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Steambirds (Video Game)
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A zany, addicting flash game series and iTouch app (The original can be found here and Survival can be found here). An Alternate History version of our timeline where, in 1835, "Sir Albert Pendleton" accidentally discovered low-temperature fusion, resulting in nuclear fusion-based steam-powered jet fighter analogues stylized in decidedly World War II design fashion.The story is vaguely told in the mission descriptions. As can be followed, the timeline moves forward in a very In Spite of a Nail fashion, with World War I occurring in a reasonably similar fashion to our own with similar dates, albeit with heavily increased emphasis on air superiority. However, the timeline begins to diverge more in World War II, which opens with the nuking of Paris by Axis Germany. Continuing in that vein, Britain is subsequently invaded by an overwhelming German air force utilizing advanced bioweapons. Despite this, by some unknown providence of fate, they are able to push the Germans back and end the war in 1956.Despite the less-than-plausible timeline, the game is genuinely fun, utilizing a self-contained mission structure. Within the iTunes app and first flash version, each mission provides a number of planes, typically between two and four, and a (usually) substantially larger enemy force to defeat. This is achieved by directing your planes' movement (they fire automatically when an enemy enters their firing arc) and usage of special weapons. Stars are awarded for your performance, ranging from four for not taking a hit, to one for coming out with one Hit Point left.In Steambirds: Survival, a spin-off game, you play an Endless Game reenactment of this world's version of the Battle of Britain (called in-universe the "Gassing of London"), where you're tasked with making a Last Stand in order to buy time for escaping Londoners—ranging from orphans to Parliament—by taking as many Germans down with you as possible. You earn "copper," which is used to buy more advanced aircraft until you can buy the Allurbase airship. | |
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Applied Phlebotinum | |
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Applied Phlebotinum: Present in copious amounts. The "low-temperature fusion" which Sir Pendleton somehow discovered in 1835 appears to power everything, as all aircraft emit steam trails and Survival mentions fusion plants in London being dismantled to deny the Germans the assets. | |
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GunsAreUseless | |
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Guns Are Useless: Inverted. Nothing but the gun can be absolutely trusted to reliably kill the enemy in a reasonable amount of time. Missiles can backfire spectacularly and swing around to kill you rather than an opponent (this is removed in Steambirds: Survival). Poison gas (which somehow jams a plane's guns and damages its airframe) can be avoided, and your other auxiliary weapon, the bomb (once again, it goes unexplained how a bomb is hitting aircraft) depends entirely on the enemy aircraft being behind you at a specific distance to be hit. note Dropping bombs to blow up pursuing fighters as an emergency measure at low altitudes is slightly less implausible than it sounds like, as any War Thunder player can attest to; this practice is, however, Awesome, but Impractical at the best of times, and the game never specified which altitudes the depicted dogfights occur. Plus, a British plane dropping bombs on British Cities to shake their German pursuers would probably get the pilot in trouble. | |
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Failure Is the Only Option | |
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Failure Is the Only Option: Survival makes it clear from the start that you can't stop the Axis armada from gassing London, you can only hold it off as long as possible in order to let as many as possible escape. The iTouch game goes further; each city's storyline inevitably ends with a massive armada on the way to bomb each city to the ground. | |
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Allohistorical Allusion | |
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Allohistorical Allusion: Combined with Shown Their Work. Charles Babbage, who in our timeline became the father of the modern computer, is noted in the game to be the inspiration for a computer made by the Axis to crack the French Resistance's communication codes. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: The "Chickadee" fighter deployed by the British. The ace pilots demanded a plane "that wouldn't hold them back." The British responded with a plane with a very wide firing arc, high speed, impressive damage, and useful special abilities. All this came with practically no armor to speak of. Most of the pilots refuse to use the plane on these grounds. | |
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Ghost Town | |
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Ghost Town: Britain's major cities are described as becoming this in Survival, and it's played for all the depressing they can get out of it. | |
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La Résistance | |
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La Résistance: The French Resistance still forms in this timeline to fight Axis Germany. | |
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Lethal Joke Character | |
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Lethal Joke Character: The Looper flying wing prototype actively encourages the player to use ridiculous tactics—like full 360 degree spinning on the horizontal plane—to offset the aircraft's very narrow firing angle. | |
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You Shall Not Pass! | |
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You Shall Not Pass!: The British air force's mission in the Battle of London. | |
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Degraded Boss | |
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The Looper is more than cappable of shredding anything that it meets in 2 turns max, including Behemoth. Most in one turn, often literally killing an entire enemy force by turning beside it. On the other hand, it's firing angle is very small. | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: The nations of this Earth have missiles with no Identify-Friend/Foe technology, flying wings without stealth or advanced fly-by-wire technology, and guns which can target enemy missiles mid-flight and shoot them down. They power all of this with steam. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: World War II is this in the beginning in favor of Germany, but about midway through the game the British are typically beating large enemy squadrons with only a handful of their own planes. | |
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Endless Game | |
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Endless Game: In Survival, there is no end to the waves of German air craft attacking you. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: Some of the mission descriptions read as this, with British pilots sent to lure the German air force out on the understanding that they aren't coming back. | |
