Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour (Windows) Command & Conquer: Generals (Windows) Real World Units FAQ (Version 3.0 - Incomplete Struggle) Current Update: Friday, 22 July 2005 Previous Update: Wednesday, 20 July 2005 Created: Friday, 28 February 2003 By Don "Gamera" Chan (crs1219@h_tmail.c_m) Note: I DO NOT have this game, but a friend does. I typed up this file as a "fan service" for the fellow military aviation fans out there. 0. Wanted 1. Acknowledgements 2. Links 3. Theatres of Operations 4. Orders of Battle 4.1 China 4.2 GLA 4.3 USA "Setsunasa!" (*1) 0. WANTED I'm looking for: - The alphanumeric designations and official names of the real world units and weapons that are in the game and aren't in this FAQ. Disclaimer: I send the newest version of this file to only eight Websites: Dementi: J'ai envoye la plus recente version de ce fichier a seulement huit sites webs. Objasnenije: Ya poslal posledniju wersiju etowo faila tolko etim 8 saitam: - http://www.gamefaqs.com/ - http://vgstrategies.about.com/ - http://dlh.net/ - http://www.cheathappens.com/ - http://faqs.ign.com/ - http://www.gamenemesis.com/ - http://www.ggmania.com/ - http://www.planetcnc.com/ If you downloaded or read this file at other Websites, the SysOps of the other Websites probably leeched it from one of the above Websites. Si vous avez telecharge ou lu ce fichier a partir d'autres sites, les responsables de ces sites l'auront probablement pompe a partir de l'un des sites ci-dessus. Jestli wy skachali ili prochitali etot fail na drugich saitach, operatot mozhet byt' dobyl jewo s odnovo iz saitov naverchu. 1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to these sierra hotel persons/organisations: - Adam Cherrington, Brian Au, chris lakin, Dark Prince, ehren fickenscher, Emiel Suilen, fdg dfgdf, GCN4Life, inkhoMi, James Zhu, Jon Duke, Kenny Pang, Nik "Frost" Manak, Redwolf, Richard Parry, and Wei Huang, for feedback. - AlX05, Asagiri Yohko, Djaran, HypersonicGamer, Joeb, Phisher, rpgmaster999, and other Netters in the C&C: Generals and Generals: Zero Hour message board in GameFAQs.com, for Q&A. - Jean-Luc Barbera of France, for the French translation of the Disclaimer, and the English translation of the NOIR foreword. (After all, English and French are the two official languages up here in Canada, the True North Strong and Free.) - Lieutenant Colonel YANG Li Wei, 38, Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force, of Sui Zhong County, Hu Lu Dao ("Gourd Island") City, Liao Ning Province, People's Republic of China. Fighter pilot with 1,350 hours of flight experience, and astronaut with 21 hours 23 minutes of space experience. His Shen Zhou 5 ("Divine Vessel 5") capsule, atop a CZ-2F (Chang Zheng-2F, "Long March-2F") rocket, took off from Jiu Quan ("Wine Fountain") Satellite Launch Centre, Gan Su Province, at 09:00 (Bei Jing time, 01:00 GMT) on Wednesday, 15 October 2003. It orbited Earth for 14 times, (did not collide with any United States spacecraft,) and landed in Inner Mongolia, 4.8 km (3 miles) off-target, at 06:23 (22:23 GMT) on Thursday, 16 October 2003. After his historic mission as the first astronaut of the People's Republic of China, he was promoted to full Colonel. http://www.hld.gov.cn/new/1/20031015134917.html - The Peace Boat. http://www.peaceboat.org/english/index.html http://www.peaceboat.org/index_j.html - Vadim Pryde, VAL, and other Netters, for the Russian translation of the Disclaimer. (Over the years, gamers in non-English countries (such as France and South Africa) had read my game FAQs and e-mailed me. Then a couple years ago, I noticed my game FAQs were leeched and cross-posted at multiple Russian game FAQ sites. o(>_<)o I was more annoyed that they did not always have the latest versions of my game FAQs.) - Wavehawk of Philippines, for feedback. (Social democracy in action.) [Ramble ON] In memory of: - The seven astronauts on the NASA space shuttle USS Columbia, which was lost in action (Mission STS-107) about 203,000 feet above north-central Texas, USA, at about 9 AM EST (14:00 GMT, 16 minutes before her scheduled landing at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA) on Saturday, 1 February 2003 (Chinese New Year Day). http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/ "The seven astronauts on board were accomplished women and men of great courage who put their extraordinary skills and knowledge to the service of humankind. Each one was a hero. Their contribution to science and space exploration will never be forgotten." - Jean Chretien, Canadian Prime Minister, 1 February 2003 "The Columbia is lost. There are no survivors." - George W Bush, US President, 1 February 2003 - The casualties (Iraqi and non-Iraqi, military and non-military, hostile and friendly fire) of OIF (Operation Iraqi Freedom, also known as Operation Telic in the UK), the war in Iraq in March-April 2003. <(T_T) - The 70 sailors and officers of the Ming-class (Type 035, variant of Former Soviet