationary ECM missile deflector. It has not been changed and remains in the game, but it deserves a tangential mention here for the sake of completeness and clarity)

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A third variant is particularly widespread throughout central and eastern China, where reconstruction of cities and industrial centers has been ongoing since the destruction of the Three Gorges Dam and subsequent flooding of the Yangtze River. These so-called Repair Towers are equipped with utility cranes to aid in repairing damaged buildings and infrastructure around them.

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Finally, we have a new version of the Speaker Tower. The new Repair Tower is part of a new universal change where all factions will have some passive way of healing structures beyond their construction unit. This change is aimed at our PvE audience to help take some of the busy work out of defense lines and to reduce the frustration of having Dozers and Workers run off and die on the front lines. You have already seen another one of these repair structures with the recently revealed GLA Crane Tunnel.

We also realized we never uploaded a render of the Sensor Tower. This mistake has now been rectified. Though, of special note, Tier-2 Detectors like the Sensor Tower, Predator Drones, or Mobile Sensor Arrays are now the only way to detect Disguised units like Observation Vans or Bomb Trucks, so when fighting GLA, we advise teching to get this level of detection ASAP or have your fingers ready on that Control Key to force fire and destroy them before they close ranks and cause carnage.

That's all for this week. We hope you enjoyed it, and we shall see you at the next one!
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Hello all!

For quite some time, we were thinking and discussing how to get laser generals GP-s and laser (red-green-blue-violet) updates in order without affecting gameplay balance in the wrong way.
Finally, combining them with a special structure, we now have a great solution and something new for you to control.



The Laser Control Station is available at rank 1. It grants access to the Target Designator satellite, increasing the damage to affected units by 33%.

At rank 3, Laser Station starts distributing stronger lasers to laser-armed units. A single upgrade is applied every 2 minutes. Red lasers are upgraded to Green, and Green lasers are upgraded to Blue. Any unit has the potential to reach Blue lasers at rank 3 if it stays alive for long enough.

At rank 5, the Laser Wavelength Intensifier upgrade becomes available at the Station, which applies a single upgrade unconditionally. This means that all units will come out with Green lasers by default, and units that had Blue lasers will get upgraded with Violet lasers - the most powerful one.

Keep the Station alive to keep a regular flow of more powerful lasers to your army.




Thank you all, and stay tuned for more updates!

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Change log:

• Reduce AT infantry armor vs. small_arms by 10%
  
• Increased all air-dropped bomb damage from buildable jets by 10%, including heavy bombers
  
• 15% damage increase vs. structure for: Iskanders, DF-12, Scuds, Tomahawks
  
• Improved Russia ECM tower GP: Receives disturber disabling weapon after Subfaction upgrade. Regular jamming ability improved to be more efficient :question:
  
• Improved USA Helipad GP: Repair rate improved by 20%. Can be upgraded with a patrolling attack helicopter after a sub-faction upgrade
  TU-22 Bombs fall faster and are scattered to cover an even radius and not a line. Missiles do 10% more damage, and AOE increased by 25%
  Improve F-16 role: Cluster bombs fall faster and first hit the ground, doing some damage, and then the clusters randomly fly and hit a medium-sized area around. Jet speed improved by 5%
  
• Reduced the reload time of DF-41 and TopolM from 4 to 3 min
  
• Reduced the reload time of Minuteman from 5 to 4 min
  
• Mirage Bombs fall faster and scattered to cover an even radius and not a line
  
• Fixed TOS-1A Subdue Health cap
  
• Fixed missing Shaheen Warheads
  
• Fixed Spetsnaz Rocket Attack button
  
• Fixed duplication hotkey of armor-piercing missiles and aerospace command for Russian tech center
  
• DF-21, Kurier, and Shaheen reload time was decreased from 120 sec to 90 sec. Launcher cost increased from 2000 to 2500 and build time +5 sec. launchers HP increased by 100
  
• USA Global Hawk scout drone is now not selectable and will act like the old scout drone from ZH with a larger reveal range
  
• Dozers movement speed was reduced from 40 to 35
  
• GLA small toxin fields don't do damage to allied units
  
• Dozer's speed was reduced by 15% to prevent turret rush and barrack blocks, etc.
  
