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So you've got your troops and you're ready to take the fight to the enemy. The men are pumped, the tanks are fueled, and it's time to win this war. There's a problem, though. The enemy is sitting on the other side of a sizable body of water. It may be a large river, a lake, or even an entire ocean. The bottom line is that you can only get to where you need to be if you deal with the water hazard first. So what's the next move? An amphibious assault, of course! Load your boys up on boats, hovercraft, water-tight armored trucks, or whatever sea-worthy transportation you've got lying around and send them to storm the beaches. The iconic Real Life examples of this trope made famous during a little dust-up known as World War II secured the image of an army invading an enemy-held shore in the public consciousness and inspired the use of amphibious attacks in all kinds of military- and war-related works. But this kind of warfare is of course much older than that. Ever since humans learned how to build boats, they've been using them to get the drop on their enemies — just ask those Horny Vikings. (Nowadays, with the ability in modern warfare to project force inland with armored attack helicopters, the whole concept of storming the beaches is somewhat obsolete.) How well this tactic works varies wildly. If the enemy does not expect an attack from the water, the invaders will have an amazing advantage. However, in most cases you can look forward to a protracted battle for the beach! The defenders may have pillbox fortifications, machine gun nests, and Czech hedgehogs (huge metal Caltrops) on the beach. The attackers' goal is to get boots on the ground, along with equipment, establish a beachhead, and then bring in as many reinforcements as possible as fast as possible in order to advance into enemy territory. For times when the invading force decides to go by air instead, see It's Raining Men. |
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Doable in Total War: Rome II when attacking coastal towns from the sea. Your men will spawn in weak transports and have to land in and around the town. They will also have to get past harbor defenses in cities and naval garrisons. | |
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Possible but risky in Crusader Kings. Your army will take serious environmental penalties for landing in a hostile province when an enemy army is present. There are lesser terrain penalties for attacking across a river or straitnote Some landmasses that are close together, such as Britain and Ireland, can be traveled between without needing ships, the assumption being that your army just shanghaied local fishing boats and the like., as well. The second game compounds this with the fact your morale will be capped at 50% after the sea voyage. However, landing in a friendly province, or one you previously occupied in the same war, does not apply the penalties even if hostile troops are present. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King had Orcs making an amphibious landing at Osgiliath using barges that looked like medieval versions of the D-Day landing craft. | |
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Dieppe. Canadian miniseries that focused on the planning and training for the disastrous Dieppe Raid of 1942. Inspired by the book Unauthorized Action, shifts focus back and forth between the British, Canadian and American war leaders trying to prosecute the war, and a platoon of Canadian soldiers eager to get into the fighting. Possibly for budgetary reasons, only the actions on one of the six landing beaches are actually portrayed at the conclusion of the film. | |
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The Battlefield 1 War Story: "The Runner" has the player storming the beaches of Gallipoli in its first mission. | |
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In G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, both the Joes and Cobra make use of this fairly often, especially if there are islands in the equation. | |
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One sequence in Red Tails has the Tuskeegee Airmen assigned to provide air cover to an amphibious landing. | |
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Naruto. The Fourth Shinobi World War has the Akatsuki forces attempting one of these on Kumogakure coast. This is also where Team 10 have to fight the resurrected Asuma. | |
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In Vikings this tends to be subverted as the Viking landings are usually unopposed since the defenders don't have the time to assemble a force big enough to stop them. On one occasion they have to storm the beaches the other way since a Saxon force blocks them from their ship. This is played straight when the Vikings sail up-river to invade Mercia. The Mercian commander decides to oppose their landing by splitting his army and defending both sides of the river. Ragnar simply choose the side of the river with fewer defenders and sails his ships right for the river bank. The Vikings storm the river bank and quickly rout the defenders while the Saxon force on the other side of the river watches helplessly. | |
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In Asterix in Britain, the Romans land in Brittania by storming a beach in a manner reminiscent of D-Day with landing crafts that have a bow opening, and some legionaries escalating the beach's cliff also evokes the US Army's Rangers doing the same during the battle of the Pointe du Hoc. | |
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The level "Goalpost" of Modern Warfare 3 has the player taking part in an amphibious landing against the Russians in Hamburg. Somewhat unusually for this trope, the player and his squad aren't in the amphibious landing vehicles but a V-22 Osprey. Though it does land on the beach, leading to you storming it all the same. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean Online contains a villainous example - when an invasion is going on, Jolly Roger's ship will appear near the coast of the assaulted island, and the undead army will begin walking out of the water onto the shore. | |
