History VideoGame / WarsOfLiberty

* CanadaEh: Very much represented. The Canadians come in Dominion ("New England") and Quebecois ("New France") flavors, depending on how you age them up. In an added touch, their structures even come with free ''maple trees''.

* ActionGirl: The Paraguayan explorer is female.

** Austrian villagers (which also double as Minutemen, since they are more powerful than usual) are also all female. And their leader is Empress Maria Theresa.

** The Spanish, meanwhile, resemble a much more modernized force compared to their largely Conquistador-based aesthetic previously.

** Mexico gains access to "free" pistol-wielding bandits that double as CannonFodder, especially after upgrading units or structures.

* ChildSoldiers: The Zulu produce "Youths" at a constant rate for free, who can then "mature" into either villagers or different types of soldiers. They are the only instance where the tropes HideYourChildren do not apply.
* CombatMedic: Brazilian Jesuit Priests are the one of the few healers armed with a gun. Mexican [[AmazonBrigade soldaderas]] also uses guns (being a skirmisher) and can heal allied troops.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Notable as well for putting a spotlight on nations that don't normally show up in an RTS game, like the Canadians, Argentinians, Brazilians, Africans, Balkans Nations and Native Americans. The mod pretty much started as a denunciation of the original's focus on colonial North America and [[SettingUpdate switched the spotlight]] to revolutionary South America.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: All Japanese infantry are armed with a katana that ignores most unit resistances and is effective against everything.

** The Haitian villagers (and likely their soldiers too) are [[SlaveLiberation rebelling slaves]]. The villagers cannot be killed but will go down like other factions explorers; when this happens, their default text says that [[CrapsackWorld they are happy to "rest" for once]].

** The Bulgarians can't build an army until the Industrial Era, relying on their tough villagers for defense until then. They can now build weak and cheap infantry and cavalry armies from their town centers but their military rosters are unlocked one age later. They can ship military units from their home city which transforms all Opalchentsi that has been trained from their Town center.

** The Zulu train every single unit (except villagers) from Youth that the Town Center and Matriarchs automatically produce.

** The Maltese are this, taking the Spanish role from the base game. They get no gunpowder units, using swordsmen, crossbowmen, and knights, with trebuchets and rams as their artillery options. It's also played with, however, in that they can eventually send in modernized infantry as reinforcements from the homeland.

** The Australians are an intentional mashup of Australians and New Zealanders, as they wouldn't be much different otherwise, and have access to Aboriginal and Maori units if they go the Indigenous path.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: The Romanian explorer ("Domnitor") is Vlad the Impaler with the numbers written off. It even has the ability to build an impaled "forest" to demoralize enemies.

** The Bulgarians are more pronounced as they don't even have any ''actual'' military units until the Industrial Ages. Instead, they have to make do with peasant units that double as soldiers.

** The Romanian faction. For starters, its explorer unit, the Domnitor, is very obviously Vlad Tepes a.k.a. the real {{Dracula}}, and he can create "forests" of impaled bodies to demoralize the enemy. The Order of the Dragon is also referenced in the home city and some shipments. The villager units are Roma slaves who are created out of a wooden wagon instead of your town center, along with trained bears. And they get a circus that is equivalent to the fire pit of the Native American factions and looks very much like a CircusOfFear.

** Mexico's more powerful musketeer units are all female.

** On the surface, the Colonels have powers comparable to the South American natives divine powers, but they haven't been properly implemented yet and will hurt your troops more likely than the enemy. This will be changed in the future patch.

* BananaRepublic: The Colonel units for the Latin American nations have some shades of this, given how many of their abilities and upgrades are tied to corruption.

** On the surface, the Colonels have powers comparable to the South American natives divine powers, but they haven't been properly implemented yet and will hurt your troops more likely than the enemy.

* CombatMedic: Brazilian Jesuit Priests are the only healers armed with a gun.

* InstantMilitia: Whenever a Colombian building is destroyed, it spawns a number of Guerrilla units who, while weak, are useful in fending off the enemy momentarily.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: All Japanese infantry are armed with a katana that can deal area damage and is effective against everything.

** The Bulgarians can't build an army until the Industrial Era, relying on their tough villagers for defense until then.

** The Zulu train every single unit from Youth that the Town Center and Matriarchs automatically produce.

* ChildSoldiers: The Zulu produce "Youths" at a constant rate for free, who can then "mature" into either villagers or different types of soldiers. They are the only instance where the tropes HideYourChildren and InfantImmortality do not apply.

''The [[http://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Wars_of_Liberty War of the Triple Alliance]]'' is a GameMod for ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIII'' that overhauls and expands on much of the game itself... and then some. Initially called ''War of the Triple Alliance'' and centered on the [[UsefulNotes/WarOfTheTripleAlliance eponymous war]] between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, it has over time grown to encompass virtually the entire New World, with various unique factions, new gameplay mechanics, revamped graphics and even an additional end-game age among other things. It's also one of the handful of mods for the game that remain active. A final "Delta" release that was announced has over time become a thorough overhaul called ''Wars of Liberty'', which was released on September 2015.

** Canadians and Americans have Mayflower Pilgrims as their Villagers, at least in earlier version. Recent updates, meanwhile, replace them with more period-accurate Pioneers.

* LaResistance: Colombia and to a degree, Mexico gives this impression. Though both gain access to more "proper" units in the mid-late game.

** The Mexican Insurgente is explicitly described as such in its description.

** Downplayed for the French, meanwhile, though their Pied Noir worker units wear outfits not too dissimilar from those used by Berbers and Arabs in Northern Africa.

** Canadians and Americans have Mayflower Pilgrims as their Villagers, at least in earlier version. Recent updates, meanwhile, replace them with Pioneers for the Americans.

* AnachronismStew: Present either as a result of TheArtifact (see below) or RuleOfCool (e.g. the Maltese using more archaic units).

* MedievalStasis: The Maltese are this, taking the Spanish role from the base game. They get no gunpowder units, using swordsmen, crossbowmen, and knights, with trebuchets and rams as their artillery options. It's also played with, however, in that they can eventually send in modernized infantry as reinforcements from the homeland.

* AnachronismStew: Present either as a result of TheArtifact (see below) or RuleOfCool (e.g. the Americans having Mayflower Pilgrims as their Villager unit, complete with Elizabethan-era dialogue).

** Canadians and Americans have Mayflower Pilgrims as their Villagers.

* AscendedExtra: The post-colonial Americans and some Native Americans (Tupi, Inca, Mapuche) that were included in ''The War Chiefs'' as either upgrades of European factions or minor native tribes are now fully-developed civilizations.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Notable as well for putting a spotlight on nations that don't normally show up in an RTS game, like the Canadians, Argentinians, Brazilians, Africans, Balkans and Native Americans. The mod pretty much started as a denunciation of the original's focus on colonial North America and [[SettingUpdate switched the spotlight]] to revolutionary South America.

* MedievalStasis: The Maltese are this, taking the Spanish role from the base game. They get no gunpowder units, using swordsmen, crossbowmen, and knights, with trebuchets and rams as their artillery options.

* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: The Romanian explorer ("Domnitor") is Vlad the Impaler witht he numbers written off. It even has the ability to build an impaled "forest" to demoralize enemies.