• GLA worker build time reduced by 20%
  
• Quadruple AA gun secondary damage removed. Clip reload time increased from 290ms to 400ms
  
• GLA supply Stash cost reduced from 1800 to 1500
  
• GLA suicide drone and China Suicide (Nest) drones are now stealth. China scout drone as well
  
• GLA suicide drone damage increased by 10%
  
• Russian Orion drone is stealth again
  
• All scout vehicles now detect drones to balance the stealth-flying drones
  
• Chinese hacking beam no longer causes FPS drop, or at least not so noticeable
  
• GLA Bomb truck Scrapped nuke reactors upgrade increased from 1000 to 2000, and build time increased by 25%
  
• Bomb truck object upgrade of nuke reactors increased from 200 to 500, and build time increased by 100%
  
• Fixed Scorpion rockets not firing
  
• Fixed Missile Defender Laser lock
  
• AI balances to make it a bit weaker and beatable
  
• Fixed Turbo Vampire's strange vertical falling-on-target
  
• F-16 Cluster bomb upgrade is now a Global upgrade
  
• F-16 Cluster bomb weapon firing range increased from 250 to 300
  
• The supply Collection speed of China, Russia, and GLA improved by 7% to match the USA
  
• GLA worker's build time reduced by 10%
  
• Improved PvP game stability and reduced mismatch. However, it still happens every few games when more than 3 players are ingame! For 1v1 or 3FFA it's very stable. Players vs AI was not investigated, and I assume the mismatch will be very likely!

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This build fixes some issues reported with the previous build, namely with pasting or loading images of certain types (e.g., 8-bit PNGs) or with certain types of color profiles (XYB/LUT). Input latency for the canvas has also been further reduced a little.

Change Log

Changes since 5.1 beta (build 9063):

• Fixed: Clicking in the color wheel was not setting the active color
  
• Fixed: Retrieving an 8-bit bitmap from the clipboard with IClipboardService.TryGetImageBgra32() was not working

Changes since 5.1 beta (build 9056):

• Fixed: Right-clicking in the Colors window’s palette will now correctly set the inactive color (regression from 5.0)
  
• Improved input latency further by using a dedicated per-Control thread for asynchronously calling IDXGISwapChain[1]::Present[1]() instead of using the shared thread pool. This also fixes some weirdness at startup with canvas redrawing when a lot of plugins are installed, especially if the antivirus decides to do a more in-depth security scan.
  
• Fixed: Could not copy 8-bit-or-less bit-depth images from Explorer into Paint.NET.
  
• Fixed: Copying a 4-bit PNG from Explorer into Paint.NET would have extremely bad performance.
  
• Fixed: Images with XYB LUT color profiles were not loading or were loading incorrectly
  
• Fixed: GPU effect plugins will not default to Float32 precision when using IDeviceContext.CreateImageFromBitmap(). This was otherwise resulting in inconsistent rendering output or analysis results.
  
• Fixed: IImagingFactory.CreateColorTransformedBitmap() and IBitmapSource.CreateColorTransformer() is now available for plugins to make use of for color management purposes.
  
• New: Plugins may now use PixelFormat.[Try]CreateDefaultColorContext(), IImagingFactory.[Try]CreateDefaultColorContext(), and IDeviceContext.[Try]CreateDefaultColorContext() extension methods. These will create the default color context (color profile) for the given PixelFormat.
  
