RA3 Unit Profile: Allies Cryocopter

[Sonic 298]

Time to check out another unit in Red Alert 3 with another unit profile on the Official Red Alert 3 Site. This one features the Allies Cryocopter. As always, this profile has a short in game video, concept art and extra information. Here is a sample....

 

The cryocopter is stable and dependable as helicopters go. An ancillary benefit of its sophisticated on-board systems is a surprisingly strong fuselage, proven to be able to withstand direct fire. Of course, their durability is hardly what makes them so impressive. That credit goes primarily to the aircraft's custom cryobeam, used to draw out all heat in an area while spraying it with pure water and a burst of liquid helium, causing a flash-freeze that can encase an entire enemy tank in a block of solid ice.

 

Frozen targets are effectively thrust into a state of suspended animation. The effects of the freezing gradually wear off and the target snaps out of the effect all at once, with no recollection of the passage of time, as though waking from slumber. In fact, a majority of test subjects reported feeling unusually relaxed after this fugue state. Although research findings concerning the long-term effects of the freezing are inconclusive as of yet, the cryobeam has provisionally been deemed "perfectly safe" by manufacturer FutureTech Corporation. However, the Amsterdam-based defense research firm has disclosed that frozen targets do tend to become extremely brittle, such that a basic concussive impact could cause them irreparable harm. One test subject unfortunately was shattered to pieces under a routine inspection, calling FutureTech's safety claims to draw some flak. Allied military command took an interest in licensing the cryocopter at around the same time.

Click here for the full Allies Cryocopter profile.

[Silverthorn 0]

Seen already, just another supporting unit.

 

"Honey, I shrunk the Apoc tank!"

[recover 2]

Key features:

* Heated leather seats

lol

[rEdaSbLood 1]

this things looks really nifty

[Luk3us 63]

I feel sorry for the Apoc in that. He should have turned AROUND and run away, but lol.

[Nmenth 292]

stranger still is the cryocopter's strong homogenous residual-interactive neutron kinetic (or "S.H.R.I.N.K.") beam.

 

I wonder how long it took them to come up with that acronym...

[Silverthorn 0]

Lol, is just as difficult as making up acronyms for the Kids Next Door cartoon's weapons, except KND's is pure random words.

[Nmenth 292]

Lol, is just as difficult as making up acronyms for the Kids Next Door cartoon's weapons, except KND's is pure random words.

 

These words aren't much better than random, it doesn't sound very military at any rate.

 

Strong - strong... wow, what depth.

Homogenous - all same thing.

Residual - influencing surroundings.

Interactive - in this context, a synonym of residual, really.

Neutron - the neutral nuclei of an atom.

Kinetic - the energy of motion.

[Silverthorn 0]

Yeap, you can say that again, after the KND ones are just well, not just random, but sometimes childish. True, it's not much of a military either if you ask me, I I mean, ask you. ^^

[Pyrodaimon 0]

Hey, at least the KND's acronyms make sense and, sometimes, even (shortened) sentences.

 

The SHRINK's acronym (after seeing nmenth's explanation) doesn't say what it does to the poor neutrons.

 

I like the unit but the shrinking ray could have been easily associated with cold IMO. Cold shrinks things and all of us men know that.

Edited September 15, 2008 by Pyrodaimon

[Silverthorn 0]

Make sense alright, but still, I found SHRINK is even more logical to me than the KND ones.

[CnC-Fin 0]

Hahaa! S.H.R.I.N.K. beam!