GDI Base Defenses - Command and Conquer - Tiberium Lore 

The fact that someone can actually make consistently engaging documentaries from these games, is endlessly fascinating to me. Thank you!

you amaze me every time. you somehow manage to make a 20 min video about something that could be explained in 5 min and keep it interesting even for c&c veterans

This man is keeping my love for C&C alive, thanks for the hard work dude!

I am still convinced that Tib wars GDI defenses are supposed to be used in tandem with walls. I mean, the watchtower and sonic emitter height just makes this obvious. It is unfortunate that we can't build walls in the base Tib wars game without mods.

It's always a good day when Jethild uploads!

As much as I vastly prefered the Towers from Tiberian Sun, I gotta admit that lining up rows of Cannons in Tiberium Wars feels surprisingly satisfying. It feels like I'm mounting the guns of a battleship, only on land! Still, Towers and Walls for the win. I was really bummed GDI (aka, EA) abandoned their use on the frontline at the Third Tiberium War! The new anti-infantry gun was a great addition (cheap, effective, can still shoot over walls), but that's about it!

I like Watchtower's shooting sound but i honestly prefer NOD's defenses because lasers

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One thing about the firestorm defense. There IS one weapon that can break through it. GDI’s rail gun that Ghoststalker and Mammoth MkII used could shoot right through it. The shot wouldn’t damage the segment, but could hit anything beyond it.

The sole reason I tune in is to be called commander or general, we need you as an AI for a spin-off game, it’s amazing how dedicated you are to C&C I love it

In all my years of playing C&C, I've never once utilized base defense upgrades. I didn't know there were upgrades. The amount of times my bases and defenses fell hurts me even more now.

Global DEFENSE Initiative: the name obliges to something. 😉 Anyway, it's always good to watch another of your C&C documentaries Jethild. Thank you! 👍

Always enjoyed GDI for their ability to make solid trench lines

I appreciate how you try to explain things from both the Wattsonian and Doyleist perspectives where there are inconsistencies. The Advanced Guard Tower from Tiberian Dawn could have been an easy write off as game engine limitations but you made efforts to address it from an in universe explanation and I really like that. Keep up the good work man, your videos are constantly rekindling my adoration for this series.

One of the few channels that the bell is on for Go Jethild !

The Firestorm Generator was resurected in the Yuri's Revenge Mod Mental Omega as a Fohen Defensive structure. I wonder if Mental Omega deserves a look into?

new Kane's Wrath video from Jethild? what a lovely day

It ' s always great to see a new video on this Channel especially if it's about Tiberian lore! I strongly anticipate the same topic but about the Brotherhood side

Nice work on gdi defences

I have always found GDI having cheaper but more numerous defenses, while Nod has always had more "Ommf" when it came to defenses

As an long time Command & Conquer fan, watching videos like this really does bring back happy memories. Keep up the good work.

For the tib dawn AGT i think the better interpretation is that the missile is ejected and then fires up its thrusters sort of like how some modern heavy ATGMs like the javelin operate, it also explains why its capable of attacking helicopters

Jethild vids are those that you click like, bevor it even begins, because you KNOW that it will be good.

Thank you for bringing all series of C&C together in videos like this!

Firestorm also got used up faster based on how many enemies were killed. Which is really annoying. I liked playing maps where you could build up a lot of units, and people would make dozens of air units. They were cheap to make, so it was actually cost effective to get half or more destroyed so that the remainder could bomb structures. 😐

Ah, yes.... 😁 The construction yards of the 2nd Tiberium War received a "patch" which mean that concrete walls could be built in lines of up to 5, rather than paying for and placing each wall segment individually. 😳😅 Making it easier & cheaper to wall off your construction yard.

A very cool video. I dont play the game but i just love when people explain Games Mechanics and Buildings in such a in Universe type of way!

7:26 why don't more games do this? Being able to directly integrate defenses into walls

You're my hero Sir !

Nod base defence is fascinating as well

Base defenses getting a lore video. Not something I ever thought I'd see.

You have an amazing ability to make a short topic into a long one, and keep it interesting. Even for people like me who have played the games for years (In other words, you did a wonderful job)!

Another amazing watch, your the best Jethild!

Thank you, you in particular and the cnc community, for keeping this franchise alive. Without you, I don't think we would've ever seen a remaster to one of my favourite childhood game.

I kinda think the weird view-port on the top o GDI's TS-era concrete walls is meant to be a viewport/fireport for titans. The walls are notable shorter than the comptowers and the sloped surfaces likely help reflect incoming AT rounds, which makes me think it was designed to be low enough to allow the tall Titan to fire through/over it.

