Troop crawler

Troop crawlers are armored personnel carriers (APCs), patterned after the BTR-80, that China uses to rapidly deploy squads of infantry. Troop Crawlers emerge from the war factory with eight Red Guard already loaded inside. Troop Crawlers are also able to detect stealth units.
==Game unit==
The Troop Crawler is a fairly fast but unarmed APC, able to keep pace with China's armored vehicles and provide them with infantry support where necessary. Its ability to detect stealth units makes it useful both as a forward scout and within a base as an anti-infiltration measure. Lacking weapons, it is not designed to come into contact with heavy armor.
Troop Crawlers are designed so that if destroyed the infantry being transported would survive, but with damaged health. It also has an ambulance function, healing any infantry inside.
Troop Crawlers are an essential complement for any Chinese armored column, as their stealth detection capabilities made them especially useful against GLA factions.
Key weaknesses of the Troop Crawler are its relatively light armor and lack of defensive weapons. Another weakness was that the infantry have to dismount to engage opposing forces, exposing them to enemy fire. Interestingly, it is also a target for the Chinook's Combat Drop, which can wipe out all soldiers inside. The vehicle itself is unarmed and the standard complement of 8 Red Guards had no anti-armor defense; ideally a couple should be manually swapped out for Tank Hunters before deploying on its own. 
With a total cost of $1400, the system is quite economical; as 8 Red Guards cost $1200, the true cost of the vehicle is only $200.
==Variants==
* Assault troop transport - An advanced version used by General Shin Fai, with fire ports and a speaker tower.
CNCG1 Troop Crawlers.png|A comparison between the assault transport (left) and the regular crawler (right)
==Changelog==
*Zero Hour patch 1.01: troop crawler/FOW issue is fixed
*Zero Hour patch 1.03: 
**now contains the proper subfaction Red Guard instead of base China's
**cost increased from $1200 to $1400 (Kwai only)
==Selected Quotes==
==See also==
*Assault troop transport, Shin Fai variant
*Humvee, American counterpart
*Technical and battle bus, GLA counterparts
Category:Generals 1 vehicles