History VideoGame / UniverseAtWar

* CloningBlues: Mirabel has actually died and reborn many times, growing weaker every time. By the time of the game's events, [[HandicappedBadass she has grown so weak that she requires Viktor for protection]].

* CropCircles: Hierarchy Glyph Carvers can create crop circles by carving out glyphs in the ground (not necessarily in crops). These are actually "bar codes" which the orbiting motherships scan and drop/teleport in the appropriate buildings/walkers. If you see a crop circle in your area, chances are that a [[ILoveNuclearPower nuclear powered]] HumongousMecha [[BaseOnWheels Base On Legs]] with [[MoreDakka lots of dakka]] is going to [[ColonyDrop drop in]] and start [[KillAllHumans blowing up stuff]].

* ILoveNuclearPower: The Hierarchy in general, but especially the Defiler. Turning random humans [[spoiler:and cows]] into zombified mutants, while dealing damage to enemy units and healing your own. What ''can't'' Nuclear Power do? Win the campaign for them.

* StrategicAssetCaptureMechanic: The game featres several capturable assets, such as Fusion Reactors (Gimmick despite superficially being a Power Plant, and has a different benefit to each race; either bonus power for the Novus, extra resource capacity for the Masari, or [[NuclearNasty a cloud of bolstering radiation]] for the Heirarchy), Hydraulic Pumps (constant flow of Resources), factories (20% discount on Vehicles), and laser turrets (a defense turret with a sustained-fire laser beam).

* HumongousMecha: All Hierarchy Walkers are so huge that they can simply crush other factions' buildings, but ocmparing them to human structures one sees that [[UpToEleven even the]] ''[[UpToEleven smallest]]'' [[UpToEleven mecha in the game is]] ''[[UpToEleven several stories]]'' [[UpToEleven tall!]].

** The Humans are heavy users of this. They have five-man rocket launcher squads who can fire barrage after barrage of rockets, even more so when in large mobs. The Gunship has an unused rocket barrage ability which functions like Viktor's but weaker. Taken UpToEleven with the unused Dragoon MLRS, a [[MightyGlacier huge artillery piece]] which rains DeathFromAbove with dazzling displays of swarming missiles. Even better: [[{{Roboteching}} these missiles can strike multiple targets simultaneously]].

* {{Abandonware}}: The game is so forgotten that even ''Steam'' took it down, so the only way to download a copy at this point is to pirate it.

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: Each player has a population cap which must be obeyed. If your army meets this cap, you will be unable to build more. Each building type is capped at a maximum of 5 (for most structures), 25 (for base defences except the Oracle, which is capped at 5) or 50 (for Flow Conduits). Hierarchy players have a separate population cap of 3 for walkers.

* {{Abandonware}}: The only way to download a copy at this point is to pirate it.

* FlatCharacter: The Hierarchy is given a completely bare-bones, paint-by-numbers characterization as an [[TheEmpire empire]] of PlanetLooters. The one saving grace in this department is that they were given the name they were specifically to Avert the trope of the evil conquering nation in fiction always being referred to as an Empire.

* MoreDakka: The Habitat and Assembly Walkers, which both come with a set of strong plasma cannons, and can be upgraded with even more plasma cannons or anti-air {{Lightning Gun}}s on their legs. The Habitat Walker can also be upgraded with radioactive mortars placed on its head, and the Assembly Walker can be upgraded with [[MagneticWeapons rail guns]] or FrickinLaserBeams on its arms.

* OurElvesAreBetter: The Masari.

* EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: The Hierarchy wants to strip mine it, the Novus wants to stop them and there is the AncientAstronauts' city/spaceship in the middle of the ocean? What's next? [[EldritchAbomination Cosmic space horrors]] from ''beyond''?

* HumongousMecha: All Hierarchy Walkers are so huge that they can simply crush other factions' buildings.