Keep up the great work man. So far, you and No Strings Prd are my favorite C&C lore channels.

Recovering from surgery, and this is exactly the kind of distraction i need. Bingeing your CnC stuff: very high quality! Love it! Shared with all my friends. 🙂 thank you for giving me some comfort and food for thought while healing: greatly appreciated! Please, keep up the great work! PS: will you be covering the Red Alert stuff too? (If not now, then planned down the line?) That's be fun.

4:35 Allow me to disagree. The AGT is equipped with VLS(Vertical Launch System) akin to either Crotale/VT-1 or Tor/Kinzhal and capable of engaging ground targets unlike irl counterparts(meaning that it's closer to ADATS or Hellfire II dual purpose variants).

As someone who grew up playing Westwood, Bioware, and Interplays back catalogue on an old Dell tower that my dad gave me as a kid. I really love that someone has the kind of passion that I have for my all time favorite series of all time. Much love brother!

I always liked to think that the Advanced Guard Tower used vertically launched missiles fired from launchers hidden just behind the back of the sprite we see. Building the component towers in game always felt like a pain! Love the modular concept in lore however. Watchtowers have a good functionality, but I'm not personally the biggest fan of the design, looks too spindly for my comfort. The Guardian Turrets are cool, love the railgun turrets. But with GDI using some form of anti-all or anti-vehicle missile defences like the Adv Guard Tower or RPG Component Tower I still feel like they should be using some form of anti-tank missile or rocket. Perhaps a future title will have a range of defences for GDI or spread among the sub-factions. I'm not a big fan of the AA Battery for anti-aircraft. Much prefer GDI to use a proper SAM system, or a duel gun-missile system if they must have a close defence cannon like those.

Amazing work jethild👍

outstanding work as usual! Thanks for uploading it!

I was trying to work on a story line for a second Scrin Invasion, for GDI they were forced to retreat to the Blue Zones which had been fortified in the interim years while keeping the Threshold Tower contained behind a network of firestorm walls and heavy defenses until the Scrin found a way to infiltrate and shut them down. I did figure out how to even make the Crawlers into part of the type of conflict where GDI and Nod forces outside their fortified territories,

Thank you for this video Intel Officer Jethild! Awesome and informative as always! Keep it up!

Functionally, I also view the firestorm defense and walls as not working out well on the new game engine at the time, especially when dealing with the sort of terrain that was present in 3 and Kanes Wrath. I feel if we ever get a new C&C, the ingame maps would need a lot of work to them if walls and such made a return which wouldn’t be impossible with a grid like system but something that may prove to be too much of a pain to do.

You never fail to disappoint Jethild :)

The best defense is a good offense, so build those walls inside the AIs base and prevent them from doing anything. Gotta love CnC 1 AI. Also I'm convinced that Guard Towers don't actually have a machine gun, but instead just kill infantry with how absurdly loud they are (Seriously look it up, just turn down the volume...a lot).

Thank you for keeping the C&C alive. I'll never get tired of listening of C&C's lores, they're so interesting... Shame EA doesn't think so

I got to make a joke, Tiberium content is like my chronominers farming that near depleted gold field, getting like 20 credits ree.

Really wish there was someone who would get into detail on how to properly use sandbags in CNCR-TD

Þis man here - should be called: þe official C&C library, for making such splendid in-depþ content. Great job.

Go you! I love how you can take things like these defensive structures and amke them a story bit.

I wish I had found out about these videos sooner. So much detail, and lore that I didn't actually know even as a fan of the C&C universe. I hope there will be more.

This is wonderful, you even got the GOAT base defense: pavement.

This shows just how embedded in our gaming consciousness C&C has become. It's always fascinating delving into the lore of the GDI v NOD/SCRIN conflicts.

Such a master piece video and game, thumbs up.

Very cool and nice vid Bro !

loving these

im suprise he keeps pumping c&c videos for a long time now

I’m guessing you will also do nod defences too. After that, can you maybe do a video on sensors, such as the mobile sensory array, and the sensors used on base defences Awesome video by the way.

Love these vids!

Jethild maybe they already asked you that,but with Tempest Rising en route will we have this kind of documentaries for that game? It would be really cool IMO

This is a pretty awesome series you have got going on. Who knew fictional documentaries would be such a hit?

Always amazing!

