--------- World Socialist Union ---------
--- Infantry ---
Conscript
$100, Barracks
100 strength, no armour
Speed 4, sight 5
PPSh-41, AK-47, AKM (anti-infantry)
(largely unchanged, though far worse against non-infantry, like all basic infantry)
"For mother Russia!"
(description)
Flak Trooper
$300, Barracks
100 strength, flak armour
Speed 4, sight 6
'Scattershot' flak cannon (anti-aircraft, anti-infantry)
(Flak Trooper)
"Flak attack!"
(description)
Engineer
$500, Barracks
75 strength, no armour
Speed 4, sight 4
(sensor sight of 4, can detect disguise, can capture buildings, can defuse bombs, can drive)
"I know how it works."
(description)
Soviet Engineer's 'something needs fixing?', 'need a repair?', and 'I know how it works' voices extracted by tomsons26lv
Tesla Trooper
$500, Barracks, Radar Tower
150 strength, plate armour
Speed 4, sight 5
Shock gauntlet (anti-infantry, anti-vehicle)
(better against infantry but primarily meant for anti-vehicle, immune to radiation, elite bolts are yellow and bounce, tesla bolts arc over walls, can overcharge Tesla Coils)
"2.000 volts coming up!"
(description)
Fixed Tesla Trooper (the Tesla Trooper had no unique frames for overcharging a Tesla Coil) made by Atomic_Noodles
Tesla Trooper's 'extra crispy' voice extracted by EVA-251
Desolator
$600, Barracks, Radar Tower
150 strength, plate armour
Speed 4, sight 5
'Gamma' radiation cannon (anti-infantry)
(slightly better against vehicles, doesn't self-heal anymore)
"Ready for meltdown!"
When Moscow fell during operation Chrono Storm, the World Socialist Union was decapitated, and the war was brought to a swift conclusion. But not for Iraq. For Iraq, the World Socialist Union had been the sole and best chance at freedom from the British imperialists who had long since occupied the Middle-East. With the Third Great War concluded, the British and their European allies were free to focus on the Middle-East again. For half a century, the Middle-East had been in state of turmoil, starting with a series of revolts in the 1920s. These had been crushed by the British and the French - to be sure, Egypt had nominally won its independence in 1922, but Cairo soon came to serve as a British military basis, and the country thus remained British. Over the years, the uncoordinated pro-independence revolts turned into coordinated pro-Soviet revolts, which only caused the Europeans to double down on their repressive policies. Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, all these regions and more were brutally occupied for decades.
Only Iraq had managed to free itself from the European yoke, thanks to Soviet weaponry and other aid smuggled into Iraq through Iran. And also, thanks to a cabal of Iraqi researches, working in a deep underground complex hidden from the European overlords. Oil was slowly but surely becoming somewhat of an obsolete substance, especially in Soviet-aligned countries, pioneering tesla energy as a replacement. While eventually, the Allied Nations would settle on clean, compact, and efficient Power Plants, employing geothermal or hydroelectric energy, they experimented with a variety of other power sources as well, ranging from solar - branching out from prism technology - to nuclear. One such nuclear power plant was established in the deserts of Iraq, and it was this act that would give birth to the Desolator.
Of course, this Desolator programme could only succeed with the aid of the Soviet metal harnesses - suits, really - that their Tesla Troopers wore. The Iraqi people were strong and determined to claw their way to freedom - but there should be a people left to enjoy this freedom, to enjoy the beautiful country that had once been home to the oldest civilisations humanity had ever known. It seemed that this dream was coming true, on the brink of the Third Great War - but the dream was soon crushed, and Iraq slipped back in open warfare as the British and the French moved in again.
Soon, whispers arose of a new power, of 'Hurria'. Egypt freed itself, first secretly, then openly, throwing the British out of Cairo and out of the Suez. Ameer Kassad reigned there now. A self-proclaimed malik of the House of Saud, ruling the sprawling deserts of Nejd - the interior of the Arabia - had recently unified the eastern tribes of Arabia, and was no marching onto the Hejaz. Half-abandoned bases there were fortified and garrisoned anew, but with the help of prince Kassad, a two-pronged assault left all of Arabia in the hands of Alsaud. The newly established Kingdom of Saudi Arabia promptly began providing aid to Iran, which was caught between the Europeans, exploiting the state for its oil, the Americans, couping the state for its ideology, and the Soviets, threatening to directly annex the state in an effort to 'free' it from these western influences. Iraq, fortified to the brim with Allied Prism Towers and Soviet Tesla Coils, would run red before it was free - but it would be free, one day.