Union/Russian Romeo-class) conventional (diesel-electric) submarine No. 361 of the 12th Brigade/Detachment (No. 359, 360, 361, 362), North Sea Fleet, Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Ren Min Jie Fang Jun Hai Jun), based at Lu Shun (formerly Port Arthur), Liao Ning Province, People's Republic of China (Zhong Hua Ren Min Gong He Guo). Her crew were martyred during a training exercise east of the Nei Chang Shan Islands in the Bo Hai Sea, northeast of Yan Tai City and north of Wei Hai City, Shan Dong Province, People's Republic of China, before Friday, 2 May 2003 (or about Wednesday, 16 April 2003), local time. http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/GB/junshi/20030523/999074.html http://www.phoenixtv.com/home/news/Inland/200305/06/60047.html http://www.phoenixtv.com/home/news/review/200305/22/66199.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030502/ts_afp/china_submarine_030502172313 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030502/wl_afp/china_submarine_030502161815 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030613/ap_on_re_as/china_submarine_accident_2 - Squadron Leader Janusz "Jan" Zurakowski, Royal Air Force (Retired). Fighter pilot during World War Two, and test pilot of the de Havilland Vampire, the Gloster Meteor and Javelin, and Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck and CF-105 Arrow after World War Two. He was 89. He was born in Ryzawka, Russia, on 12 September 1914. He passed away at his home "Kartuzy" in Barry's Bay, (northern) Ontario, Canada, on Monday, 9 February 2004. http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/02/10/zurakowski040210 http://www.geocities.com/buckeyepa/JZurakowski.html - Former US President Ronald Wilson Reagan, alias "The Gipper" and "The Great Communicator". He was 93. He was born in Tampico, Illinois, USA, on 6 February 1911; passed away in Los Angeles, California, USA, on Saturday, 5 June 2004; and was buried at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, USA, on Friday, 11 June 2004. He was the 40th US President, from 20 January 1981 to January 1989, and contributed to end the Cold War between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation nations and the Warsaw Pact nations. <(T_T) "I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life." - The victims of the earthquake that happened in the Indian Ocean, off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, on Boxing Day, Sunday, 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time; and the victims of the resultant tidal waves caused by the earthquake, in various South Asia and East Africa nations, including India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/ - Comrade ZHAO Zi Yang. Former Premier of the People's Republic of China and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Deposed because of his support for the months-long, anti-corruption and pro-democracy protest in Tian An Men Square, Bei Jing, China, that was ended by the People's Liberation Army on 4 June 1989, he was under house arrest until his death. He was 85. He was born in Hua Xian (Hua County), He Nan Province, China, on 17 October 1919; and passed away in Bei Jing, on 17 January 2005. http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2005-01/17/content_2469579.htm - Captain James Montgomery Doohan, Royal Canadian Army (Retired). Actor who, in Star Trek, played Captain (at first Lieutenant Commander) Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Star Fleet, the (legendary) Chief Engineer on the NCC-1701 USS Enterprise. He was 85. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on 3 March 1920. Beamed up in Redmond, Washington, USA, on Wednesday, 20 July 2005. http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Actors/Doohan__James__1920_2005_/ http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1533988,00.html?gusrc=rss Revision history of this file: Version 0.5 (Limited Edition) [6 KB]: Saturday, 1 March 2003 Version 0.6 (Limited Edition) [8 KB, +34%]: Monday, 3 March 2003 Version 1.0 [11 KB, +38%]: Friday, 7 March 2003 Version 1.1 [13 KB, +19%]: Friday, 14 March 2003 Version 1.2 [14 KB, +8%]: Friday, 21 March 2003 Version 1.3 [18 KB, +29%]: Sunday, 8 June 2003 Version 1.4 [19 KB, +6%]: Sunday, 29 June 2003 Version 1.5 [20 KB, +6%]: Tuesday, 9 September 2003 Version 1.6 [24 KB, +20%]: Wednesday, 1 October 2003 (China's National Day) Version 1.7 [24 KB, +0%]: Tuesday, 7 October 2003 Version 1.8 [27 KB, +13%]: Saturday, 8 November 2003 Version 2.0 [32 KB, +19%]: Saturday, 21 February 2004 Version 2.1 [33 KB, +4%]: Sunday, 29 February 2004 Version 2.2 [33 KB, +0%]: Saturday, 20 March 2004 Version 2.3 [34 KB, +4%]: Tuesday, 22 June 2004 Version 2.4 [34 KB, +0%]: Wednesday, 28 July 2004 Version 2.5 [35 KB, +3%]: Tuesday, 3 August 2004 Version 2.6 [37 KB, +6%]: Friday, 17 September 2004 Version 2.7 [38 KB, +3%]: Wednesday, 26 January 2005 Version 2.8 [39 KB, +3%]: Saturday, 28 May 2005 [Ramble OFF]