Fortress walls (Red Alert 2)

Fortress / Citadel Walls
Structure
Internal ID	GAWALL (Allied) NAWALL (Soviet) GAFWLL (Yuri)
Faction	Allied Forces Soviet Union Yuri's Army
Role	Defensive barrier
Protection	Concrete
Tier	1
Tech level	1 (Allies and Soviets) 2 (Yuri)
Properties
Hit points	300
Armor type	Concrete
Production
Cost	$100
Build time	0:04
Produced by	Allied construction yard Soviet construction yard Yuri construction yard
Requires	Allied barracks Soviet barracks Yuri barracks
Combat
Sight range	1

Fortress walls (simply called walls in-game, with Yuri's variant called citadel walls) are the passive defensive barriers for all three sides in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge.

Game building

Walls are basic obstacle for keeping out enemy infantry and vehicles. They are cheap and fast to build, and are the first lines of defence against the enemy's advance. They are often placed around key structures, such as construction yards, to keep out infiltrators and engineers. They are also often placed in front of certain base defences to draw fire, as building new wall sections destroyed in an enemy attack is often cheaper than repairing or building new base defences. Some base defences, like pillboxes and sentry guns, can not fire over walls.

Wall sections could not be breached by small arms fire, but are vulnerable to explosive and tank shells, as well as Battle Fortress treads. Some units like prism tanks, Tesla tanks, Magnetrons and chrono legionnaires can fire over walls, while Yuri's Magnetrons can also be used to levitate ground vehicles over walls.

Walls can not be directly targeted by air units without force-firing.

After a single wall hub is placed, another can be placed up to 4 tiles away in a straight line so that the sections in between the hubs are automatically filled for no extra charge. If an Allied or Soviet wall section is damaged, a new one can be built on top of the old one, which is not the case for Yuri's walls.

AI behavior

The AI will only build walls around the following buildings:

• Construction yards
• Battle labs
• Superweapons

If the building is destroyed and rebuilt elsewhere, the AI will continue to rebuild walls on the location of the original building.

Trivia

During the development of Red Alert 2, both Allied and Soviet walls had details painted in the colour of the owning player. This was replaced by a generic grey colour in the final version. Yuri's walls still have remappable sections, but they are unused.

Gallery

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  Allied wall SHP sprite

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  Soviet wall SHP sprite

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  Yuri wall SHP sprite

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  Alied fortress walls in a snow theater

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  Soviet fortress walls in a snow theater

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  Yuri citadel walls in a snow theater

Cameos

English	French	German	Korean	Chinese

English	French	German	Korean	Chinese

English	French	German	Korean	Chinese

Alpha cameos, in order: Allied, Soviet.

See also

• Concrete wall (Red Alert 1)
• Fortress walls (Red Alert 3)

Yuri Third World War Arsenal

Units Infantry Initiate Engineer Brute Virus Yuri clone Yuri Prime Psi commando (stolen tech only) Cosmonaut (campaign only) Vehicles Slave miner Lasher light tank Gattling tank Chaos drone Mobile Construction Vehicle Magnetron Mastermind Aircraft Floating disc Vessels Amphibious transport Boomer Cut content Parasite trooper   Structures Production & tech Construction yard Bio reactor Slave miner Barracks Yuri war factory Submarine pen Psychic radar Grinder Battle lab Defenses & support Citadel walls Tank bunker Gattling cannon Psychic tower Cloning vat Genetic mutator Psychic dominator Campaign-only Psychic beacon • Yuri statue • Moon rocket platform • Lunar Command   Support powers Powers Psychic Reveal Force shield Mutation Domination This faction is exclusive to Yuri's Revenge.