Magnetron

The Magnetron is a Yuri artillery vehicle in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge.
== Official description ==
==Game unit==
Magnetrons are armed with a magnetic beam that can target vehicles and structures. When used against fixed buildings, the beam deals direct damage, similar to the artilleries deployed by other factions like Prism Tank or V3 Rocket Launcher. When used on vehicles, the Magnetron instead lifts and drags the target towards itself. While lifted this way, the vehicle is immobilized and cannot use its weapon (except for infantry units garrisoning inside a Battle Fortress). It is considered an air unit and become vulnerable to anti-air attacks like Gatling Tanks. Through micromanagement, a Magnetron can destroy enemy vehicles by dropping them over water (if they are non-amphibious) or onto a building or another vehicle (which may also take damage or even be destroyed based on the current hit point of the dropped vehicle). A ship dragged ashore by this method is likewise destroyed.
Magnetrons can also be used, under certain circumstances, to move other vehicles over otherwise impassable gaps, such as cliffs, quickly. If Magnetron targets a ship controlling auxiliary drones, those drones will immediately crash. Lifting up a ship being attacked by Giant squid will cause the squid to release its hold. It can target and lift a Harrier or Black Eagle from their airfield and gently puts it down on the ground, but if the artillery cancels the beam mid-attack, the jet will crash and be destroyed. This sudden crash does not happen with other aircraft like NightHawk transport, Siege chopper, or grounded Kirov airship or Floating disc.
==Counters==
The Magnetron is helpless against infantry and aircraft. Realistically, Magnetrons themselves cannot harm units. They may only attack one unit at a time, so swarming them with a group of tanks may also be effective. Guardian GIs and Tesla troopers are a particular threat to it, since they are both anti-tank specialists. Magnetrons are also incapable of crushing infantry.
== AI behavior ==
Magnetrons controlled by the AI have the following attack patterns:
=== Medium/Hard ===
* 1x guarding Psychic Towers
* 4x targeting base defenses, accompanied by 4 Brutes, 2 Lasher Tanks, 2 Gattling Tanks and 1 Mastermind
=== Hard ===
* 1x targeting vehicles, accompanied by 4 Lasher Tanks, 1 Gattling Tank and 2 Masterminds
==Changelog==
*Yuri's Revenge patch 1.001:
**when a Magnetron levitates and then drops a vehicle over a high bridge, the vehicle no longer falls through the bridge.
**Magnetron will no longer become confused and continuously pick up and drop an enemy vehicle.
**elite Magnetron's firing range is no longer shorter than that of a standard one.
==Quotes==
===When selected===
*Magnetron on standby.
*Magnetic field commencing.
*Need a little force?
*Generators ready.
*Point me in the right direction.
===When moving===
*Shifting polarity.
*Opposites attract!
*We need no compass!
*My power is irresistible.
*Moving within range.
===When ordered to attack units===
*Reel them in!
*This is a tow zone!
*Coils powering up!
*Let's bring them closer to us!
*Maximum charge!
*Enemy locked.
=== When ordered to attack buildings ===
* Coils powering up!
* Maximum charge!
* Enemy locked.
==Gallery==
Magnetron_-_Early.jpg|Early concept art by TJ Frame
Magnetron Concept Mid.jpg|Mid concept art by TJ Frame
Magnetron.jpg|Final concept art by TJ Frame
Magnetron Voxel Render.jpg|Voxel
Magnetron Render.jpg|Installer slide
===Cameos===
The English, French, and German versions share the same cameos.
==Trivia==
*The Magnetron is similar to the Disruptor that GDI used in the Second Tiberium War, only differences being the Disruptor fired sound waves, not psychic-"magnetic" waves that only lift target-vehicle, not anything and everything within range like regular magnetic waves would.
*If a Magnetron lifts a landed NightHawk Transport or siege chopper, the pilots of those units will scream when dropped as if they were shot down.
*A magnetron is actually the part of a microwave oven that heats up the food (by heating up the polarized molecules in the food; like water and sugar molecules, but not fat molecules since their very molecular structure, long chains of Hydrogen and Carbon makes them non-polar. The reason butter still melts (and may explode) via microwave oven is because of the water molecules in the butter).
**By that logic, this tank should be cooking infantry, either burning them alive or heat them to the point where the water molecules go so hot they separate (like butter explodes in microwave when it stays too long) but be harmless to vehicles.
***At most cause some sparking on tank chassis where it has pointy bits (arcing between protrusions; the higher the voltage/energy given by EM-waves the bigger arc) and/or deflect the EM-waves to the target tank's surroundings (flat metal surfaces reflect/deflect EM-waves, and if those surfaces are flat enough they even reflect back the visible part of the EM-wave and function as a mirror).
Category:Yuri's Revenge vehicles