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Wargame: AirLand Battle (Video Game)
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Wargame: AirLand Battle is a Cold War-era RTS game released by Eugen Systems in 2013, the sequel to Wargame: European Escalation. The gameplay is built around commanding a combined-arms force of either NATO or Warsaw Pact units, choosing your arsenal from a vast array of pretty much every unit fielded by the in-game nations. The game has multiplayer matches from 1v1 to 10v10, as well as a campaign mode playable in 1v1 or versus the AI, optionally with a co-op partner.The gameplay is similar to that of the previous game, involving ordering your units to capture territory and engage the enemy whilst managing your troops' supplies and ammunition levels, with the addition of the ability to control aircraft. As such, gaining air superiority is a vital part of winning any battle.The third game in the series, Wargame: Red Dragon has been released, focused on the Korean Peninsula. | |
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Home Guard | |
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Home Guard: Reservist troops, like West German Heimatschutzen or Danish Hjemmeværnet, are available troop options, for when you need a lot of low-cost troops to hold urban sectors. Even the shittiest infantry in the game are equipped with some kind of anti-armour weapon, which can be absolutely lethal in a built up area. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: each country's units will speak the language of that country—French soldiers speak French, Russians speak Russian, et cetera. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: In addition to the notes on the first game's page the resource requirements for most MLRS systems and heavy howitzers have been raised to prohibitive levels. | |
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Urban Warfare | |
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Urban Warfare: city sectors play a prominent role on most maps, and make infantry an absolute necessity, since urban fighting is guaranteed to be extremely messy for all combatants involved. ATGMs sheltering in a city block will stop a tank charge in its tracks. | |
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Zerg Rush | |
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Zerg Rush: the usual method of gameplay for Category C decks, which limit the player to equipment from 1975 or before. To compensate, they get a lot more units than the equivalent Category A deck for the equivalent cost in deck points, and older equipment tends to cost less in deployment points, meaning that it's possible for a good Category C player to swamp the field in low-cost tanks and keep their opponent off-guard through attacks on unexpected axes. | |
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The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard | |
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The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: The enemy AI has a habit of being able to hit you quite accurately from artillery across the map with no apparent recon to scout your units; later patches at least ensured that they need line of sight to launch barrages. | |
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World War III | |
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World War III: A Third World War between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces is the backdrop for battles. Specific scenarios are further explored in the campaign scenarios. In addition, aspects of the war happening outside of the campaign map are depicted as game events. | |
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Painfully Slow Projectile | |
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Painfully Slow Projectile: ATGMs travel quite slowly and you could easily make out their progress, but only in comparison to high-velocity cannon rounds streaking across the battlefield. Of course, this is Truth in Television—missiles are slow compared to sabot shells, and whether or not your unit would be able to do anything about that missile trail heading toward them is another story entirely. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: AirLand Battle was a contemporary US military doctrine for the use of air and land assets in battle, as is done by the player in game. | |
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Easy Logistics | |
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Easy Logistics: to a much lesser extent than most RTSes. Although supplies are abstracted, the game tracks ammunition, fuel, and health (abstracted as "spare parts" or "infantry reinforcements") for units, and keeping supply lines open to support your advance and to keep units' fuel, ammo, and health topped off is a vital part of any game. As a bonus, supply trucks and forward bases can be captured. | |
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Attack Its Weak Point | |
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Attack Its Weak Point: just like in reality, armored vehicles tend to have the bulk of their armor on their forward face; learning how to flank enemy vehicles to take advantage of their weaker side armor is an absolute must. | |
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Awesome Personnel Carrier | |
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Awesome Personnel Carrier: lots and lots of APCs and IFVs are available to all sides, since all infantry come with transports. This makes for choices: do you take cheap, spammable APCs to maximize the number of infantry you could call in, or do you spend more on expensive IFVs with powerful autocannons but cost as much as some lighter tanks? | |
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Crippling Overspecialization | |
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Crippling Overspecialization: A definite possibility with certain nation-, type-, or era-specific decks. There is no such thing as a perfectly balanced deck, and much of the fun in deck-building is figuring out a specialization you want to play, and covering its weaknesses as best as you can. Most SAM systems have no real ability to fight ground targets outside of maybe a machine gun for fighting infantry and unarmoured vehicles. As well, many ATGM tank destroyers lack a pintle machine gun, meaning they can't engage anything but other vehicles, leaving them open to attack by infantry or helicopters if left unsupported. Averted by the Canadian ADATS, whose missiles can target both air and ground vehicles. Most anti-tank and anti-air weapons teams. While most have a rifle or submachine gun for defence, their small size means they will be outgunned if they run into a proper infantry section, anti-tank teams have no real defence against helicoptersnote normal sections, while weak to them, can use their machine gun if a helicopter gets close, which is likely to happen if they are in a forest, and SAM teams have no defence against any ground vehicle with even a small amount of armour (and even unarmoured vehicles if they have a machine gun). | |
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Video-Game Flamethrowers Suck | |
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Videogame Flamethrowers Suck: they do not. Sapper/engineer units and some specialized infantry carry napalm weapons, which are especially deadly in urban fighting and can kill tanks at short range. | |
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One-Hit Kill | |
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One-Hit Kill: AirLand Battle adds the French Super Etendard attack aircraft (aka the "Super Retard", or "Super Nintendo"), which carries a single missile capable of one-shotting any ground unit it hits. It's a popular counter to the Soviet T-80U. | |
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Straight for the Commander | |
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Straight for the Commander: Taking out all the enemy's command vehicles will result in a Total Victory for your team and send their morale and initiative points plummeting. However, the same can happen to you. | |
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Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better | |
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Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: a non-sci-fi use of the trope in that tank guns come in two varieties, HEAT shaped-charge or KE sabot. KE is preferred whenever possible, since it gains substantial bonuses in armor penetration as range to target decreases (representing the tendency for sabot shells to lose velocity and hence hitting power as range increases), whereas HEAT weapons do not benefit from close-range AP bonuses. (The exception is for antitank missiles, which generally have a very high AP value to begin with.) | |
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Tank Goodness | |
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Tank Goodness: If a tank was fielded by any European nation in this game's time period, it's probably in here somewhere. As with the prequel, a lot of other units like armored cars, ATGM vehicles or artillery are also available. | |
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Garrisonable Structures | |
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Garrisonable Structures: one of the main reasons to focus on infantry is their ability to take and hold urban sectors. A properly supported and dug-in infantry force can be nigh-impossible to dislodge and stop an armored charge in its tracks. | |
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