Avenger (Generals)

	For the Tiberian Twilight unit of the same name, see Avenger (Tiberian Twilight).

Avenger
Unit
Faction	United States Townes Malcolm Granger Alexis Alexander Leang
Role	Anti-aircraft vehicle
Armament	Twin anti-air lasers Laser-based support suite
Properties
Hit points	300
Armor type	Anti Air Vehicle Armor
Production
Cost	$2000 $1500 (Townes)
Build time	0:10
Produced by	American war factory Chinese war factory (Leang only)
Requires	Strategy center (Granger only)
Hot key	G
Combat
Ground attack	20 (Small Arms)
Cooldown	500 200
Speed	30 (20 if badly damaged)
Attack range	300
Sight range	150-300
Function
Add-ons	Scout Drone Battle Drone Hellfire Drone
Upgrades	Advanced Training
Abilities	Shoot down missiles and aircraft Increase firing rate at the targeted unit
Notes
Strong vs missiles, aircraft Weak vs land units.

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A mobile platform, the Avenger can paint airborne and ground targets with its Point Defense Laser. When targets are painted, other units in the vicinity can fire faster and with better success at them. The Avenger can also down enemy aircraft. - Command and Conquer: Generals Zero Hour manual

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The Avenger was an American support vehicle based on the Humvee's chassis and introduced later in the GLA Conflict.

Game unit

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Tactical Lasers online! - Avenger

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Upgrades

Drones

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Cut 'em clean! - Avenger attacking Aircraft

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Scout Drone The Scout Drone increases the vehicle's sight range and reveals nearby stealth units. Costs $100.

Battle Drone The Battle Drone is armed with a small machine gun, and could also repair its parent vehicle. Costs $300.

Hellfire Drone (Zero Hour only) The Hellfire Drone fires a small but surprisingly powerful missile against enemy ground units. Costs $500.

Drones can be further upgraded with the Drone Armor upgrade.

Base

Advanced Training The Avenger gains veterancy twice as fast. Purchased at the Strategy Center for $1500.

Advantages

The Avenger is an expensive laser-based support unit with a wide variety of applications. It can engage enemy aircraft at range and deal heavy damage to them. Its Point defense lasers can neutralize missiles, and it can also paint a ground target with a beam, providing a fire rate bonus to friendly units that are attacking it.

Disadvantages

The Avenger is lightly armored and slow (having the same speed as the Crusader tank). Unlike GLA's Quad Cannon and China's Gattling Tank, which are able to fight off infantry and other light ground vehicles at close range and can be produced early, the Avenger is defenseless against ground units and it requires the construction of a tech structure (the Americans' equivalent being the Strategy Center). Although a defense drone can provide the Avenger some emergency defense, ideally it should be escorted.

Tactics

Used sparingly in most offensives due to its cost, it was still nonetheless an effective countermeasure against units that used rocket attacks, such as Rocket Buggies, fighter jets, and missile-armed infantry. The Avenger's PDL meant that these units would have a hard time destroying an Avenger or any nearby troops unless greatly outnumbered. Additional Avengers are used to take down large aircraft faster, like the Chinese Helix and cargo planes. In particular, a strong combination involved with the Avenger consisted of General Townes's Laser Crusaders. The Laser tank fired more quickly thanks to the Avenger's targeting designator, which made the deadlier the duo quite deadly, not to mention covering both spectrum of anti-ground and anti-air combat.

Changelog

• Zero Hour patch 1.01:
  • now leaves tire tracks
  • bomb trucks disguised as Avengers still have the Avenger turret (however the turret is lowered unlike the normal unit which has the turrets raised)
• Zero Hour patch 1.02: now available without the strategy center (USA and Townes only)
• Zero Hour patch 1.03:
  • laser turret no longer has sight range
  • composite armour upgrade has been removed
  • now displays upgrade cameo for the Hellfire drone
  • damage received vs. jet missiles improved from 30% to 23%
  • fixed the bug where the map would become slightly uncovered when building an Avenger
  • locomotor has been corrected
  • bomb trucks now disguise themselves as Avengers using the correct model
  • now available without the strategy center (Alexander only)
  • cost decreased from $2400 to $2000 (Alexander only)

Quotes

When created
Tactical lasers online.
When selected
Aircraft targeting ready! Defensive laser systems. Scanning for enemy aircraft. Targeting cursor set.
When ordered to move
Re-calibrating. Confirmed. Yes, sir! Advancing! Analyzing terrain effects.
When ordered to attack
Charging up. Commencing light array. Acquiring target. Initiating laser strike. Cut them clean.
When ordered to attack with laser-based support
Designating the target. Flush them out. Targeting for rapid fire. They may not like the attention. This will help keep an eye on them.

Trivia

• This unit is named after the real life M1097 Avenger anti-aircraft and anti-missile system. The real vehicle uses Stinger missile launchers instead of lasers. However, prototype laser weapons have successfully been mounted on and tested with Avengers.
• The Avenger suffers from some graphical glitches. The laser turret on the back may sometimes disappear if it comes out of the fog of war. Additionally, if one was pilot sniped (or hit by a neutron blast), then the laser turret turns white like for every other vehicle, but the actual vehicle remains the same color, even if it is captured by enemy troops. Furthermore, if a bomb truck disguises as one, the laser turret on the back will be invisible. The latter was fixed in Zero Hour patches 1.01 and 1.03.
• When attempting to construct a building on an Avenger, it won't move away, thereby preventing said building from being placed there until the vehicle has been manually relocated.

See also

• Gatling tank, Chinese counterpart
• Quad cannon, GLA counterpart

General Leang Arsenal

Units Infantry Ranger Tank hunter Angry mob Hacker Pathfinder Burton Jarmen Kell Black Lotus Vehicles Construction dozer Supply truck Combat cycle Dragon tank Sentry drone Gatling tank Avenger Overlord tank Tomahawk launcher Rocket buggy Paladin tank Aircraft MiG Helix King Raptor Aurora Buildings Production Command center Cold fusion reactor Supply center Barracks War factory Air field Defenses Speaker tower Bunker Gatling cannon Nuclear missile silo Land mine Patriot missile system Tunnel network Particle cannon Scud storm Support powers & upgrades Support Powers Nuclear missile Particle cannon Scud storm Upgrades Radar upgrade Control rods Capture building Flash-bang grenades Chemical suits Chain guns Black napalm MiG armor Uranium shells Nuclear tanks Nationalism Subliminal messaging Neutron shells Sentry drone gun Advanced training Composite armour Arm the mob Armor-piercing rockets Buggy ammo General's Promotions Level 1 Paladin tank Pathfinder Cluster mines General's Promotions Level 3 Carpet bombing Artillery barrage level 1 Artillery barrage level 2 Artillery barrage level 3 Cash bounty level 1 Cash bounty level 2 Cash bounty level 3 General's Promotions Level 5 Electro-magnetic pulse Spectre gunship level 1 Sneak attack General Leang is not playable.