Bomb truck
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| Bomb Truck | |
|---|---|
 Bomb Trucks: basic, upgrade with High Explosive Bomb; upgrade with Bio Bomb | |
| Unit | |
| Affiliation | |
| Role |
Suicide attacker |
| Armament |
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| Protection |
Medium |
| Properties | |
| Hit points |
220 |
| Armor type |
Truck Armor |
| Production | |
| Cost |
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| Build time |
0:15 |
| Produced by | |
| Requires | |
| Hot key |
O |
| Combat | |
| Ground attack |
1000 (2000 with High Explosive Bomb) (Explosion) |
| Speed |
50 |
| Attack range |
150 (In which it will ram into enemies) |
| Sight range |
150-200 |
| Function | |
| Upgrades |
 Bio Bomb
 High Explosive Bomb    Junk repair
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| Abilities |
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| “ | Bomb Truck, ready for dispatch. - Bomb Truck assembled. | ” |
Bomb trucks are suicide vehicles used by GLA in Generals 1.
Contents |
Background
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Old dilapitaded dumpers, uparmoured by GLA and loaded to the brim with explosives. When attacking, they drive into the enemy and detonate their weapons on impact. These trucks are by default loaded with a mixed array of improvised explosives: dynamite, petrol and other incendiary devices.
AbilitiesEdit
| “ | I'll disguise myself as a vehicle. - Bomb Truck on its camouflage ability | ” |
| Disguise | Disguises the bomb truck as the target vehicle (any vehicle) |
UpgradesEdit
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| Bio Bomb | For 500$, the bomb truck is outfitted with an anthrax bomb (adding toxin residue after detonation) The BioBomb is upgraded with Anthrax Beta (or for Dr. Thrax, Anthrax Gamma) General Rodall Juhziz doesn't have this option. | |
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| High Explosive Bomb | For 500$, the bomb truck is outfitted with a high explosive bomb (doubling their explosive damage) | |
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| Anthrax Beta | Increases the bio bomb poison field damage | Purchasable from any Palace for a cost of $2000. |
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| Anthrax Gamma | Increases the bio bomb poison field damage further. | Purchasable Dr.Thrax's Palace for a cost of $2000. |
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| Junk repair | When purchased, all Bomb truck crews slowly repair their vehicles with improvised materials. | Purchasable from any Black Market for a cost of $2000. |
Game unitEdit
| “ | FOR THE GLA!! - Last moments | ” |
Bomb Trucks are surprisingly resilient, but although they can be used to directly take on enemy units they are most effective when devious GLA generals manage to take the enemy by surprise. The ability to disguise Bomb Trucks helps greatly in this.
However, the GPS scrambler does not affect the bomb truck. Packing great explosive power, even a small group of Bomb Trucks can lay waste to enemy facilities or troop concentrations.
Bomb Trucks have no protection against aircraft and, having no ranged weaponry, were not best driven into heavy enemy fire. If they move too close to anti-stealth units, their disguises will also be seen through. Also, they are pretty expensive for a one-shot suicide unit.
The ability to disguise the Bomb Truck as another unit is a very useful ability. If disguised as a civilian vehicle then it will appear (to enemies only) as a white dot on the map just like other civilian buildings. It can also be disguised as your enemy's allies. Against a human opponent, however, a disguised Bomb Truck is pretty easy to spot, since they retain their original speed and maneuverability. For example, an Overlord tank speeding at your base at high speed is quite easy to spot. Another humorous thing about the Bomb Truck is that it can be disguised as drones such as the Spy Drone and the Battle Drone. Another one is if you are playing as the GLA and said bomb truck disguises as a rocket buggy then you can clearly see that rocket buggies flip out while they are moving due to their incredible speed while bomb trucks move far more slowly. This makes it pretty easy to spot enemy bomb trucks disguised as rocket buggies, or any vehicle that doesn't match its speed.
Selected QuotesEdit
| “ | Bomb Truck, ready for dispatch - When emerging from the Arms Dealer | ” |
| “ | GLA postal service - When selected | ” |
| “ | I have a delivery - When selected | ” |
| “ | Sorry, no tracking numbers - When selected | ” |
| “ | I will send a clear message - When selected | ” |
| “ | Loaded and ready - When selected | ” |
| “ | Not responsible for damaged goods - When selected | ” |
| “ | Transporting - When moving | ” |
| “ | Shipment on the way - When moving | ” |
| “ | Right on schedule - When moving | ” |
| “ | Here I come - When moving | ” |
| “ | Nothing stops the mail - When moving | ” |
| “ | Good idea - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | FOR THE GLA!! - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | Hitting the gas! - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | I will carry it through - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | It is my purpose - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | ALLAHLALALALALALALAH! - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | They won't tell the difference - When ordered to disguise | ” |
| “ | That's an easy disguise - When ordered to disguise | ” |
| “ | They will be fooled - When ordered to disguise | ” |
| “ | I'll disguise myself as a vehicle - When ordered to disguise | ” |
| “ | What vehicle should we look like? - When ordered to disguise | ” |
| “ | Arming bio-bomb - When ordered to upgraded with Bio Bomb | ” |
| “ | Arming high-explosive bomb - When ordered to upgraded with High Explosive Bomb | ” |
| “ | Bio-bomb loaded - When Bio Bomb upgrade is complete | ” |
| “ | High-explosive bomb loaded - When High Explosive Bomb upgrade is complete | ” |
Behind the scenesEdit
Originally, the truck was supposed to have a third upgrade available: a combination TNT/biological device. While it was cut, the texture files for it are still present in the game. This was added in Zero Hour.
The words "U Die" can be seen on the Bomb Truck with the Bio-Bomb upgrade.
Due to a modelling mistake, the Bomb Truck's driver can be seen on both sides.
