History VideoGame / DroneTactics

** ThunderBeetle: The firefly drone is based on... well, [[CaptainObvious fireflies]]. Like real-life fireflies, they have pretty glowing tails. ''Unlike'' real-life fireflies, they can shoot '''[[EnergyWeapon freaking laser beam]]''' from the said tails. The other beetle drones also count when they are equipped with beam weapons.

* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: If it's a bug that can be remotely described as "cute", "pretty", or "charming" ([[PrettyButterflies butterflies]] and [[VirtuousBee bees]], for instance), the heroes will have access to it as a unit, while the "creepier" bugs like water bugs, [[MacabreMothMotif moths]], [[CreepyCockroach cockroaches]], [[SpidersAreScary spiders]], and [[CreepyCentipedes centipedes]] are enemy units. [[spoiler: Though many of the latter do join your group later]].

* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: If it's a bug that can be remotely described as "cute", "pretty", or "charming" ([[PrettyButterflies butterflies]] and [[SlayingMantis mantises]], for instance), the heroes will have access to it as a unit, while the "creepier" bugs like water bugs, [[MacabreMothMotif moths]], [[CreepyCockroach cockroaches]], [[SpidersAreScary spiders]], and [[CreepyCentipedes centipedes]] are enemy units. [[spoiler: Though many of the latter do join your group later]].

** ThunderBeetle: The firefly drone is based on... well, [[CaptainObvious fireflies]]. Like real-life fireflies, they have pretty glowing tails. ''Unlike'' real-life fireflies, they can shoot '''[[EnergyWeapon freaking laser beam''' from the said tails. The other beetle drones also count when they are equipped with beam weapons.

** ThunderBeetle: The firefly drone is based on... well, [[CaptainObvious fireflies]]. Like real-life fireflies, they have pretty glowing tails. ''Unlike'' real-life fireflies, they can shoot '''FreakingLaserBeam''' from the said tails. The other beetle drones also count when they are equipped with beam weapons.

** BeeBeeGun: You ''should'' [[{{Pun}} bee afraid]] of the bee drones when they are [[GiantFlyer hovering above you while being the size of small hills and having stings as thick as streetlamp posts]].
** CreepyCentipedes: With treads instead of legs!

** DreadfulDragonfly: ... that look like attack helicopters!
** GiantSpider: It's surely lucky that the game has the drones being mechanized and uses an Anime-ish (rather than realistic) art style, huh? The Water Spider drones might also count.
** MothMenace: You know it's bad when the moths look like they are about to drop some cluster bombs.
** PrettyButterflies: ... that are large enough to crush you and serve as CombatMedic for the other giant mecha bugs.

** SlayingMantis: ... that can be equipped with giant axes instead of the more typical scythes!
* {{BFG}}: Cannons. Lady bugs don't look so harmless anymore when you equip them with giant bazookas several times bigger then they are. And giant missiles too. And of course, there're the giant [[GatlingGood vulcans]].

* CicadianRhythm: Apparently used as a justification for why Cicada drones are extra effective up against other flying drones: their noises are ''especially'' disruptive if you're airbourne.

* CicadianRhythm: Apparently used as a justification for why Cicada drones are extra effective up against other flying drones: their noises are ''espeically'' disruptive if you're airbourne.

''Drone Tactics'' is a turn-based strategy game where you play as a bunch of Japanese teenagers straight out of a typical shonen anime. Originally released in Japan by Creator/{{Success}} as ''Konchuu Wars'' (Literally "Insect Wars"), the game was renamed ''Drone Tactics'' in Creator/{{Atlus}}'s English version. The game at first appears to be pretty simple and downright easy, but further playing actually reveals quite a bit of depth in the game's designs, particularly the different drones' functions when thinking of a strategy.

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Tropes used include:

* {{BFS}}: Sure, you can equip a giant horn onto your rhinoceros beetle, or a large stinger onto your Bee's stinger... but why choose those when you also have the option of attaching claymores, halberds, and giant axes in their places instead? Or perhaps a [[{{LaserSword}} beam lance]] for those pesky armored enemies.