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Deflector Shields | |
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Deflector Shields: One of the special abilities, without so much as an accompanying Hand Wave. | |
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Gameplay and Story Segregation | |
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Gameplay and Story Segregation: The number of planes seen don't add up to nearly what would be necessary to fight a world war, even if it's a locally focused on in Europe. It's also mentioned that the British stole their missile tech from the Germans, but the Germans never use this missile tech. This is probably because the game would be too hard if they did. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: The player-character in Survival is ultimately destined to make this regardless of how good the player is. Also in Survival, a team of scientists is noted to have refused to leave their lab in Britain even under threat of mass gas bombing from Germany. They stayed on grounds of still trying to find a cure to that very poisonous gas and believing that they were very close to a cure. | |
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Zeppelins from Another World | |
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Zeppelins from Another World: The world of Steambirds still uses zeppelin airships, apparently having equipped them with heavy armor and wide-arc anti-aircraft guns. | |
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Forced Tutorial | |
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Forced Tutorial | |
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ColorCodedForYourConvenience | |
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Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Mixed with Palette Swap. The British and Germans will use the same planes sometimes, the only difference being the color (in the original, the British are always red, while the Germans vary between blue, green, and black). Some planes share the same airframe model but have different names and attributes. This could all be assumed to be Gameplay and Story Segregation, however. | |
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Easy Logistics | |
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Easy Logistics: Subverted. Though your planes have unlimited ammo and fuel, Survival notes that various facilities are being dismantled so that the Germans can't use them. Also, one mission in the iTouch/iPad version centers around you having run out of ammo in the last mission and therefore forcing you to rely solely on missiles. | |
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Just for Pun | |
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Just for Pun: The second special mission involving the "Chickadee" prototype aircraft is called "Dead Turkey," a play on the phrase "Turkey Shoot." | |
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Arbitrary Gun Power | |
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Arbitrary Gun Power: Guns have arbitrary stats which, in conjunction with an armor stat, tell you how much damage your plane will do to the enemy plane's health bar. | |
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For Want of a Nail | |
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For Want of a Nail: Possibly blended with a subversion of Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act. It's not unlikely, given the way the game speaks of Germany, that the Nazis never took power in Germany. | |
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Phlebotinum-Induced Steampunk | |
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Phlebotinum-Induced Steampunk: The main premise is that fusion power was discovered in the 19th century, so while the planes run on steam, they don't need coal to function. | |
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Stupid Jetpack Hitler | |
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Stupid Jet Pack Hitler: Although possibly lacking in the Hitler and any trace of time travel, this world's version of Axis Germany enters World War II with nuclear and chemical weapons of surprising advancement, as their nuclear firepower is apparently sufficient to vaporize Paris. Actually, it's almost certainly lacking in Hitler. The games never mention one way or another, but a history nut can tell because of one key fact: Hitler did not approve of the use of poison gas on the battlefield. The Germans ingame... are not as principled. | |
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Conservation of Ninjutsu | |
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Conservation of Ninjutsu: Present in Survival; the player is likely to shoot down dozens of enemy planes before they are downed. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: One of the story memos in Survivals is this: "Death will feast on us all, but his appetite will be sated by all these German appetizers!" | |
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Misguided Missile | |
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Misguided Missile: The missiles in the game are apparently heat-tracking and will fly until they hit a target. This target does not have to be on the opposite side of the firing aircraft, however, as it seems that the world of Steambirds did not develop IFF technology yet. | |
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Airborne Aircraft Carrier | |
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Airborne Aircraft Carrier: Subverted. Airships are present, but they don't carry aircraft. They do have wide gun coverage and an absurd amount of armor, but not complements of aircraft. | |
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Macross Missile Massacre | |
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Macross Missile Massacre: The Axis leadership's final base uses a subdued form of this trope, launching an unlimited supply of missiles which fill the sky and cause incredible tactical issues with attacking the otherwise-defenseless enemy aircraft. | |
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Crazy Enough to Work | |
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Crazy Enough to Work: The test pilot of the Looper prototype aircraft, who, while under player-control, will execute full 360 spins to offset his aircraft's poor attack angle. He destroys three whole squadrons of German aircraft solo. | |
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Suspiciously Small Army | |
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Suspiciously Small Army: Neither side in either world war seems to possess nearly enough planes, although this is likely a clear-cut example of Gameplay and Story Segregation. | |
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One-Man Army | |
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One-Man Army: If a mission starts with more than one plane under player control, all of them will likely be needed for that mission. But if you only start with one, you are guaranteed that you'll slaughter with just that plane. The player-character in Survival is made of this trope, as is the pilot of the prototype Looper flying wing aircraft. | |
