How to read this page: The values for each structure were obtained from the 1.02 Kane's Wrath XML files. The armor percentages indicate the percentage of damage the structure takes from each damage type. Something with 75% cannon armor takes 75% damage from a weapon that deals cannon damage.
The Construction Yard is the heart of the GDI base, providing structures and ground control for placing them, as well as radar. A Construction Yard can be unpacked at any time and moved to a new location as an MCV for redeployment. Selling a Construction Yard yields 1750 credits, an Engineer, and a Rifleman Squad.
MCV expansion
Expanding by moving one's MCV is often safer and more efficient than using a Surveyor.
Power Plants generate the energy needed by all GDI structures to function properly. Inexpensive and lightly armored, they are often targeted first, particularly in bases dependent on large amounts of turrets for defense.
Upgrades:
Advanced Turbines: Available once a Command Post is constructed, Advanced Turbines allow Power Plants to generate twice as much power for a small fee of 300 credits. This upgrade must be applied individually to each Power Plant.
Tiberium Refineries process raw Tiberium harvested in the field, turning the crystals into valuable credits for use in the GDI war effort. Expensive and power-hungry, they are nevertheless central to most GDI bases. Refineries can hold a finite amount of Tiberium. Refineries return 500 credits when sold.
At the Barracks, all manner of GDI infantry, from Riflemen to Engineers to Zone Troopers are trained.
Barracks Sell
Selling your Barracks in the early game after training an Engineer for capturing a tech structure returns some early resources and a Rifleman Squad scout.
War Factories are used to construct GDI vehicles. As higher levels of technology are researched, more advanced vehicles become available. War Factories also have three repair drones that automatically repair damaged vehicles in close proximity to the War Factory.
Command Posts provide access to more advanced GDI weapons, several powerful support powers, key upgrades, and aircraft.
Provides upgrades:
AP Ammo: This upgrade bestows a firepower boost to Watchtowers, Hammerheads, Riflemen, and APCs, doubling their damage. It costs $2000 and takes 1:00 to research.
Sensor Pod: Sensor Pods can be equipped onto Orcas to allow them to launch stealth-detecting pods. This upgrade costs $500 and takes 0:15 to research.
Scanner Packs: Scanner Packs cost $500 and allow Zone Troopers to gain additional 20% more range, line of sight, and add stealth detection. This upgrade takes 0:15 to research.
Provides support powers:
Sonic Repulsion Field: The Sonic Repulsion Field power allows GDI commanders to fortify structures with a fence that defends against Commandos, Shadow Teams, and Engineers. This power costs 500 credits and has a cooldown of 0:15. The Sonic Repulsion Field power also doubles the armor of any structure affected.
Radar Scan: The Radar Scan power sweeps an area, revealing the fog of war and detecting stealthed units in the vicinity of the scan. This effect lasts for several seconds. It costs $300 and has a cooldown of 1:00.
Airfields hold four docking pads for Firehawks or Orcas. They also allow advanced aircraft technologies such as Hardpoints to be researched and grant access to the Orca Strike and Bloodhounds support powers. While GDI Hammerheads do not require a docking pad, they are also built from the Airfield.
Stranded Aircraft
Orcas or Firehawks that lose their airfield and have expended all their ordnance will slowly take damage until destroyed unless a new airfield is constructed.
Provides upgrades:
Hardpoints: Orcas and Firehawks carry 50% more ordnance when equipped with additional Hardpoints. This upgrade costs $2500 and takes 1:00 to research.
Stratofighter Boosters: Stratofighter Boosters provide Firehawks with the ability to quickly accelerate into the stratosphere and fly almost instantaneously to any location. This upgrade costs $1000 and takes 0:30 to research.
Provides support powers:
Orca Strike: Three fast-moving Orca craft fly in to pummel a target with explosive ordnance from the skies. This power costs 500 credits and has a cooldown of 1:30. The Orca Strike fires 2 missiles per aircraft for a total of 6 missiles that each do 750 rocket damage and have 25 splash radius each.
Bloodhounds: The Bloodhounds power calls in two veteran APCs and two veteran Pitbulls, deployed from V-35 Ox Transports. It costs $3000 and has a cooldown of 3:00.
Armories provided upgrades and advanced training for the most elite GDI infantry such as Snipers and Commandos. They also have medical wards to heal injured squads sent into the Armory.
