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** Novaya Russia in the first game has conquered Europe, East Russia and all of the world, but they won't manage to conquer the United States; in fact, that's the turning point that erases Novaya Russia fromhistory. history.
** In the second game, the US tries to stop a rogue general and his cybernetic experiments from threatening the world TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, just in time for the 300th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
** Novaya Russia in the first game has conquered Europe, East Russia and all of the world, but they won't manage to conquer the United States; in fact, that's the turning point that erases Novaya Russia from
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: The animators messed up on Napoleon's attack animation: When he shoots, it looks like he's firing into the air.
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* BrokenPedestal: [[MyCountryRightOrWrong Molotov]] for much of his appearance in the Novaya Russia campaign idolizes Grigor and all he stood for. [[spoiler:This is completely shattered however upon finding out that Grigor was far from the heroic messiah he thought him to be.]]
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* CityOfWeirdos: When Molotov and Molly go back in time, nobody says anything about Molotov, a cyborg with a half-robot face.
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* UnitsNotToScale: Just like ''Age of Empires'', the people in this game are slightly bigger than the houses they live in. The HumongousMecha from the future ages are [[MiniMecha Humongous only in name]]. A miner is bigger than a tank, and nuclear bomber fighter jets are smaller than their bombs. The bombs are smaller than most ''tanks''.
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** The French accents in the English campaign in the first game are SoBadItsGood. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE#t=1m48s com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE&t=1m48s Here]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE#t=2m50s com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE&t=2m50s are]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE#t=4m24s com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE&t=4m24s some]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE#t=5m19s com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE&t=5m19s nice]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE#t=5m30s com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE&t=5m30s examples.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: One of the units that cannot be accessed in normal gameplay is the Chinese Spearman. And a gruesome detail about this particular unit is its death animation: The Chinese Spearman sets his spear to the ground and jumps on it.
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* AlternateHistory: The first game had the German campaign where it was possible to defeat Britain in WorldWarTwo. The scenario is actually based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion Operation Sea Lion]], which of course was never carried out in the real World War II.
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* AmericaSavesTheDay: Novaya Russia has conquered Europe, East Russia and all of the world, but they won't manage to conquer the United States; in fact, that's the turning point that erases Novaya Russia from history.
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* GeneralRipper: Charles Blackworth. His concern over America's apparent diminishing power prompts him to launch a coup d'etat against the US government, which the player foils. [[spoiler:He eventually goes into hiding in South America and attempts to trigger a nuclear holocaust, only to be foiled once again and KilledOffForReal]].
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* TankGoodness: Present in all epochs after World War I. The first game divides them into AP tanks (effective against other tanks) and HE tanks (effective against infantry), while the second game divides them into light tanks and heavy tanks.
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* SchizoTech: Some units from the [=WW2=] epoch (namely ships, artillery guns, some infantry, and even '''halftracks''') were still used in the modern "epoch". No, really. A more {{egregious}} example would be the second game, where Jagdpanther and M18 Hellcat tanks can still be built even in the synthetic and genetic ages.
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* ModernMayincatecEmpire: The tutorial for [=EE2=] has the player guide the Aztecs from its founding to [[AlternateHistory fighting off the Spanish conquistadors]], helping the Americans win their independence from Britain, and fight a fascist Inca state in the 1930's.
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** It is not clear what actually resulted from this horrific battle, since it ends with [[spoiler:both Grigors dead and either Molotov or Molly Ryan travelling back to the future, wondering what they will see]]. However, subtle clues in the Chinese campaign in the expansion pack hint that [[spoiler:Russia continued the decline that Grigor tried to combat but Novaya Russia appears in a scenario that takes place in the mid- to late-21st century, indicating that someone--perhaps a survivor of the battle--took up the mantle of Grigor's revolution.]]
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A classic military, [[RealTimeStrategy real-time strategy]] game from Stainless Steel Studios, Empire Earth was released in 2001 for the PC. The player controls a civilization as it advances through "epochs" (14 in the original, 15 in the Art of Conquest expansion). Specific buildings allow the construction of units and the research of improvements. The game employs a complex technology tree, with literally hundreds of land, sea, and air-based units. The goal, outside the preset scenarios, is the military destruction of the opponent. Users can play against the computer or other players online.
The original was very well received, prompting the release of Empire Earth II in 2005. This also did fairly well. Empire Earth III, by contrast, was a commercial flop, and is [[FranchiseKiller widely believed to have been the end of the series]].
[[http://ee.heavengames.com/new/eeh/index.shtml A dedicated fanbase lives on.]]
