American Command Center

The USA Command Center as it appears in the original Generals game

## Introduction

The **American Command Center** is the HQ building for all USA factions. It is the most important structure to be found in an American base.

## Overview

The American Command Center uses a sleek and simple shape as its design: an L-shaped building with a semi-cylinder on a floor base that is formed by rectangles with irregular sizes. It has a radar to unveil its location as well as tracking its vehicles via GPS. It has two compartments: a mini vehicle factory and a communications center: the vehicle factory produces dozers for base construction, while the communications center calls for reinforcements and support powers. To protect the precious technology blueprints and confidential data from being acknowledged by enemy forces, the command center has various encryption protocols, identification technologies and "kill switches" to avoid enemies from using the technology and equipment against the faction that owns it.

Depending on the faction, the command center has some extra upgrades and stuff:

* Alexander: the mini vehicle factory has a slightly futuristic design (possibly to produce heavy dozers). Can be upgraded with a tall chaingun for defense purposes.
* Townes: twin red lasers appear on the roof of the middle compartment and below right. Can be upgraded with a tall laser turret for defense purposes.
* Granger: two helicopter blades on the roof of the mini vehicle factory. Can be upgraded with a tall chaingun for defense purposes.
* Ironhand: two small cranes at the ends of the communications center. Can be upgraded with a security drone armed with a plasma blaster for defense purposes.
* Ironside: the classic look, similar to vanilla version.

Along with the Dozer, the Command Center is the first building to appear on the map at the start of the game. Just like its Chinese counterpart, the American Command Center can produce dozers, upgrade itself with security measures and it controls the General's Powers. It also has the particularity to have a radar by default - unlike China who needs to upgrade its Command Center with a radar or the GLA who needs to produce a Radar Van for that purpose - so the player will have the advantage of the terrain at the very start with good micromanagement. Besides, since it is the most important structure for an American faction, it cannot be captured by the enemy, he/she will need to capture one of your dozers to have access to your arsenal. But be careful, you can only have one Command Center at a time so if it gets destroyed, be sure to have at least one dozer left to build another one, otherwise all will be lost for you.

## Assessment

Pros:

* Cannot be captured.
* Produces construction units.
* Can upgrade itself with security measures.
* Controls the General's Powers.
* Has a radar by default.

Cons:

* There can be only one Command Center at a time.
* The player will lose the game if it is destroyed and there are no dozers left to build another one.
* Can be infiltrated by Saboteurs to have General's Powers countdown reset.

## Trivia

* The Command Centers of the individual American generals are only differentiated by a symbol printed on the ground as well as a personified decoration.
* The true reason behind the Command Center's capturing immunity is because of a bug in which a player cannot use his/her General's Powers until the structure is destroyed if he/she captures it. It is unfixable due to engine limitations so the developers took out the option to avoid the bug from happening. However, lore wise, we can assume that the Command Center has various encryption protocols, identification technologies and "kill switches" to avoid enemies from using the technology and equipment against the faction that owns it. However, the GLA Factory can be captured, which acts as a de facto Command Center, however, the Command Truck, which holds all of the GLA's support powers, cannot be built from a captured factory.

## Gallery

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