Townes

"Your weaknesses became obvious when I scanned your tactics."

- Townes

General 'Pinpoint' Townes was a 4-Star US Army General around the time of the war against the GLA. General Townes was an early pioneer of effective, inexpensive and realistically deployable laser weaponry in the US Army, both for offensive and defensive purposes. A 29-year-old Captain Townes was appointed to West Point to teach his theories; however, he found academic life too slow and returned to battlefield command in 2011. With his unique knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of laser weaponry Townes consistently received favourable marks during live-fire exercises and war games. In spite of his reputation as something of a crank, obsessed with precision and the superiority of lasers, the US Army counted heavily on him to assist in the modernization of their forces. Shortly after the GLA war he refused to take orders and locked down is base, Fort Union effectively going rogue. He turning his high-tech weapons on anyone who verdures near.

Based at Fort Union, Redwood Shores, California, USA, Townes' Class Number was 00010204-01KE0.

Army
Townes relied heavily on practicable laser weapons and the advanced power plants needed to support them. Townes spearheaded the development of the Laser Tank, a tank based on the Crusader that was the first ever tank to fire a high-energy laser instead of a shell. Townes' bases were protected by the Laser Defence Turret, the most effective all-round base defence developed at the time. Such advanced weaponry required considerable energy resources, and Townes' development teams tweaked his Cold Fusion Reactors to produce more power. Avengers, while not exclusive to Townes' forces, could be produced more cheaply by his War Factories.

Townes' stubborn pursuit of laser technology did have some downsides. While his Laser Tanks packed a greater punch than any other tank bar the enormous, expensive Chinese Overlord, they also relied on base power sources; it is possible that a microwave energy link connected the tanks with Townes' power plants, providing the energy for their powerful laser weapons. If Townes' power levels dropped below the minimum required, all of his tanks would become inactive and defenceless. Townes rejected the more standard US tanks, and also the Tomahawk Launcher; therefore he lost the ability to attack enemy positions from afar (his Laser Tanks had range similar to more conventional tanks, as lasers dissipate over distance).

Weaknesses
General Townes' laser systems were extremely powerful, but at the expense of a massive amount of Cold Fusion energy. His Laser Tanks required power, and, furthermore, a lack of power would mean his special tanks could not be used.

A large amount of generals used this weakness to their advantage, and when facing Townes, the primary target a player usually considers are his cold fusion reactors, since crushing these sites could mean a devastating effect to Townes' tanks and laser defenses.

Community patch 1.06 note: Tanks won't be affected should powergrid fail.