Iraq's civil war is still raging on, as a bloody war of attrition sees little progress except for an ever-increasing bodycount. Saudi Sandstorms now fly over Iraq's southern border, and the occasional Dustdevil probes the Allied and Soviet fortifications found throughout the country. Militia reveal themselves, the battlecry of 'Hurria!' on their lips, liberating Iraq inch by bloody inch. As this endless civil war goes on and on, all sides have gained access to the Desolator programme. The Europeans have discarded it as a crime against humanity - but what is a brutally oppressed people to do? - and Hurria has used its existence as a rallying cry to liberate the oppressed Iraqi people - forced into radiation poisoning and inevitable death - but the Hurria movement has none the less seen fit to scavenge the Desolator programme, and adapt it to their own use.
The legacy of the Desolator will be a long and cruel one, and all of nature will suffer for man's folly - but, of course, the Iraqi proletariat is blameless in employing whichever means it has at hand, to free itself from evil European imperialism. Alternatively, the poor and the oppressed are righteously fighting for their very survival against the tyranny of communism and imperialism both. Your choice.
Desolator's muzzle flash for opentopped-attacks made by Atomic_Noodles
Cannoneer
$1000, Barracks, Battle Lab
150 strength, plate armour
Speed 4, sight 5
'Sasha' radiation cannon (anti-infantry)
'Natasha' tesla cannon (anti-vehicle)
(long range, uses radiation-tipped shells against infantry and tesla-tipped shells against the rest, excellent against non-flying units, bad against buildings)
"I am heavy weapons guy!" (voice based on Team Fortress 2's Heavy)
European scientists and generals still haven't figured out what exactly the Cannoneer does. Its cannon seems to either launch a blob of radiation or a blob of electricity, but that makes no sense according to the laws of physics as European scientists understand them. Of course, the Soviets have disregarded the laws of physics before, what with their superheavy Kirov zeppelins.
(description)
Cannoneer made by MasterHaosis (modified)
Boris
$1500, Barracks, Battle Lab
200 strength, plate armour
Speed 5, sight 8
Customised AKM (anti-infantry, anti-vehicle)
Target painter / MiG strike aircraft (anti-building)
(detects disguise and stealth, shorter target painter range, gains experience from MiG-kills, MiGs are faster, is fearless)
"Boris has arrived!"
(description)
--- Vehicles ---
War Miner
$1400, War Factory
1000 strength, miner armour
Speed 4, sight 3
'Sickle' machinegun (anti-infantry)
(War Miner, elite weapon is now an improved machinegun as opposed to a cannon)
"The wealth must be shared!" (voice based on Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3's Soviet Ore Collector)
(description)
Rhino Heavy Tank
$900, War Factory
400 strength, heavy armour
Speed 6, sight 4
120mm cannon (anti-vehicle, anti-building)
(Rhino Heavy Tank, still the heaviest, strongest, slowest, et cetera, main battle tank)
"We will bury them!"
(description)
Flak Tank
$500, War Factory - inaccessible to Yugoslavia
225 strength, heavy armour
Speed 7, sight 5
'Cloudpiercer' flak cannon (anti-infantry, anti-aircraft)
(like the original game's Flak Track, but fires slower, more powerful, longer ranged shots that are not inaccurate and that are vaguely capable - instead of wholly incapable - against vehicles, carries two passengers, size limit of one)
"You want it, you got it!" (voice based on Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3's Bullfrog)
(description)
Flak Tank made by MadHQ (modified)
Surge
$500, War Factory - only accessible to Yugoslavia
300 strength, heavy armour
Speed 6, sight 5
'Static' twin tesla coils (anti-aircraft)
(continuous tesla bolts that damage and slow down the target, and force the target to decloak, but is only capable of attacking aerial targets)
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"Electricity is in the air!" (voice based on Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3's Tesla Trooper and Tesla Tank)
It is still uncertain if Yugoslavia's border is primarily meant to keep the Europeans out, or to keep the Yugoslavians in. Humming with thousands of Tesla Coils, continuously attended by crews of over a dozen Tesla Troopers at a time, in turn watched over by bands of Cannoneers, with Desolators waiting in the distance and Dread Drones softly buzzing by up high, ready to turn the entire area into an irradiated wasteland upon the slightest scent of betrayal. It is estimated that upwards of 10% of all Yugoslavians are employed at the border, a number that excludes those serving in the military. Were they to be included, the number goes up to 40%, by the best estimates of Austrian spies.
