Kassad



"Accept your defeat and remove yourself from my sight general!"
 * Kassad

Prince Kassad was a GLA leader during the war against the United States and China. His original home was Tripoli, Libya. During his earlier career, Kassad would appear to engage in legitimate politics in the Middle East while simultaneously organising assassinations, beatings and hijackings, and commanding an array of spies and assassins. For three years from 2013, it is believed that no terrorist action around the Mediterranean happened without his blessing. A clever and shadowy figure, Kassad successfully avoided being tied to any criminal activity, while bad things continued to happen to people in his way.

During the vast war against China and the US, Kassad commanded the GLA 'Cobra' cell, famous for covert operations. His forces often seemed to appear from nowhere and strike with lethal accuracy. Kassad eschewed straight-out armoured offensives for a subtler approach, wielding a number of unique stealth technologies. Following the defeat of Dr. Thrax, the charismatic Kassad was one of the first to exploit the new power vacuum. However, he reckoned without the forces of those loyal to 'Deathstrike'. An unknown general who assisted and followed Deathstrike successfully defeated Prince Kassad in Egypt, taking from him his GPS Scrambler and Sneak Attack technologies.

Army
Prince Kassad's forces chose stealth and cunning at the expense of strong armour or firepower. While unable to access the Scorpion or Marauder tanks, Kassad had immediate access to the Hijacker in the field, and his Rebels were trained to be stealthy, negating the need for the 'Camouflage' upgrade. Kassad's Workers were hidden from enemy sight while collecting supplies. Perhaps most importantly, all of Kassad's buildings could receive the Camo-Netting upgrade (rather than just his base defences), hiding them from enemy view. Often, when enemy commanders thought they had defeated Kassad, his forces would re-appear in another location entirely and counter-attack with the element of surprise. (His base defences were camouflaged without the need for an upgrade.) In addition, Kassad could access the GPS Scrambler far earlier and then more frequently than other GLA generals, allowing him to hide any group of units he chose from enemy radar.