Cosmonaut
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| Cosmonaut | |
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| Unit | |
| Affiliation | |
| Base unit | |
| Role |
Light infantry |
| Armament |
Laser cannon |
| Tier |
1 |
| Tech level |
11 |
| Properties | |
| Hit points |
125 |
| Armor type |
N/A |
| Production | |
| Cost |
$600 |
| Build time |
0:24 |
| Produced by | |
| Combat | |
| Ground attack |
25 (LUNARWH) |
| Air attack |
25 (LUNARWH) |
| Cooldown |
20 |
| Air Speed |
9 |
| Attack range |
7 |
| Sight range |
8 |
| Function | |
| Elite upgrade |
Increased strength, firepower, rate of fire, self-healing |
| | The following is based on the Soviet campaign for Yuri's Revenge and contradicts canon sources. |
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| “ | Gravity? What's that? - Cosmonaut | ” |
The Cosmonaut is a special trooper trained to fight in the hard vacuum of space during the Third World War. It is a campaign-exclusive unit, appearing only in the Soviet mission To the Moon.
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Background
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| “ | Russian space ace! - Confident cosmonaut | ” |
The Moon mission is executed with heavy consideration of the extreme condition encountered there. The combination of low gravitation (hindering the use of projectile weapon) and vacuum space (ban almost all of air potency) gave the commander a total consideration on his own force. Although most vehicles can be modified for operation, infantry can't (except for the Iraq Desolators). The second consideration took the commander's view to the old, underfunded, and next to forgotten Soviet space program, including their cosmonauts. Bearing that in mind, the Commander brought the project under his command and thus the cosmonaut come back on line.
Soviet Cosmonauts are equipped with all the necessary life support equipment to survive outside Earth's atmosphere and a jet pack not unlike those used by Allied Rocketeers, which allows them to travel very quickly around the battlefield. They are equipped with a high-powered laser, making them very effective against other cosmonauts and light vehicles, as well as (in groups of five or more) armoured tanks, aircraft (or space craft) and structures.
The colour of the beam is determined by the faction the cosmonaut belongs to (i.e. red for Soviets, purple for Yuri). They are vulnerable to any anti-aircraft weaponry. In large numbers, though, they are more than capable of turning any attack force or base to dust in a matter of seconds. A cosmonaut costs 600 credits to train, same as the Allied Rocketeer.
Game unit
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In Operation To the Moon, Cosmonauts are available for training at the Soviet Barracks (and are the only type of infantry the commander can train apart from Desolators). Yuri fields his own corps of Cosmonauts to defend his Lunar HQ against the Soviet offensive.
They are not available in any other campaign mission, but they can still be incorporated into any map via INI editing.
Selected Quotes
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| “ | Gravity suit secured - When selected | ” |
| “ | Cosmonaut reporting - When selected | ” |
| “ | Gravity? What's that? - When selected | ” |
| “ | Pressure gauges normal - When selected | ” |
| “ | Russian space ace! - When selected | ” |
| “ | Rocketpacks fully charged - When moving | ” |
| “ | Boosters engaged - When moving | ” |
| “ | Shifting thrusters - When moving | ” |
| “ | Fuelmix optimized - When moving | ” |
| “ | Light and fast - When moving | ” |
| “ | Tracking target - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | Beam intensity locked - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | Lasers at full power - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | Time for Laser show! - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | It's hard to maneuver - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | Vacuum suit is failing - Under fire | ” |
| “ | Fuel cells damaged - Under fire | ” |
| “ | Can't... breathe! - When being shot down | ” |
| “ | We need more funding! - When being shot down | ” |
Gallery
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Trivia
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- Cosmonauts' original name was Lunar Infantry, as seen in rulesmd.ini.
- Their veteran cameo shows Lunar Rocketeer instead of Cosmonaut.
- When Cosmonauts were killed, they fall down instantly instead of falling slowly because of the moon's low gravity.
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