Of course, these estimates are little more than vague guessing; 72.3% of all spies that have tried to enter Yugoslavia, were electrocuted while passing the border. 19.8% of all spies managed to survive twelve hours within Yugoslavia (but the vast majority of these managed to survive two hours at most), while 7.8% managed to survive twenty-four hours. The remaining 0.2% includes both those that survived for a week, and those that actually survived, without being killed. However, because this also includes a spy that died as a result of falling down the stairs of his apartment - assumed to be a natural accident, and thus, not a kill - the actual number of spies that successfully exfiltrated from Yugoslavia is zero.
There are two reasons for this. One is that literally the entire border is fortified beyond belief - it would take an all-out war for Yugoslavia's border to be penetrated (if that would at all be possible, a regular debate in the highest ranks of the military). However, every border can be bypassed, in theory, and once beyond the border, infiltration becomes significantly easier. An amphibious landing, a small plane that would leave no radar signature, a subterranean insertion... Unfortunately, Yugoslavia has guarded herself against all these and more. Especially against aerial threats, correctly identifying these as being the most successful source of infiltration and intelligence gathering. Any aerial target, including Russian Spy Planes and approximately half of the native bird population - better safe than sorry - is instantly short-circuited, overloaded, and completely fried, by the Yugoslavian adaption of the Tesla Tank; the Surge.
The Surge is the second reason why none can enter Yugoslavia. A vehicle more comparable to the Rhino Heavy Tank than to the Flak Tank, in armour and speed, it is equipped with twin tesla coils based on the Tesla Tank's new design. No wonder, then, that Yugoslavia took a leading role in redesigning the Russian Tesla Tank. On first sight, the Surge is merely a Tesla Tank repurposed to attack aerial targets, but under the hood, the mechanism behind its weapon is quite different, and a testament to the brilliance of Yugoslavia's engineers. While the Tesla Tank is capable of frying ground targets from a long range, the Surge can actually conduct electricity through the air; instead of unleashing a blast of electricity that arcs over the ground until it connects with something, the Surge somehow charges the very air in a precisely calculated path, and anything caught in this path is sure to come crashing down.
Further, the Surge is uniquely attuned to the miniature tesla reactors that power the Armageddon Tank. Any Surge escorting these lumbering behemoths can overcharge these tesla reactors, allowing the Armageddon Tank to reach a much higher speed. Surging forward, indeed.
As such, it is, unfortunately for the Europeans, a safe bet that Yugoslavia is impenetrable - and who knows what terrifying plans Tito has been cooking up in Beograd?
Surge made by Hassan_2030 (modified)
Tesla Tank
$1200, War Factory, Radar Tower
300 strength, heavy armour
Speed 7, sight 4
'Overcharge' twin tesla coils (anti-infantry, anti-vehicle)
(Tesla Tank, but faster, and with a longer range and a very fast rate of fire, excellent against units - provided they do not get too close - terrible against buildings)
"Maximum power!"
The Tesla Tank was a prototype that functioned 'acceptably' in the last war, which means that the leading engineers are even now enjoying a 'short' holiday in Siberia. Its light armour didn't result in a fast enough speed, and its twin tesla coils performed underwhelmingly against anything better armoured than a GI fresh from bootcamp. However, Soviet generals had often seen their slow-moving Apocalypse Tanks turned to rubble by faster Allied forces, before the might of the Apocalypse could even begin to be unleashed. Besides, with the Allies shutting down any War Factory they could find, it would take a long time before the World Socialist Union could construct any new Apocalypse Tanks.
