General Knoxx

General Alphonso Knoxx
"Tell the Admiral I hate him."
Gender	Male
Race	Human
Faction	Crimson Lance
Location	Crimson Armory

See also: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx

General Alphonso Knoxx is the titular character of the third downloadable content pack, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx.

Background

He is the "First General of the Crimson Lance, Son of Guillermo Delphino Knoxx III." He hates Lance Command (especially his Admiral) and ultimately sought to leave the Crimson Lance after his mission on Pandora. Through many of his recordings he comments his dislike on the Crimson Lance by calling his troops "retarded". When the player finally meets him in person, General Knoxx is about to kill himself with several automated laser turrets and a rather comically-large bomb. Just before he is able to push the button, he notices the Vault Hunter, and comments "Now that's just inappropriate timing. I was hoping to be dead already by the time you got here." He calls off the suicide setup before making a deal with the Vault Hunter, allowing them to pass if he is defeated in combat. He also suggests that they blow up the entire planet altogether, though that seems unlikely to happen. His commanding officer, Admiral Mikey, is apparently age 5, due to "Goddamn nepotism".

Strategy

General Knoxx fights in his own specialized Devastator mech with dual Particle Projector Cannons mounted in the arms. These Eridian-based energy weapons are able to acquire a lock and home in on targets, unlike the dumbfire charged-particle lasers mounted on Crimson Lancers. During the fight, he summons two Devastators, several Lance Combat Medics, and a Badass Devastator. It is extremely important to kill the medics as their turrets can heal General Knoxx to full health quite quickly. These waves of enemies will still appear even if you take out General Knoxx very quickly, so do not count on his death ending the fight.

When Knoxx jumps or rocket jumps to close in on you, jump and be in the air when he lands. You will avoid most, if not all damage.

You should try for as many headshots as possible to achieve critical hits, which interrupt the charging of his PPCs and throw his targeting, just like any other Devastator mech. Try to avoid his weapons, as they can inflict major damage if you let them.

If overwhelmed by the Devastators and Combat Medics, and playing a Soldier class character, drop a turret and duck behind cover. Knoxx should prioritize the turret, leaving enough time to heal and focus on his reinforcements.

The best weapon to use against Knoxx is a Stomper assult rifle that deals bonus critical hit damage.

Another good weapon to use against Knoxx is an Atlas Ogre. If it is fairly accurate, aiming at the head will yield several criticals, staggering Knoxx. A similar, but more effective method, would be to daze the General using a Siren or Hunter skill that allows the character's Action Skill to daze the foe. If he is staggered or dazed, his overall combat effectiveness goes straight down the toilet, allowing you to focus on his underlings.

Hornet repeaters are surprisingly effective in this fight, as General Knoxx and the Devastators are weak against corrosive damage and the high rate of fire allows constant interruption of his attacks. Much the same can be said of Maliwan "Plague"/"Crux" shotguns, as the Corrosive damage and multiple projectiles will inflict extra damage as well as numerous critical hits per shot.

Weapons that have boosted Critical Damage such as Whitting's Elephant Gun or weapons with long magazines such as a Vladof Revolution will do a nice job taking him down via dozens of critical hits.

Another good strategy as a Soldier is to have a high damaging turret, with a low cooldown time, which you deploy at every chance, this should give you a chance to score critical hits while avoiding damage, and also hopefully having your health restored.

An effective strategy with any character, though specifically with a Hunter is to use a Masher revolver. Their spread lends to high chances of critical hits when aimed at the head of both General Knoxx, his Devastators, and medics.

If you are willing to try a slightly risky but extremely effective strategy and have high reload rates for pistols, try staying right up close on Knoxx's front. His weapons have an convergence point that is a good distance back. By staying up close, his PPCs cannot home in on you and you are free to blast away at him with a Masher.

If the Badass Devastator is spawned before you defeat Knoxx, put Knoxx between you and the Devastator. The Devastator's rockets can deal significant damage, but with Knoxx in the way, they have little to no chance of hitting you. Note that additional Badass Devastators will spawn sometime after the first is killed (possibly a set time after even if it still alive?) so don't count on dodging Knoxx till you finish off the Badass.

