Line #3 YMMV/RiseOfTheReds


1	* AluminiumChristmasTrees:
2	** Russia's Cold War-era Perimetr system, which is reactivated and upgraded under President Suvorov's orders after the ECA [[NuclearOption halts the Russian advance with nuclear warheads]]. Not only is Perimetr, also known as "Dead Hand" a real failsafe intended to guarantee full nuclear retalliation in the event of a decapitation strike, it's suspected to still be operational in RealLife long after the Soviet Union's end.
3	** The USA's use of seemingly dated aircraft like the A-10 Thunderbolt II and B-52 Stratofortress well into the 2040s is based on actual plans by the Pentagon to keep them airborne and up-to-date for the coming decades.
4	** Man-portable nuclear missiles were tested in America during the 1950's under the codename "Little Feller" (the ''launcher itself'' was codenamed "Davey Crockett"). His general specific unit is a squad of troops armed with man-portable nuclear missiles, and yes, they solved the "Blast radius is bigger than the effective range" problem.
5	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Plenty, but the epic Russian folk song "Polyushka Polye" from the main menu stands out in particular.
6	* CrackPairing: [[http://forums.swr-productions.com/index.php?showtopic=4345 One fanfic]] ships the American Mother Of All Bombs from the original game with the Russian Father Of All Bombs. [[spoiler:The resulting explosion [[ApocalypseHow destroys most of Europe]].]]
7	* FanNickname: Secret Police General Bao Jin's unique Propaganda Airship is also known as the ''"Whale"'' among Chinese ROTR fans (though it's actually supposed to be a carp). [[spoiler: The joke version with meme faces and the Trololo song is commonly called ''"Trollship"'']].
8	** The American Recon Drone is called the "Kawaii-Bot", which then became an AscendedMeme when the makers started using that name too.
9	* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
10	** One of the lines for the RPG Conscript when they're under fire. Namely the fact that they shout "Not again!", which, due to their fragility, can often be their last words, which opens up a whole load of hilarious implications, mainly revolving around the fact that, if taken seriously, they're somehow capable of coming back to life.
11	---> '''RPG Conscript:''' "Ah, not again!"
12	** The dynamic between the [[HeroUnit Manticore]]'s pilot and the on-board AI on the tank make it clear that neither of them are [[DumbMuscle particularly]] [[ArtificialStupidity intelligent]], as the pilot isn't above getting angry at it and yelling for it to shut up and even insulting it, while the A.I. is clearly genuinely flawed and not as intelligent as it should be.
13	---> '''A.I.:''' "Destination set."
14	---> '''Pilot:''' "Stop shouting, I'm not deaf!"
15	---> '''A.I.:''' "Recommend evasive maneuvers."
16	---> '''Pilot:''' "I'm a tank, you idiot!"
17	---> '''A.I.:''' "Target acquired."
18	---> '''Pilot:''' "No, the other one!"
19	* GameBreaker: The [[MacrossMissileMassacre Grad]] was this before the 1.72 {{Nerf}}.
20	* GeniusBonus: Official lore states that the deaths of entire battalions of Red Guards were glamorized as "heroic obliteration of the self in service of the state" by Chinese propaganda. "Obliteration of the self" is the ideology of Eastasia in [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]].
21	* GoodBadBugs: Nanobots used by the Manticore Tank get disabled when under the effect of American propaganda leaflets. This has absolutely no effect on the gameplay at all and is so hilarious it was left in.
22	* GrowingTheBeard: The team-change / reboot is generally regarded as this.
23	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: If the timeline on the mod's wiki is to be believed, when the United States intervened in the Russo-European War and escalated it to WorldWarIII, Presidents Bradford and Suvorov informed each other via the Washington-Moscow hotline that neither had the will to deploy their strategic nuclear arsenals, though it doesn't stop mass evacuations of population centers and anti-missile satellites being launched by [=NASA=] and the [=ESA=].
24	* MemeticMutation:
25	** ''"Don't get mad, get Grad!"'' which refers to the GLA Grad's massive amounts of damage even after the nerf.
26	** Hinda''x'', due to stream director Hecthor Doomhammer's semi-obession with the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOPR2daG82M Hindabuilding]]. Replace ''x'' with whatever.
27	* MoralEventHorizon: The GLA has crossed theirs ''before'' the ''Rise of the Reds'' story even began, considering that they already nuked Beijing, launched chemical rockets at cities and eviscerated Central Europe in the original Generals/Zero Hour.
28	* NightmareFuel: Countless instances in the various story updates. The brutality of the GLA, the European nuclear attacks, the utter moral bankruptcy of the Shock Divisions or the downright grim-dark battle of the Be-Ne-Lux come to mind.
29	** The 7 part mini-series surrounding Orlov's ill-fated deployment to South Sudan contains some rather nightmarish moments, Including brutal GLA ambushes, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the effects of toxin shells on infantry]] and the idea of being trapped in a cooking steel container for hours.
30	** In addition to making some sense of the original Zero Hour campaigns, the intricate description of the GLA insurrection in Germany comes off as pretty scary as well, to the point of marking a dramatic shift in the history of modern European civilisation.
31	** The chilling depiction of the ECA nuclear attacks during the Russo-European War, [[BodyHorror complete with the symptoms of acute radiation poisoning]] and the tragic notion that the story revolved around a friendly fire incident rather than the actual attack itself.
32	** The airborne drop on French Guiana where several Russian planes get fried out of the sky by Wotan Arrays, only for the paratroopers to burn up in the microwave beams or smashed by BMDs whose parachutes malfunctioned.
33	* TheWoobie: The Civillian Informant unit. It's very clear that he's being forced under the threat of death to wander behind enemy lines under the threat of also being killed by them if he's found out, and one of his lines when killed has him apologize to his family.
34	--> "I am sorry......Habibi..."

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