C&C 4 Unit Profile - GDI Kodiak

[Sonic 301]

The Official C&C Site is now featuring the unit profile for GDI's Battlecruiser, otherwise known as the GDI Kodiak. As always this profile features a short in game video, concept art and extra information. Here is a sample....

 

It wasn't until the aftermath of TW3 that the GDI Council rethought this position. Scrin Devastators and Planetary Assault Carriers were powerful enough to devastate even the most heavily defended GDI installations and were more than capable of withstanding prolonged anti-aircraft fire. Once the smoke cleared, the renewed need for large scale air superiority became self-evident, as even GDI's storied Mammoth Tank were less than capable against a heavily armored aerial opponent. With the initial construction of the Tiberium Control Network already underway, the GDI Council was able to free up enough resources to order the development of new aircraft proficient enough to match (or better) their Scrin opposite numbers.

Click here for the full GDI Kodiak profile.

[Gben 20]

I saw this and had to check... it's a good looking unit but never seems to be effective in practice for me. I don't seem them too much on the battlefield, compare with Nod's Leviathan's. Perhaps I'm just fooled by the visual damage effect of the flames....

 

As a capital ship - it just seems weak.

Are there any Kodiak fans out there (not art fans - gamers I mean!)?

[Malevolence 6]

Finally some updates! They seem to nerf down on the Kodiak's firepower since the beta.

[ill-lushtrator 0]

I am not usually the kind to write comments about whether a certain unit is OP or not, but my personal observation (it may be flawed) is that the Kodiak is actually quite sturdy as a Support class unit on its own. I think the main issue is that since there is certain limit where you can build units, the Kodiak being the most CP-expensive unit, it's not easy to build a lot of Kodiaks at once, and is usually best complimented with other ships... like Paladins and Hammerheads for example (I'm just saying only).

 

That reminds me, I think it was one particular mission in GDI campaign, where you have to destroy 4 Defense Crawlers before you can escort an Armadillo unit in to the base, I think it was during the second part of the mission where the center part of the map where you encounter Kodiak spam. And it's like after completing the first half of that said mission, you're given only Refractors, Zone Raiders and Mastodons. Well, during my first run, I got almost all my units killed by these Kodiaks. So it does say a lot about the Kodiak in terms of firepower. I did try playing the same mission over and over again to see a Mastodon VS a Kodiak one-on-one, the Kodiak does win in that aspect.

 

When I fully leveled up to LV20 and replayed that same mission with Support class, I surprisingly found the Kodiak quite fun to use (in Single Player only, for odd reasons). I found it funny to see enemy Kodiak vs my Kodiak with my own combination of Tier-2/3 Support units.

 

I have never used the Kodiak in any Multiplayer mode yet... I don't have the time to go online to compete with others, and gathering enough Upgrade Points does seem to take quite some time before locking Tier 3 in such fast-paced battle... But I still love to see Kodiaks in Single Player for reasons I can't explain... it's just, well, fun to me. LOL!

Edited April 21, 2010 by ill-lushtrator

[Inferno 22]

On that mission, Titans absolutely rape Kodiaks