History VideoGame / VictoryBelles

* DeathOfAThousandCuts: It is entirely possible to essentially sandblast a Morgana battleship to death with fast-firing destroyer guns, especially in close quarters despite their general inability to penetrate the citadel armor of a battleship.

* SouthernBelle: Puns aside, Mississippi is the very picture of a southern socialite, with a fondness for parasols, banquets, large dresses, and in case you forget she's a battleship, larger cannons.

* TheVoiceless: From a Doylist[=/=]RealLife perspective, some of the Belles lack voiceovers even though they have plenty of in-game lines. However, the developers are constantly searching for new actresses and accept auditions.

* WeakButSkilled: Older ships of various types are generally less capable and have less room for upgrades than newer ships, but at the same time often have better tactics, such as Aurora who is a very old light cruiser with only a handful of old 130mm rifles, but she boasts a tactic that boosts evasion for all ships in the fleet right up until brawl range, at which they unleash torpedoes.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Belles and their crew and support staff may be allied together against the Morganas, but their parent nations are still at war with each other. Because of this, the INPF's contributing nations have all embedded intelligence agents, political officers, secret police, and the like aboard their Belle-supported ships specifically to protect state secrets, prevent foreign infiltration, and ensure that their crews remain loyal to their homelands first and foremost. Gameplay-wise, this all means that getting into the good graces of one nation/faction might very well worsen your relationship with another.

* ItOnlyWorksOnce: Submarine Belles only get one round of torpedoes in an individual battle. If they fire and miss...too bad!

* ExperienceBooster: Deploying a training ship like Recruit and Jeanne d'Arc with a cruising fleet will massively increase the experience gain of all lower-leveled Belles.

* ForWantOfANail:
** The arrival of the Morgana and the Belles derails WWII significantly, effectively limiting it to a land conflict in Europe.
** The United States is much less interested in joining the Allied Powers due to the Morgana being a more immediate threat than the Axis Powers.
** Japan actually starts working toward ending its war with China and ''allying with the United States'' due to the Morgana being a bigger problem for their ambitions and survival than the US could ever be.

** As of the game's 1939 start, some information about the Belles' histories and personalities, as well as certain details about how the world in general has adjusted to this new timeline, are contained in Kickstarter updates rather than the game itself.

* AllThereInTheManual: As of the game's 1939 start, some information about Belles' histories, personalities, and other characterization is contained in Kickstarter updates rather than the game itself.

* DiskOneNuke: Japanese Type 93 Pure Oxygen Torpedoes are easily acquired on most Japanese ships and are far more accurate and powerful than other torpedo options. So long as their considerable weight can be handled, they can significantly enhance the striking power of a destroyer fleet early on.

* ExactWords: Queen Mary states that her function as a Belle is to protect the ship and its crew (and passengers). While to most Belles, this means engaging and defeating the Morgana in combat, Queen Mary is not a warship in any conventional sense. As an ocean liner turned troop transport, and one capable of incredible speed at that, with no armament beyond maybe a few token anti-air guns, she suggests that the best way for her to do this is to avoid the Morgana rather than fight them as other Belles would.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Towards the end of the November 1939 chapter of the League of Nations story, [[spoiler:the ''Constitution'' is sunk off-screen by a Sedition-influenced suicide bomber before the Captain can even speak with her Belle face-to-face instead of via letters. It's somewhat downplayed in that she's able to hold herself together long enough to save everyone else onboard and even write down a final message]]. At the moment, US Navy captains are still not 100% certain [[DiabolousExMachina which of their weekly mission choices led to this particular scenario happening]], or even if they only affected ''how'' [[spoiler:Constitution was sunk]].

* AdaptationalBadass: The League of Nations in-game is significantly more powerful than it was in real-life, acting as a stand in for the United Nations and being capable of getting all world powers to rein themselves in. This probably has something to do with the Morgana being literal existential threats to mankind.

* ExperienceBooster: Deploying a training ship like Recruit and Jeanne d'Arc with a cruising fleet will massively increase the experience gain of all Belles their level or lower.

* AlternateTimeline: The Morgana's arrival does change a few things, but some things appear to have already been alters before they arrived.
** Italy and Japan are not members of the Axis Powers when the game starts in September 1939, while Spain and Turkey ''are''.
** The United States apparently joined the League of Nations in this timeline, as they are directly involved in its resolutions.