* BrattyHalfPint: Elisha, the TokenMiniMoe of the [[{{QuirkyMiniBossSquad}} Four Generals]] is made entirely of this trope.

** BeeBeeGun: You ''should'' [[{{Pun}} bee afraid]] of the bee drones when they are [[GiantFlyer hovering above you while being the size of small hills]].

''Drone Tactics'' is a turn-based strategy game where you play as a bunch of Japanese teenagers straight out of a typical shonen anime. Originally released in Japan by Creator/{{Success}} as ''Konchuu Wars'', the game was renamed ''Drone Tactics'' in Creator/{{Atlus}}'s English version. The game at first appears to be pretty simple and downright easy, but further playing actually reveals quite a bit of depth in the game's designs, particularly the different drones' functions when thinking of a strategy.

** ''And then'' there're the mosquitoes. They start off as the flying equivalent of ants, but at the same time the ants start learning how to use beam fangs, mosquitoes learns how to self-destruct enmasse. When they do it, it '''hurts'''.

* HunterOfHisOwnKind: The Cicada. It is a flying drone that ''is extra effective against flying drones'' (yes, even if facing another cicada). The other drones, when they're extra effective against either ground or air units, they're so against the units of the opposite class, the flying moth being deadlier against ground units, the grounded mantis being deadlier against air units, etc.

* HunterOfHisOwnKind: The Cicada. It is a flying drone that ''is extra effective against flying drones'' (yes, even if it's another cicada). All other drones, when they are extra effective against either ground or air units, they are so against the units of the opposite class.

* CicadianRhythm: Apparently used as a justification for why Cicada drones are extra effective up against other flying drones: their noises are ''that'' disruptive, especially if you're airbourne.

** BeeAfraid: You ''should'' feel this way towards the bee drones when they are [[GiantFlyer hovering above you while being the size of small hills]].

* HitAndRunTactics: The Locust drones use this. Their stats are so-so, but they have the special ability to move again after attacking, enabling them to survive many situations that most other drones would die to.

* TheSwarm: The {{Mook}}s use this tactic '''a lot''', in particular the ants and the mosquitoes. Surprisingly averted for the Bee drones, who generally don't do this.

* CicadianRhythm: Apparently used as a justification for why Cicada drones are extra effective up against other flying drones: their noises are ''that'' disruptive.

* FragileSpeedster: Downplayed for the Stag Beetle and the Spider. Their best stat is movement. Their other stats aren't really bad, but certainly not outstanding. Also played with by the Locust, who, while not having exceptional movement stat, has the unique ability to ''move again after attacking''. This makes them in a lot of ways more agile than either the Stag Beetle and the Spider.

** Firefly for Yui. In Japanese fiction, fireflies are usually portrayed as small, fragile, but pleasant beings associated with love (whether romantic or familial love), much like Yui.

* FragileSpeedster: Downplayed for the Stag Beetle and the Spider. Their best stat is movement. Their other stats aren't really bad, but certainly not outstanding. Also played with by the Locust, who, while not having exceptional movement stat, has the special ability to move again after attacking. This makes them quite a bit more agile than either the Stag Beetle and the Spider.

* FragileSpeedster: Downplayed. For the Stag Beetle and the Spider, their best stat is movement. Their other stats aren't really bad, but certainly not outstanding.

* HitAndRunTactics: The Locust drones use this. Their stats are so-so, but they have the special ability to move again after attacking, enabling them to survive many situations where other drones won't make it out alive.

* TheSwarm: The {{Mook}}s often use this tactic, especially the ants and the mosquitoes. Surprisingly, the Bee drones generally don't do this.

* TheSwarm: The {{Mook}}s often use this tactic, especially the ants and the mosquitoes.

* HitAndRunTactics: The Locust drones use this. Their stats are so-so, but they have the special ability to move again after attacking.

* HitAndRunTactic: The Locust drones use this. Their stats are so-so, but they have the special ability to move again after attacking.