• New: Plugins may now use the PixelFormat.GetInfo() extension method to retrieve the corresponding IPixelFormatInfo object
  
• New: Plugins may now implement the managed ITextRenderer interface (corresponds to the native IDWriteTextRenderer1 interface) and use it when calling ITextLayout::Draw(…)
  
• New: Added ITextLayout methods Get/SetCharacterSpacing and Get/SetPairKerning
  
• New: Added ITextFormat properties LastLineWrapping, OpticalAlignment, and VerticalGlyphOrientation

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Hello everyone!
Welcome to this week's weekly update. Tonight, we are exploring some more of the changes to the ever-popular GLA airforce, more specifically, some changes to the Hook Gunship.

Added in 1.86, the Hook Gunship was the product of a rather unusual series of tests and ideas. Originally, it was meant to be a simple visual replacement to the GLA bomber model that would drop off scorpion tanks at the Reinforcement Pad. After all, why should a bomber drop off tanks? That's a little silly, even for the GLA. After feeling the result wasn't quite "GLA enough" so, after adding some rocket pods, machine guns, and missile launchers, the Hook transport became the Gunship unit we know today. Fun fact: this was also what led to the development of the Boxcar plane you may have seen previously, so there's some fun behind-the-scenes info if that's your sort of thing.

After its inclusion in 1.86 and a few subsequent nerfs, the Hook entered a bit of a low spot, being a unit that wildly swung between game-ending or pitiable depending on whether the opponent built anti-air or not. In general, we haven't been too happy with the spot the GLA air force was in during 1.87, as we found that players had mainly been using the GP for its Overwatch ability instead of using the collection of air units it provides to expand the GLA sandbox. As such, we have spent a fair amount of time redesigning the GLA airforce, expanding its capabilities, and trying to make its undesirable additions more desirable. We will be posting more about this in future updates, so stay tuned...

In the meantime, let's focus on what this update is all about: the new Hook. Yes, it's another 'Rise of the Kits' inclusion, but for our more observant readers, you should be thinking "Hang on, I thought most of the kits were being added to replace bike_logic code, but the Hook has no bike_logic. What gives?"

Well-observed hypothetical-smarty-pants-reader, gold star for you.
Yes, that is because of another new 1.9 design decision you may have noticed on some of the internal streams. Now, many powerful specialist units now have a build limit of 4. This was an extremely contentious design direction amongst the internal team - after all, we recognize that part of Command & Conquer's identity is that the series allows you to build huge armies without population mechanics limiting what you can do (beyond hero units, of course). Our team has played a huge amount of other RTS games, and we often take inspiration from non-CNC games and try to incorporate what works and what doesn't into our own work. Many of our team (... I'll be honest, most of them) are very large fans of the Dawn Of War Franchise, and if you know anything about that game, you will know that many of its units have specific limits to how can be fielded at a time.

From a design perspective, unit limits offer themselves as a useful tool that creates a special place within the sandbox for units that operate above the expected performance of normal gameplay to exist and shine. It lets players enjoy powerful specialist units, and it lets designers account for their prevalence and prevent these units from scaling out of control and becoming overpowered through sheer numbers of them. in 1.9 and into the future, we have decided to take inspiration from this type of design to give many of our more specialized heavy-hitting units the chance to be at that higher level of power without needing to reduce their impact to make up for balance concerns.

This brings us back to the Hook. For now, the Hook is one of these units with a limit of 4. We didn't want to buff the Hook and call it a day. We wanted to really make the Hook feel like an impactful unit where its limit of 4 had a purpose. Thus, we added kits to the unit to allow it to fit into different and unique gameplay niches to either be a powerful spearhead, a game-ending harassment tool, or a valuable support tool for players who invest the Generals Points into it.

Once produced in surprisingly high numbers for one of the largest and heaviest helicopters ever conceived, the Hook has become an aviation rarity by the mid-21st century. Most units nowadays are under the control of the Global Liberation Army, acquired through corrupt channels or the outright collapse of several fragile states in Asia and Africa, where the most powerful factions within the organization now operate their own quasi-air forces.

