History VideoGame / StarWarsGalacticBattlegrounds

* ArcWords: Wesa ready to do our part!

* CuteMachines: the Naboo air cruiser (the heaviest air unit you can build, meant to terrorize and decimate enemy armies) for some reason looks to some people like something totally not meant to kill anyone, and it's got a red clown nose. To others it looks like a great golden eagle, just as fearsome as it is cute. (The Gungan Air Cruiser compensates for this by being a disgusting, bloody flying blob of... something that totally looks like it's an EldritchAbomination.)

* GameMod: ''[[http://www.moddb.com/mods/star-wars-galactic-battlegrounds-expanding-fronts Expanding Fronts]]'', which is a mod released in 2016 features a rework of the game which adds new units and features. The mod includes the [[VideoGame/EmpireAtWar Zann Consortium]] as a playable faction.

''Franchise/StarWars: Galactic Battlegrounds'' is, depending on who you ask, ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires'' InSpace or an ''Age of Empires''-like strategy game where players pick a faction and try to complete the objectives (it even uses the same [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_Engine engine]] as ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII''). 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).

* LimitedSoundEffects: for example, all Imperial TIEs have a pilot saying "TIE Fighter reporting", characters having only one stock phrase ("this is Leia Organa, this is Leia Organa, this is Leia Organa, this is Leia Organa) or droid/automated units with one sound clip for select, move, and attack; see also MostAnnoyingSound in YMMV.

* LethalJokeCharacter: [[EthnicScrappy The Gungans]] are an entire faction of this. Not only do their buildings repair automatically [[note]]Albeit slowly[[/note]], not only can they build prefab shelters underwater [[note]]Thus giving them access to more space in certain maps[[/note]], not only are their frigates stealthed [[note]]Albeit UselessUsefulStealth, since ''all'' frigates, regardless of faction, are stealth-detecting, but still[[/note]], ''not only are their medics able to heal more units than the medics of any other civilization,'' [[OverlyLongGag NOT ONLY DO THEIR TROOPERS HAVE GREATER RANGE THAN THOSE OF ANY OTHER CIVILIZATION]] [[note]]To the point where, depending on the enemy's limitations (or bad decisions), they can [[GameBreaker outrange fortresses and Assault Mechs]] [[/note]] but they have ''the'' most powerful Mechs and Heavy Weapons in the game, ''AND'' their elite unit is a mobile shield generator, thus giving their armies extra protection even inside enemy strongholds. A skilled Gungan player will make life hell for a non-Gungan enemy.

* 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 -- including, strangely enough, ''[[{{Irony}} Anti-air turrets]]''.[[/note]]

''Franchise/StarWars: Galactic Battlegrounds'' is, depending on who you ask, ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires'' InSpace or an ''Age of Empires''-like strategy game where players pick a faction and try to complete the objectives (it even uses the same [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_Engine engine]] as ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII''). 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).

''Franchise/StarWars: Galactic Battlegrounds'' is, depending on who you ask, VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires InSpace or an Age of Empires-like 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).

* EarlyBirdCameo: Pekt, one of the antagonists of the Chewbacca Campaign, can be heard [[WeWillMeetAgain vowing revenge on the Wookiees]] at the end of the Basic Trainging campaign.

** 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. Melee attacks, however, will quickly take them down.

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Weebacca

* SpaceIsNoisy: of course. This is a Star Wars trope.

** This being a Genie Engine based-game, you can use the scenario editor to get revenge: set up a scenario, place some stuff and follow these directions: 1. Create a trigger. 2. Set it to loop. 3. Set it to create object Jar Jar Binks somewhere nice. 4. Create another trigger. 5. Set it to loop too. 6. Set it to Kill Object Jar Jar Binks. Don't set an area, don't do anything. 7. Test and enjoy watching him die over and over again, perpetually making screams of agony.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Units on asteroid maps have no problem functioning without special breathing devices. Handwaved by the presence of terraforming devices on certain maps.

* DarkActionGirl: Sev'rance Tann, Count Dooku's Chiss apprentice and TheDragon as far as the Confederacy is concerned (preceding General Grievous).[[note]]And, amusingly enough, Asajj Ventress.[[/note]]

** This being a Genie Engine based-game, you can use the scenario editor to get revenge: set up a scenario, place some stuff and follow these directions: 1. Create a trigger. 2. Set it to loop. 3. Set it to create object Jar Jar Binks somewhere nice. 4. Create another trigger. 5. Set it to loop too. 6. Set it to Kill Object Jar Jar Binks. Don't set an area, don't do anything. 7. Test and enjoy watching him die over and over again, perpetually making screams of agony. (This troper doesn't actually hate him that much, he's just imaginatively cruel.)

* BewareTheQuietOnes / AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Gungan Boss Gallo, distant ancestor of ''PhantomMenace'' Boss Rugor Nass. He led his village without fighting other Bosses, as he hate fighting his fellow gungans... until evil Boss Rogoe wiped out his village. He then allied with leader of thieves Marsun (who was disgusted by such deed), united warring Gungan tribes, and destroyed Rogoe's forces, including the Boss himself, and found Otoh Gunga, the same city we saw in Phantom Menace.

* BewareTheQuiteOnes / AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Gungan Boss Gallo, distant ancestor of ''PhantomMenace'' Boss Rugor Nass. He led his village without fighting other Bosses, as he hate fighting his fellow gungans... until evil Boss Rogoe wiped out his village. He then allied with leader of thieves Marsun (who was disgusted by such deed), united warring Gungan tribes, and destroyed Rogoe's forces, including the Boss himself, and found Otoh Gunga, the same city we saw in Phantom Menace.

** Fighters in general. Though they can get shield and armor upgrades, an individual one is more or less destroyed 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 mostly anything that can manage to hit it.

* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: Much like in ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires'' there are four resources the player gathers, food, carbon (wood), nova crystals (gold), and ore (stone). This game makes some of the (comparative) research less expensive than it might be in Age of Empires but in exchange for generally higher unit costs.

** 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. The Grenade Trooper is otherwise extremely fragile and doesn't do a great deal of damage to non-mechanized units.

* DoNotRunWithAGun: All ranged units, including infantry, artillery, and even starfighters, are incapable of attacking without coming to a complete halt first, even things like fighters and bombers that would conceivably make strafing and bombing runs. 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 conversion time to allow you to assassinate the Force user, or just have the targeted unit [[DrivenToSuicide self terminate upon conversion]].

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

* LimitedSoundEffects: for example, all Imperial TIEs have a pilot saying "TIE Fighter reporting", or characters having only one stock phrase ("this is Leia Organa, this is Leia Organa, this is Leia Organa, this is Leia Organa), see also MostAnnoyingSound in YMMV.

** 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.

* NotPlayingFairWithResources