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The SMG4 episode SMG4 - World War Mario opens on this. | |
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The Pacific. Companion of sorts to Band of Brothers, depicts a number of amphibious landings in the Pacific Theatre of World War II from the viewpoint of three U.S. Marines, including both opposed (Iwo Jima, Peleliu) and unopposed (Guadalcanal, Okinawa) landing operations. | |
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Unlike the original novel, Starship Troopers features the Mobile Infantry landing on Klendathu in dropships which are very much inspired by World War II landing craft. | |
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Pirates SMP: The Revenge Raid event on Day 77 kicks off with an amphibious assault on the Hooded Figures' island campnote after its location was discovered in the preceding event on Day 76, where most of the cast begin an attack on the Hooded Figures by land, while Owen, Scott, and Shelby launch a cannon attack at sea as a temporary distraction before joining the fight on land. This being Minecraft, it's a lot easier than most other settings might have it, and the respawn mechanism allows for minimal casualties on the protagonists' side (which was primarily caused by PVP-induced Friendly Fire anyway). | |
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The Discworld of A.A. Pessimal has a footnote saying that when General Tacticus reached the edge of the Discworld with no more lands to conquer (seemingly) and a large and bored army with time on its hands, he sent back to Ankh-Morpork requesting $AM50,000 and the services of boat-builders, for the purpose of building landing craft so as to sweep across the Discworld's equivalent of the Pacific, mopping up all the small islands. (and by then having retrained his soldiers as Marines). | |
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A staple in the Ace Combat series: in pretty much every game, there is a mission where you provide close air support to amphibious troops attempting to establish a beachhead on enemy territory. To name a few specific examples: "Operation Bunker Shot" in Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies, "Lit Fuse/Operation Footprint" in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, "Anea Landing" in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, "Pipeline" in Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, etc. | |
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World of Warcraft: The Strand of the Ancients battleground has Alliance and Horde forces storming a beach in Northrend to seize control of a Titan relic that the opposing faction possesses. The Kvaldir are a group of mysterious Valkyr warriors who appear from the sea in mists and attack several coastal settlements. Basically, Azeroth's version of Vikings. |
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Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn: The first mission has GDI landing troops on a Nod fortified beach to establish a base, with fire support being provided by a nearby gunboat. | |
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Call of Duty: WWII has the first level, set during the Omaha Beach landing on D-Day. Unlike most examples, however, the level doesen't simply end once the German defenses are breached. Instead, the focus is mainly on clearing German opposition further inland. | |
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A rare villainous example in Wake Island, in which the Japanese twice attempt to storm the tiny little atoll defended by 400 U.S. Marines. The first time they attempt it the Americans put up such a vigorous defense that the Japanese abort their landing. The second time they attempt it they succeed and wipe out the garrison. | |
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Valkyria Chronicles has Squad 7 participate in two amphibious operations: In Chapter 3, Welkin's unit is ordered to retake the critical Great Vasel Bridge from the East Europan army. A frontal assault on the near bank would be suicide, so Welkin has his tank waterproofed and literally drives it underwater across the riverbed to the far side, securing a beachhead for the rest of the squad to follow in boats. In 11, the squad hits the beach at Marberry in northern Gallia to help secure vital industrial areas. The enemy is very well dug-in, with trenches and bunkers backed up by multiple tanks. Before the landing, Isara works overnight to develop smoke rounds that allow troops to sneak by indestructible machine gun towers. |
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Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War opens with the Allied forces storming the beaches of Sicily in July 1943. | |
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Land of War - The Beginning has the Hel Peninsula campaign, where you and your allies fend off the Germans attempting to breach the Peninsula's beaches. | |
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Civilization: In Civilization II and III, a late-game technology allows the creation of Marines, who can attack directly from transport boats. From Civilization 4 onward, combat units suffer penalties if they attack another unit from water or from across a river, but sufficient combat experience lets them gain the Amphibious ability, which negates the penalty. |
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Some Avalon Hill war games in which amphibious invasions are the focus of the game: Advanced Squad Leader Module 9 Gung Ho!, Air Assault on Crete/Invasion of Malta, Anzio, Breakout: Normandy, D-Day, Fortress Europa and The Longest Day. | |
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Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault features the Tarawa landings, where members of the 2nd Marine Division struggle to move inland while clearing Japanese defenses. | |
