At the same time, the Arab nations destroyed each other in a catastrophic war that was sparked by the GLA. They enact regular curfews, cut every land route to the outside world and even changed their flag. After the GLA fired a chemical warhead at Tel Aviv, Israel turned into a police state which is even more paranoid and secluded. Lampshaded by Future Warfare host Steve Dawson who points out that a vehicle as sluggish, slow and heavy as this would crush bridges, destroy roads and cost way too much money (of course he is proven quite wrong). Awesome, but Impractical: The super-heavy tanks such as the Overlord, Sentinel and Manticore would realistically be this but they're still quite useful in-game.Russia is explicitly stated to be "the Whites", and China is even less communist than in modern-day Real Life. Artifact Title: None of the game's factions can be described as "the Reds".They also sell borscht and accept various currencies, including bottle caps and (p)latinum bars. Russia gains money by deploying Arms Suppliers, trucks that sell all kinds of weaponry to off-screen customers.There are some references to Arms Dalers in the background story and the Militia units seen on some maps or the Arena game mode can theoretically be bought.Their Black Market can also deploy various weapon merchants for some extra credits. The GLA War Factory is called Arms Dealer and brings them their various combat vehicles, from simple trucks with machine guns to heavy armour and artillery.Everyone of course assumed it to be an april fools prank but it was in fact the real deal. Actually subverted on April 1st, 2015 when the release for version 1.85 was given out.Some Generals even have replacements for those Anti-Air units, which are even better. Anti-Air: All factions have specialised units that can only fire at aerial foes and they are generally very good at this job.Amphibious Automobile: China has the Troop Crawler, the ECA has the Lynx APC and Pandur IFV, and Russia has a lot of vehicles that can cross water.All There in the Manual: All of the mod's story, gameplay mechanics and features are explained in the news posts, which are published on the team's forum and ModDB.For example, the Paladin Tank is actually described as a M1A4 variant of today's M1A2 Abrams tank. The story updates and render descriptions do acknowledge this and often refer to vehicles and firearms by their official real-life or in-universe designations alongside the catchy name. For example, the Russian Kodiaks are actually modified T-72, T-80 and T-90 tanks, the F-22 and F-35 are referred to as Raptors and Widowmakers, etc. A.K.A.-47: Pops up with some of the units, although not due to licensing reasons or factual errors, but because proper word-based names are easier to memorise and more interesting than strictly alpha-numeric designations.Averted with South American Bond News and China's SinoNews24. The pro-GLA channel ARC News from Zero Hour made an appearance as well. Alphabet News Network: The Americans have SNN (Satellite News Network anyone?), the Europeans have ECAN News (European Communications Agency Network) and the Russians have FFN (Federation Front News).
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