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America Won World War II | |
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America Won World War II: Subverted. It's implied that America (and Canada) joins neither world war. In fact, it's implied that America doesn't even care that the Germans are taking over Europe. | |
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Alternate History | |
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Alternate History: In which Steampunk jet fighters rule the skies alongside floating fortresses and airships. The timeline, Applied Phlebotinum excepted, isn't too different until World War II, where it's implied that America never joined World War I and the Soviet Union never took power in Russia. | |
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Nuke 'em | |
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Nuke 'em: Germany's opening of World War II. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
| Steambirds (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: An appropriate response if you fire a missile and it swings around to kill you instead of hitting an enemy. Also an appropriate response for the "true" final level of the iTouch version, which involves three enemy Behemoths with an attending squadron. | |
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Fridge Brilliance | |
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Actually, it's almost certainly lacking in Hitler. The games never mention one way or another, but a history nut can tell because of one key fact: Hitler did not approve of the use of poison gas on the battlefield. The Germans ingame... are not as principled. | |
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Alternate History Wank | |
| Steambirds (Video Game) / int_b4fca546 | comment |
Alternate History Wank: Britain walks cleanly out of a World War II far darker and more one-sided (and not in their favor) than ours while Germany ends with a defeat-in-detail worse than the Real Life World War I. They also consistently defeat German forces substantially larger than their own, and by the end of the game the levels are without-exception two or three British planes versus some ten or fifteen German ones. | |
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Take That! | |
| Steambirds (Video Game) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: One of the story memos in Survival takes a potshot at British Parliament and politicians in general: "Parliament has been evacuated. Our politicians are saved! Hooray?" | |
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Blood Knight | |
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Blood Knight: One of the story memos in Survival urges the player to be this: "What men would give for this chance at glory! Kill them, brave pilot. Kill them, and laugh!" | |
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Weaksauce Weakness | |
| Steambirds (Video Game) / int_c09dbbbb | comment |
Weaksauce Weakness: The Chickadee is made as the perfect plane, a textbook example of a Flying Brick...except for that small problem of having no armor to speak off. Needless to say, fighting in it involves avoiding the enemy firing arc at any cost. The Neverslow has extreme speed and maneuverability, a powerful gun, and a nearly infinite supply of speed boosts. It also has very thick armor, unlike the above example. Unfortunately, it is completely unable to slow down. The Looper is more than cappable of shredding anything that it meets in 2 turns max, including Behemoth. Most in one turn, often literally killing an entire enemy force by turning beside it. On the other hand, it's firing angle is very small. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Steambirds (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: To George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. In Survival, Japan is mentioned to have "floating fortresses tied up in China." This is also an Allohistorical Allusion; Japan was embattled in China while Germany was fighting its war in Europe, having invaded the area in 1932 in Real Life. | |
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Taking You with Me | |
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Taking You with Me: The British air force's attitude in Survival towards the Germans. | |
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It's Up to You | |
| Steambirds (Video Game) / int_cc374ba6 | comment |
It's Up to You: In Survival, the player will frequently start with a small squadron of attending planes, but these have something like 1/10 of the health of the equivalent player aircraft and get shot down rapidly. | |
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Steampunk | |
| Steambirds (Video Game) / int_cf6d4bad | comment |
Steampunk: Duh. | |
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In Spite of a Nail | |
| Steambirds (Video Game) / int_d243518d | comment |
In Spite of a Nail: This timeline's world wars start right around the same time as when ours began, and their World War I even ends at about the same time. Their World War II diverges a lot, however. | |
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Britain Is Only London | |
| Steambirds (Video Game) / int_ea44cd34 | comment |
Britain Is Only London: The Germans are implied to be invading all of Britain in Survival, but we only see the Battle of London and that is understood from the text to be the most important part of the battle. Subverted in the mobile version of Survival, however; we see the fights all over the country. | |
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Bonus Boss | |
| Steambirds (Video Game) / int_ee0327e7 | comment |
Bonus Boss: The Barrage, a gunship equipped with ridiculously heavy armor and paired missile launchers (although it can only fire one per turn). It appears at the end of the bonus Commonwealth levels. | |
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Last Stand | |
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Last Stand: The British air force has one of these in Survival, fighting on purely to destroy as many enemy planes as possible and distract them from evacuating ground personnel and civilians. | |
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Theme Naming | |
| Steambirds (Video Game) / int_fd94c4ac | comment |
Theme Naming: Each plane usually has a name that is appropriate. The Looper is designed to use 360 spins as standard tactics. The Spider is highly agile and fast, designed to spin "webs" of poison gas and run the foolish enemy pilots into it. The Duster is designed to fight in mass groups and lay unavoidable paths of poison gas. So on and so forth. | |
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Alien Space Bats | |
| Steambirds (Video Game) / int_fe10cf42 | comment |
Alien Space Bats: The true point of divergence for the timeline is this, with a man discovering cold fusion twenty-five years before the American Civil War (the birthplace of modern warfare) even broke out and long before the nuclear weapon was ever invented in Real Life. | |
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