Lost Squad Members
Sending an infantry squad into the Armory is the only way for the squad to regenerate lost squad members.
Provides upgrades:
EMP Grenades: GDI Grenadiers take on a new anti-vehicle role when they hurl disabling EMP grenades. This upgrade costs $1000 and takes 0:30 to research.
Composite Armor: Composite Armor provides GDI infantry with significantly more protection from hostile fire. It affects Rifleman Squads, Missile Squads, and Grenadiers. This upgrade costs $1500 and takes 0:45 to research.
Power Packs: Power Packs give Zone Troopers a 50% boost in health and also allow self-healing when the squad is idle. This upgrade costs $1000 and takes 0:30 to research.
Provides support powers:
GDI Airborne: GDI Airborne infantry consisting of two veteran Rifleman squads and two Missile Squads are flown in for reinforcement. This power costs 1500 credits and has a cooldown of 2:00.
Tech Centers allow access to some of the most powerful GDI units and additionally provide the weaponry needed when the full might of GDI is called for on the battlefield.
Selling Tech Centers
When sold, Tech Centers return a Grenadier squad instead of the standard Rifleman Squad.
Provides upgrades:
Mortars: Pitbulls can be equipped with light mortars, which increase their effectiveness against infantry units and structures. This upgrade costs $1000 and takes 0:30 to research.
Railguns: Railguns provide a significant firepower bonus to GDI's main battle tanks and other heavy armor, nearly doubling their damage per shot output. Predator Tanks, Mammoth Tanks, Guardian Cannons, and Battle Bases all benefit from Railguns. This upgrade costs $4000 and takes 1:30 to research.
Tungsten Shells: Tungsten Shells increase the anti-air capability of the Slingshot and AA Battery, downing even the largest aircraft in seconds. This upgrade costs $2000 and takes 1:00 to research.
Provides support powers:
Sharpshooter Team: Three veteran GDI Sniper Teams are transported onto the battlefield, without the normal Sniper Team prerequisite of the Armory. This power costs $3500 credits and has a cooldown of 4:00.
Sharpshooters
Sniper Teams summoned by this power cannot spot for Juggernaut bombardment.
Space Command Uplinks, though fragile and expensive, allow GDI to exercise its dominance of space by calling in a wide range of potent support powers.
Selling Space Command Uplinks
When sold, the Space Command Uplink returns a squad of Zone Troopers.
Provides support powers:
Shockwave Artillery: Shockwave Artillery shells not only do damage to opposing units and structures, but they also unleash a crippling EMP attack. This power costs 2000 credits and has a cooldown of 3:00. The support power fires 12 shells in a circular pattern. Each shell does 400 grenade damage with a splash radius of 50 and also has a 10 second EMP timer.
Supersonic Air Attack: A beacon sends GDI Supersonic Fighters screaming in to deliver massive anti-air damage to all nearby air units. It is especially effective against large numbers of light aircraft. This power costs 2000 credits and has a cooldown of 5:00. The Supersonic Air Attack does 2500 rocket damage, which tapers off away from the center, and has a 200% damage scalar against the Mothership.
Orbital Strike: Marked by a brilliant red laser beam, the Orbital Strike sends a barrage of metal slugs down from space to impact on ground targets. This power costs 3000 credits and has a cooldown of 7 minutes. The Orbital Strike fires fifteen slugs that each do 800 cannon damage with a splash radius of 40.
Zone Trooper Drop Pod: Three veteran Zone Trooper Squads come hurtling down from space to inflict damage on the battlefield. Their pod is somewhat vulnerable upon landing until the troopers deploy. This power costs 4500 credits and has a cooldown of 2:00.
Reclamator Hubs possess all of the capability of a standard GDI War Factory, but can also construct the MARV. Only one Reclamator Hub can be fielded at a time.
Selling Reclamator Hubs
When sold, the Reclamator Hub returns a squad of Zone Troopers.
Cranes allow an additional GDI structure queue, but cannot build defenses, Surveyors, or the Ion Cannon Control Center, nor can they construct the Reclamator Hub.
The only new GDI building from Tiberium Wars is the Reclamator Hub, but new upgrades are now available from the Airfield, Command Post, and Tech Center. The Space Command Uplink and Command Post now allow new support powers.
