Generals Zero Hour Wiki: Factions, Generals and Numbers from the Game Files

This Generals Zero Hour wiki covers the three factions (USA, China, GLA) and the nine generals added in the expansion. Costs, build times, health and damage come straight from the game's own INI files, version 1.04, and every page ends with advice for playing on a phone through ZeroFront.

The wiki is deliberately small: 13 pages. There is no separate card for each of the hundreds of objects in the game. Faction units sit in tables, and each general's page covers only what sets that army apart from the base faction.

The three factions

Each side in Zero Hour has its own economy and its own way of fighting. In short:

Besides the plain USA, China and GLA, the faction menu lets you pick one of nine generals. Each general's army is built on top of its faction: some units are replaced, some get cheaper or more expensive, and a few are removed entirely.

Zero Hour generals list

	General	Faction	Specialty
	General Granger	USA	air power
	General Townes	USA	lasers
	General Alexander	USA	superweapons and defense
	General Kwai	China	tanks
	General Tao	China	nuclear weapons
	General Fai	China	infantry
	Dr. Thrax	GLA	toxins
	Prince Kassad	GLA	camouflage and ambush
	General Juhziz	GLA	explosives

There is a tenth character, General Leang, known as "the Tigress". She commands a mixed army drawn from all three sides, but you only meet her as the final opponent in Generals' Challenge. She can't be picked for a normal game, so she has no page of her own here.

Where the numbers come from

Every value in the tables is taken from the Zero Hour 1.04 INI files, the same files the engine reads during a match. Cost is in in-game money, build time in seconds, health in hit points. Range and speed are in game units, exactly as they are stored in the files. Nobody converted them to meters.

Damage is listed per shot, before the target's armor is applied. A tank that deals 60 damage won't take exactly 60 off an infantryman: each armor type takes a different percentage from each damage type. So comparisons make sense inside one class, tank against tank.

We kept Generals' Challenge versions of units and cinematic copies from the campaign out of the tables. When an object exists in the files but can't be built in the game, the page says so.

How this wiki differs from others

We didn't retell other wikis or copy numbers from forum posts. What we did differently:

• values come from the Zero Hour 1.04 files, not from a summary;
• every general is compared with the base army: what costs less, what costs more, what is missing;
• every page has a section on how the faction plays on a phone.

Playing Zero Hour on a phone

The ZeroFront app runs the original Zero Hour on Android: the 2003 engine, built for phones. You connect your own game files from Steam or the EA App. The full picture is on the Zero Hour for Android page.

Controls are touch gestures. A tap selects a unit, a double tap selects every unit of that type on screen, and press-and-drag draws a selection box. On the left there is a group bar from 0 to 9 that replaces Ctrl+number. Every gesture is explained on the touch controls page.

The faction changes how comfortable it is to play with your fingers. As the USA, two or three groups of expensive units are usually enough. China and GLA field bigger armies, and you will use the group bar constantly. The faction pages go into this in more detail.

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