For many a warlord, the Hook is as much a weapon of war as it is a symbol of prestige, carrying armed soldiers and even light vehicles into battle while delivering devastating fire from a variety of cannons and rocket launchers. Some helicopters have even been used to deploy crude radiological weapons, so-called "dirty bombs", assembled from stolen, salvaged, or illegally purchased nuclear materials. As if this most common configuration of the Hook was not terrifying enough, a number of field modifications have made sporadic appearances in recent years.




When equipped with Gun Ports, passengers onboard the Hook can fire their weapons in flight, adding even greater firepower as well as versatility. During anti-GLA operations in Cameroon, French airborne forces suffered an embarrassing series of helicopter losses to Hooks, whose passengers fired Stinger missiles at them while paratroopers on the ground were hunted down by heliborne sharpshooters. Despite European efforts, the country remained a hotbed of GLA activity for years.



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When equipped with Improvised Bombs instead of their regular dirty bombs, the Hook becomes a terrifying demolition helicopter. Little more than metal barrels filled to the brim with explosives, these bombs can destroy buildings, hardened fortifications, and even heavy tanks. This was brutally demonstrated during an incursion into Egypt, whose Overlord tanks, purchased only in their basic configuration without the secondary Gattling turret, were annihilated in the attack.

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When equipped with the Junk Claw, the Hook can act as a mobile repair support helicopter for friendly ground and air forces by delivering spare parts and machinery in a most unorthodox fashion. The GLA's mobile raiding forces, which operate autonomously over extended times in vast and remote environments, have been a persistent thorn in the side of South Africa and other neighboring countries for years, thanks to this surprisingly effective form of heliborne logistics and support.

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The 4-unit limit exists in some form for at least 1 unit for each faction, including some redesigned existing units (like the Claymore and Topol), or some Vanilla classics (like the Scud)

As such, we're excited for you guys to get your hands on these limited units and really let loose with their power. That's all for this week! See you next time.

...Nah, you got me. Here are some teasers. First, one to guess what they are getting a hug (you can pay for my flight, I'm not made of money)







And, of course, the ever-confusing...this... guy!







... okay, now we're signing off for reals. Enjoy your week, and see you next Sunday!

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Hello everyone! Welcome to the weekly update!
This week is another kit exploration and explanation. This time, for the classic American Crusader Tank.

It is well known by now that we have been doing what we can to make the content in 1.9 as optimized as possible, and that goes much beyond the physical coding of the units. A large part of the optimizations also involves trimming the fat on single-unit upgrades and trying to make every upgrade feel impactful and important. Many of you may not know this, but the SAGE engine only allows for a maximum of 128 upgrades. With the way Generals are currently planned for in version 2.0, they will each require an upgrade to 'select', so with 15 Generals using 15 upgrades, that leaves us with only 113 upgrades to work with. On top of that, code-wise, the process of how the engine applies an upgrade also has special properties, so many of these upgrades have to be put aside for the sake of keeping some of ROTR's introduced mechanics and behaviors functional. Thus, we have been working hard to streamline the ingame upgrades as much as possible and replace single-use upgrades for single units with more varied and expansive upgrades that affect multiple units and really make the absolute most out of the limited number of upgrades we have available.

This brings us to the old Crusader Hover upgrade. This hovering functionality for the Crusader, based on the original Generals concept art - has gone through a huge number of revisions and changes over the course of the mod's development. In our latest public version, the 1.87 beta, the upgrade simply allowed Crusader Tanks to upgrade and permanently shift into their hover mode. This upgrade was rarely a super sought-after inclusion, and beyond a few speedy death-ball builds in pvp, we found it was mainly relegated to water maps where players could send their tanks on suicide charges around the edges - hardly the tactical inclusion we envisioned. So, we decided to completely rework the Hover upgrade into one of the first kit upgrades, allowing players to specialize their Crusaders into a variety of modes, all with their own quirks and considerations.

