Contra 007 China: Units and Generals

The Contra 007 China side means four generals, each with an army and a main tank of their own. Regular China from Zero Hour isn't in the menu: its slot went to the new General Bao with his flamethrower vehicles. Kwai, Fai and Tao stayed, but the mod rewrote their armies: they got ZTZ tanks, J-10 and MiG-31 fighters, the Ka-29 helicopter and super-heavy vehicles for 5000–7000. Below are tables for every unit from the mod files, the main buildings and the prototypes. The other sides and the comparison with 009 are in the Contra 007 overview.

How the Contra 007 Chinese army differs from Zero Hour

A comparison of the INI files of Contra 007 and Zero Hour 1.04:

• There is no base side. The mod gives the China side to Bao.
• Tanks with Chinese designations replaced the Battlemaster. Bao has the ZTZ-88 for 700 with 430 health, Tao the ZTZ-96 for 800 with 410, and Kwai the ZTZ-104 for 800 with 500. In Zero Hour the Battlemaster cost 800 and had 400 health, and its gun hit for 60 against 90–97 in the mod.
• Heavy tanks got meaner. Tao's Overlord costs 2000, has 1200 health and a 120 / 180 cannon. The Zero Hour Overlord had 1100 health for the same price and hit for 80 at range 175.
• Aircraft cost more and last longer: the J-10 and MiG-35 MFI cost 1700–2000 with 200–225 health, while the MiG in Zero Hour cost 1200 with 160.
• The Ka-29 helicopter (the Helix in Zero Hour) costs 2000–2400 and takes 500–600 damage instead of 300.
• The Black Lotus costs 2000 and takes 750 damage; in Zero Hour it was 1500 and 200.
• The Nuclear Missile takes 100–110 seconds to build instead of 60 and costs 5000–6000.

Contra 007 Chinese generals

Costs, build times and health are taken from the mod's INI files, damage is per shot of the main weapon, range is in game units. Dozers and supply trucks are left out of the tables. For Kwai's troop crawlers and tank groups the first column shows the build button names.

General BaoFireGeneral KwaiTanksGeneral FaiInfantryGeneral TaoNuclear Weapons

General Bao: Fire

Bao exists only in Contra. His dossier matches incendiary mixtures to targets: napalm against infantry, thermite against tanks, thermobaric mixtures against buildings. The general's heaviest vehicle is Zhu Rong for 7000, a thermobaric mortar dealing 200. The Dong Feng - 9000 for 3000 launches a missile at any distance every 2.5 minutes.

Unit	Type	Cost	Time, s	Health	Weapon: damage / range
Field Engineer	infantry	300	3	120	unarmed, clears mines and contamination
Flamethrower Infantry	infantry	400	4	120	flamethrower 25 / 150
ECM Trooper	infantry	400	4	120	paralyzes vehicles 16 / 150
Tank Hunter	infantry	400	4	100	missile 80 / 150
Hacker	infantry	625	13	100	disables buildings, steals cash
Black Lotus	infantry	2000	20	750	captures buildings, steals cash
ZTZ-88	vehicle	700	7	430	cannon 90 / 150
Listening Outpost	vehicle	700	7	250	radar, carries infantry
Vortex Tank	vehicle	800	8	300	96 / 175, vs air 120 / 275
ECM Tank	vehicle	900	9	400	paralyzes vehicles 25 / 200
Howitzer	vehicle	1000	10	300	shell 38 / 350
Dragon Tank	vehicle	1100	11	350	flamethrower 12.5 / 75
Immolator	vehicle	2500	25	1100	flamethrower 20 / 150
A-100 MLRS	vehicle	2750	27.5	300	missiles 20 / 450
Dong Feng - 9000	vehicle	3000	60	800	missile with unlimited range
Assault Troop Transport	vehicle	3400	34	550	8 flamethrower troops inside
Zhu Rong	vehicle	7000	70	2850	mortar 200 / 200
MiG-35 MFI	aircraft	1700	17	225	napalm 75 / 320
MiG-31 Sky Guardian	aircraft	1800	18	225	missiles 200 / 400
Ka-29 Helix	aircraft	2000	20	600	machine gun 6 / 120

General Kwai: Tanks

Kwai's dossier is short: everything goes into tank assaults. His dozer can put up separate mass production plants: the ZTZ-104 Factory, the Gattling Tank Factory and the Dragon Tank Factory. Each one turns out a group of 10 vehicles for 5000, so a tank from a group costs 500 instead of 800. At the top sits Guan Yu for 7000 with 3250 health, which fires at both ground and air targets.

