Project Raptor GLA: Units, Vehicles and Generals

The Project Raptor GLA in version 9.1.27 gets what it never had in Zero Hour: power plants, an air force and a navy. Its build menu holds 29 units against 18 in the original. The T-80 tank replaces the Marauder, the SA-11 SAM now covers the sky, and the Naval Yard launches the "Tsar" ship for 5000. Below are the numbers from the mod files, the real prototypes of the hardware and how the three GLA generals differ.

What changed compared to Zero Hour

Playing the GLA in Raptor means learning the faction almost from scratch. What you notice in the first minutes:

• The GLA now has power. A Power Plant for 1200 gives 8 units of power, the Flak Cannon and SCUD Storm run on it, and according to the in-game tooltip it also speeds up vehicle production.
• The Marauder is gone. Its slot at the Arms Dealer went to the T-80 for 2500: 950 health, a gun dealing 100 at range 195.
• Against aircraft there is the SA-11 SAM: 1600, a missile dealing 250 damage from range 500.
• The Air Field for 1500 builds an attack jet, an airship and a scout glider. The Naval Yard for 1000 builds two boats and the "Tsar" ship.
• The Worker Quad for 450, according to the tooltip, gathers three times more supplies than a Worker on foot.
• The Command Center takes 12000 damage instead of 5000, and the SCUD Storm costs 10000 instead of 5000.

Old units have new prices too. Jarmen Kell went up from 1500 to 2500, the Rebel from 150 to 200. The Saboteur got cheaper, from 800 to 400, the Bomb Truck from 1200 to 700, the Combat Cycle from 500 to 280. The SCUD Launcher costs 1400 and hits at 400 instead of 350.

GLA units in Raptor

Costs, build times and health are taken from the mod's 9.1.27 INI files. Damage is per shot of the main weapon, range is in game units. Units carried over from Zero Hour keep their official names, new ones are listed by their real designations or a translation of the mod name. The tables show only what opens up in the menu of the regular GLA, without the generals.

Buildings and superweapons

The SCUD Storm takes 15 units of power, and one Power Plant gives 8, so the superweapon needs two of them. The Flak Cannon needs 4: without power it doesn't fire, even though it reaches aircraft at 400. The Gunner Station for 500 hides under camo netting until it opens fire, and the Morale Statue heals vehicles and infantry around it.

Real-world prototypes of GLA units in Raptor

Units carried over from Zero Hour (Scorpion, SCUD Launcher, Rocket Buggy, Toxin Tractor and others) are covered on the page about the GLA in the original Zero Hour. Here we look only at what the mod adds.

• T-80. A Soviet main battle tank with a 125 mm gun, adopted in 1976. It was developed at the Kirov Plant in Leningrad and became the first production tank powered only by a gas turbine engine. The name string in the files is OBJECT:T-72, and the model is IVAssadBabl. That stands for "Asad Babil" ("Lion of Babylon"): in 1989 Iraq announced it was assembling T-72M1 tanks at home under this name.
• SA-11. NATO's designation for the Soviet 9K37 Buk SAM system, in service since 1980. Each tracked launcher carries its own radar and four missiles, just like the model in the mod.
• Attack jet. The model is UVL29, the Czechoslovak Aero L-29 Delfín. This jet trainer first flew in 1959 and became the standard training aircraft of the Warsaw Pact countries, with 3665 built in total. With gun pods and rockets it also fought as a light attack aircraft, for example with Egypt in 1973.
• Airship. Combat airships did exist: German Zeppelins first bombed Britain in January 1915. An airship that infantry fires from is the modders' invention.
• Assault Boat. In the files the object is called GLAVehiclePTBoat. PT (patrol torpedo) is what the US Navy called its torpedo boats in World War II, and besides torpedoes they carried heavy machine guns and cannons. The boat in the mod has no torpedoes.
• Quad bike. Real armies use quad bikes too, for example Norway's Telemark Battalion in Afghanistan. The in-game unit with rockets has no specific prototype.
• No prototype. The "Tsar" ship, the AA Boat, the Scout Glider, the Quad Tank and the Worker Quad were invented for the mod. The Militant and the Sniper have no specific prototype either: they are game roles.

GLA generals in Raptor

The three GLA generals from Zero Hour are still in the mod, but their armies were rewritten from scratch. To compare with the original, see the pages on Dr. Thrax, Prince Kassad and General Juhziz in the main wiki.

Playing the GLA in Raptor on a phone

Project Raptor 9.1.27 works in ZeroFront. For phones the mod is packed into .big archives, and the build is in the bot, under "Game files & mods" → Project Raptor. A regular loose install (the Data\INI and Art folders) crashes on a phone or takes minutes to load.

On a touch screen the GLA is easiest to run with the group bar on the left:

1. Box-select your T-80s and Quad Tanks (press and drag) and save them to "1".
2. Keep the SA-11s in "2" and move them behind the tanks: they don't fire at ground targets.
3. Save SCUD Launchers and attack jets to "3", and boats to "4".

A double tap on a unit selects every unit of that type on screen, which is handy for gathering Rebels or Worker Quads. A double tap on a group slot moves the camera to that group. Build the Power Plant before the Flak Cannons, or they will just stand idle. All gestures are on the controls page.

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