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| Red Guard | |
|---|---|
 We are the Red Guard! | |
| Unit | |
| Affiliation | |
| Role |
Anti-infantry infantry |
| Armament |
Semi-automatic rifle (Type 63 or Type 56 rifle) |
| Protection |
Low |
| Properties | |
| Hit points |
120 |
| Armor type |
Human Armor |
| Production | |
| Cost |
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| Build time |
0:10 |
| Produced by |
China Barracks |
| Hot key |
r |
| Combat | |
| Ground attack |
15 (Small Arms) |
| Cooldown |
1000 |
| Speed |
25 (15 if badly wounded) |
| Attack range |
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| Sight range |
100-200 |
| Function | |
| Upgrades |
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| Abilities |
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| Notes | |
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| “ | For the Republic! - Red Guard | ” |
The Red Guard was the basic infantry of the Chinese Army.
Contents |
Background
Edit
| “ | Defenders of peace! - The Red Guards' job description. | ” |
Unlike the infantrymen of the other two factions the Chinese Red Guard retain the larger 7.62x54mm round in contrast to the 7.62x39mm round fired by AK-47 armed Rebels, or the 5.56x45mm round used by the M16A2 equipped Rangers. As a drawback, they do have a lower rate of fire with their semi-automatic rifles. The larger calibre does mean that they can deal more damage than other basic infantry per shot.
Their low rate of fire was countered by numbers, as they were trained in pairs at a Barracks or deployed in fireteams of eight with each Troop Crawler at the China War Factory. They could also garrison buildings and be trained to capture buildings at a Barracks. In groups of 5 or more, Red Guard would experience a 'Horde Effect' that greatly boosted morale and, by extension, fighting prowess.
Note that General Shin Fai does not deploy standard Red Guard infantrymen. Fai equips his Red Guard with much more effective miniguns. These "Mini-Gunners" were more pricey, but could deal greater damage and attack aircraft. Due to their prohibitive cost, only one was trained at a time.
AbilitiesEdit
| Capture Building | Allows Red Guard to capture neutral and hostile structures. |
UpgradesEdit
| “ | We stand together! - Red Guard | ” |
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| Red Guard Training | All Red Guards were built as veterans. | Purchasable at the General's promotion menu by generals of any rank. |
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| Capture Building | Trained Red Guards to capture enemy and neutral structures. | Purchasable any Barracks for a cost of $1000. |
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| Nationalism | Red Guards' horde bonus was increased by 25%. | Purchasable at the Propaganda Center for a cost of $2000. |
Game unitEdit
| “ | China, save me! - A dying Red Guard infantryman | ” |
StrategyEdit
As they were so quick to train, they could be deployed in sufficient numbers to overwhelm enemy infantry by attrition, particularly early in a conflict. They were particularly effective against GLA Terrorist rushes, as Chinese generals would not be able to have a sufficiently effective counter against them until they had established a War Factory.
Red Guard could also be used to cheaply give a horde bonus to Tank Hunters by keeping them together in large squads. This made it more difficult for the enemy to break the bonus or target just the Tank Hunters. Care had to be taken to ensure that the faster Red Guard did not separate from the Tank Hunters while moving or fighting. In sufficient numbers with the horde effect they were surprisingly fast at taking down structures, making them a cheap alternative to destroying buildings if no tank hunters are on hand.
When playing as General Kwai, it is more cost effective to train them from the warfactory rather than from the barracks, both due to the higher cost of infantry and also thanks to the lower cost of his vehicles.
CountersEdit
Individually, Red Guard were a poor match for the infantry of other factions. As with all, they were easy prey for anti-infantry weapons such as the Quad Cannon. Flash-bang grenades could easily dispatch Red Guards, as they often clumped together to provide Horde bonuses. Toxin weaponry also took their toll on them, since Red Guards lacked any kind of biohazard protection.
