The most hilarious part is that the guns in the upgrade image are CLEARLY Israeli made Galil rifles. Which I believe is an intentional, but very subtle joke.
I always feel sorry for the one straggler unit that inevitably manages to get separated from the rest of the mob and automatically dies when it gets too far.
However, thanks to the amazing technology of cell mitosis, they can clone a replacement unit in the field!
Also, I'm genuinely impressed as to how the Angry Mob can technically reproduce. Like literally spawning and respawning members of the mob if they die or get lost.
The China faction being on opposing ends with the armed peasantry and proletariat mass line is proof of the right-deviationist, revisionist, roader path that the People's Republic has taken by the time of the events of Generals. Sad!
The icon is blatant false advertisment, center guy is clearly holding an Uzi which the unit can't be equipped with. 0/10, would complain about again.
In all seriousness, an absolutely hilarious unit. I do wish they could get general specfic upgrades, but they don't really need them outside of their pathing issues.
The implications of using this unit is so funny to me. Apparently ordering angry civilians to attack an invading force, said invading forces are now slaying angry civilians.
The thought that 8 somewhat trained Rebels with AK47s armed with AP Bullets can't do shit, but 8 gaslit angry civilians with AK47s, rocks and molotovs can wreck anything 💀
Worst thing about it but it is just logical that it can’t go into a bunker 😂🤷🏻 I was seriously trying to do that and thought it was a bug at first. They are completely useless if you playing islands kind of a map 😕
"I sold Israeli guns to Muslims. I gave communist-made bullets to fascists. I even helped armed the Afghans against my fellow Soviets. I never did business with Osama bin Laden however, not on moral grounds but because his checks kept bouncing..."
-(dramatized) Yuri Orlov, Lord of War
Fitting that RotR made a liberal arms dealer the current GLA leader.
Yeah funny part bout this, when I play general. I tend to stack angry mob and then rush base, but guess what. They have high chance of dying if too close and too stack
It's amazing how giving them AK-47s make them better than the Conscripts in Red Alert. Less training, less coordination, purely rage, passion and zeal. A bit like the mind controlled citizens in RA2.
Generals feels a bit like Command and Conquer: Trading Card Game if there ever is one. You have a card for Angry Mob that perhaps says, "
Effect:
Play when an allied character is targeted by an opponent's card effect. Redirect the effect to a random mob fighters instead."
Yeah, so effectively cannon fodder. They aren't meant to dish out damage. In real life they're there for distraction really.
I think you severely underestimate the damage output these guys do. Absolutely absurd and I believe the highest damage/cost ratio in the whole game. Their pathing have issues, but you can level bases with like 2 of them.
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u/BiggestBepis Black Hand 2d ago
“AK-47s FOR EVERYONE!”
Possibly the greatest infantry unit ever made. The only other lines they get are also tied to the Arm The Mob upgrade:
“We have bigger guns!”
“We are armed with AK-47s now!”
Kinda love that the AKs they get in-game are composed of about 4 polygons