During the GLA War, the US Army used its large supply of tanks from the 1980s to field-test many new technologies for the development of its next generation of armored fighting vehicles. One of these was the CRSADR (CRew Smart Assistance & DRone package), which quickly became popular as the "Crusader" among US troops, to the outrage of political commentators who considered this extremely tone-deaf in the context of the war.

Despite or perhaps because of this, the name caught on, and when an all-new American main battle tank was introduced in the late 2030s, it was proudly christened the Crusader II. The new tank integrated its predecessor's key features into every aspect of its design: With the use of automation and artificial intelligence, the crew was reduced to a two-man attack helicopter-style setup with sophisticated interfaces modeled heavily after video game controls for intuitive use. Lightweight, high-durability composites offer a perfect balance between crew protection and weight reduction, and, in addition to the companion drones already pioneered by its predecessor, the new Crusader was also designed with adaptability in mind, featuring three distinct configurations.



The first configuration eshews the tank's conventional tread-based propulsion in favor of hover jets. This turns the already agile Crusader into the current record holder of the fastest main battle tank in the world. In addition to improved ground mobility, it also allows the tank to float over water which made it particularly well received by the US Marine Corps and the amphibious forces of various export customers, such as Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Already known in ROTR for many years, the hover drive used to be a mode switch, allowing all Crusaders to alternate between it and the conventional tread drive at any time. In Version 1.9, the hover drive will become a permanent feature of any individual Crusader that is equipped with this modification.

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The second configuration replaces the tank's standard cannon turret with a missile launcher especially designed around the new LOSAMP (Line Of Sight Advanced Multi-Purpose) missile. Designed for a potential peer-level conflict with China or Russia, this missile is widely regarded as a response to the resurgence in heavy tanks and fortifications, proving vastly more effective against all types of hard targets than a conventional shell, albeit with the risk of interception by enemy anti-missile systems.

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The third configuration installs the MISA (Mobile Integrated Surface to Air) missile system at the back of the standard cannon turret. The system encompasses an extremely scaled-down air surveillance and targeting radar alongside a vertical launch system for small anti-aircraft missiles and integrates directly with the tank's native AI systems. This allows MISA to automatically and autonomously engage enemy air targets of opportunity without any human input. Although capable of engaging fast aircraft, the system is primarily designed to deter helicopters and UAVs and does not offer the same level of performance as a full-scale air defense platform.

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Not only were these kits found to be valued inclusions by our testing team, but the performance improvements by using Kits over previous unit changing methods were significant. Thus, the decision to expand the kit mechanic into other units was made, the fruits of which you have seen over much of the past few months.

In terms of content, that's all we have for you this week. There are no teasers or anything at this time, but we do have a little mini-announcement we would like to make.

For much of our team, we are entering the business end of the year. Many within our development team are prioritizing their real-life commitments, with many starting new jobs, moving into new homes, and working on other projects - with one even starting their own company. As such, you will probably start seeing a slowdown in the amount of weekly updates and content on our social media channels. Rest assured, there will still be progress made on the mod, but the rate of development will slow down over this period, just as it does every year. We love seeing so much enthusiastic community interaction and engagement, but we think it wise for our community to manage expectations over this period. 1.9 will still be in development, and we're not going dark, but we will be slowing down

Once again, we thank you for your continued support, and we will see you next time.
Have a great week, everyone!

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Good Morning, Generals!
Welcome back to the weekly update! We apologize for the tardy nature of this week's update. With the seasons changing, as are all our schedules, we ask for a bit of patience as we start to cap off the year. Although we still have a boatload of content to bring you all, the point where 1.9 becomes feature-complete is slowly approaching, so be ready for the fact that there may be a few weeks without updates as we get closer to this point.

In the meantime (as stated), we still have a boatload of content to sail into your screens. So before this metaphor starts to sink, let's go full steam ahead.