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Conker's Bad Fur Day. Conker joins up with the Squirrel High Command in its war against the Tediz. He joins a force of Squirrel troops who must capture an enemy beach and attack a large stronghold. They even wear American World War II uniforms. The scene where Conker stands on the beach watching in absolute horror as his fellow squirrels are cut down all around him is one of the very few serious moments in what is otherwise a hilarious comedic game. The player (as Conker) must then charge up the beach while ducking behind cover to avoid machine gun fire. | |
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Red Storm Rising. As World War III gets under way, the Soviets land in Iceland and quickly overpower the American defense force on the island. Then later, a joint British-American task force retakes the island from the Soviets. | |
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Hunter's Hellcats: In Our Fighting Forces #120' the Hellcats makes an amphibious landing on an Italian beach while under fire from German aircraft. | |
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Rising Storm, has the Iwo Jima, Kwajalein, Saipan, and Betio maps, which involve either US Army soldiers or Marines pushing inland while Japanese Army or Marines try to halt their advances. Rising Storm 2: Vietnam has the map Resort, which involves Southern troops landing and attacking a VC-held beach resort. |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender had a submarine attack, with waterbenders working in concert to move a small fleet of earthbender-powered tanks past the Fire Nation's defenses and surfacing to attack, all during the short time the firebenders would be powerless. However, it turned out to be an Empty Fort Strategy, with the heroes barely escaping with their lives and leaving their parents captive. | |
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Band of Brothers. Depicts the actions of the 101st Airborne Division on D-Day. While amphibious landings aren't directly shown, the main mission depicted in episode 2 is the silencing of German artillery firing on Utah Beach. The amphibious assault across the Rhine River in March 1945 (Operation Varsity) is referenced; Captain Nixon participates in the supporting paratroops landings off-screen, which is mentioned in dialogue. | |
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Medal of Honor: Frontline, starts with the main character storming the very same beach at Normandy in a more polished sequence that might as well be direct from Ryan. | |
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Hell Let Loose has the Omaha and Utah Beach maps, where the Americans spawn from landing craft and must fight their way onto shore, while the Germans defend from various inland fortifications such as bunkers, trenches, and gun emplacements. Unlike most cases where the level simply ends with the breaching of the German defenses, the offensive continues further inland, with the Americans tasked with clearing towns, artillery batteries, and other strongholds in the process, with the Germans holding these remaining objectives. | |
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The Big Red One. Following a squad of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division through World War II, three different amphibious landings are depicted - in North Africa in 1942 (with French soldiers defending the beach), in Sicily in 1943 (with Italian soldiers opposite) and D-Day in Normandy in 1944 (this time with Germans on the other side). | |
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The first stage in area one of the third Time Crisis involves the two main characters storming a beach full of enemy troops. That's right, only two VSSE Agents storming a beach full of bad guys... and killing them all. | |
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Inchon. Ostensibly a film about the epic amphibious landing by UN forces that turned the tide of the Korean War. In reality a propaganda piece of the Reverend Moon. | |
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Rising Storm 2: Vietnam has the map Resort, which involves Southern troops landing and attacking a VC-held beach resort. | |
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Seen on multiple occasions in Muv-Luv from the defensive side. BETA can't fly or swim, but they can travel underwater for relatively short distances (e.g. narrow straits, yes, deep ocean, no), so human defenders get a lot of scenes trying to hold them with prepared and mobile defenses... and usually bloodily losing against their sheer numbers. One notable exception is the offscreen defense of the Suez Canal in Muv-Luv Alternative, which succeeded and kept the BETA from getting into Africa (at the cost of eastern Japan falling because their American allies had to redeploy to Africa to hold the line). | |
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Command & Conquer: Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn: The first mission has GDI landing troops on a Nod fortified beach to establish a base, with fire support being provided by a nearby gunboat. Several in the Red Alert games (both initiating and defending against) with that series' additional emphasis on naval combat compared to the Tiberium line (all the naval power is in GDI hands, so Nod can't really do these). In 3, for example, the first Allied mission is defending the British coastline against such an attack by the Soviets. |
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Edge of Tomorrow features an amphibious assault on the alien-controlled Normandy beaches. The humans invade with helicopter dropships, hovercraft, and even landing boats. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. During the pirates' attack on Port Royal, they send some of the crew on boats to assault and loot the town. | |
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The iconic third level of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is set during the Omaha Beach landing on D-Day. Lt. Powell, the Player Character, is tasked with clearing the German machine-gun bunkers alone following his entire unit being killed or wounded in the landing. And it's pretty clear from the onset that this level is heavily based on Saving Private Ryan's own Omaha Beach Landing. | |
