History VideoGame / StarWarsGalacticBattlegrounds

** Fighters in general. Though they can get shield and armor upgrades, they will still turn into a ball of flames if caught within sight of a homing turret or fortress. The king of this is the Rebel Alliance A-Wing, an interceptor craft that moves extremely fast, has longer attack range than usual fighters, but will get smoked by most ground based anti air (provided homing is researched) or other fighters.
* GlassCannon: Bombers are very fragile but can do a lot of damage if not countered, and artillery and cannons can take out buildings with ease...but can't shoot enemies who are too close and are easily ripped to pieces by mounted troopers or Jedi/Sith.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Infantry units and some mechs and aircraft fire red (anti-infantry) lasers, some mechs (mainly destroyers) and the sandcrawler (non-Clone Campaigns) fire blue (anti-vehicle) lasers, TIE fighters and the Decimator fire green (anti-building?) lasers, bounty hunters and many hero units fire yellow lasers (anti-Jedi?).

** The Royal Naboo worker and the R2 Worker for the Rebellion also are somewhat charming.
* DamageIsFire: even metal buildings burn like they're made out of matches. Also, say good bye to the modest Age of Empires II flames -- all SWGB fires look like they're fuelled by a mixture of nitro and magnesium. A badly damaged Rebel fortress has a fire large enough to consume several other buildings.

* DoNotRunWithAGun: All ranged units, including infantry, artillery, and even starfighters, are incapable of attacking without coming to a complete halt first. Although since this game ''was'' made using the [[VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires Genie engine]], this is to be expected.
* EnemyExchangeProgram: Like VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires priests and monks, Jedi and Sith Knights can convert infantry units to your side, while Masters, for certain factions with the proper technology, can do the same to buildings and heavy units. [[note]]Never mind that some of those units may be droids, automated, fighter aircraft, or piloted by multi person crews[[/note]]. Other techs allow you to slow down the time it takes for enemy Force users to convert, or just have the targeted unit [[DrivenToSuicide self terminate upon conversion]].

** The Darth Vader campaign treats you as an Imperial commander of sorts. Throughout the missions, Lord Vader will sometimes adress you directly.
* FragileSpeedster: speeder bike scouts are incredibly fast, but also die very, very quickly in combat.

* GlassCannon: Bombers are very fragile but can do a lot of damage if not countered, and artillery and cannons can take out buildings with ease...but can't shoot enemies who are too close.

** Pummels are basically battering rams, and while they can rip through buildings like no-one's business, they move so very slowly.

* SchizoTech: The Naboo have some of the most high-tech aircraft, sophisticated weapons and vehicles that manage to be both functional and elegant...and their unique unit is the Royal Crusader, a dude on a space horse who whacks people with a polearm. An upgrade gives them energy shields, which means they're using ultra-advanced force fields to make their whacking-people-with-polearms more effective.

* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: Much like in ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires'' there are four resources the player gathers, food, carbon (wood), nova crystals (gold), and ore (stone).

** Air Cruisers are airborne artillery with long attack range, gargantuan power, and a large amount of hit points and shields. They punish buildings (including outranging most fortress and anti air) and absolutely devastate mech and infantry formations. That said, they are slower than a sleepy Hutt, cost well over 550 food and nova crystals, and require two open population slots to produce. In terms of tactics, Anti Air Turrets and Mobiles (with the proper upgrades, and also careless maneuvering) can outrange and destroy Air Cruisers, and a small squadron of fighters can easily take down an unguarded one. To get the most out of the soaring behemoths, you would otherwise need to sink a lot of resources into fighter escorts to counter those problems, which if you're not already ahead in the game, will be difficult.

* AwesomeButImpractical: the "grenade trooper", who carries a huge mortar that lobs thermal detonators at the enemy. In practice, though, she is mostly useless, and is most effective against shields, which don't come until Tech Level 3. Sometimes the case with the "pummel", a sci-fi incarnation of the battering ram of old -- in a game with Imperial walkers, heavy artillery and bombers. Pummels, at least, are well-defended against ranged attacks and can rip through fortified buildings very quickly - especially if the other side doesn't have the Rotation Bearings upgrade, ensuring that turrets can't defend themselves; the grenade trooper, on the other hand, is extremely fragile and doesn't do a great deal of damage.
** Air Cruisers are airborne artillery with long range, gargantuan attack power, and a large amount of hit points and shields. They punish buildings (including outranging most fortress and anti air) and absolutely devastate mech and infantry formations. That said, they are slower than a sleepy Hutt, cost well over 550 food and nova crystals, and require two open population slots to produce. In terms of tactics, Anti Air Turrets and Mobiles (with the proper upgrades) can outrange and destroy ACs, and a small squadron of fighters can easily take down an unguarded one. To get the most out of Air Cruisers, you will otherwise need to sink a lot of resources into fighter escorts in order to counter those problems.

* ShoutOut: The Stormtrooper will sometimes say he is THX1138.