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!!This video-game provides examples of:
* AIIsACrapshoot: In the Novaya Russia campaign, AI may not be a crapshoot for Novaya Russia, but from the start, Novaya Russia's advances in robotics prove very disastrous for every other country. In the skirmish mode A.I. [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard is infamous for heavy cheating]]. It will add resources and units to the enemy team instantly if you do too well. Winning is almost impossible.
* AllThereInTheManual: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the fourth mission of the Russian campaign when the briefing recommends you to check out the manual to learn more on [[HumongousMecha cybers]]' abilities.
* AlternateHistory: The first game had the German campaign where it was possible to defeat Britain in WorldWarTwo.
* AnachronismStew: Infinite possibilities abound when it comes to having one side on the far end of the technology spectrum attacking another side that is way behind in development.
** ArmyOfTheAges: When you use the editor to create an army with units from every epoch.
* AnnoyingArrows: Played straight for hand-bow style archers, subverted for arrow towers (which carry a surprising punch), and averted for crossbow (because you know they'll be deadly). It's entirely possible for a crossbow team to destroy a MillionMookMarch of swordsmen single-handedly.
* AreaOfEffect: The nuclear weapon in the first game.
* AsceticAesthetic
* BatteringRam: Most technology epochs have their own version of a siege engine, something that can destroy buildings. In the Stone Age, it's a "Samson," which is just a guy carrying a log he uses to ram enemy huts.
* BaselessMission: The first scenario of the German campaign.
* BossBattle: William's duel against a beefed-up French knight in the English campaign, and in the last Russian mission against [[spoiler: Grigor II.]] It has [[DamageSpongeBoss 35000 health points]], compared to the mere 6000 he had [[spoiler:when you could control him]].
* ColorCodedMultiplayer: Even before ''dye'' is invented
* CriticalExistenceFailure: Every Unit and Building will still be standing with just one HP. Partly averted with planes, ships, and buildings which will smoke and catch fire.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Computer players don't follow any resource-gathering rules; they just build units at an arbitrarily fast pace. Also computers don't seem to be bothered by FogOfWar, since they commonly send bomber planes after your sneaky armies with impunity. They also know where your forces are strong and weak, so attempts to save scum after the loss of a base and send the bulk of your forces to said doomed base will result in the AI switching targets to the other one, even if they have no legitimate way of knowing where your forces are.
** Computer players also build walls everywhere [[ArtificialStupidity for some reason.]]
* EasilyConqueredWorld: Novaya Russia only had a tough time in the Middle-East, North Africa and China and by the time of [[spoiler:Molotov's defection,]] Novaya Russia held [[AllInTheManual direct or indirect control]] of pretty much the whole world except North America.
* EasyLevelTrick: The second Russian level can be beaten in 10 minutes top on easy mode if you build 3 Titan bombers and spend all your civilization points to make them faster and stronger.
* EverythingFades: This can be averted with a special trigger, as used in the second-to-last mission in the Russian Campaign, to make a dead unit become persistent and never disappear.
* {{Expy}}: Oh come on, as if you didn't think that [[spoiler: Grigor II]] from the Russian campaign was really a [[MobileSuitGundam Gundam]].
* FogOfWar: Unexplored areas of the map are pitch-black, and areas unobserved by the players' units or buildings do not show enemy movements.
* GameMod: Plenty for the first two games, from simple reskins to massive gameplay changes.
* GarrisonableStructures - Forts are available, but other structures too. and for certain structures (especially in the first game) it is wise to do so as garrisoning a certain number of units in them will upgrade the structure. But you won't get the units back after you upgrade said buildings.
** Putting units into Forts removes them from the unit cap. It is entirely possible (if taxing on the computer) to fill up your army to the maximum amount of units, put them in forts, ''re''-fill your army; and unload all the fortresses at once for the mother of all {{Zerg Rush}}es.
* HoverTank: Goes underwater most likely due to engine limitations.
* HumongousMecha: All three games have them in later epochs.
* JustAStupidAccent / PoirotSpeak : Most of the voice acting in the first installment was pretty {{egregious}}.
** The French accents in the English campaign in the first game are SoBadItsGood. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE#t=1m48s Here]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE#t=2m50s are]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE#t=4m24s some]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE#t=5m19s nice]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE#t=5m30s examples.]]
* PowerUpLetdown: Some of the Civ Bonuses are just a waste of rare and irreplaceable Civ Points.
