The Brotherhood of Nod remains a sneaky faction, while their additions in Kane’s Wrath boost their late game firepower and add a stronger mobile artillery piece, for which they were known for in Tiberian Sun. Their new support powers make further use of Tiberium experimentation and can severely disrupt their enemies’ economy.
Structures
Construction Yard
Cost: $3500 (MCV) | Power: +10 | Prerequisites: none
Heavily armoured, but mission-critical, Construction Yards are crucial to Nod’s war efforts and tend to be well-defended for that reason. They can pack back into an MCV when needed. They also provide radar display to Nod bases, provided the base’s power isn’t low.
Abilities:
Pack into MCV
Cost: free | Cooldown: n/a | Prerequisites: none
Orders the Construction Yard to pack into an MCV. This order is reversible.
Power Plant
Cost: $500 | Power: +15 | Prerequisites: none
The Nod Power Plant is able to generate moderate amounts of power from a small amount of Tiberium at the expense of ecological damage to the surrounding environment.
Upgrades:
Liquid Tiberium Core
Cost: $500 | Prerequisites: Tech Lab
Adds a liquid Tiberium core to the selected Power Plant, increasing its power output to 45.
Tiberium Refinery
Cost: $3000 | Power: -15 | Prerequisites: Power Plant
The Tiberium Refinery can rapidly transform raw Tiberium into useful materials. Each Refinery comes with one of Nod’s nearly invisible Harvester vehicles free of charge.
Hand of Nod
Cost: $500 | Power: -5 | Prerequisites: Power Plant
The Hand of Nod provides shelter, supplies and training to the legions of Nod militants, fanatics and elite infantry as they wage war against GDI.
War Factory
Cost: $2000 | Power: -5 | Prerequisites: Power Plant, Tiberium Refinery
This essential facility is used to construct and deploy Nod’s highly specialised vehicles, as well as host automated drones that quickly repair damaged friendly vehicles in its immediate vicinity.
Abilities:
Repair
Cost: free | Cooldown: n/a | Prerequisites: none
Orders the repair drones to repair a specific unit.
Operations Center
Cost: $1500 | Power: -10 | Prerequisites: Power Plant, Tiberium Refinery
The Operations Center contains advanced communications arrays required for Nod’s higher-tier technologies and can deploy counter-intelligence support powers.
Support powers:
Decoy Army
Cost: $500 | Cooldown: 1:00 | Prerequisites: none
Creates a holographic projection of a selected group of units. These units can be controlled as any other and can uncover the fog of war, but do not deal damage and vapourize instantly when fired upon or if one minute is elapsed since their creation.
Radar Jamming Missile
Cost: $300 | Cooldown: 1:00 | Prerequisites: none
Temporarily disables the radar displays of all enemy players.
Cloaking Field
Cost: $3000 | Cooldown: 2:00 | Prerequisites: none
Cloaks selected friendly mechanical units. Instantly kills infantry, while base factions’ heavy infantry (Zone Troopers, Black Hand Troopers, and Shock Troopers) only get 25% of that damage.
Note: Due to an error in coding, all subfactions’ heavy infantry gets full damage from the Cloaking Field.
Laser Fencing
Cost: $500 | Cooldown: 0:15 | Prerequisites: none
Creates laser fencing around the selected structure, doubling its armour and rendering it immune to explosive charges planted by Commandos and Shadow Teams, as well as Engineer-type capturing.
Upgrades:
Quad Turrets
Cost: $1000 | Prerequisites: none
Refits Shredder, Laser, and SAM Turrets with a fourth turret placed atop of the Turret Hub.
Note: Due to erroneous coding, researching this upgrade may cause desync issues in multiplayer.
Dozer Blades
Cost: $2000 | Prerequisites: none
Refits Scorpion Tanks and Reckoners with Dozer Blades, which allow them to crush heavy infantry and safely clear mines. It also gives them a 15% armour bonus on all sides.
Secret Shrine
Cost: $1500 | Power: -8 | Prerequisites: Hand of Nod
Nod’s Secret Shrine contains special training rituals necessary to deploy advanced infantry. It can also be used to research advancements that substantially improve the effectiveness of most Nod infantry squads.
Support powers:
Shadow Strike Team
Cost: $2000 | Cooldown: 3:00 | Prerequisites: none
Calls 2 veteran Shadow Teams to glide to the selected location.
Upgrades:
Confessor
Cost: $1000 | Prerequisites: none
Adds a Confessor to all Militant and Militant Rocket Squads. The Confessor adds 10% to their armour and 15% to their rate of fire, and throws hallucinogenic grenades every 10 seconds which cause enemy infantry units to fire on their own comrades.