* AwesomeButImpractical: the "grenade trooper", who carries a huge mortar that lobs thermal detonators at the enemy. In practice, though, she is mostly useless. Likewise with the "pummel", a sci-fi incarnation of the battering ram of old -- in a game with Imperial walkers, heavy artillery and bombers. Pummels, at least, are well-defended against ranged attacks and can rip through fortified buildings very quickly - especially if the other side doesn't have the Rotation Bearings upgrade, ensuring that turrets can't defend themselves; the grenade trooper, on the other hand, is extremely fragile and doesn't do a great deal of damage.

* CuteMachines: the Naboo air cruiser (the heaviest air unit you can build, meant to terrorize and decimate enemy armies) for some reason looks like... something totally not meant to kill anyone, and it's got a red clown nose (the Gungan Air Cruiser compensates for this by being a disgusting, bloody flying blob of... something that totally looks like it's meant to terrorize and decimate you).

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: If you click on Darth Vader: "I hope, for your sake, that this is important"

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: One of the phrases of General Veers is "They won't be back for the sequel".

* MageKiller: Bounty hunters. Units typically fire red (anti-infantry), blue (anti-vehicle), or green (anti-building) lasers; bounty hunters fire yellow lasers, which do massive damage to Jedi and Sith.

* NotMeThisTime: Otoh Jahih is at war with Otoh Langua because they stole their sacred staff. Otoh Langua says that it's not true, that they did not stole anything. And it is right, the staff was lost in the wilderness.

* MightyGlacier: Pummels are basically battering rams, and while they can rip through buildings like no-one's business and are very resilient to long-range fire, they move so very slowly.

* AchillesHeel: Taking out the power cores will shut down shields and cripple most buildings. Naturally, power cores have low HP and bombers get bonus damage against them.[[note]]And speaking of bombers, they also get bonus damage against turrets -- [[{{Irony}} including, strangely enough, ''Anti-air turrets'']].[[/note]]

* DarkActionGirl: Sev'rance Tann, Count Dooku's Chiss apprentice and TheDragon as far as the Confederacy is concerned (preceding General Grievous).

* AchillesHeel: Taking out the power cores will shut down shields and cripple most buildings. Naturally, power cores have low HP and bombers get bonus damage against them.[[note]]And speaking of bombers, they also get bonus damage against turrets -- [[Irony including, strangely enough, ''Anti-air turrets]].[[/note]]

* AchillesHeel: Taking out the power cores will shut down shields and cripple most buildings. Naturally, power cores have low HP and bombers get bonus damage against them.

* FragileSpeedster: speeder bike scouts are incredibly fast, but also die very, very fast in combat.

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: You can let Jar Jar Binks be killed by the Federation robots, or kill him yourself, but then you lost the game.

* DamageIsFire: even metal buildings burn like they're made out of matches. Also, say good bye to the modest Age of Empires II flames -- all SWGB fires look like they're fuelled by a mixture of nitro and magnesium.

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Weebaca

* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: Much like in ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires'' there are four resources the player gathers, food, carbon (wood), nova crystals (gold), and ore (stone).
* WeatherOfWar: averted, particularly in the case of Gungans riding winged creatures into space without any kind of breathing apparatuses.

''Franchise/StarWars: Galactic Battlegrounds'' is an VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires-style strategy game where players pick a faction and try to complete the objectives. The original game featured the Rebel Alliance, the Galactic Empire, the Royal Naboo Security Forces, the Gungans, the Trade Federation, and the Wookiees. ''Clone Campaigns'', its expansion, included a new Air Cruiser model for all factions, a new type of supply droid, as well as the factions of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems (aka, the Clone Army and the Separatists, respectively).

* AwesomeButImpractical: the "grenade trooper", who carries a huge mortar that lobs thermal detonators at the enemy. In practice, though, she is mostly useless. Likewise with the "pummel", a sci-fi incarnation of the battering ram of old -- in a game with Imperial walkers, heavy artillery and bombers.

* ConstructAdditionalPylons: while there are some Fixed Force missions, your forces always seem to be able to find the resouces to build a base and the recruits to field an army. In the second rebel mission, Leia Organa start out with a tiny squad deep in Imperial-controlled woods, not that this stops you from building a base and training a small army. Where she gets the recruits from is anyone's guess, I suppose they all snuck in after her.

* ShoutOut: The Storm trooper will some say he is THX1138.

* RecycledInSpace: Gameplay is ''identical'' to ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires'', except for the addition of aircraft.
** Rediscovering the game after letting it gather dust for years, I would say "identical" is an overstatement -- it has, for obvious reasons, a whole lot more ranged combat than its predessecor, it introduces a rudimentary "power" system (buildings without a "power core" in its vicinity builds and conducts research at 1/4 speed), deflector shields (a second, regenerating pool of hit points) and space maps, and playing with speeders, tanks and walkers instead of cavalry is quite interesting... but yes, it's kept a lot of the features of its "ancestor", and I feel you'd be justified in calling it "Age of Empires II in space"..
*** Either that or Age of Star Wars

* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: Much like in ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires'' there are four resources the player gathers, food, carbon(wood), nova crystals(gold), and ore (stone).
* WeatherofWar: averted, particularly in the case of Gungans riding winged creatures into space without any kind of breathing apparatuses.