Palace

The Palace as it appears Prior to Patch 3 and for General Mohmar "Deathstrike"

## Introduction

The **Palace** is a tech building used by all GLA Generals. This building provides various upgrades and unlocks advanced units for any GLA faction.

## Overview

The Palace has a modern/Ancient Arabic fusion look: A rectangle-shaped building on a larger rectangular foundation with three tiny domes: the first in the left, the second in the middle, and the third in the right. The building is separated into three parts and is connected with two corridors that have two triangular arches each. Despite the structure's crude look since it is made by mellowish rock bricks (similar to several historical buildings in the Middle East), there are some aesthetics of Islamic architecture on it: The domes are in light blue, giving a hint of bright color among the dull, mellowish bricks. Besides, the floor base is made from marble decorated with bands of Islamic geometric patterns with a pond located right in front of the main door, which is also carved with curves forming a geometric shape on its "arc".

This structure holds very important blueprints and design papers to allow engineers to develop and produce more powerful units as well as construct new types of buildings (Tier 2 and beyond). It also has numerous upgrades:

* An upgrade that allows all GLA vehicles to auto repair.
* Equipping all units and buildings with Neutralizers which make them immune to their own toxins and acids.
* Replacing all normal bullets with AP ones which is more effective.
* Equipping all Suicide vehicles with a more advanced engine which make them move faster.
* Replacing all normal rockets with AP ones which is more effective.
* All snipers are equipped with high precision sniper rifles in order to increase their rate of fire and the chance to render a vehicle unmanned.
* Installation of a new type of toxins that's +25% more effective than the old one.
* All Rocket Buggies can have twice more ammo.

The Palace can also be garrisoned by a total of 5 infantry which can make it a very reliable defense structure so placing in the front of your base can easily repel any horde of units the enemy might throw at you (unless they bring in artillery that can outrange the Palace).

## Upgrades

* **Junk Repair** - All vehicles auto repair.
* **Neutralizers** **(Thrax only)** - Your toxins and acids become harmless for your own and Allied units and buildings.
* **AP Bullets (all except Thrax) -**+25% damage bonus to Technical, Quad Cannon, Rebel (if playing as Huchum) and Warrior (if playing as Kassad).
* **Turbodiesel Engine (Juhziz only)** - +20% speed to Bomb Truck, Suicide Scorpion and Ratel.
* **AP Rockets (Huchum and Kassad only)** - +25% damage to all rocket attacks.
* **High Precision Sniper rifle (Kassad only) -**Assassins gain 10% chance to kill driver when firing at vehicles. Jarmen Kell gets 10% more attack range, 10% more rate of fire and 10% higher Kill Driver ability recharge rate.
* **Anthrax Beta (Huchum only)** - +25% damage bonus to all toxin units.
* **Buggy ammo (Kassad only)** - +100% Rocket Buggy ammo.

## Assessment

Pros:

* Unlocks all advanced units, even those which need to reach Rank 5.
* Can be garrisoned by up to 5 infantry who can also fire out of it.

Cons:

* Requires Rank 3.
* Can be infiltrated.
* Can only be built once.

## Trivia

* The Palace may be an allusion to 2003's invasion on Iraq, as Saddam was accused of hiding his weapon of mass destruction in one of his palaces. Real life palace construction would be much more luxurious and elegant, with little consideration to the building's durability (other than longevity) or any other purpose.
* The Palace somehow resembles a bit like the interior of the Ringford Palace of Kingdom Ringford Forest (one of the faction realm kingdoms in the world Erion) by through the looks of it's passage archs and it's styled floors without those decals, this kingdom faction is from the game *Odin Sphere*.