Tiberium Infusion
Cost: $1000 | Prerequisites: none
Renders Militants, Militant Rocket Squads, Confessors, and Fanatics immune to Tiberium, also giving them a 25% speed boost and 10% hit point increase.
Air Tower
Cost: $1000 | Power: -5 | Prerequisites: Operations Center
Air Towers enable air support for Nod operations and production of aircraft. Each Air Tower provides docking bays for up to four Vertigo Bombers, where they are rearmed.
Support powers:
Mine Drop
Cost: $1500 | Cooldown: 3:00 | Prerequisites: none
Drops a 21-piece minefield to a target location by an Armageddon Bomber.
Upgrades:
Signature Generator
Cost: $100 | Prerequisites: none
Refits Venom Patrol Crafts with Signature Generators.
Disruption Pods
Cost: $500 | Prerequisites: Tech Lab
Enables Vertigo Bombers to drop Disruption Pods.
Tech Lab
Cost: $4000 | Power: -15 | Prerequisites: Operations Center
When a Tech Lab is present, the Brotherhood of Nod can deploy its most advanced military equipment, as well as research upgrades to its lower-tech vehicles.
Support powers:
Redemption
Cost: $750 | Cooldown: 2:20 | Prerequisites: none
Allows fallen Militants and Militant Rocket Squads in a selected wide area to be returned to battle by turning them into Awakened at a rate of 1 Awakened Squad per Militant (Rocket) Squad. Does not affect garrisoned infantry. The area is affected by this support power for 30 seconds.
Upgrades:
EMP Coils
Cost: $1000 | Prerequisites: none
Refits Raider Buggies with EMP Coils.
Tiberium Core Missiles
Cost: $2500 | Prerequisites: none
Increases the attack damage of Attack Bikes, Stealth Tanks, Mantes, and SAM Turrets by infusing their missiles with Tiberium.
Laser Capacitors
Cost: $2500 | Prerequisites: none
Increases attack damage of Raider Buggies, Scorpion Tanks and Venom Patrol Crafts by replacing their weapons with Spitfire lasers.
Tiberium Chemical Plant
Cost: $3000 | Power: -15 | Prerequisites: Tech Lab
The Tiberium Chemical Plant allows Nod commanders to deploy advanced Tiberium weapons to the battlefield at a moment’s notice.
Support powers:
Seed Tiberium
Cost: $500 | Cooldown: 4:00 | Prerequisites: none
Calls an Armageddon Bomber to spray quickly-crystallizing liquid Tiberium over a selected area to create a small Tiberium field worth $3150.
Catalyst Missile
Cost: $2000 | Cooldown: 5:00 | Prerequisites: none
Agitates any Tiberium within Tiberium-based units and structures in the target area (Harvesters, Refineries, Silos, Tiberium Waste Facilities, charged Devourer Tanks and Reaper Tripods, Corrupters, Mechapedes).
Tiberium Vapour Bomb
Cost: $3500 | Cooldown: 4:00 | Prerequisites: none
Calls an Armageddon Bomber to drop a toxic cloud to a target area, which then explodes and damages everything in its wake.
Tiberium Vein Detonation
Cost: $4000 | Cooldown: 7:00 | Prerequisites: none
Causes the targeted permanent Tiberium field to violently explode, dealing considerable damage to all units found on it, as well as Tiberium crystals themselves. After that, eight damage paths are created from the center of the blast (which will even affect units which try to evade it), as well as a shockwave at the center. Units at the center take less damage than those caught by damage paths.
Note: Due to an error in coding, using the Tiberium Vein Detonation will subtract all the player’s money a few seconds after the support power finishes its effect, so it is advised to keep funds just around $4000 before using this power.
Redeemer Engineering Facility
Cost: $3000 | Power: -10 | Prerequisites: Tech Lab
The Redeemer Engineering Facility can build all Nod vehicles like a standard War Factory, and is the only structure capable of deploying Nod’s epic unit – the Redeemer.
Note: Only one Nod Redeemer Engineering Facility can be built at a time per player.
Crane
Cost: $1500 | Power: -10 | Prerequisites: none
Cranes reinforce the production capability of the Nod Construction Yard by adding one extra building production queue.
Note: Cranes can not build defensive structures, superweapons, or the Redeemer Engineering Facility.
Support structures
Turret Hub
Cost: varies | Power: varies | Prerequisites: vary
Nod’s defensive turrets are organized in such a way that their central hub manages the operation of three turrets that are directly connected to it through visible cables. If individual turrets are destroyed, they will be automatically replaced for free after a delay. If the hub itself is destroyed, all turrets connected to it are destroyed with it. When placing Shredder, Laser and SAM Turrets, the hub has to be placed first, and then the three individual turrets, which must be placed close to the hub.
