Grinder (Yuri's Revenge)

History
The Grinder was Yuri's answer to being short on funds during GWWIII. During his takeover of Hollywood, Yuri decided that the supporting characters, B list actors, and various other supporting staff were not valuable to a new, Yuri driven society. After all, what is the use of entertainment when there is no-one with free will to enjoy it? Deeming that the people in Hollywood were useless except in movies, he decided to recycle them all to fund his war effort. Ever since, he employed grinders wherever his forces went as a supplement to his economy.

Description
The grinder was basically a large chamber with many spiked spinning and rotating grinders within it. The grinder would intake any unit, be it organic or mechanical, and break it down into its components. Although the process wasn't perfect, some value was still gotten out of the pieces. Inorganic parts would be sent to Yuri's armouries, war factories, construction facilities, and naval yards. On the other hand, organic parts would either be used in the cloning vats, or to supply the crews and soldiers under Yuri's command.

Usage
Yuri's grinder was a convenient way for his commanders to dispose of any unwanted mind-controlled units. This was especially useful if transports carrying valuable units could be controlled, such as a chrono legionnaire loaded into a battle fortress. If the transported units were disgorged from their transport, they would revert to their original owner, however, when a transport was sent to the grinder, all the units within it were recycled as well. The grinder also functioned as a convenient way of removing unnecessary units from the control of Psychic Towers. Since a Psychic tower could only control 3 units, some commanders would rush a tower with inexpensive units to fill up its queue before attacking with more valuable units.

The grinder was a convenient means of disposing of the cheaper units. Another tactic, involving the Genetic mutator and slaves from the Slave miner, could turn out quite a large sum without any expense to the owner. Since slaves were free to manufacture, the Genetic mutator could be used to turn them into Brutes, which could then be fed to the grinder for the credits.

WWIII
The Apocalypse Tanks got smaller grinders that are only meant for grinding up tanks, structures and ships.

The Crusher Crane is similar to it only it will grind up only ships and tanks.