Strategy center

Strategy Center
Strategy center with Bombardment strategy enabled
Unit
Affiliation	USA
Role	Support structure Upgrade center Anti-ground base defense (with Bombardment)
Armament	Bombardment cannon (with Bombardment)
Protection	Medium, reinforced with sandbags (with Hold the Line)
Properties
Hit points	1500 3000 (with Hold the Line)
Armor type	Structure Armor
Production
Cost	$2500
Build time	1:00
Produced by	American construction Dozer
Requires	American war factory or airfield
Hotkey	Y
Combat
Ground attack	200 (Explosion)
Cooldown	7000
Attack range	400
Sight range	400
Function
Power	-2
Research	Chemical Suits Composite Armor Advanced Training Drone Armor Supply Lines MOAB
Abilities	Detect stealth units (with Search and Destroy) Intelligence (Zero Hour only)

The strategy center was an important battlefield structure for the USA.

Background

The strategy center was essential for the requisition and control of the most powerful and sophisticated weapons in the United States arsenal such as the Aurora bomber and the particle cannon. In addition, it granted a general access to several advanced upgrades that further augmented his forces' capabilities. The strategy center was also directly linked to the USA's network of spy satellites and allowed its personnel to periodically reveal all enemy positions.

Furthermore, the strategy center enabled a general to employ a single 'strategy' or 'battle plan' that improved certain characteristics of all ground units under the general's command. These were as follows:

Icon	Name	Ability
	Bombardment	Increased damage of all friendly ground units by 20%. Deployed an artillery piece from the strategy center for defense.
	Search and Destroy	Increased weapon range of all friendly ground units by 20%. Installed sensors that enabled the detection of stealthed units within a large radius around the strategy center.
	Hold the Line	Increased health of all friendly ground units by 10%. Reinforced the strategy center with sandbags to increase its resilience.

Whenever one of these battle plans was chosen, the location of the strategy center, as well as the activated battle plan, would be revealed to opposing generals. Switching from one battle plan to another caused all ground forces to re-adjust their equipment and to be thus immobilized for a few seconds. If the strategy center was destroyed while a battle plan was active, the battle plan would be immediately cancelled and any bonuses conferred by it would be lost.

Although only one strategy center at a time could be built per general, capturing enemy strategy centers technically allowed a general to activate more than one battle plan. This made it possible to combine the effects of the three battle plans available at the strategy center. However, more than one strategy centers employing the same battle plan did not cause the bonuses they gave to 'stack'.

Strategy centers may be deployed near the front line and act as a powerful base defense due to its access to the 'Bombardment' strategy, which gave it a long-range cannon to deal with enemy ground units. This role is somewhat akin to that of the GLA's palace.

Abilities

Icon	Upgrade	Description
	Intelligence	Allowed a commander to temporarily reveal the locations of all enemies on the battlefield.
	Carpet Bombing	Calls in a B-3 bomber to level the area with a line of high explosive bombs. Exclusive to General Granger.

Upgrades

Icon	Upgrade	Description
	Drone armor	Improved drone armour by 25%
	Supply lines	Improved yield for all supply gatherers, supply drop zones, and captured oil derricks Zero Hour only
	Chemical suits	Improved protection for infantry against toxin attacks Zero Hour only
	Advanced training	Units gained veterancy at twice the normal rate
	Composite armour	Improved tank armour by 25%
	Mother Of All Bombs	Allowed the use of the Massive Ordnance Air Burst (a.k.a. 'Mother of All Bombs'), replacing the fuel air bomb support power Zero Hour only

Changelog

• Generals sneak peek patch 1.01: changing strategy plans in multiplayer no longer causes mismatches

Selected Quotes

“

(Technical gibberish) - When selected

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“

Hold the line. - When ordered to use Hold the Line

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Search and destroy. - When ordered to use Search and Destroy

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Bombardment. - When ordered to use Bombardment

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Gallery

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See also

• Propaganda center, Chinese counterpart
• Palace, GLA counterpart