Airstrip (Tiberian Dawn)

	For the Renegade variant, see Airstrip (Renegade). For other uses, see Airfield.

Airstrip
Structure
Internal name	AFLD
Faction	Brotherhood of Nod
Role	Vehicle deployment zone
Tier	1
Tech level	2
Properties
Hit points	500
Production
Cost	$2000
Build time	1:13
Produced by	Nod construction yard
Requires	Tiberium refinery
Combat
Sight range	5
Function
Power	-30
Produces	See § Production

The Airstrip (also known as the Airfield) is a Nod vehicle deployment building in Tiberian Dawn.

Background

“

Nod buys all its units. The Airfield allows cargo planes to land and deliver equipment. It is functionally equivalent to the GDI Weapons Factory. However, you do not instantly get the unit when it is complete—it must be flown in, so plan accordingly. Building multiple Airfields will increase the ordering speed, and will enable you to have two units delivered at a time. - Command & Conquer (1995) manual

”

While GDI produces vehicles at field bases with the weapons factory, the Brotherhood's field bases import completed units. The bases covered the cost of flying in goods by collecting Tiberium. The airstrip is the receiving area for the vehicles. This stems from Nod's nature as a new emerging force with somewhat inadequate war related industries but with excessive fund. They "cooperate" with any military industries available (nearly all black market deals), ordering in mass to lower the cost then store it in a secret place.

The large cargo plane does not land at the field. Instead it slowly flies in at an extremely low altitude and releases the vehicle from the aircrafts cargo bay as it passes over the gently inclined runway.

After the First Tiberium War the Brotherhood abandoned the airfield just to use war factories instead.

Game building

It functions just like the GDI weapons factory: vehicles "emerge" from it once the plane has passed.

The more airstrips will be built, owned and maintained, the faster vehicles will be delivered.

It is also featured in Command & Conquer: Renegade. The cargo plane can kill players and destroys any vehicle in the red circle when flying in.

Production

Tier 1

Harvester Tiberium resource gatherer Requires Tiberium Refinery

Recon Bike Anti-armor and anti-air recon vehicle

Buggy Anti-infantry recon vehicle

Light Tank Main battle tank, can crush infantry

Artillery Artillery support vehicle

Armored Personnel Carrier (multiplayer only) Armored infantry transport, carries up to 5 infantry units Requires Hand of Nod

Tier 2

Flame Tank Close-range support vehicle Requires Communications Center

Stealth Tank Advanced support tank, stealth when not attacking, can attack air targets Requires Communications Center

Tier 3

Mobile Construction Vehicle Base construction, can deploy into a Nod Construction Yard Requires Temple of Nod

Rocket Launcher (multiplayer only) Artillery support vehicle, can attack air targets Requires Temple of Nod

SSM Launcher (multiplayer only) Long-range artillery vehicle Requires Obelisk of Light

Gallery

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  DOS manual render scan

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  Coloured version of the former

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  Cutscene render

Cameos

DOS	English	Textless

See also

• Weapons factory, GDI counterpart