The lightning bolts can pass over obstacles like walls and are effective against infantry, but less so against other tanks. Its Tesla Tank uses a fully tracked chassis with two turret-mounted Tesla Coils. It wasn’t much to look at, but things improved in Red Alert 2. In the original Red Alert, the Tesla Tank looks more like an armored truck with a Tesla Coil mounted on top of it.
It was invented by Nikola Tesla in the late nineteenth century. The Tesla Tank appears in all three Red Alert games and weaponizes the Tesla Coil, which will surely be familiar to steam- and dieselpunk enthusiasts. Throughout these games we get to play with some crazy diesel- and atompunk weapons, from the Soviets’ mighty Apocalypse Tank to Tesla Troopers. Their trip has unforeseen consequences as well: they inadvertently create a more powerful Japan and trigger a three-way world war. In the third game (2008), it are the Soviets who travel back in time to prevent their defeat at the hand of the Allies. The Soviets are defeated, but they get their revenge three decades later in Red Alert 2 (2000) by attacking the continental United States.
He prevents the emergence of Nazi Germany, but this clears the way for a Soviet invasion of Europe in 1946.
In Command & Conquer: Red Alert (1996), Albert Einstein travels back in time and kills Adolf Hitler.