Unit	Type	Cost	Time, s	Health	Weapon: damage / range
Red Guard	infantry	250	2.5	150	machine gun 10 / 100
Tank Hunter	infantry	500	5	100	missile 80 / 150
Hacker	infantry	625	13	100	disables buildings, steals cash
Black Lotus	infantry	2000	20	750	captures buildings, steals cash
Listening Outpost	vehicle	700	7	250	radar, carries infantry
ZTZ-104	vehicle	800	8	500	cannon 97 / 150 and 72 / 200
Group of 10 ZTZ-104s	vehicle	5000	50	10 × 500	same as the ZTZ-104
Dragon Tank	vehicle	800	8	300	flamethrower 10 / 75
Group of 10 Dragon Tanks	vehicle	5000	50	10 × 300	same as the Dragon Tank
Gattling Tank	vehicle	800	8	400	15 / 150, vs air 12 / 250
Group of 10 Gattling Tanks	vehicle	5000	50	10 × 400	same as the Gattling Tank
Engineering Troop Crawler	vehicle	900	9	300	unarmed, clears mines, repairs buildings
ECM Troop Crawler	vehicle	1000	10	300	paralyzes vehicles 25 / 200
Propaganda Troop Crawler	vehicle	1000	10	300	heals and boosts nearby units
Sniper Cannon Troop Crawler	vehicle	1400	14	300	cannon 300 / 300
Banshee	vehicle	2300	23	900	paralyzes vehicles 25 / 200
Earth Shaker	vehicle	2300	23	800	earthquake 80 / 350
Emperor	vehicle	2300	23	1300	cannon 120 / 180
Manticore	vehicle	2300	23	800	vs air 35 / 350, vs ground 35 / 175
Guan Yu	vehicle	7000	70	3250	cannons 75 / 200, vs air 70 / 300
J-10	aircraft	1900	19	200	napalm 75 / 320
Ka-29 Helix	aircraft	2400	24	600	missiles 60 / 210

General Fai: Infantry

According to his dossier, Fai wins by numbers: fast tanks for scouting and lots of infantry. He has ten infantry types, including the ATGM Operator with a 200-damage missile, the Grenadier, the Sniper and the Super Red Arrow against aircraft. Fai has no regular main battle tank, but he does have the Suan Ni for 5750: 4000 health and 10 infantry slots.

Unit	Type	Cost	Time, s	Health	Weapon: damage / range
Minigunner	infantry	300	3	155	machine gun 12 / 150
Field Engineer	infantry	300	3	120	unarmed, clears mines and contamination
Tank Hunter	infantry	325	3.25	110	missile 80 / 150
Super Red Arrow	infantry	400	4	120	vs air 55 / 300
Grenadier	infantry	425	4.25	150	grenade launcher 40 / 225
Jammer Trooper	infantry	500	5	120	jams communications, 125
Sniper	infantry	500	5	125	rifle 200 / 200
Hacker	infantry	600	13	100	disables vehicles 30 / 200
ATGM Operator	infantry	650	6.5	175	missile 200 / 250
Black Lotus	infantry	2000	20	750	captures buildings, steals cash
Dragon Tank	vehicle	900	9	250	flamethrower 20 / 150
ECM Tank	vehicle	900	9	250	paralyzes vehicles 25 / 200
Howitzer	vehicle	1000	10	250	shell 115 / 350
Attack Outpost	vehicle	1200	12	250	radar, 6 infantry slots
Infantry Fighting Vehicle	vehicle	1200	12	550	machine gun 10 / 175, 8 seats
Artillery Designator	vehicle	2000	20	400	calls in artillery, 500
Neutron Cannon	vehicle	2500	25	400	shell 90 / 400
Assault Troop Transport	vehicle	3200	32	550	4 Minigunners and 4 missile troops inside
Suan Ni	vehicle	5750	57.5	4000	artillery 100 / 350, missiles 45 / 300
J-10	aircraft	1750	17.5	200	missiles 80 / 320
Ka-29 Helix	aircraft	2000	20	500	machine gun 6 / 120

General Tao: Nuclear Weapons

Tao's dossier says almost his whole army hits hard but doesn't live long, and he has no defensive structures. Nearly every unit carries something nuclear: the Nuclear Tank Hunter, the ZTZ-96 with a chance of a nuclear shot, the Irradiator Tank and the MiG-35 MFI with nuclear missiles. The Death Hand for 3000 fires a nuclear shell across the whole map, and the Yan Wang for 5000 hits for 425.