Twitter

General Knoxx posts on Twitter under the username @GeneralKnoXX. The account was first active on February 2nd, 2010, and was confirmed to be an official source of information by Gearbox Software on February 9, 2010.

His account officially went offline on March 14, 2010.

On July 15, 2010, his account was reactivated.

Archive (July -___)

#	Date/Time (UTC)	Text	From	In reply to
66	2010-07-19 12:58 PM	@SourMurderFish the best you could come up with was sourmurderfish? i eat those for breakfast, lunch and space dinner. murderfish plz	web	SourMurderFish
65	2010-07-15 9:46 PM	@Legendrew admiral mikey is no longer with us. he fell down some stairs. about 30,000 of them.	web	Legendrew
64	2010-07-15 9:42 PM	@phkna yup. pretty flimsy. did you get joke tips from ralphie may?	web	phkna
63	2010-07-15 9:28 PM	got an influx of flimsy insults wrapped in slack-jawed yokelry. #idiotsspamminggods	web
62	2010-07-15 7:04 PM	@KevinACarter your photo looks like a late night tv ad for a cheap lawyer	web	KevinACarter
61	2010-07-15 6:57 PM	@MMA_Craig the only thing you'll be raiding is your mother's underwear drawer looking for food.	web	MMA_Craig
60	2010-07-15 6:50 PM	@mikeyface they don't have capital letters in the future. where i'm from.which is nothing like that blue person movie with the dragon horses	web	mikeyface
59	2010-07-15 6:48 PM	tap. tap. is this on? had to turn my tweetergramming machine back on. just got some new orders. (sent from the future.)	web

Archive (Feb. - Mar.)

This is a manually updated listing of all the tweets, with the times listed in UTC (+8 hours from Pacific time).