** Roses can be used once a day to get extra Belle vestures for a single Belle. Besides making it easier to farm specific Belles, roses can also be used to Re acquire event Belles in the event you lose them, since the extra vestures can drop from ''any map in the game''.

* BornUnlucky: Leberecht Maas is plagued by spectacularly awful luck in everything she tries. However, she refuses to let this poor luck get her down.
* BrutalHonesty: Emile Bertin has no filter when she offers criticism and thus even what she intends to come off as constructive is often interpreted as simple berating, which in turn earns her few friends.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:The ''Constitution'' is destroyed in November 1939 by a Morgana suicide attack, to the shock of all present. This was especially the case for the USN, who [[DiabolousExMachina who were doing very well up to this point and still haven't figured out what choice lead to this happening]].

* ExperienceBooster: Training ships, like Recruit and Joan of Arc, increase the experience gain of all Belles their level or lower. This makes them useful for early battles to get your Belles up to speed, after which they can be placed in cruises to further level your forces.
* EverythingIsBigInTexas: Houston is extremely stereotypically Texan, dressing like a cowgirl, loving beer, gambling, and thrills, and of course speaking with the standard Texan accent.

* GatheringSteam: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Every weapon system has a "fatigue" stat that acts as a stacking penalty to that weapon's rate of fire every round it's fired in. As a result, weapons, and especially long-range weapons will fire slower and slower as a battle drags on and a valid strategy is to deliberately reduce the max elevation of a weapon to reduce its functional range and prevent wasting fatigue on inaccurate long-range fire. Fatigue can also be mitigated at the cost of weight with enhanced automation.
* GenderIsNoObject: Belles and their captains are known to pick capable crew from around the world without regard to gender or nationality to fight the Morgana menace, even if their home nation's policy would normally forbid coed crews or even women from being naval crew in general.
* GlassCannon: Most heavy cruisers have a great deal of firepower but absolutely abysmal armor, with Houston perhaps exemplifying this the most with her two inch thick belt being nowhere near adequate protection against anything larger than destroyer guns.

** The arrival of the Morgana and the Belles details WWII significantly, effectively limiting it to a land conflict in Europe.
** The United States is much less interested in joining the Allied Powers due to the Morgana being a more immediate threat than the A is Ppwers.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: An example in the beta that led to an AntiFrustrationFeautre - several beta testers ''deliberately'' tried to get all of their Belles sunk to see what would happen. This is why your flagship Belle cannot be sunk.

** To prevent the player from accidentally breaking the game by losing all of their Belles, your flagship Belle cannot be sunk - the game will auto-retreat your fleet if it is engaged when the flagship's HP is at zero. This even extends to that flagship being ''the player's last Belle'' (yes some particularly sadistic beta testers ensured this protection functioned even in the [[WhatTheHellPlayer worst-case scenario]]).

** To prevent the player from accidentally breaking the game by losing all of their Belles, your flagship Belle cannot be sunk - the game will auto-retreat your fleet if it is engaged when the flagship's up is at zero.

The game was successfully funded on Kickstarter in May of 2016, but thanks to a TroubledDevelopment only entered closed beta in September 2021. It is heavily inspired by ''VideoGame/KanColle'', but features ships from all the main naval participants of WWII (plus the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, and Spain). One particularly unique selling point of ''Victory Belles'' is that Belles are voiced in their native tongue, rather than universally in Japanese or Chinese (or English, as might be expected of ''Victory Belles''[='=]s American development team). Additionally, the characters are designed by a dedicated art team, giving a consistent style to the various Belles.

* SouthernBelle: Mississippi is the very picture of a southern socialite, with a fondness for parasols, banquets, large dresses, and in case you forget she's a battleship, larger cannons.

* DirtyCoward: The Morgana Cowardice is, unsurprisingly, a cowardly villain. Befitting her nature as a coward, she tries to keep her distance at all ranges and has very low reserves, meaning she flees after only few rounds of combat. Unless she can be forced into close range or engaged with powerful long-range weapons, she'll try to remain as far away and hard to hit as she can and run as soon as she can, even if it means leaving the rest of the Morgana battleline to get picked off by Belles.