* RealTimeStrategy: Gameplay can be paused so the player can take time to view the situation and issue commands, but can still proceed extremely fast for inexperienced players.
* RealTimeWithPause: One of the earliest Real-Time Strategy games that allowed issuing orders during paused mode. This allows micromanagement of formations, very useful in the earlier "epochs".
* RecycledinSpace: The Space Age introduced in Art of Conquest. You build space docks, space battleships, space carriers, space corvettes...
* ReligionIsMagic: Prophets are the spellcasters in this game, throwing storms, volcanoes, and plagues at your enemies.
* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: The buildings also start out as flat and gradually inflate as your villagers build them.
* RobotWar: The American campaign from EE2 eventually culminates in a battle against a rogue general and his cybernetic army.
* RuleOfCool: No other way to justify the cartoonish mecha, weird futuristic architecture, and lasers.
* RuleOfFunny: Prophets in the modern and future eras wear sandwich boards. [[NakedPeopleAreFunny And nothing else.]]
* RussiansWithRustingRockets: The beginning of the Novaya Russia campaign.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler:The final mission in the Novaya Russia campaign is a repeat of the first scenario--except Molotov, a defector from Novaya Russia, and Molly Ryan, an American special agent have traveled back to the past to stop Grigor's ascension. However this is complicated by the fact that Grigor II captured their time machine and sent back his 22nd century armies, leading to [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome one of the most brutal battles in any of the campaigns where the player must manage the early-21st century Russian army against forces from the future]].]]
** It is not clear what actually resulted from this horrific battle, since it ends with [[spoiler:both Grigors dead and either Molotov or Molly Ryan travelling back to the future, wondering what they will see]]. However, subtle clues in the Chinese campaign in the expansion pack hint that [[spoiler:Russia continued the decline that Grigor tried to combat but Novaya Russia appears in a scenario that takes place in the mid- to late-21st century, indicating that someone--perhaps a survivor of the battle--took up the mantle of Grigor's revolution.]]
* ShoutOut: The Cybers and [=HERCs=] are shoutout to another franchise: ''{{VideoGame/Starsiege}}.''
* SpaceIsAnOcean: This is how space is treated in the expansion pack to ''EmpireEarth.'' See RecycledinSpace.
* SplashDamage: For artillery units in all three games and the nuclear weapon in EEII.
* '''SpiritualSuccessor''': It's no coincidence that this game is identical to AgeOfEmpires.
* SuperPersistentMissile: A homing projectile will NEVER stop until the unit that it's chasing is dead or the unit that fired it is dead. The same rule applies for torpedoes.
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: In early epochs, the classic matchups occur between infantry, cavalry, and archers (with exceptions), though it gets more complicated as the epochs go on, becoming extremely convoluted when robots and lasers are introduced.
* TheWarOfEarthlyAggression: The latter third of the Asian campaign in ''Art of Conquest''. You even [[spoiler:attack the Moon and the Earth at the end!]]
* UnitsNotToScale: Just like ''Age of Empires'', the people in this game are slightly bigger than the houses they live in.
** SpaceCompression: The Creators had to take several liberties with designing the Campaign maps so you can expect a lot of inaccuracies when the locations are compared to real-life.
* WaveMotionGun: From the expansion, the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Devastating Beam of Death]] ability of the space capital ship.
* WorldWarOne: The first four missions of the German campaign in the first, featuring Manfred von Richtofen, the Red Baron. Also shown are the battles of Verdun and Somme.
** In EE2, featured in the second mssion of the US campaign as the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
* WorldWarTwo: The last two missions of the aforementioned German campaign. The fifth mission is a reenacting of Germany's ''blitzkrieg'' across Europe while the last scenario is an AlternateHistory version of Operation Sealion.
** The American campaign in Art of Conquest features key battles in the Pacific Front against the Japanese Empire.
** The American campaign in EE2 sees you slogging through Tunisia, Italy and the Low Countries. A optional mission is also set during the Normandy landing, where you can either take control of the Allies or the Axis.
* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: The first game has five resource types that require intensive monitoring of the civilization's economy.
** The second game on the other hand has four basic resource types and two "special resources" which change depending on the age. You won't get iron and uranium the same age, for example.
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A classic military, [[RealTimeStrategy real-time strategy]] game from Stainless Steel Studios, Empire Earth was released in 2001 for the PC. The player controls a civilization as it advances through "epochs" (14 in the original, 15 in the Art of Conquest expansion). Specific buildings allow the construction of units and the research of improvements. The game employs a complex technology tree, with literally hundreds of land, sea, and air-based units. The goal, outside the preset scenarios, is the military destruction of the opponent. Users can play against the computer or other players online.
