Colonel Burton

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This article is about a fictional character from C&C: Generals. For the anime character, see Richard Burton.

Colonel Burton is a unit from the video game Command & Conquer: Generals. He is the USA's 'hero unit' as Black Lotus is for China and Jarmen Kell is for the GLA.

Colonel Burton's main weapon is a minigun, which can damage any type of ground unit at long range.

His other weapons are a knife and demolition charges. The knife allows him to kill infantry at short range without revealing himself to an enemy unit. A bug in an early version of the game allowed Col. Burton to use his knife against air units, but this was fixed in a subsequent patch.

The demolition charges can either be set as timed (with a 20-second fuse) or remote (detonated on the player's command) versions. If the Colonel is killed, all remot demo charges disappear but the timed ones remain. Either type can be defused if the opponent uses the 'clear explosives' ability of a construction unit before the charges detonate.

In addition to his weapons, Burton's effectiveness is improved by his mobility (he can scale cliffs) and stealth (like the other two hero units he is stealthed unless he fires a weapon or gets too close to a stealth-detecting unit).

In Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour, one of the USA single-player missions is focused almost entirely on the player controlling Burton in completing an assigned espionage task while evading GLA enemies, with the assistance of some other USA units. In this mission, the death of the Colonel results in an instant failure. Burton also appears in a number of other missions.