#	Date/Time (UTC)	Text	From	In reply to
58	2010-03-14 10:17 AM	this is general knoxx, going offline.	web
57	2010-02-26 8:51 AM	@TehSkull ugh. admiral mikey's french toast is made of bread, sour patch kids from the future, and springs	Seesmic	TehSkull
56	2010-02-26 8:45 AM	@jigsawhc jelly is for girls and also armless smaller girls.	Seesmic	jigsawhc
55	2010-02-26 8:40 AM	@Hooligunn fool. killed some of my decoys did you? my imaginary son could do that with his imaginary eyes closed.	Seesmic	Hooligunn
54	2010-02-26 8:38 AM	anybody want toast? i'm making toast.	Seesmic
53	2010-02-26 8:38 AM	sorry tweetergram groupies, i got caught up with an influx of insurgent dick bags. killed most of 'em. how is your day?	Seesmic
52	2010-02-23 N/A	there are reports that the invasion is delayed until tomorrow. not true. don't believe the tweetergrams. i will rock all faces off today.	Seesmic
51	2010-02-23 N/A	troops will deploy today if all goes to plan. just met a man named mord-ee-kai. dude, eat something.	Seesmic
50	2010-02-23 N/A	preparing the troops for dominationing. might need reinforcements. anyone up for dying in my honor?	Seesmic
49	2010-02-22 22:30	@lizzieskwrl it's true. we lost the capital letter in the charzachary wars some forty decades ago.	web	lizzieskwrl
48	2010-02-22 22:28	(nobody tells me nothin.)	web
47	2010-02-22 22:27	well, time tables got all moved around. looks like the invasion is on tomorrow. be seeing you (and killing you!) then.	web
46	2010-02-19 22:21	i had to find an antique tweetergramming machine to type in capital letters like that.	Seesmic
45	2010-02-19 22:21	finishing up training the new assassin lance for more dominationing. they're not quite ready yet, but one might say they're COMING VERY SOON	Seesmic
44	2010-02-19 22:19	@HoboBeardBen demand something from me again and you'll be scraping whats left of your teeth out of your eyeballs.	Seesmic	HoboBeardBen
43	2010-02-19 22:17	@johnbelden you took a mans gamertag even though i'm from the future and already knew that?	Seesmic	johnbelden
42	2010-02-19 20:25	lots of people tweetergramming me today about some "interviews" with some hellfist character about me. apparently more incoming.	Seesmic
41	2010-02-18 17:28	just had marketing run some movie preview thing past me about myself. they called it a... trailer? but it didn't look like a truck to me.	Seesmic
40	2010-02-17 15:42	perhaps the lance will be open to recruitment. i need some solid fodder	Seesmic
39	2010-02-17 15:20	just spoke with my superiors and it sounds like we can begin recruiting again soon. the lance will rise again.	Seesmic
38	2010-02-16 17:20	@symonds1990 the day i tremble before the likes of one of you is the day i sell my mother to space pirates for a second time	Seesmic	symonds1990
37	2010-02-16 14:02	@pavieca do not speak at me as if battling me will result in anything but your body turning to a fine mist like a capri sun in a microwave	web	pavieca
36	2010-02-16 13:48	just got chewed on by my new commander for that t bone incident. no, i did not typed "chewed out" wrong so put your freud away.	web
35	2010-02-15 20:50	this wasn't me but something happened in t bone junction that totally wasn't me. (this wasn't me.)	Seesmic
34	2010-02-15 17:03	pretty sure i'd just go in shooting if there weren't all these pesky guidelines like "don't murder civies" by my new commanding officer.	Seesmic
33	2010-02-15 15:28	t bone junction is a haven for teenage partying.	Seesmic
32	2010-02-14 21:44	incoming ear ringer tweetergram photos. pulled them off of my former secre-friendy's charred carcus. rip cindy- wait, cynthia? i dunno.	web
31	2010-02-13 15:21	also met a man named scooter today. asked me if i wanted to catch his ride. almost killed him for coming onto me.	web
30	2010-02-13 15:19	walked around t-bone junction today.took some tweetergram photos.my secre-friendy needs to post them but i think she might be out dead today	web
29	2010-02-13 15:16	@StygianEmporor granted.	web	StygianEmporor
28	2010-02-11 01:50	avast! tweetergram leaks ahoy. people on the space machine web have discovered what level my power is. 60 just aint high enough.	web
27	2010-02-10 20:01	inspected the new recruits today. kyros, typhon, theron, and ajax had a four way tie for unmanliest name.	Seesmic
26	2010-02-10 15:55	began construction on a super secret hideout, sorry can't tell you where it is, did put up some signs though just in case recruits get lost	Seesmic
25	2010-02-10 13:51	@justryan13 roland? i remember him. did two tours of prometheus before wearing his guilt like a sun dress.	web	justryan13
24	2010-02-09 21:28	the admiral who ordered me to this roller rink of a planet was killed today in a freak sighing accident. replacement to be named. *sigh*	Seesmic
23	2010-02-09 17:22	//@# -- my secre-friendy just spilled coffee all over my tweetergram sender! ()#(/// ....!!!//3/3 great.	Seesmic
22	2010-02-09 17:07	@Quesos_Mojados your puerile attempts at humor bore me. i trust a skag will shit you out on a later occassion	Seesmic	Quesos_Mojados
21	2010-02-09 16:53	@jason_omega and i have two words for you: tooth and brush	Seesmic	jason_omega
20	2010-02-09 16:40	RT @useruser3: @GeneralKnoXX you have lost both mccloud and Steele |gn| that is classified! did you have something to do with that?	Seesmic
19	2010-02-09 16:33	corp. reiss has informed me of jakobs being overrun by a zombie infestation. serves 'em right! guns from wood? whats next, flying cars?	Seesmic
18	2010-02-09 14:16	this is my last tweetergram for the moment. i will be updating the situation on pandora to my superiors and taking cell ear ringer shots	web
17	2010-02-09 14:11	@CorduroryNinja the crimson lance is for serious rough and tumble soldiers, also suicidal thoughts are a plus	web	CorduroryNinja
16	2010-02-09 14:09	for those of you that promise nicely not to try and kill me for my numerous crimes against humanity and ferrets, i'll take photos of stuff4u	web
15	2010-02-09 14:05	my name is general alphonso knoxx, first general of the crimson lance, son of guillermo delphino knoxx III, consider this my introduction	web
14	2010-02-09 14:01	it seems some of you lot think it wise to anta-gah...niz-- make fun of me, i lost my train of thought, but i'll beat your asses	web
13	2010-02-09 00:56	@CaptBoDangles13 i have many things to do. i just arrived on pandora a few days ago. i get here and my second in command is skewered!	Seesmic	CaptBoDangles13
12	2010-02-09 00:38	RT @RnDxJha: @GeneralKnoxx So what is your take on Moxxi? |gk| is that the old chick in the clown makeup trying to not look 40?	Seesmic
11	2010-02-08 23:23	@VaultHunter thats your name? vaulthunter? didn't they find that already? more like @vaultfounder	Seesmic	VaultHunter
10	2010-02-08 23:06	@Legendrew watch your step boy. i lost my eye in a fight with myself . ps. i won	Seesmic	Legendrew
9	2010-02-08 23:01	@Kyidro do you bore your mother with that mouth (boosh, double entendre)	Seesmic	Kyidro
8	2010-02-08 22:53	RT @danielpiers: My lvl 50 Mordecai is gonna kick your ass. |gn| i'm a lot higher than level 50 so you better try again	Seesmic
7	2010-02-08 22:47	who are these people appearing on my window screen? @danielpiers ? your face looks like a grapefruit pooped	Seesmic
6	2010-02-08 22:40	i said that right? tweetergrams are when you take photos with your cellular ear ringer?	Seesmic
5	2010-02-08 22:39	heres a photo from worlds largest bullet. me & the misse- erhm, secretary are out taking tweetergrams of the areas	Seesmic
4	2010-02-03 20:42	these damn camera phones never seem to work. i'll have the inventor drawn, quartered, and made into cutlets.	Seesmic
3	2010-02-03 20:40	people are hacking into my tweeter database. smokescreen deployed. no one can see what we're planning. hot dogs are tastiest w/ mustard.	web
2	2010-02-02 09:17	no one capitalizes in the future. just thought you'd like to know in the event you point it out. oh, my tweets time travel, by the way.	web
1	2010-02-02 09:11	okay. so my secretary signed me up for this thing.apparently i have to be careful about how many words i type or it won't send the entire me	web

