Rise of the Reds – or ROTR for short – improves upon the C&C Generals formula while also adding its own distinct elements to it. Most notably, the mod adds two completely new factions, the tank-heavy Russian Federation and the defence-oriented European Continental Alliance. In addition, the three original factions China, USA and GLA have been greatly expanded and redesigned in a variety of ways, with several new units, buildings, powers and abilities to explore and combine in your in-game tactics.
Following its early, if predictable successes against the GLA in Africa, the Guardian Drone saw its true trial by fire in a joint US-China operation against Russian forces in 2040. Despite the overall failure of this operation, the drones prevented a bigger disaster by acting as a sacrificial screening force for retreating US troops against their Russian pursuers. In the aftermath, relations between the US and China deteriorated to an unprecedented low and the new administration of President George Ironside, who entered office the following year, initiated a policy of confrontation against both Russia and China in anticipation of a future peer-level conflict in Eurasia. Skinner-Novak Robotics was quick to capitalise on this development and began work on the next version of the Guardian Drone. Unlike the original model, which was armed with a conventional propellant-based cannon, this new iteration carried an electro-magnetic railgun, essentially a scaled-down version of the heavy EMPA cannon first seen on the Paladin tank. This increased the Guardian's already respectable anti-tank capability to unparalleled levels for a vehicle of its size and weight, as demonstrated during the Essequibo War in the early 2040s. Air-mobile US Marine elements equipped with railgun-armed Guardians moved quickly between different firing positions and inflicted heavy losses on the invading Venezuelan Army, which lost several of its imported Russian-made Sentinel tanks in these engagements. By the time of America's entry into the Third World War in 2048 under Ironside's protégé successor William Bradford, not all of the thousands of Guardians in use by the USMC had been outfitted with railguns yet. As a result, field commanders first need to upgrade their drones with advanced weaponry in order to deploy this deadly robotic tank destroyer.
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USA...USA...USA...
These things have no right being this cute...but they are!
Hmm, when 1.9 goes gold I'm adding this to Laser Gen in Shw.
Um, what are those strange blade-y bits under the railgun?
they were on the concepts arts for the rail-gun turret from Generals, they are also featured on the Paladin with the rail-gun we posted at an earlier point here: Moddb.com
Also for your convenience the concept art: Cipherstudios.wordpress.com