The original was very well received, prompting the release of Empire Earth II in 2005. This also did fairly well. Empire Earth III, by contrast, was a commercial flop, and is [[FranchiseKiller widely believed to have been the end of the series]].
[[http://ee.heavengames.com/new/eeh/index.shtml A dedicated fanbase lives on.]]
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!!This video-game provides examples of:
* AIIsACrapshoot: In the Novaya Russia campaign, AI may not be a crapshoot for Novaya Russia, but from the start, Novaya Russia's advances in robotics prove very disastrous for every other country. In the skirmish mode A.I. [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard is infamous for heavy cheating]]. It will add resources and units to the enemy team instantly if you do too well. Winning is almost impossible.
* AllThereInTheManual: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the fourth mission of the Russian campaign when the briefing recommends you to check out the manual to learn more on [[HumongousMecha cybers]]' abilities.
* AlternateHistory: The first game had the German campaign where it was possible to defeat Britain in WorldWarTwo.
* AnachronismStew: Infinite possibilities abound when it comes to having one side on the far end of the technology spectrum attacking another side that is way behind in development.
** ArmyOfTheAges: When you use the editor to create an army with units from every epoch.
* AnnoyingArrows: Played straight for hand-bow style archers, subverted for arrow towers (which carry a surprising punch), and averted for crossbow (because you know they'll be deadly). It's entirely possible for a crossbow team to destroy a MillionMookMarch of swordsmen single-handedly.
* AreaOfEffect: The nuclear weapon in the first game.
* AsceticAesthetic
* BatteringRam: Most technology epochs have their own version of a siege engine, something that can destroy buildings. In the Stone Age, it's a "Samson," which is just a guy carrying a log he uses to ram enemy huts.
* BaselessMission: The first scenario of the German campaign.
* BossBattle: William's duel against a beefed-up French knight in the English campaign, and in the last Russian mission against [[spoiler: Grigor II.]] It has [[DamageSpongeBoss 35000 health points]], compared to the mere 6000 he had [[spoiler:when you could control him]].
* ColorCodedMultiplayer: Even before ''dye'' is invented
* CriticalExistenceFailure: Every Unit and Building will still be standing with just one HP. Partly averted with planes, ships, and buildings which will smoke and catch fire.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Computer players don't follow any resource-gathering rules; they just build units at an arbitrarily fast pace. Also computers don't seem to be bothered by FogOfWar, since they commonly send bomber planes after your sneaky armies with impunity. They also know where your forces are strong and weak, so attempts to save scum after the loss of a base and send the bulk of your forces to said doomed base will result in the AI switching targets to the other one, even if they have no legitimate way of knowing where your forces are.
** Computer players also build walls everywhere [[ArtificialStupidity for some reason.]]
* EasilyConqueredWorld: Novaya Russia only had a tough time in the Middle-East, North Africa and China and by the time of [[spoiler:Molotov's defection,]] Novaya Russia held [[AllInTheManual direct or indirect control]] of pretty much the whole world except North America.
* EasyLevelTrick: The second Russian level can be beaten in 10 minutes top on easy mode if you build 3 Titan bombers and spend all your civilization points to make them faster and stronger.
* EverythingFades: This can be averted with a special trigger, as used in the second-to-last mission in the Russian Campaign, to make a dead unit become persistent and never disappear.
* {{Expy}}: Oh come on, as if you didn't think that [[spoiler: Grigor II]] from the Russian campaign was really a [[MobileSuitGundam Gundam]].
* FogOfWar: Unexplored areas of the map are pitch-black, and areas unobserved by the players' units or buildings do not show enemy movements.
* GameMod: Plenty for the first two games, from simple reskins to massive gameplay changes.
* GarrisonableStructures - Forts are available, but other structures too. and for certain structures (especially in the first game) it is wise to do so as garrisoning a certain number of units in them will upgrade the structure. But you won't get the units back after you upgrade said buildings.
** Putting units into Forts removes them from the unit cap. It is entirely possible (if taxing on the computer) to fill up your army to the maximum amount of units, put them in forts, ''re''-fill your army; and unload all the fortresses at once for the mother of all {{Zerg Rush}}es.
* HoverTank: Goes underwater most likely due to engine limitations.
* HumongousMecha: All three games have them in later epochs.
* JustAStupidAccent / PoirotSpeak : Most of the voice acting in the first installment was pretty {{egregious}}.
