Giant Squid
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| Giant Squid | |
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| Unit | |
| Affiliation | |
| Role |
Special Support Unit |
| Armament |
Tentacle Grab and Punch |
| Properties | |
| Hit points |
200 |
| Armor type |
Light |
| Production | |
| Cost |
$1000 |
| Produced by | |
| Requires | |
| Combat | |
| Ground attack |
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| Cooldown |
30 (vs. non-boat only) |
| Sea Speed |
8 |
| Attack range |
1.5 (vs. boat)
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| Sight range |
5 |
| “ | I though I had seen everything, but this really takes the cake. - Eva Lee | ” |
The cephalopod Architeuthis dux, more commonly called the Giant Squid, is a deep-dwelling ocean creature that can grow to immense size. Despite the rarity and elusiveness of the creature, Giant Squid were used by the Soviets during the Great World War III. These creatures would attack a ship from beneath wrapping its tentacles around it and crushing it. The ships had no defense against this type of attack, and would be unable to remove the squid by themselves.
There are inconsistent reports as to how the Soviets obtained the squids. Some reports state that Yuri's psychic ability was used to control them. Others say that Soviet scientist used pleasure and pain treatment to train the squids. Although after Yuri's defection from the Soviet Union the Squids continued to follow Soviet orders thus most intelligence insist that the second means was true, though some speculate that psychic ability could have been used to attract them.
[edit] Counters
The best known and most effective counter was the Allied Dolphin who were trained for the sole purpose of taking out Giant Squids. The Dolphin's sonic pulse would cause the squid so much pain that it would release ships and try to attack the Dolphin, but it would die from only a few sonic pulses so it rarely could reach the Dolphin in time.
Yuri also employed the Boomer submarine which prevented the squids from grabbing onto it allowing the submarine to easily slaughter the squids.
[edit] Usage
They were used as a line of defense for Cuba to prevent the Allies from reaching their Nuclear Silos there, but failed to stop them. They also were used in an attempt to prevent the American allied forces from landing in Europe to help the European allied forces fight in Eastern Europe.
They are not known to be used in World War III. Nevertheless, Terror Drones which have similar functions to the Giant Squid are amphibious.
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