Unit	Type	Cost	Time, s	Health	Weapon: damage / range
Red Guard	infantry	250	2.5	120	machine gun 10 / 100
Field Engineer	infantry	300	3	120	unarmed, clears mines and contamination
Red Arrow	infantry	300	3	120	vs air 55 / 300
Jammer Trooper	infantry	500	5	120	jams communications, 125
Hacker	infantry	625	13	100	disables buildings, steals cash
Nuclear Tank Hunter	infantry	800	8	160	nuclear missile 150 / 155
Black Lotus	infantry	2000	20	750	captures buildings, steals cash
Listening Outpost	vehicle	700	7	250	radar, carries infantry
ZTZ-96	vehicle	800	8	410	cannon 90 / 150
Irradiator Tank	vehicle	800	8	300	radiation 140 / 150
Gattling Tank	vehicle	800	8	325	15 / 150, vs air 12 / 250
Howitzer	vehicle	1200	12	250	shell 115 / 350
Overlord	vehicle	2000	20	1200	cannon 120 / 180
Nuke Cannon	vehicle	2000	20	500	shell 450 / 400
Death Hand	vehicle	3000	30	750	nuclear shell 350, unlimited range
Assault Troop Transport	vehicle	3200	32	550	2 nuclear missile troops and 4 Red Guards inside
Yan Wang	vehicle	5000	50	1400	shell 425 / 400
MiG-35 MFI	aircraft	2000	20	225	nuclear missiles 160 / 300
MiG-31 Sky Guardian	aircraft	2000	20	225	missiles 200 / 400
Ka-29 Helix	aircraft	2000	20	600	machine gun 6 / 120
Steel Dragon	aircraft	2500	25	300	cannon 60 / 300

Main buildings and superweapons

Tao's Nuclear Storm is the most expensive building in the mod: 12000, 4 minutes to build and a 12-minute reload. The Nuclear Missile of Kwai and Fai fires every 6 minutes, Tao's every 8. Bao has no Nuclear Missile, and its role goes to the Scientific Laboratory with its atmospheric weapon. The Artillery Battery fires a shell dealing 175 at range 500.

Real-world prototypes of Contra 007 Chinese hardware

The Dragon Tank, Gattling Tank, Howitzer (the Inferno Cannon in Zero Hour), Nuke Cannon, Overlord, Helix, Hacker and Black Lotus also exist in Zero Hour, and they are covered on the page about the Chinese army in the original game. Below is only what the mod brought in.

• ZTZ-88. China's second-generation Type 88 main battle tank with a 105 mm gun, in service since 1988.
• ZTZ-96. The Type 96, a development of the Type 88 with a 125 mm gun. It has been in service since 1997, and more than 2500 were built.
• ZTZ-104. The designation looks like a real Chinese one, but we found no tank with this designation in open sources.
• J-10. A single-engine multirole fighter by Chengdu. It first flew in 1998 and has been in service since 2006.
• MiG-31. A Soviet supersonic interceptor, in service since 1981. It reaches about 3000 km/h.
• MiG-35 MFI. The real MiG-35 is a development of the MiG-29. The Russian Aerospace Forces received the first two production aircraft in 2019, ten years after the mod came out.
• A-100 MLRS. A Chinese 300 mm launcher with 10 tubes from the CALT academy. The Chinese army didn't adopt it and chose the PHL-03 instead, but Pakistan bought it.
• Red Arrow and Super Red Arrow. In the files both objects are called FN6: the Chinese FN-6 man-portable air defense system, which entered service in 2000.
• Made-up hardware. There is no prototype for Guan Yu, the Manticore, Banshee, Earth Shaker, Vortex Tank, Immolator, Zhu Rong, Dong Feng - 9000, Suan Ni, Yan Wang, Death Hand, Irradiator Tank or Steel Dragon.

How to play China in Contra 007 on a phone

The mod works in ZeroFront. You get Contra 007 in our Telegram bot under "Game files & mods"; what this version is and how to install it is covered on the Contra 007 mod page. A network match only starts with players who also run 007.

China in the mod plays in big groups, which suits a touch screen:

1. Select a group of 10 of Kwai's tanks with a double tap on one tank: that selects every vehicle of that type on screen. Save them to group "1" on the left bar.
2. Gather Fai's infantry with a selection box: press and drag. Keep the ATGM Operators and Grenadiers in a separate group.
3. The Death Hand and the Dong Feng - 9000 fire across the whole map. Move the camera to the target with two fingers, select the launcher and tap the spot you want to hit.

All gestures are described on the phone controls page.

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