A replacement was needed, then, and what vehicle better suited for this role than the Tesla Tank? The Allies could hardly shut down the entire energy grid Russia relied on, and Russian engineers had long since become adept at tweaking the production process of Tesla Reactors to be just a little more 'wasteful', so that the inevitable batches of 'failed' coils could be used for... Other purposes. The light armour of the Tesla Tank was an advantage here, needing not the heavy machinery of the War Factories or Industrial Plants that were being shut down (though, this 'light' armour is comparable to that of the Grizzly Battle Tank - which, by Soviet standards, classifies as 'light'). And because the newly designed tesla coils were based on (vastly miniaturised and redesigned, but even so) the Tesla Reactor's own coil, the new Tesla Tank could provide an almost continuous stream of electric energy, arcing over the ground until it hit a target.
The first prototypes were produced in Hungary, where Allied interference was far less than in Russia. Yugoslavian engineers, the primary architects of the new Tesla Tank, had been flown over to Hungary to witness their creation 'in the flesh', so to say. Soon, most of eastern Europe had access to the improved Tesla Tank. In fact, Russia was one of the last Soviet countries to gain access, after two Romanian spies heroically sailed from Constanta to Anapa, avoiding the Allied patrols in the water along the way.
The ease of producing the Tesla Tank quickly made it a common sight amongst the Soviet militaries, despite strong protests from Austria and Poland. But as the Italian ambassador pointed out; reports indicate that the Tesla Tank is worse than useless against any properly designed building, being large and strong enough to let the electricity dissipate naturally, which makes the Tesla Tank a defensive unit in nature - and do we not want the Soviet armies to be precisely that? Or do we want thousands of Apocalypse Tanks at our borders, waiting for their premier to order the obliteration of Europe?
V3 Launcher
$800, War Factory, Radar Tower
150 strength, light armour
Speed 4, sight 4
V3 rockets (anti-building)
(V3, rockets fly faster, accelerate faster, have more strength, and are nuclear, leaving radiation when exploding)
"We have ignition!"
(description)
Armageddon Tank
$1750, War Factory, Battle Lab
800 strength, heavy armour
Speed 3, sight 4
125mm tesla cannon (anti-vehicle, anti-building)
'Surge' tesla coil (anti-infantry)
(Apocalypse Tank, but slower, with a shorter range and a very slow rate of fire, launches a barrage of six shells, extremely effective against buildings, has a short-ranged fast-firing tesla coil to kill any nearby infantry, omnicrusher, omnicrush resistant)
"Armageddon is here." (voice based on Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3's Apocalypse Tank)
(description)
Armageddon Tank made by raminator
Armageddon Tank cameo made by Speeder (modified - I am not 100% sure whether this cameo actually comes from Speeder, mind, but it's an old public asset everyone probably recognises)
Soviet MCV
$3000, War Factory, Radar Tower
1000 strength, heavy armour
Speed 4, sight 9
(MCV, omnicrush resistant)
"Building the Soviet empire!"
(description)
Dread Drone
$600, War Factory, Radar Tower
200 strength, light robotic armour
Speed 24, sight 7 (note: Flying units use a different speed measurement)
Radiation emitter (anti-infantry, anti-vehicle)
(flying drone that spawns a small radiation field directly below it, detects stealth and disguise, has self heal)
*Clicks of Geiger counters flying off the charts*
(description)
Kirov Airship
$2000, War Factory, Battle Lab - inaccessible to Yugoslavia
2000 strength, heavy armour
Speed 5, sight 6 (note: Flying units use a different speed measurement)
Blimp bombs (anti-building)
(Kirov Airship)
"Bombing bays ready!"
