【RA3】游戏里的可爱熊熊背后有怎样的悲催熊生？——苏联战熊背景设定
设计用途：战场侦查
训练总部 ：鄂木斯克(Omsk)科学部
战场训练 ：苏联军营
信条：“Mrrroooo”
配件：
锯齿利爪
Shumov-3型吼声增幅器
合身的训练项圈
通用护甲
植入式微芯片
历史资料
随着苏联这台战争机器的军备与日俱增，苏联的领导人们是越来越清楚：他们拥有的那些最强武器，会将恐惧播撒到敌人们的心头。联盟的敌人若不臣服于苏联的钢铁意志之下，最终就将迎接V4火箭发射车、基洛夫飞艇和天启坦克带来的恐惧。于是实验科学部便获得了一笔特别的拨款，用做整个苏联知识分子阶层的薪资，要求他们开发能让敌人感到恐惧的新型武器。开发当中取得的成果，除了所谓的毒素炸弹、电鳐突击艇和常出现在传言中的磁力卫星，当然也少不了苏联的战熊项目。俄罗斯在前线投入使用这些强大的哺乳动物，不仅能振奋己方士兵的士气，还能出色地削弱敌方步兵，让他们在面对苏联地面力量时更为脆弱。
高度训练的苏联战熊军团带去的恐惧直击敌人内心，而且无论是作为前线武装还是战场斥候，损失一些战熊都不是什么大事。
俄罗斯熊比苏联军犬（被证明是难以适应极端气候且对盟军作战不力）更经久耐战。按照军方战略，这些俄罗斯熊自出生起就被关在囚笼中，接受训练以适应现代战争前线战事的残酷。它们的熊爪被特别锐化，可以切开轻型装甲，身上装配有特殊扫描天线阵以及声音增幅组件，能够将雄壮的吼叫增幅成震耳欲聋的声浪，足以将一个成年男子震倒在地，不省人事。皮糙肉厚的战熊还能勇敢地泅进苏联边境的冰冷海水，执行巡逻任务，搜查可能潜入的间谍或蛙人。
在苏联的男男女女为祖国献身的奋斗时光中，已记不起没有战熊伴他们左右的时候了，可这并不意味着战熊项目过去是进行得一帆风顺的。早期的驯养尝试，结果并不稳定，特定品种的战熊，就算终生被驯养，都有可能突然被战场的情况刺激，转而将它的利爪拍向身边的动员兵，而不是对敌方步兵出击。还有相当一部分的战熊饱尝流离之苦，深受贫血折磨，不服驯养，表现不佳。苏联式那糟糕的食物供应链正是直接导致这些现象的罪魁祸首。战熊项目的挫折也让实验科学部的公共形象一落千丈。最后凭借引进的特殊训练项圈，实验科学部才保住声誉。这些项圈内部装设有数以百万计的微型特斯拉电疗传感器，能够让战熊和战场指挥官直接互动，标准配置的植入式芯片也能将战熊显示在战场监视器上。从那以后，人们再也不用担心战熊发疯失控了。
苏联在什么状况下会送战熊上战场是一项高度机密，不过人们普遍猜测那都是些不太妙的时候。一位世界级的动物心理学家指出：战熊们尽管各有各的问题，却都明显地表现出沮丧和焦虑，且在人类指挥官同它们一起作战时更为严重，她建议将这些战熊立刻放归自然。在电视直播中，实验科学部的代表面临这样的指控，他用尖酸刻薄的语调重复着这位动物心理学家的话，然后下令将她以叛国罪入狱。
战场笔记
通过战地侦察，已获悉战熊至少具有以下几个特征：
雄壮怒吼——敌方步兵被战熊的增幅怒吼影响后几乎都会暂时失去知觉，而后很可能都会丧命熊爪。战熊只能间歇性地释放这样一次吼叫。
间谍杀手——战熊训练中最严格的一部分是精确增强它们与生俱来的灵敏嗅觉，让战熊能够用鼻子“嗅”出敌方的间谍。在一项全国范围内的战熊巡逻条例生效后，活动在苏联境内乔装打扮、居心叵测的盟军间谍死伤率达到了创纪录的新高。
水域亦危——俄罗斯熊生来就会游泳，可由于在军中服役，它们身镀重甲，必须重新一点一点地接受游泳训练。幸运的是，在战熊可以投入战场时，它们在海洋上也能如履平地地巡逻。并且在泅渡时，对敌方步兵的杀伤力丝毫不减。
反甲无力——总有过分狂热的苏联战地指挥官仍在尝试和否认这一点，可压倒性的证据仍然显示战熊难以在有装甲载具参与的战场发挥作用。因为战熊的熊爪不够锋利，不够厚实的装甲也在这样的遭遇战中脆弱不堪。
Designation: Combat scout
Training Headquarters: Omsk Science Ministry
Field-Trained at: Soviet Barracks
Creed: "Mrrroooo."