** The French accents in the English campaign in the first game are SoBadItsGood. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE#t=1m48s Here]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE#t=2m50s are]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE#t=4m24s some]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE#t=5m19s nice]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjccCNc4aDE#t=5m30s examples.]]
* PowerUpLetdown: Some of the Civ Bonuses are just a waste of rare and irreplaceable Civ Points.
* RealTimeStrategy: Gameplay can be paused so the player can take time to view the situation and issue commands, but can still proceed extremely fast for inexperienced players.
* RealTimeWithPause: One of the earliest Real-Time Strategy games that allowed issuing orders during paused mode. This allows micromanagement of formations, very useful in the earlier "epochs".
* RecycledinSpace: The Space Age introduced in Art of Conquest. You build space docks, space battleships, space carriers, space corvettes...
* ReligionIsMagic: Prophets are the spellcasters in this game, throwing storms, volcanoes, and plagues at your enemies.
* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: The buildings also start out as flat and gradually inflate as your villagers build them.
* RobotWar: The American campaign from EE2 eventually culminates in a battle against a rogue general and his cybernetic army.
* RuleOfCool: No other way to justify the cartoonish mecha, weird futuristic architecture, and lasers.
* RuleOfFunny: Prophets in the modern and future eras wear sandwich boards. [[NakedPeopleAreFunny And nothing else.]]
* RussiansWithRustingRockets: The beginning of the Novaya Russia campaign.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler:The final mission in the Novaya Russia campaign is a repeat of the first scenario--except Molotov, a defector from Novaya Russia, and Molly Ryan, an American special agent have traveled back to the past to stop Grigor's ascension. However this is complicated by the fact that Grigor II captured their time machine and sent back his 22nd century armies, leading to [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome one of the most brutal battles in any of the campaigns where the player must manage the early-21st century Russian army against forces from the future]].]]
** It is not clear what actually resulted from this horrific battle, since it ends with [[spoiler:both Grigors dead and either Molotov or Molly Ryan travelling back to the future, wondering what they will see]]. However, subtle clues in the Chinese campaign in the expansion pack hint that [[spoiler:Russia continued the decline that Grigor tried to combat but Novaya Russia appears in a scenario that takes place in the mid- to late-21st century, indicating that someone--perhaps a survivor of the battle--took up the mantle of Grigor's revolution.]]
* ShoutOut: The Cybers and [=HERCs=] are shoutout to another franchise: ''{{VideoGame/Starsiege}}.''
* SpaceIsAnOcean: This is how space is treated in the expansion pack to ''EmpireEarth.'' See RecycledinSpace.
* SplashDamage: For artillery units in all three games and the nuclear weapon in EEII.
* '''SpiritualSuccessor''': It's no coincidence that this game is identical to AgeOfEmpires.
* SuperPersistentMissile: A homing projectile will NEVER stop until the unit that it's chasing is dead or the unit that fired it is dead. The same rule applies for torpedoes.
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: In early epochs, the classic matchups occur between infantry, cavalry, and archers (with exceptions), though it gets more complicated as the epochs go on, becoming extremely convoluted when robots and lasers are introduced.
* TheWarOfEarthlyAggression: The latter third of the Asian campaign in ''Art of Conquest''. You even [[spoiler:attack the Moon and the Earth at the end!]]
* UnitsNotToScale: Just like ''Age of Empires'', the people in this game are slightly bigger than the houses they live in.
** SpaceCompression: The Creators had to take several liberties with designing the Campaign maps so you can expect a lot of inaccuracies when the locations are compared to real-life.
* WaveMotionGun: From the expansion, the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Devastating Beam of Death]] ability of the space capital ship.
* WorldWarOne: The first four missions of the German campaign in the first, featuring Manfred von Richtofen, the Red Baron. Also shown are the battles of Verdun and Somme.
** In EE2, featured in the second mssion of the US campaign as the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
* WorldWarTwo: The last two missions of the aforementioned German campaign. The fifth mission is a reenacting of Germany's ''blitzkrieg'' across Europe while the last scenario is an AlternateHistory version of Operation Sealion.
** The American campaign in Art of Conquest features key battles in the Pacific Front against the Japanese Empire.
** The American campaign in EE2 sees you slogging through Tunisia, Italy and the Low Countries. A optional mission is also set during the Normandy landing, where you can either take control of the Allies or the Axis.
* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: The first game has five resource types that require intensive monitoring of the civilization's economy.
** The second game on the other hand has four basic resource types and two "special resources" which change depending on the age. You won't get iron and uranium the same age, for example.
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