Comanche (Generals)
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| Comanche | |
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| Unit | |
| Affiliation | |
| Role |
Close Air Support (CAS) |
| Armament |
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| Protection |
Light |
| Properties | |
| Hit points |
220 |
| Armor type |
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| Production | |
| Cost |
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| Build time |
0:20 |
| Produced by |
USA Airfield |
| Hot key |
C |
| Combat | |
| Ground attack |
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| Cooldown |
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| Air Speed |
120 |
| Attack range |
200 |
| Sight range |
200-600 |
| Function | |
| Upgrades |
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| Abilities |
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| “ | Need a little ground support? - Comanche | ” |
The Comanche is the USA's chief attack helicopter in the war against the GLA. Used primarily for the close support of ground forces, the Comanche is armed with a chaingun and missiles by default; the chaingun can fire continuously, while the missiles fire 4 at a time, with a brief recharge time.
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Background
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A staple combat helicopter in the USA's arsenal, the RAH-66 Comanche is fitted with multiple weapon systems capable of quickly destroying ground targets. Its nose-mounted chaingun is deadly to enemy infantry, and its homing missiles deal good damage to vehicles and buildings. For even more firepower, it can gain rocket pods via the Rocket Pods upgrade.
AbilitiesEdit
| “ | Unloading rockets - Comanche preparing Rocket Barrage | ” |
| Fire Rockets | Orders the Comanche to empty its rocket pods at the target location. The rockets don't track targets, but scatter randomly across a wide area, damaging everything that happens to be within the scatter radius. |
UpgradesEdit
| “ | How 'bout those rocket pods?! - Comanche | ” |
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| Rocket Pods | Unlocks the Rocket Barrage ability. | Purchasable at any American Airfield for $800 |
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| Countermeasures | Allows the Comanche to defend itself against missile attacks. | Purchasable at any American Airfield in Zero Hour for $1000 |
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| Stealth Comanche Upgrade | Makes the Comanche difficult to detect. | Purchasable at any Malcolm Granger Airfield in Zero Hour for $1000 |
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| Advanced Training | Allows the Comanche to gain rank twice as quickly. | Purchasable at any Strategy Center for $1500 |
Game unitEdit
| “ | Gunship reporting in! - Comanche | ” |
The Comanche's chief purpose is close air support for ground units on the offensive. Highly maneuverable, it is effective against ground units of most types, especially infantry and light vehicles, which are easy prey. In groups they are potentially very dangerous, particularly in the case of General Granger's 'Stealth Comanches'. They make very good base guards, as they are immune to Rebel Ambushes, infantry drops, tank drops and a large enough group can destroy a Sneak Attack tunnel before it is fully deployed.
The Rocket Pod upgrade enables a Comanche to fire a staggering amount of rockets in a given area, and was capable of being used to destroy buildings or a large group of units, making them effective for demolition duty in a pinch.
Groups are capable of destroying most anti-air units. Most anti-aircraft units are effective against the Comanche, notable examples being the GLA's Quad Cannon and China's Gatling Cannon. Rogue MiGs and Raptors are also quite dangerous to it. Comanches in general suffer from poor armor.
EMP weapons are also capable of causing the Comanche to crash, by disabling it. Pilots parachute as normal.
They are also the only aircraft among General Grangers forces to not have a Point Defense Laser system, most likely for balance of gameplay, as a large swath of comache's with single PDL's would be extremely lethal to almost every single ground unit.
Selected QuotesEdit
| “ | Need a little ground support? - When selected | ” |
| “ | Comanche here - When selected | ” |
| “ | Yes sir - When selected | ” |
| “ | Gunship reporting in! - When selected | ” |
| “ | Moving to new AO - When moving | ” |
| “ | Nav systems set - When moving | ” |
| “ | Visibility clear - When moving | ” |
| “ | Flying low - When moving | ” |
| “ | Air cover's on the way - When moving | ” |
| “ | In the field - When moving | ” |
| “ | Frequencies open - When moving | ” |
| “ | Hose them down - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | Search and clear - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | Making a sweep - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | We're going in - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | Got their position - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | Operation underway - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | Got their position - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | Got you covered - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | This one's mine - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | Unloading rockets - When ordered to use Rocket Pods | ” |
| “ | Time to strike - When ordered to use Rocket Pods | ” |
| “ | All accessible targets - When ordered to use Rocket Pods | ” |
| “ | Finish him off - When ordered to use Rocket Pods | ” |
| “ | How about those rocket pods? - When ordered to use Rocket Pods | ” |
| “ | I'm hit, I'm hit! - When being shot down | ” |
| “ | I've lost control of her - When being shot down | ” |
| “ | Eject, eject! - When being shot down | ” |
| “ | I can't hold her - When being shot down | ” |
| “ | Going down - When being shot down | ” |
| “ | Rocket pods are now available, sir - Rreceiving the Rocket Pods upgrade | ” |
GalleryEdit
Behind the scenesEdit
It was retired and canceled in real life in favor of UAVs even though it was a stealth helicopter but in the game it was widely used and it does not stealth (except for General Granger's Comanches).
Also Hammerheads and Venoms were very similar to it (provides air support for troops) only it has guns. The Soviet Twinblade bears a striking resemblance, being different only in that it doubles as a transport.
Laser ComancheEdit
Added by Alexsavov| “ | Who needs rockets when we have lasers! - Laser Comanche Unused Quote | ” |
According to the sound files, the General Townes was supposed to have a variant of the Comanche which would've probably used a laser gun which replaces the vulcan gun and prism pods which replace the rocket pods. It was scrapped for unknown reasons, although it was restored in some mods (Shockwave, Beta, Etc.) The same thing happens with the Paladin Tank.
