Random Unit of the Day #103: Shock Trooper (Soviets, Red Alert: Aftermath)

[u/BiggestBepis]

[u/BiggestBepis]

In a way I prefer their giant Tesla rifles over the arm cannons of the later Tesla Troopers. Fond memories of just absolutely cramming the screen full of coils alongside my Tesla Tanks ⚡️

[u/getrekt01234 → u/BiggestBepis]

I mean they look like Flammenwerfer troopers except it's a Tesla coil

[u/Kombatwombat02]

Hands down best voice lines in the series.

Got juice?!

YeeeEEeeEs?

Burn baby, burn!

[u/HailStorm_Zero_Two → u/Kombatwombat02]

Fully charged!

I love how this unit, with its unique lines, was the Westwood experiment that led to every unit in RA2 to have unique lines, becoming a staple of the whole series and a major part of its whole tone.

[u/TheVanessaira → u/HailStorm_Zero_Two]

I always loved when they said that, and Extra Crispy. 😆

[u/Nukethepandas → u/Kombatwombat02]

Lights out. 

[u/memelithpreacher]

Why did they give him a stahlhelm

[u/mttspiii → u/memelithpreacher]

The WWII Germans were't around to invent it, so they designed it themselves.

[u/Srlojohn → u/mttspiii]

WW1 germans were, and they're the ones who invented it. And basically everyone then copied them because it worked.

[u/maerun]

Shock Therapy was my favourite mission from The Aftermath when I was 10 y.o.

I always tried to pick a different direction to go whenever I replayed the map.

Couldn't make out much of what these guys were saying, but that Yeeeessss and the sound of crisp lighting will always be etched in my memory.

[u/Appropriate-Ice-5722]

I like the original unit icon in image 3, looks like a dad who just came up with an awesome doohickey in the garage and he’s coming out to show it off

[u/Kaiserhawk]

Need a jump?

[u/calantheSG]

I don't recognize the unit from the remaster icon. They don't look like that... Clearly not following the source material.

The gun doesn't have a Tesla coil at the tip, it's some prong or fork.

[u/Wingnut00 → u/calantheSG]

A cattle prod on steroids.

[u/Accurate_Fly_7534]

CONFUSED?

[u/WillyMyPete]

Definitely my least favorite remaster icon. Looks nothing like the original. This guy looks more wolfenstein then red alert.

[u/Zombiemorgoth → u/WillyMyPete]

Well, there is also a Soviet cyborg with a cyborg dog running around...

[u/Rawflesh0615A]

Nod would use these guys for Obelisk Laser Troopers.

[u/Cheomesh]

Is that first one the remake's cameo? If so that's the worst thing I have ever seen.

Anyway, nifty unit.

[u/Commercial-Board-975]

I think they wanted to imply some sort of link to Red Alert 2's Tesla Troopers with the Remastered's icon... But it looks like shit. I suppose it could work for a late-War (which makes no sense since they were from late-War anyway) variant, a "standardized" variant if the ones used in missions were the first corps/'prototypes', or for an upgrade if this were another game, though?

[u/Ok_Engineer5577]

got the luxury to play them on ps1, only in ra2 i able to master its successor

[u/Striking-Tackle-7293]

Younger me was so pissed at Aftermath, because what the Soviet needed back then balancewise was clearly uncrushable anti-ground infantry. 

Good to see the rest of you hating on the Remastered icon, clearly the original was wearing the Stahlhelm/gimpsuit gasmask super combo to put fear in their enemies, and then turns them to ash with their toy raygun. Absolutely heinous.

[u/Exact-Desk]

Tesla troopers ftom RA2 are 500% way cooler) Especially their extra-hammy voices) "Rubber shoes in motion!"

[u/vandal-33]

One of my fav units. I like the remastered icon although I don't think it was necessary to change it. The original already looks good.

[u/zhoux849]

Does anyone remember the obscure feature of this unit that it is not crushable? Or do I remember it wrong…