Propaganda

Propaganda Unlike psionic technologies, propaganda is carried out strictly via the media and uses the "conventional" sensory organs, via pictures, speeches, music and the like, to imprint its message on the minds of its recipients. Although arguably just as prolific in Western culture (often due to the machinations of the Illuminati and other factions, overt propaganda as a battlefield strategy is overwhelmingly implemented by the Soviet Union and its client states.

Speakers
Speakers can be fitted to several soviet vehicles. Vehicles fitted with speakers usually gain an aura effect which spurns friendly troops to greater feats, but can also use directed messages to debuff opposing troops. They are not generally able to sway enemy forces to their side.

Commissar
The Commissar is a Soviet infantry unit tasked with maintaining morale and cohesion in the often disorderly, unorganized and unmotivated formations the Soviets assemble from all over their vast territory. Creating even a modicum of "loyalty" in units of such disparate backgrounds and remoteness from the actual theater of war requires harsh measures, and the commissar is by no means shy of using them, but it requires as much, or perhaps more, of

Propaganda Truck
Simple trucks with speakers, used by the Soviets to increase the fanaticism of the local population. They are also popular with other factions, for example the Brotherhood.

Propaganda Tower
Propaganda Towers are soviet support structures fitted with banners and speakers which broadcast propaganda in a small radius. Infantry and the crew of vehicles and defense structures are spurned to greater feats while within the tower's radius of effect.

Skills

 * Aura - Increases firepower, armor and movement speed by 25%. Generates a radius of red light and audible propaganda messages.
 * Spotlight - Fitted with a spotlight and sounds an alert when an opponent is detected.