Selected QuotesEdit
| “ | Defenders of peace! - When selected | ” |
| “ | The people's army - When selected | ” |
| “ | We are the Red Guard! - When selected | ” |
| “ | Standing at attention - When selected | ” |
| “ | Ready for orders - When selected | ” |
| “ | We stand together! - When selected | ” |
| “ | Understood - When moving | ” |
| “ | Right away - When moving | ” |
| “ | Yes sir - When moving | ” |
| “ | Immediately - When moving | ” |
| “ | Moving now, sir - When moving | ” |
| “ | Yes - When moving | ” |
| “ | Attack! - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | Enemy of the state - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | For the Republic! - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | We will shoot them down - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | Foreign devils - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | The Middle Kingdom - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | They cannot destroy China! - When ordered to attack | ” |
| “ | China! Save us! - Under fire | ” |
| “ | Help, help! - Under fire | ” |
| “ | China will not forget me! - Under fire | ” |
| “ | They're attacking! - Under fire | ” |
| “ | We're losing ground! - Under fire | ” |
| “ | That building looks safe - When ordered to garrison building | ” |
| “ | We will station there - When ordered to garrison building | ” |
| “ | Hole up in that building - When ordered to garrison building | ” |
| “ | We fight from high place - When ordered to garrison building | ” |
| “ | Garrison the building - When ordered to garrison building | ” |
| “ | We will claim it for China - When ordered to captured building | ” |
| “ | Raise the red flag - When ordered to captured building | ” |
| “ | Expanding China's borders - When ordered to captured building | ” |
| “ | China can now use this building - After captured building | ” |
| “ | This building is ours - After captured building | ” |
| “ | China can use this - After captured building | ” |
| “ | We have captured the building, sir - After captured building | ” |
| “ | Building captured - After captured building | ” |
| “ | We have the building now - After captured building | ” |
Gallery Edit
TriviaEdit
- Red Guard's appearance is consistent with the 'stereotypical' Chinese soldier from the Cultural Revolution to early 1980s.
- The effective usage of a semi-automatic assault rifle over fully-automatic assault rifle was exemplified during the Falklands War. Ironically, the exact opposite was experienced by the Chinese themselves during the Sino-Vietnamese War, where PLA infantryman initially equipped with semi-automatic suffered heavily from AK-equipped Vietnamese. That war prompted the PLA to equip their troops with helmets and fully-automatic assault rifle (such as The Type-81), busting the 'stereotypical' in-game image once and for all.
- The term 'Red Guard' originated during the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, although borrowed from Russian Bolsheviks, whose Red Guard existed in 1917 before being supplanted by a proper Red Army. The real-life Red Guards were groups of students organized by Mao Zedong in an attempt to keep the Communist Revolution alive. These Red Guards were made to discredit the right-wing opponents of the Maoist revolutionary leadership. However, due to the widespread trouble spread by the Red Guards, Chairman Mao was compelled to forcibly disband this radical student organization.
- The Red Guard was planned to have a bayonet to stab other infantry and this feature is fully finished, just not implemented in-game. In addition, sounds within Generals' audio archives prove that Red Guards could be upgraded with Stun Bullets, Functioning similarly to the flash-bang grenades deployed by Rangers, they would have incapacitated hostile infantry. Inadvertently, the stun bullets were removed at the same time of weeding out the POW logic.
- "Conscripts" were the likely predecessors of the Red Guard unit. While only a cameo picture (as shown in gallery) and incomplete model are available inside General's files, the Conscript looked much more modern and similar in appearance to actual PLA ground infantry.
- This misnaming of China's infantry is one of the reasons why Generals and Zero Hour are banned in China.
- Ironically, the cameo image of 'conscripts' is taken from a Taiwanese military exercise
| “ | These new Chemical Suits will Keep us Alive - Red Guard Chemical Suits Upgrade Unused Quote | ” |
- An upgrade sound of the Red Guard hidden in the game files suggests some kind of protection suits similar to the American Chemical Suits were planned for the Infantry General, and in fact there's commented out code which would add the Chemical Suits upgrade to Infantry General's Propaganda Center. In the end, it was scrapped.
| “ | Radiation Rockets Ready for Launching - Nuclear Red Guard Unused Quote. | ” |
- Nuclear General was Supposed to have Their own version of the Red Guard Called the Nuclear Red Guard armed with a Rocket Launcher with Radioactive Missiles (Similar to the Tank Hunter) But it Was Scrapped for Unknown Reasons, However, Mods like Shockwave restore the Nuclear Red Guard, in Rise of The Reds mod, the Nuclear Red Guard appears as the Nukeneer.
See alsoEdit
- Ranger, USA counterpart
- Rebel, GLA counterpart
- Mini-Gunner, PLA Infantry General Shin Fai only