Originally when the US Drone Control Centre was added back in early 1.87, it was done so as a unique bonus for the US faction. The original thinking of this structure was that it could act as an alternative tech path that would give players more options when it came to how they wanted to specialize their build orders and what units they wanted to focus on. Watching how players adapted to this separated tech tree really interested us, and although the Drone Control Centre was still seen as the "lesser" choice compared to the US Detention Centre (though many would argue this was more due to the drones themselves rather than the tech structure itself), we have decided that for version 1.9 every faction is going to get alternative tier-one tech-paths that each have their own unique bonuses and upgrades. Today, we are excited to show you the new Russian Tier-One alternative, the Infirmary, and its little flying friend, the Medical Helicopter.


From fine to wounded; from wounded to gravely wounded; from gravely wounded to dead or amputee. Mere minutes between each step. The basics of first aid, which defined battlefield medicine, had been gravely neglected in Russia for decades. Stories of horrible mismanagement and callous disregard for life, with few exaggerations, plagued the armed forces - until Suvorov.

The old mantra of "spare no man - the women will birth more" was cast into the garbage heap. In modern warfare, each soldier was an investment, the bearer of training and knowledge rivaling that of officers their great-great-grandparents served under and to whom the saying was addressed. Losing such investments to an unattended shrapnel wound was unsustainable for any nation, especially Russia. Suvorov's military reforms ensured a realignment of the Military Medical Directorate to universally acclaimed standards and procedures, not unlike those of their Western rivals. One key cornerstone of such reforms was the introduction of the Infirmary.

Designed to be quickly set up on the field, the Infirmary served as the forward resupply point for combat medics as well as a stabilization point, where the wounded soldiers would recuperate before being sent further to a proper medical facility by air. The presence of Infirmaries, alongside a general improvement in first aid knowledge, meant that soldiers were better able to tend to their wounds independently, reducing the strain on logistics and allowing them to stay in the fight for longer.

Russia's renewed presence in Africa was marked by these facilities being used for the distribution of humanitarian aid and provision of basic medical services to the people displaced by the GLA, alongside their usual functions. Much of the staff of the African infirmaries were natives; this earned them great favor from the locals, who enjoyed the benefits up until the Russians withdrew from the continent.

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The humble workhorses of the Russian Military Medical Directorate, these helicopters fly back and forth, ferrying wounded from the battlefield to Infirmaries, working around the clock to save as many wounded as possible, as fast as possible. Fielding a variety of models, obsolete for most other tasks, the Medical Helicopters are plentiful and can carry all the necessary life-saving equipment. Their low cost and ease of maintenance make them ideal for maintaining operational pace, ensuring that even the farthest peacekeeping mission or skirmish could rely on a timely evac.

The Russian Medical Helicopter is a purely visual feature of the Infirmary, patrolling the base perimeter at its own leisure.

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As I'm sure you can guess with the medical theming of the Infirmary, this tech structure is based around supporting infantry. All of the upgrades that affect the Russian Infantry (like Medkits and Advanced Infantry Munitions) have been moved from the Weapons Bunker to the new Infirmary. The infirmary is also cheaper than the weapons bunker and has less power-cost, so it allows players to tech up faster, at the cost of having to rely on infantry as their core unit as opposed to Helicopters like with the Weapons Bunker. Don't worry, though. Much like with the US tech structures, there are a plethora of shared upgrades between the two structures, so although the Infirmary is themed on supporting infantry, it's not your only option.

As it says in Hanfield's render description, the Medical Helicopter is a purely cosmetic addition. Originally, when the infirmary was first added, many of the team questioned if the helipad on the roof had a purpose. This sentiment was continued when the infirmary was first showcased on one of Maelstrom's streams, where much of the community voiced similar concerns. As such, the Medial Helicopter was added as a pointless but fun way of giving the model's helipad a purpose, and thus, it has remained so ever since.

So, that's the Russian Infirmary, and that's all we have for you this week...

All right, fine. I suppose seeing the update was a little delayed. You've all earned a little teaser of something coming soon, so here you go. Once again, we shall leave you to figure out what it is.







Have a great week, Generals. We will see you next time!