Rise of the Reds – or ROTR for short – improves upon the C&C Generals formula while also adding its own distinct elements to it. Most notably, the mod adds two completely new factions, the tank-heavy Russian Federation and the defence-oriented European Continental Alliance. In addition, the three original factions China, USA and GLA have been greatly expanded and redesigned in a variety of ways, with several new units, buildings, powers and abilities to explore and combine in your in-game tactics.
By 2049, the Russian Ground Forces had suffered severe casualties in its fleet of armored vehicles. In order to halt the relentless Euro/American advance into Germany, Russia retrofitted old T-55 tanks and transformed them into cheap armored personell carriers called the BTR-55 Grizzly. The Grizzly sports a 30 mm auto-cannon that can be further supplemented with a Kornet anti-tank missile once Assault Armaments has been unlocked, however the compressed space of the T-55 means the Grizzly can only transport two passengers.
Haters eat some smoke.
Additional line Grizzly needs.
Nice! Is the vehicle going to be replacing something? Or an exclusives generals power (as part of vehicles drop?) or an entirely new unit for the Russians?
It is an entirely new unit, which will be available at Tier 0 since 1.86. Most likely it is not general-specific.
I wonder what will happen to the BMP-3? The two seem to have very similar functions and abilities. And at the same Tier even...
BMP:
- is cheaper
- is amphibious
- deals more damage to both infantry and vehicles
- is faster
- has 6 transport slots, unlike Grizzly, which has 2
Grizzly can replace BMP in its stealth detection role, because tougher armor allows it to survive longer. Since your tanks aren't fast anyway, Grizzly's lower speed won't be a problem. It also has good resistance to bullets, what allows you to use it against Dushka nests (it can kill the gunner), Quads and in other scenarios where bullet-based weapons are involved.
Just curious why Russian APC have name of American Bear?
Maybe because it is sometimes hard to pronounce russian words properly and clearly understand their meaning for non-russian people? Same reason for non-chinese names i think.
apparently english nick-names are easily pronounced by everybody, even by english-not-native people. yeah, ofcouse. 8[
Indeed. There are much more english-speaking users than russian-speaking though.
Well, duh. This website is in English, the game we're playing is English, the mod is in English...
but mostly for irony!
The mod is kinda Red Alert inspired, more than realistic. So, remeber Rhino tank and stuff? Its just my idea through
Reporting name.
I.e. it was named "Grizzly" by the outsiders, while inside the RF AF it may be simply called BTR-55.
In fact, it has no nickname in Russia, because RF army doesn,t use BTR-T: it was rejected soon after its creation, and now all existing machines are being used only in training.
Oh, yeah, copared to 'Flaneя', 'Hind' and so on.
Hind and Flanker are still carry on their duty and are being modernised even now
Flanker and Hind are NATO codenames.
A question for The Hunter: Inspired by BTR-T ? :)
Yes, he did inspired it.
En.wikipedia.org
That is indeed correct it's based of the BTR-T
Didn't decide to go with its big brother, the BMPT Terminator?
There is already a BMP - and between the two the designs are pretty much just the turret. This lets the two to be much more distinct ingame.
BMPT actually means Fighting Vehicle for Supporting Tanks (Боевая Машина Поддержки Танков) while BMP = simply Infantry Fighting Vehicle, BTW.
Also, if I remember correctly, "Terminator" is not official machine's name. The official one is "Frame" ("Рамка" in russian), or something like that.
its BMO-T,flamethrower fighting vehicle
Ru.wikipedia.orgБМО-Т
So a troop carrier that can't carry an effective amount of troops, a recon vehicle (when a conscript is inside) that's too conspicuous for reconnaissance, a quasi-tank with tinfoil armor, yet can have enough firepower to raze a city block to dust. It's Russia's version of the Bradly; they even it made just as schizophrenic.
Except its armor well surpasses tinfoil level. Machine guns have absolutely nothing on this.
It's not really recon, just stealth detection. BMP's are too squishy and Conscripts die too easilly.
You're taking the third part too literally.
I love how they just bolted a troop compartment onto the chassis.
so basically it's a russian bradley
What is the point, what is its roll
I believe it's just and equivalent of NATO codenames. Like Mi-24 is called "Hind" by NATO, while Russian name is "Krokodil" (Crocodile). Same for Flankers, Frogfoots etc. But still strange that the AA infantry is still called "Igla", not "SA-#I forgot the number#"
Also, the Russian names are not that much of a pronouncing problem. Arma 3 didn't have much problems with "Barsuks" and "Kamyshs" for that OPFOR faction. (I think they were Arabs or something like that)
Igla is russian for needle, so i guess that that's the name of the weapon theyr carrying.
You are correct, "Igla" is the official name for the MANPADS system.
Geez, that's not what I meant.
Everything except Igla and Buratino is called by it's NATO classification.
Igla and Buratino are the only unit/weapon the somehow is called by it's original name. (excluding production only names like MSTA-S, AK-74 and so on)
By your logic it would be appropriate to call "Frogfoot" "Grach" for example.
One of the Hind's select quotes in-game is "Crocodile standing by."
My guess is the Grizzly will call itself by its original Russian name/number when speaking, thus covering both bases.
So glad the Russians get some love now, about time. :3
Why two passengers? it looks like it can carry 6.
Wait nvm i saw the back of the apc
It looks so odd though, that they severly reduced the troop compartment on this APC. Granted I do get it because of cost reduction etc. , but still it just looks odd.
By the way how much does one of these units cost ingame?
i think is goog if you replace the with bmpt terminator because the bmpt terminator is the sucessor of this tank
Grizzly based off BTR-T
En.wikipedia.org
BMPT Terminator
En.wikipedia.org