Galactic Battlegrounds has many new and unique ideas. You can train and control many new unit while playing this game. Since Galactic Battlegrounds is a real time strategy game, it can be vital for you to learn all services, and to send them into action against the proper enemy service in the right moment. I wanna introduce you the grenadier clone service in this article, and also my custom grenadier clone, here at CustomStarWars.

The grenadier service is very new in the world of games, which is pretty weird knowing that service has and will have a bigger importance in the reality. This service is able to launch highly explosive ballistic charges above walls, trees, and other kind of landmarks, right in the neck of the enemy troopers hiding in cover. It was first deployed in the 2nd World War. You may remember those small grenade launchers, in which the soldiers loaded some grenades, which loudly screaming flew up in the air, and fell in the trenches, in the ruins of houses, or in the forest. The grenadier could modify the trajectory by changing the angular offset of the launcher. These grenade launchers were often loaded with a "srapnel" charge, which made its effect more powerful giving it a bigger damage in the target area within a bigger radius. It was a small weapon, but everybody feared it, there was no place to hide from it! As I can recall Call of Duty and in Hidden and Dangerous second World War games that was a mission to get rid of those grenadiers, who were keep bombing our men. So other games use these special soldiers, but for some reason Star Wars games haven't applied this unique service. Yet.

Till Lucastarts finally gave a chance for the grenadiers in the game Galactic Battlegrounds. They use different grenades, these are not the usual and known handgranades. Thermal detonators and other handgranades are common in the Star Wars games. Even Kyle Katarn used those handgranades in the Jedi Knight series, and Jaden Korr in Jedi Academy. Qui-Gon Jinn, Padme Amidala, and the young Obi-wan Kenobi also applied handgranades in the Phantom Menace game, and standard armature of every single soldier in Battlefront 1 and 2 series, and Scorch and the fellow Deltas also threw some dozens of handgranades in the game Republic Commando. And in the KotOR series we learned the full scale of different types of handgranades, because we were able to use at least 15 kind of very special handgranades, from sonic to the paralyzing to the ion handgranade. I have mentioned for you the handgranades of the Force Commander heavy troopers, these are effective against shielded and/or armored vehicles, but they still need to be thrown by hand. These are very similar to the Galactic Battlegrounds grenadier service, but still not the same! Because Galactic Battlegrounds' grenadiers carry their grenade launchers on their back, which they place on the ground when the target is close, drop a grenade in it, and start bombing the enemy. A single grenadier trooper is surprisingly able to deal a serious damage on a big armored squadron! Of course only the AI has such powerful grenadiers against the human player. I have tried to convert a AI controlled grenadier with one of my Jedis, and turned him against his former fellows. Guess what! He dealt five (!) hit point, despite he was dealing fifty against my men previously... So the AI is a big cheater!

The clone grenadier service can be trained in the troop center. Their price is 90 food and 40 nova each. You can see their training button in the picture, I point it with the arrow cursor. A pop up menu will inform you about their advantages and disadvantages, and also it will tell you what upgrades will be available for them in the future, and which buildings have effect on them.

You can upgrade their grenades, too. It is getting a bigger damage radius, twice as big as the initial. Also, it will be more powerful, causing a larger scale of destruction amongst armored vehicles. You can even develop a faster grenade launcher, which can launch grenades 10 percent faster. A marching line of armored division, or a bigger group of fighting walkers in a small place are ideal targets for the grenadiers. They are ineffective against walls, and not to effective against infantry, because they can strafe away from the ballistic charges quickly. And, the range of the grenade is less then a totally developed rifleman, so as everybody else, the grenadiers are effective against a certain service, while they are vulnerable from an other one. In our case they are very good against armored vehicles, and walkers, but (as the grenadiers don't have any hand weapon) they cannot protect themselves (too well) against long ranged infantrymen, and bounty hunters. While they cannot do anything against the airplanes. So it is easy, you can attack them with your fighters from above, and clear them from the battleground before they can approach your armored vehicles, because a fully upgraded grenadier can destroy even your strongest walkers!

I wanted to immortalize them, so I custom made an orange colored grenadier clone from my Galactic Battlegrounds clone army, who is kneeling by his grenade launcher, and targeting the enemy. There is the Republican sign on it. The clone's armor is black, but he is not a shadow grenadier clone trooper. J The orange areas on his armor differentiates his legion, which can be set by the gamer by selecting his/her favorite color, making your army more special, and unique.

You can ONLY play with these grenadier clones in the Galactic Battlegrounds Clone Campaign. They have many funny, unique, and soldierly reporting when you click on them, or when you send them to a location to attack an enemy unit. Here you can hear some cool grenadier clone MP3 comments, and reporting ins from the game Galactic Battlegrounds:

WHEN CLICKING THEM:

Grenadier reporting for duty, General.
Grenadier here!
Grenade detonating charges.
Synchronizing explosives.
Explosives at the ready.
Yes, Sir!


ATTACKING WITH THEM:

For the Republic!
Grenade!
Destroying target!
Take cover!
Heads up!
Reducing them to rubble!



As I like to play with the Republic, and I chose an orange color for my clone legion, please take a look at my orange custom grenadier clone photos! This guy often suffers damages from his own grenade shots, because of the detonation, and because of the debris of the detonated vehicles, but his thick chest armor, his helmet, and other armor parts can provide him a quite good protection, however he is still burned, and battle damaged at several location all over his body.

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