Accessories:
» Serrated claws
» Shumov-3 roar amplifier
» Snug-fitting training collar
» Armor plating fits most sizes
» Microchip implant
As the Soviet War Machine gathered momentum, it became increasingly obvious to the leaders of the Soviet Union that fear was among their most powerful weapons against their many enemies. Along with the V4 rocket Launcher, Kirov Airship, and Apocalypse Tank, it would be fear that would ultimately force the Union's enemies to submit to their ironclad will. So it was that the Ministry of Experimental Science received an extraordinary research grant, composed of the combined salaries of the entire Soviet intelligentsia, to develop a variety of new fear-based armaments. Among the successes of this exploration are the so-called Desolator Bomb, the stingray strike craft, the oft-rumored orbital magnetic satellite, and, of course, the Union's war bear program. Russia's use of these mighty mammals in frontline combat not only bolstered the morale of its human combatants, it resoundingly succeeded at making enemy infantry even more reluctant to engage Soviet forces on the ground.
The Soviet Union's regiments of highly-trained war bears strike fear into the hearts of their enemies while doubly serving as expendable frontline fighters and combat scouts.
Intended as a more-durable replacement to Soviet attack dogs (which proved unsuited to harsh weather conditions and Allied ordnance), these Russian bears were born in captivity, trained from birth in military tactics, and conditioned to withstand the rigors of frontline modern warfare. Their claws are specially sharpened to cut through light armor, and their bodies are fitted with special scanning arrays and a vocal amplification module that turns a mighty roar into such a deafening blast that it can stop a man dead in his tracks, paralyzed. War bears are even hardy enough to brave the icy waters on the periphery of the Soviet Union, which they often must patrol in search of would-be spies and frogmen.
Though it is difficult to remember a time before trained bears fought alongside Soviet men and women for the glory of their Motherland, the war bear program was not without bumps in the road. Early attempts at training met with mixed results, as certain war bears--in spite of a lifetime of handling--would become unpredictably enraged during combat situations, turning their claws upon the closest conscript rather than on enemy combatants. A disturbingly high percentage of war bears also suffered from vagrancy, anemia, or other general unwillingness to perform at acceptable levels. While this directly benefited the Union's typically-grim food supply, it was disastrous to the public image of the Ministry of Experimental Science, which eventually recovered its good standing after the introduction of special training collars. Fitted with millions of tiny Tesla-based eletrotherapy transmitters, these training collars allow a direct interaction between bear and battlefield commander, while a standard microchip implant makes the bears show up on battlefield scanners. War bear obedience and delinquency has never since been an issue.
The conditions under which war bears are prepared for their day on the battlefield is a closely guarded secret, though commonly-held assumptions are that these conditions probably are not great. One world-leading animal psychologist has noted that war bears, though all different, do seem to display acute signs of depression and anxiety, even more so than their human comrades fighting battle alongside them. The psychologist recommended that the bears be released back to nature at once. When faced with this accusation on a live telecast, representatives for the Ministry of Experimental Science responded by repeating the psychologist's words in a mocking, high-pitched tone, then ordered her to be incarcerated for treason.
Battlefield reconnaissance has revealed at least these facts about War Bears:
• A mighty roar -- Enemy infantry caught in close earshot of a war bear's amplified roar are more than likely to be deafened by it temporarily. In turn, this more than likely results in their death induced by war-bear mauling. War bears can only muster such a yelp every so often.
• Death to spies -- One of the most rigorous aspects of war bear training is used to finely enhance their naturally excellent sense of smell, allowing them to literally sniff out enemy spies. Casualties among disguised Allied operatives scheming within the Soviet Union spiked to record highs after a national war bear patrol protocol was instated.
• Unsafe waters -- While Russian bears can naturally swim, because of the heavy armor plating affixed to Soviet war bears, they must slowly be re-trained to do this. Fortunately, by the time they are field-ready, war bears are more than capable of patrolling the seas as well as the earth. And they are no less effective at mauling enemy infantry while having to tread water.
• Ineffective against armor -- Although overzealous Soviet battlefield commanders continue to try and disprove this, the evidence overwhelmingly shows that war bears are poorly suited in combat situations involving armored vehicles. Their claws are simply not sharp enough and their armor simply not thick enough to be of any use in such engagements.
