Name: Whale Mass Barge
Role: hover transport
Cost: 900
Strength: 400 HP, heavy armour
Weapons: none
Abilities: transport 10x infantry

While Nod's global tunnel network allows it to access most of the world via these subterranean passages, there will always places that cannot be reached, or where individual Subterranean APCs are not best-suited for delivering troops. Enter the Whale Mass Barge - Nod's largest ocean-going troop carrier, capable of delivering two 5-man combat squads into any beachhead or landing zone. Using hover technology to lift a reinforced hull filled with troop space, the Whale can keep pace with the surface elements of the Nod fleet, and can survive most defensive fire long enough to reach a shoreline to deploy its troops into the breach. It is not a heavy warship though, and commanders should take care to pull it out of harm's way the moment its task is done.