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Beach Invasion 1944: The entire premise of the game has you play as the Germans defending a landing beach in France on D-Day against a massive American air, naval, and ground invasion force. Beach Invasion 1945 - Pacific: True to its title, this game focuses on two major beach landing operations in the Pacific Theater, with the Japanese defending Iwo Jima from a US Marine invasion force in 1945, and the Americans defending the Philippines from the Imperial Japanese Army in 1942. |
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The Game of Thrones episode "Blackwater" combines this with Storming the Castle, in the form of Stannis Baratheon's assault on King's Landing through the city harbor. He makes it ashore but can't bring any siege machines bigger than a battering ram aboard his landing boats, but on the other hand his troops also overturn one of the boats to shield the ram from arrows. Much of his fleet is blown up before landing with a fireship packed with wildfire, which was probably critical. | |
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Saving Private Ryan begins on D-Day at Omaha Beach, and it does not shy away from just how brutal it was. The mission to save the titular soldier begins after the troops have cleared the beach and begun moving inland. | |
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Armored Trooper VOTOMS. The first episode of Pailsen Files features a disastrous opposed landing against a Balarant position. While the overall operation was a success, the on-screen battle only has a single survivor - Chirico. | |
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The Korean war film My Way ends with the Normandy assault, where Allied troops land in Omaha Beach enmasse and begin overwhelming the German forces. | |
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House of the Dragon: The Velaryon forces and Daemon Targaryen attempt several assaults on the heavily defended beach where the Crabfeeder has his headquarters. All fail, until Daemon pulls one last gambit that eventually succeeds in annihilating the Crabfeeder and hos forces (though the war against the Triarchy wouldn't stop there). | |
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Call of Duty The American campaign of Call of Duty 2 began with the landings at Pointe Du Hoc, where the U.S. Rangers are tasked with destroying several artillery places on the cliffs. Unfortunately, the guns turn out to be further inland. The level "Goalpost" of Modern Warfare 3 has the player taking part in an amphibious landing against the Russians in Hamburg. Somewhat unusually for this trope, the player and his squad aren't in the amphibious landing vehicles but a V-22 Osprey. Though it does land on the beach, leading to you storming it all the same. Call of Duty: World at War has a unique take on this. Rather than having the beach landing here take place in Normandy on D-Day like the World War II-era titles, this one takes place on the remote Pacific island of Peleliu. Unlike Normandy, the hazards come mainly from the coral reefs on the beach, which cause Miller's landing craft to get stuck. The defending Japanese here, rather than firing from solid concrete bunkers, are instead firing from exposed trenches that get wiped out after an artillery strike. Call of Duty: WWII has the first level, set during the Omaha Beach landing on D-Day. Unlike most examples, however, the level doesen't simply end once the German defenses are breached. Instead, the focus is mainly on clearing German opposition further inland. |
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Several in the Red Alert games (both initiating and defending against) with that series' additional emphasis on naval combat compared to the Tiberium line (all the naval power is in GDI hands, so Nod can't really do these). In 3, for example, the first Allied mission is defending the British coastline against such an attack by the Soviets. | |
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The Great Escaper has flashbacks to the World War II days of British veteran Bernard Jordan when he stormed Gold Beach on D-Day. | |
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The American campaign of Call of Duty 2 began with the landings at Pointe Du Hoc, where the U.S. Rangers are tasked with destroying several artillery places on the cliffs. Unfortunately, the guns turn out to be further inland. | |
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While Medal of Honor: Airborne focuses primarily on Paratroopers, the Utah Beach level has members of the 4th Infantry suffering casualties from German machine-gun nests, which forces Travers and his squad to clear the remaining Germans out. | |
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The 2010 Robin Hood movie (directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe) had a storming-the-beach scene many felt was influenced by Saving Private Ryan. | |
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A Walk in the Sun. Depicts the landings at Salerno. The subject matter is dealt with realistically and had the cooperation of the U.S. Army. Notable for having been filmed during the war, just a year or so after the actual battle, and in its unromantic depiction of military action (unusual for the time) - during the landing sequence the platoon leader loses half his face to an enemy shell. Still liked by critics, at the time, and before he gained fame for his own realistic depictions of World War II combat, Samuel Fuller wrote to the producers to tell them how much he despised it. | |
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The Longest Day. It's a movie all about D-Day, so naturally it features tons of scenes from the 5 different beaches the Allies landed on. | |
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One Worms3D level recreates D-Day by having you take out a team of German worms on a beach fortification, complete with vast fleet of ships in the distance (it's actually possible to go towards them, but they're not solid and the worm sinks immediately. | |
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Played for laughs on Top Gear. While doing a "serious" test of the Ford Fiesta, Jeremy asks if it can be used in an amphibious assault. We then see him doing just that. | |