Upgrades:
Quad Turrets
Cost: $1000 | Researched at: Operations Center
Refits Shredder, Laser, and SAM Turrets with a fourth turret placed atop of the Turret Hub.
Note: Due to erroneous coding, researching this upgrade may cause desync issues in multiplayer.
Shredder Turret
Cost: $600 | Power: -6 | Prerequisites: Power Plant
Shredder Turrets act like giant anti-personnel shotguns when hostile infantry approaches. While these shards do little damage against armoured vehicles, they are horrifyingly effective against flesh and blood targets. They are capable of detecting stealthed units. They deactivate if the base’s power is low.
Upgrades:
Quad Turrets
Cost: $1000 | Researched at: Operations Center
Refits Shredder, Laser, and SAM Turrets with a fourth turret placed atop of the Turret Hub.
Note: Due to erroneous coding, researching this upgrade may cause desync issues in multiplayer.
Laser Turret
Cost: $1200 | Power: -10 | Prerequisites: Hand of Nod
Laser Turrets scale down Nod infamous Obelisk of Light technology into a flexible anti-vehicle defence. Laser Turrets can quickly focus their beams against armoured targets within range. They are capable of detecting stealthed units. They deactivate if the base’s power is low.
Upgrades:
Quad Turrets
Cost: $1000 | Researched at: Operations Center
Refits Shredder, Laser, and SAM Turrets with a fourth turret placed atop of the Turret Hub.
Note: Due to erroneous coding, researching this upgrade may cause desync issues in multiplayer.
Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) Turret
Cost: $800 | Power: -6 | Prerequisites: Operations Center
SAM Turrets fire streams of surface to air missiles against hostile aircraft. A single SAM missile does not pack much of a punch, but concentrated fire from these defences can bring down aircraft quickly. They are capable of detecting stealthed units. They deactivate if the base’s power is low.
Upgrades:
Quad Turrets
Cost: $1000 | Researched at: Operations Center
Refits Shredder, Laser, and SAM Turrets with a fourth turret placed atop of the Turret Hub.
Note: Due to erroneous coding, researching this upgrade may cause desync issues in multiplayer.
Tiberium Core Missiles
Cost: $2500 | Researched at: Tech Lab
Increases the attack damage of Attack Bikes, Stealth Tanks, Mantes, and SAM Turrets by infusing their missiles with Tiberium.
Tiberium Silo
Cost: $100 | Power: 0 | Prerequisites: Tiberium Refinery
Tiberium Silos allow Nod bases to store as much Tiberium as they need to mount a decisive military campaign against its enemies.
Disruption Tower
Cost: $1000 | Power: -5 | Prerequisites: Secret Shrine
Disruption Towers generate massive stealth fields. Nod buildings, infantry, and vehicles in their vicinity cannot be seen by enemies. Disruption Towers themselves cannot be stealthed. They deactivate if the base’s power is low.
Voice of Kane
Cost: $1000 | Power: -5 | Prerequisites: Operations Center
This statue of the great prophet himself affects nearby friendly infantry by increasing their firing rate by 50% and armour by 25%, as well as making them 50% harder to suppress.
Note: Only one Nod Voice of Kane can be built at a time per player.
Obelisk of Light
Cost: $2000 | Power: -15 | Prerequisites: Tech Lab
Nod’s incredibly powerful laser tower charges up a beam that decimates vehicles and infantry squads. Its impressive range and power may also be enhanced by Nod’s new Beam Cannon vehicles.
Air Support Tower
Cost: $500 | Power: -5 | Prerequisites: Air Tower
Air Support Towers have four landing pads for aircraft. They can repair and rearm, but cannot construct aircraft.
Temple of Nod
Cost: $5000 | Power: -20 | Prerequisites: Tech Lab
GDI’s focus on Tiberium allowed Nod to secretly stockpile a considerable amount of the 20th century’s most infamous weapons, Nuclear Missiles. The Temple of Nod also provides advanced supercomputers capable of resetting the entire base in the event of an EMP attack. Like with other superweapons, when the Temple of Nod is built, all players are notified and the fog of war above the device is removed, with a timer visible to all players.
Note: Only one Temple of Nod can be built at a time per player.
Abilities:
Nuclear Missile
Cost: free | Cooldown: 7:00 | Prerequisites: none
Launches a devastating nuclear missile to the target location.
Master Computer Countermeasures
Cost: free | Cooldown: 0:30 | Prerequisites: none
Cancels the effects of EMP blasts from all player-owned buildings and restores the radar display.
Outpost
Cost: $1500 (Emissary) | Power: 0 | Prerequisites: none
Gained from deploying an Emissary, the Nod Outpost enables construction in its surrounding area, even if it is far away from the main base. An Outpost can not return back to its Emissary form.