RA2:Weather Control Device
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[edit] Description
The Weather Control Device, or Weather Machine, was Albert Einstein's ultimate weapon to wield against Romanov. Interestingly enough, Einstein didn't want the Device used believing that it was "God's Toys" It could manipulate the weather patterns to create a powerful lightning storm. The lightning bolts could destroy heavily armored structures. Interestingly enough, the more surface area (of the Earth), that a building occupied, the more likely that it would be to be destroyed. Therefore, structures such as War Factories, although significantly armored, could be easily destroyed. However, structures such as sentry guns, though they had low health, were much more immune, owing to their small surface area. The wheather control device also shuts off all enemys radar for a short period of time.
[edit] Counters
There was really only one counter, and that was to destroy the weapon before it could be used. Once launched, a devastating lightning storm would form, and short of vacating the area of effect, or deploying an Iron Curtain or Force Shield to make the affected area invulnerable, there was no defense. Fortunately, the weapon was extremely expensive, and took a full 10 minutes to charge and deploy, after which time, there was an approximately 11 second delay before storm clouds were visible. About 1 to 2 seconds after that, the lightning bolts commenced. Also, a weather control device cannot be destroyed instantly with a direct hit from any of the three superweapons although it was destroyed by a single hit from a nuke in Soviet mission 10 in Red Alert 2 (GWWIII)
[edit] Usage
It was deployed during the final battle against Romanov during the final battle of Great World War III, as well as several times during the war against Yuri, that followed immediately after, particularly in the incident surrounding the threatened atomic warfare against the city of Seattle.