History VideoGame / Brigador

[[AC:Welcome, Brigador]]
[[AC:Great Troper Is Dead]]
[[AC:Solo Tropé Must Fall]]
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!!Tropes present in Brigador:

* CommandAndConquerEconomy: Not in the game itself, as the ones that appear in-game are [[ThoseWereOnlyTheirScouts only scout units operating with minimal support behind enemy lines]], but this is apparently how Spacer armies work when deployed in force, bringing their own base-building and resource-extraction equipment to a planet's surface in order to repair and replenish their forces quickly onsite rather than relying on costly transportation to and from their ships in orbit.

* CrapsackWorld: Prior to Great Leader's death, Solo Nobre was the bastard child of poverty-stricken South/Central American dictatorships, with a healthy dose of post colonial portuguese-speaking Africa[[note]] which serves as the main inspiration to Solo Nobre[[/note]], where a corrupt, militaristic regime lorded over everything. Prior to ''that'', Solo Nobre's history was a long series of wars, with [[WretchedHive "peace" meaning rampant crime and a hefty chance of getting stabbed or disappeared each night]]. Then Now, it's currently being ripped apart by a MegaCorp that wants everything razed from the ground and pays mercenaries to do it, the remnants of the brutal dictatorship, a far-left wing of bloodthirsty rebels that routinely use suicide bombers, and depraved transhumans hellbent on genocide. One of the intel entries by an SNC intelligence agent that has lived in Solo Nobre for a while, notes that Great Leader's regime is mostly held together by the general understanding that, while living in Great Leader's Solo Nobre absolutely sucks, its much, much better than living in the prior hellhole it was.

* BombThrowingAnarchists: The Corvids are identified as an anarcho-syndicalist movement and they have a penchant for blowing things up (and extreme violence in general).

-->” Not much more to say about the Preacher, other than that it works.”

** It's not the only hellhole - the Outer Colonies are generally implied to be very third-world, Spacer raids and colonizations on worlds result in the mass torture and destruction of the populace for amusement, and Volta, one of many "efficiency societies" (where efficiency meant shipping cheap crap like paper plates and pre-made rations and abandoning the workers when they rebelled), slid so far back, its society has become tribal combat over "nutrient pipelines".

* DeathWorld: It is heavily implied that the rest of Novo Solo outside of Solo Nobre is this - the extremely big concrete fence wasn't just to keep out military action, but the fauna of Novo Solo.

* FantasticSlurs: Spacers often refer people who live on planets as "soil vermin", "groundlings", or "dirt eaters".

** One component of the corrosive gas used in the Ploughman weapon is "tubarão" - shark. Fitting, given it basically eats everything it comes in contact with.

** Another campaign mission is named "Vaskiset Kielet", after a song by the Finnish duo Ous Mal -- fittingly, it means "copper tongues" in Finnish.

** The ''Touro'' mech, its a 105 milimeter cannon and a mãe dois (literally the armaments of the modern day US Main Battle Tank) on a pair of legs and packing enough armor and shields to survive most hits, while that may not sound fancy, coming face to face with a ''Touro'' with its shields up is still not very good for the life expectancy of even to the best equipped spacer.

* MacrossMissileMassacre:

** The ''Touro'' mech, its the armaments of a modern day tanks on a pair of legs and packing enough armor and shields to survive most hits, while that may not sound fancy, coming face to face with a ''Touro'' with its shields up is still not very good for the life expectancy of even to the best equipped spacer.

** Alternatively, one can also see similarities with post colonial Mozambique and Angola, which all, much like Solo Nobre, won a hard fought independence war, followed by brutal dictatorships which, as bad as they were, [[CrapsackOnlyByComparison were much preferrable to living in an exploitative hellhole ruled by amoral outlanders]].

** "Legs" for mechs, presumably analogous to automobiles being called "wheels". Given that "Legs Hanger Nightwatchman" is an actual name for an in-universe job position, the term seems to have caught on as an official military designation (or possibly originated as one).

* PsychopathicManchild: Man from Volta, one of the mercenaries in Freelance mode. He is from a perpetually war-torn backwater, uses HulkSpeak, and is of a simple-minded brutality that nevertheless makes him fit for the work of a Brigador. Also, he wears a paper plate as a mask.

* AKA47: There are 5 weapons that are based on real life guns (although only 3 are explicitly stated to be pre-space weapons), namely Carlos/[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_recoilless_rifle Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle]], Mãe Dois/[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning M2 Browning]], Abbot/[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ordnance_L7 Royal Ordnance L7]] (although its name is reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FV433_Abbot_SPG FV433 Abbot]] which is an SPG), Bonesaw/[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_42 MG 42 a.k.a. "Hitler's Buzzsaw"]][[note]]The Bonesaw is mentioned to have undergone a name change InUniverse due to the previous name referencing [[ThoseWackyNazis some old regieme]]. As well, despite the name, the 7.92x57mm Mauser cartridge fired by the MG 42 is [[NonIndicativeName an 8mm cartridge]], just like what the Bonesaw fires[[/note]] and König/[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger GAU-8 Avenger]].

->''Some mech games could be about the horror and futility of war and how it [[WarIsHell harms innocent civilians]]—the true costs of human life.''

->''Some mech games could be about the horror and futility of war and how it [[WarIsHell harms innocent civilians]]—the true costs of human life.

->''Some mech games could be about the horror and futility of war and how it [[WarIsHell harms innocent civilians]]—the true costs of human life...

[[caption-width-right:350:'''GREAT LEADER IS DEAD[softreturn]SOLO NOBRE MUST FALL[softreturn]WELCOME BRIGADOR''']]

->''"Some mech games could be about [[WarIsHell the horror and futility of war and how it harms innocent civilians - the true costs of human life]].''

->''In Brigador, [[RewardingVandalism if you step on a civilian, you get 50 bucks]]."''

* CrapsackWorld: Prior to Great Leader's death, Solo Nobre was the bastard child of poverty-stricken South/Central American dictatorships and North Korea, where a corrupt, militaristic regime lorded over everything. Prior to ''that'', Solo Nobre's history was a long series of wars, with [[WretchedHive "peace" meaning rampant crime and a hefty chance of getting stabbed or disappeared each night]]. Now, it's currently being ripped apart by a MegaCorp that wants everything razed from the ground and pays mercenaries to do it, the remnants of the brutal dictatorship, a far-left wing of bloodthirsty rebels that routinely use suicide bombers, and depraved transhumans hellbent on genocide.

->''"Some mech games could be about the horror and futility of war and how it harms innocent civilians - the true costs of human life.''

->''In Brigador, if you step on a civilian, you get 50 bucks."''

* MultipleLifeBars: Each vehicle has three different layers of health: Hull, which can't be restored in any way, Shields, which is restored between missions and via Shield pickups, and Overshield, which is gained from excess Shield from pickups and slowly degenerates over time. Loyalist vehicles tend to have the most Hull, Spacers with the most Shield, and Corvids with the most Overshield.

* [[TheAllegedCar The Alleged Mech]]: The Mongoose powersuit, the NEP's most basic work horse used by low-ranking rookies, have a reputation of being temperamental, acting up as if a ghost was possessing it, but a more reasonable explanation is that most rookie pilots are just not used to biofeedback and think it's a problem with the Mogs. In the audiobook, Kinny's Mog likes to have its left leg lock up at the worst possible moments, but his senior Sergeant Kronig's Mog is just as seasoned as he is.