Images

Various images posted by General Knoxx.

these damn camera phones never seem to work. i'll have the inventor drawn, quartered, and made into cutlets. 20:42, February 3, 2010	File:Tsuu.jpg heres a photo from worlds largest bullet. me & the misse- erhm, secretary are out taking tweetergrams of the areas 22:39, February 8, 2010	t bone junction is a haven for teenage partying. 15:28, February 15, 2010
this wasn't me but something happened in t bone junction that totally wasn't me. (this wasn't me.) 20:50, February 15, 2010

Quotes

• "You would've made a great soldier. It's a pity I didn't recruit you before now."
• "Where the Omega failed, I will not."
• "Athena must have told you a good story to take on all of the Crimson Lance. What was it?"
• "Athena is a treacherous snake. Are you sure her goals are righteous?"
• "This planet smells like hemorroids wrapped in bacon."
• "I work for children... The admiral is five. FIVE. Goddamn nepotism."
• "That doesn't even make sense to me. That's like mowing your lawn with a nuclear weapon."
• "I thought you were cool and would help me get off of this planet but. You would not believe the shit I have to put up with okay. The Admiral just made me French Toast out of a sock and some freakin' gum. Mate, all bets are off, I'm gonna have to kill you now. Hehe, sorry."
• "I had hoped I would not need to get my hands dirty, but so be it."
• "Your training is pathetic, this will not take long."
• "I have all of Steele's reports on your methods. I have the advantage."
• "Tell the Admiral I hate him." (When you defeat Knoxx)

Trivia

• Knoxx claims that "nobody capitalizes in the future", and that his tweets time-travel. It is used as a running joke in some of his tweets. He claims to have needed to use an antique tweetergramming machine to type in capitals.
• It's not physically possible for Knoxx to press the red & green alert buttons shown in the boss-engagement cutscene, when his hands are operating the arms. The alert buttons are supposedly in his power armor.
• According to Knoxx, Pandora smells like "hemorrhoids wrapped in bacon", which raises the question as to how he knows what that smells like.
• Knoxx frequently uses the word "mate", rather than "pal" or "buddy", a possible indication of changes in dialect from an American English origin.
• The General took his assignment on Pandora into his own hands after his juvenile commander sent him a seemingly important package which contained fourteen sponges, a mix tape and some melted chocolate.
• He could be named of Knoxx in honor of Fort Knox

External links

• General KnoXX's Tweets (gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com)

See Also

• The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
• Knoxx's Gold