I always edit the Firestorm Generator to run infinitely when activated, like it does in some missions. Really fun in Skirmish and Singleplayer!

forgot to mention about the scrin corruptors and black hands for clearing gdi foxholes and can occupied by either nod or scrin 17:44

Great video! ^_^

Gotta love how the 4th war is treated like the fight club by this channel. Like a true fan of C&C.

I thought this existed but it didnt and I didn't realise I wasn't subbed so, yeah i can't wait for more!

I enjoy a lot watching your videos, even tho i never played CnC, only the Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge

There actually was a ground launched tomohawk in use from 1983-1991 called the BGM 109, they were only discontinued due to the INF treaty

It’s curious that thanks to scrin’s invation the sonic emitors change the one tool for control the tiberium zone to the best defense of the GDI.

I love your presentation of these. Might I suggest coveting Dune RTS games? The narrative in them takes liberties from the books, yes but a lot of people love dune for their RTS games.

New video! YAY

1) The Soviets, ironically enough, had observation towers in forward and field bases that acted as the precursor to GDI's guard towers. They were unarmed observation posts, however, with no fortification whatsoever (seen in a Red Alert cutscene). 2a) GDI and Nod both used guard towers, though the latter were mainly concrete bunkers/fortifications. We see this in Renegade. 2b) "Guard Tower" in the First Tiberium War actually was an umbrella term for many different types: it ranged from the fortified wooden towers we see in cutscenes to the concrete-like, Renegade-style in-game sprites. Outside of the concrete towers we see in Renegade, GDI also had another guard tower that was basically a crude, open top, elevated wooden platform with an automated, double-barreled chaingun on top. It's still in the Renegade game files and is used on custom maps like the Nod Turret (which it may have been intended to be a counterpart to) is in role on official maps. I find it interesting that they actually reduced the caliber from 30mm to 20mm, but I suppose that one being a conventional ammunition type and the other a more lethal coilgun projectile would make such a thing a moot point.

Two 50mm guns. Used primarily against infantry. Laughs in vulcan overkill.

NICE C&C content

The best formation of defenses on my part that maximizes efficiency in Tiberium Wars in anti-infantry in the front, anti-armor behind, and anti-air behind the anti-armor.

It pains me so much to see renegade gameplay where the camera is not locked to the vehicle turret.

would love to see you do the same video for the other factions.

Great and informative video as always, but you forgot about the GDI bunker.

excellent video as always, but calling the vulcan cannon a minigun is not something i expected from you...

GDI: When the bass hops. The Crystals drop.

It saddens me that EA leaves the series languishing in limbo. I love every one of your videos, thank you!

Let the greatness continue

14:30 I had a game where there I took the face a a mountain with these turrets. The enemy sent a full wave of heavy armor and it was all wiped out in seconds due to the sheer number of turrets firing at them.

Point of order, Intelligence Analyst Jethild; foxhole fighting positions can be repaired, but it can only be done by a Steel Talon Repair APC.

Hey J, about the advanced guard tower-tomahawk missiles issue, I believe that's the designers having fun. Just like Rifleman have gau miniguns but look like their holding m-16's lol. I believe the missiles used are based on the 70mm rocket weapons systems. To attack both ground forces as well as Low flying aerial threats. Not really sure but that's what I'd put my money on lol

Also about the Guardian Cannon... Remember when Nod used Gun Turrets to protect their bases back in the First Tiberium War?... GDI: *IT'S PAYBACK TIME!*

You're not the only one to wonder where the hell the advanced guard tower was firing its rockets/missiles from.

Thank you oh great one

Super excited knowing the Obelisk will be featured in an upcoming video lol.

Nothing beats the slow but inevitable destruction at the wake of a sonic emitter blast

I'm looking forward to see what you'll have to say regarding Nod's Base defenses

That Fire Storm Generator could of been adapted to make Shields then Personal Shields stupid Politics stopping progress because of cost. Epic video respect and keep up the epic work. Can you do a video on The Chronoshifter Gun from Red Alert 2 please.

NOD base defenses next?

The AA turret in the third is like a cross between US and Russian designs. Those pods on top look more like the sensors of the Phalanx rather than ammo pods. Also, depleted uranium and tungsten have the same density, but du had an effect where it can ignite with the air after hitting a target. Tungsten needs to be reinforced in order to better penetrate a target, decreasing it's density. DU doesn't need reinforcing for penetrating. Plus, land based Phalanx shoot explosive ammo compared to the tungsten core rounds fired from their sea based counterparts.

I would really like to see a video on MCVs. Especially the Tiberium timeline ones baffle me.

I could have sworn there was a 4th tiberium war as well, seems like there wasn't and I am wrong. It's better this way. wink wink