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No matter what age in Rise of Nations, all ground units turn into landing craft when moving over water and convert back into tanks or infantry when they hit the beach. If you are in the "Conquer the World" campaign and are invading across an ocean, you will start off with just transports carrying your invasion army. | |
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Saving Leningrad: The Soviets storm the beach on the south shore of Lake Ladoga in an effort to break the German siege of the city. Unlike most examples of this trope, this one ends in defeat and withdrawal after the Russian soldiers take horrible losses. | |
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Very risky in any game in the Age of Empires franchise; only Transports can carry troops across water, and they're slow and extremely vulnerable, so it's possible to lose lots of troops before even reaching land if any siege units, towers or missile troops are defending the landing. On the other hand, you can land just about anywhere, so it's very difficult to defend an entire coastline, and once the ships touch land all the troops will disembark at once and fight at full strength. | |
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Used as an allegory in the Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt episode "Pulp Addiction" for sperm cells trying to attain the cervix. Their biggest adversary is General Scott: tissues that blot them up before they can secure a beachhead near the vulva. | |
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The first story mission in Final Fantasy VIII has SeeD storm the beaches at Dollet to drive out Galbadian forces. | |
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Call of Duty: World at War has a unique take on this. Rather than having the beach landing here take place in Normandy on D-Day like the World War II-era titles, this one takes place on the remote Pacific island of Peleliu. Unlike Normandy, the hazards come mainly from the coral reefs on the beach, which cause Miller's landing craft to get stuck. The defending Japanese here, rather than firing from solid concrete bunkers, are instead firing from exposed trenches that get wiped out after an artillery strike. | |
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Revenge of the Sith: Villainous example occurs during the Battle of Kashyyyk, in which the Separatist droid army advances on the beachfront, with the combined clone and Wookiee armies attempting to fend them off. | |
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World in Conflict is loaded with this. At the start of the game, the Soviets launch a surprise invasion of the United States by loading up their troops on disguised cargo ships and sneaking them into Washington State, past the U.S. Navy. They quickly overrun Seattle and Tacoma and spread out inland as the Americans, who have most of their troops in Europe, struggle to stop them. During the flashback missions that showcase the fighting in Europe before the Seattle invasion, the Soviets had destroyed much of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, then followed up on it by staging an amphibious invasion of southern France in an attempt to open a second front as they had been stalemated in West Germany. One Soviet mission features a raid on a Norwegian air defense station. To get to it the Soviets must land the troops on a cold, snow-covered Norwegian beach in the most unique way. They use massive Ekranoplanes (basically huge seaplanes, which they in fact had prototypes of in Real Life). The planes land in the water then race towards the beach at high speed while firing rockets to weaken the Norwegian defenses. The planes' cockpits then slide open and unleash the Soviet strike force. The mission in New York City features Spetsnaz commandos taking over Liberty, Ellis, and Governor's Islands and capturing some U.S. vehicles, including amphibious transports which they use to send reinforcements to Ellis when the Americans move in to rescue the hostages. The U.S. Army Rangers have to stage amphibious assaults of their own to retake the islands. Just before the U.S. launches the operation to liberate Seattle, they send troops to retake a group of Islands in the Puget Sound to capture Soviet anti-ship missile batteries for use against the Chinese invasion fleet that's heading to Seattle to reinforce the Soviets. In the end, the aversion becomes a plot point; the Chinese can't storm the beaches because of their lack of amphibious landing gear, and need Seattle Harbor to land. This makes the race for Seattle all the more vital. |
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Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen has a Lock-and-Load Montage after the Pentagon realizes that the NEST team and Autobots are under attack by the Decepticons in Jordan. This includes Marines in the Persian Gulf landing troops and tanks by sea. | |
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Medal of Honor has several examples. The iconic third level of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is set during the Omaha Beach landing on D-Day. Lt. Powell, the Player Character, is tasked with clearing the German machine-gun bunkers alone following his entire unit being killed or wounded in the landing. And it's pretty clear from the onset that this level is heavily based on Saving Private Ryan's own Omaha Beach Landing. Medal of Honor: Frontline, starts with the main character storming the very same beach at Normandy in a more polished sequence that might as well be direct from Ryan. Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault features the Tarawa landings, where members of the 2nd Marine Division struggle to move inland while clearing Japanese defenses. While Medal of Honor: Airborne focuses primarily on Paratroopers, the Utah Beach level has members of the 4th Infantry suffering casualties from German machine-gun nests, which forces Travers and his squad to clear the remaining Germans out. |
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