(description)
Kirov Gunship
$2000, War Factory, Battle Lab - only accessible to Yugoslavia
1000 strength, heavy armour
Speed 10, sight 6 (note: Flying units use a different speed measurement)
Tesla bombs (anti-infantry, anti-vehicle)
(faster but lighter armoured Kirov Airship, is opentopped and can carry six passengers, bombs are more effective against units, less effective against buildings, and spawn electric bolts)
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"Leave our mark!" (voice based on Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3's Kirov Airship)
(description)
Kirov Gunship made by Longwall
--- Buildings ---
Soviet Brick Walls
$100, Soviet Construction Yard, Tesla Reactor
500 strength, steel armour
1 sight, 12 adjacency
(walls, with remap colours thanks to Atomic_Noodles)
(description)
Soviet Brick Walls made by Atomic_Noodles
Soviet Brick Walls cameo made by Lefthand (modified)
Shock Gun
$500, Soviet Construction Yard, Barracks
500 strength, steel armour
4 sight, 8 adjacency, -25 power
'Zap' electric machinegun (anti-infantry)
(ever so slightly less effective against infantry and more effective against vehicles than the Sentry Gun, cellspread of one tile)
(description)
Shock Gun made by MadHQ
Flak Cannon
$750, Soviet Construction Yard, Barracks
500 strength, steel armour
5 sight, 8 adjacency, -25 power
'Chornij' flak cannon (anti-aircraft)
(Flak Cannon, can target paratroopers)
(description)
Tesla Coil
$1500, Soviet Construction Yard, Radar Tower
750 strength, steel armour
4 sight, 6 adjacency, -100 power
'Mir' tesla coil (anti-infantry, anti-vehicle)
(Tesla Coil, equalised with the Prism Tower and Psychic Spire in that it drains 100 power instead of 75, overcharged bolt bounces)
(description)
Soviet Iron Curtain
$2500, Soviet Construction Yard, Battle Lab
2500 strength, steel armour
4 sight, 6 adjacency, -300 power
(Iron Curtain, buildtime is 1.5 times as long as it normally would be)
(description)
Soviet Nuclear Missile Silo
$5000, Soviet Construction Yard, Battle Lab
5000 strength, steel armour
4 sight, 6 adjacency, -400 power
(Nuclear Missile, buildtime is twice as long as it normally would be)
(description)
Soviet Construction Yard
5000 strength, steel armour
9 sight, 6 adjacency, 25 power
(Construction Yard, provides Steel Curtain ability)
(description)
Tesla Reactor
$600, Soviet Construction Yard
1000 strength, wood armour
4 sight, 6 adjacency, 150 power
(Power Plant)
(description)
Barracks
$500, Soviet Construction Yard
1000 strength, concrete armour
4 sight, 6 adjacency, -25 power
(Barracks)
(description)
Soviet Ore Refinery
$2000, Soviet Construction Yard, Tesla Reactor
2000 strength, concrete armour
4 sight, 6 adjacency, -50 power
(Ore Refinery, comes with a free War Miner)
(description)
War Factory
$2000, Soviet Construction Yard, Soviet Ore Refinery
2000 strength, concrete armour
4 sight, 6 adjacency, -50 power
(War Factory)
(description)
Soviet Shipyard
$1000, Soviet Construction Yard, Soviet Ore Refinery
2000 strength, concrete armour
4 sight, 16 adjacency, -50 power
(Naval Yard)
(description)
Repair Crane
$1000, Soviet Construction Yard, War Factory
1000 strength, wood armour
4 sight, 16 adjacency, -25 power
(automatically repairs friendly vehicles within its range - costs nothing, but isn't fast)
(description)
Repair Crane cameo made by Lefthand
Radar Tower
$1000, Soviet Construction Yard, Barracks / War Factory / Soviet Shipyard
1250 strength, steel armour
8 sight, 6 adjacency, -100 power
(radar, provides Spy Plane ability - Spy Plane is crewed by a Spy - buildtime is 1.5 times as long as it normally would be)
(description)
Battle Lab
$2000, Soviet Construction Yard, Radar Tower
2500 strength, steel armour
4 sight, 6 adjacency, -200 power
(Battle Lab, buildtime is twice as long as it normally would be)
(description)
Nuclear Reactor
$2000, Soviet Construction Yard, Battle Lab
1000 strength, wood armour
4 sight, 6 adjacency, 1000 power
(costs more, has less strength, provides less power, and has a custom foundation instead of a square)
(description)
Industrial Plant
$2500, Soviet Construction Yard, Battle Lab
2000 strength, wood armour
4 sight, 6 adjacency, -200 power
(Industrial Plant, reduces the cost and buildtime of all units and buildings by 25%)
(description)
