China

This is a sub-page of Proto:Command & Conquer: Generals/Build 98 Alpha/Models.

Buggy#

The Buggy was a Chinese unit. It appears alongside the Chinese Scorpion in many pre-release screenshots. It was given to the GLA when the Asian Empire was redesigned into China.

Command Center#

The Chinese Command Center looks quite odd, more like a wheat silo. Strangely, the building doesn't seem to have a point of entry. It's also not based off any concept art.

Iron Dragon#

This is the Iron Dragon, which you have to capture in the Iron Dragon mission. The model exists in Zero Hour as well, but since the texture is missing there, it looks plain white.

Given its file path in Generals(Assets).gdf, this model seems to have been originally made for a NOD airplane, probably for a Tiberium styled game unrelated to Generals.

Power Plant#

A Power Plant made of bricks and wood. Presumably this faction at this stage of development had a heat-powered Power Plant instead of nuclear-powered, like in the retail version.

Predator#

This tank doesn't have a counterpart in the final game, and was removed after China was redesigned. It can be seen in the oldest prerelease screenshots of the game, probably as the main battle tank of China, then known as The Khan/Asian Empire. The USA also has a tank named Predator that uses the exact same model but retextured to fit the old USA aesthetic.

Scorpion#

Like the Buggy, the Scorpion originally used to be a Chinese tank. Note its design, with double barrels and a tail which makes it look quite a lot like an actual Scorpion, nothing like the Scorpion Tank you see in the final game. Again like the Buggy, It was given to the GLA when China was redesigned.

War Factory#

This War Factory, which is based off the concept art (minus the faction logo), shows the Asian Empire/Khan faction logo, which looks completely different from the logo in the final game. Otherwise, it shares the odd look with the Command Center.

Weapons Factory#

No idea at all what this is, perhaps a tech building. One interesting aspect is that there's a model in the game that at first looks like just a ground plane, but has an animation that shows it building up to form this Weapons Factory. This is actually quite cool, if you keep in mind that in the final game, constructing a building is nothing more than pulling the finished building through the ground.