Orbital strike

Orbital Strike
Support Power
Faction	Global Defense Initiative Steel Talons Zone Operations Command
Role	Support power
Armament	Mjolnir rods
Deployment
Cost	3000
Cooldown	7:00
Requires	Space Command Uplink
Function
Abilities	Launches a series of highly destructive slugs from an orbital platform.

Orbital strike was a support power available to all GDI commanders during the Third Tiberium War.

Background

GDI's expansion into the field of space-based weaponry produced many results, one being the Orbital Strike support power.

Once a space command uplink has been constructed, GDI commanders can call down a series of highly destructive slugs to be launched from an orbital platform. The target is painted using a laser designator before 15 slugs are fired at the target location, though the impact points tend to be spread out instead of being centered on the highlighted point.

Game Effect

The main drawback to this support power is the laser designator, and the speed at which the slugs are fired. Commanders who are quick enough can move their units away from the laser designator once they see it, and the spread of the slugs means that faster units have a chance of avoiding them.

Other than this, the power is extremely destructive. Orbital strikes deal great damage to structures (who are static and therefore unable to evade the volley), and slower vehicles (especially those who also have larger hitboxes, such as the Mammoth-27 or Epic units) also quite often sustain heavy damage.

When used in tandem with the Shockwave Artillery power, even the faster vehicles are unable to outrun the slugs, as the shockwave artillery immobilizes them (through its EMP-based shells) and the orbital strike's slugs finishes them off with its heavier damage.

The orbital strike's slugs cannot be destroyed or deflected in any way.

Changelog

• Kane's Wrath patch 1.02: cost reduced to $3000

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See Also

• Shockwave artillery, GDI's other offensive space-based support power