History VideoGame / MedalOfHonorAirborne

* StupidJetpackHitler: Played with, but ultimately downplayed. While they some of the Nazi troops and imagery (most notably the Storm Elites) do seem like something out of a ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' game, they use actual equipment and wearing uniforms that were standard-issue or in widespread use for the time. Similarly, the interior of the flak tower was compared in some reviews to the [[Franchise/DeathStar Death Star]] set, but it was arguably just how real life flak towers looked like inside.

* ThereIsNotKillLikeOverkill: Both German tanks and Panzerschrek troops typically target the player character, instead of, say, objectives more tactically appropriate for their weapons.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Apparently, WebVideo/ZeroPunctuation thought [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower Flak towers]] were completely fictional.

* HeavilyArmoredMook: The Nazi Storm Elites, Waffen-SS soldiers equipped with body armor and wielding [=MG42s=] (which otherwise can only be used as stationary turrets), and which can take almost an entire Thompson magazine to kill.

* StupidJetpackHitler: Downplayed in the [[HeavilyArmoredMook Nazi Storm Elites]]. While they do seem like something out of a VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}} game, they at least still maintain a more "realistic" feel (i.e. using actual equipment and wearing uniforms that aren't too out-of-place). It's also heavily implied that they're wearing bullet-resistant flak jackets under their coats, thus explaining their durability against most small arms.
** And, contrary to what many critics would say, the trope is mostly averted, in that the all of the equipment the Germans use in-game against you, are in fact, standard-issue or in widespread use for the time.

* DoomTroops: The Waffen Storm Leaders, high-ranking officers armed with [[RareGuns STG 44s]], and the Nazi Storm Elites, gas-mask wearing Waffen SS units armed with [=MG 42s=].

* HeavilyArmoredMook: The Nazi Storm Elites, Waffen-SS soldiers equipped with body armor, and which can take almost an entire Thompson magazine to kill.

** Subverted with the German Paratroopers, the Fallschirmjager. While they ''are'' paratroopers, they are never seen in-game to be jumping from aircraft.

* HyperspaceArsenal: Zigzagged. While the game only gives you allowance to carry 2 primary weapons, a pistol, and grenades, with the correct upgrades and weapons, a player can carry one anti-tank rocket (complete with 14 rounds), a light machine gun, amd at least ''36 grenades of different types''.

* AnachronismStew: The M18 recoilless rifle is first featured during the Normandy landings, almosta year before it was historically first introduced, in March 1945.

** And, contrary to what many critics would say, the trope is mostly averted, in that the all of the equipment the Germans use in-game against you, are in fact, standard-issue or widespread use for the time.

* DoomTroops: The Waffen Storm Leaders, high-ranking officers armed with [[RareGuns STG 44s]], and the Nazi Storm Elites, gas-mak wearing Waffen SS units armed with [=MG 42s=].

->'''Paratrooper:''' Who does the Army trust the most?

-> '''Paratrooper:''' Who do the ladies love the most?

-> '''Paratrooper:''' Who do the Nazis fear the most?

* InvoluntaryGroupSplit: Just after Travers manages to link up with Setzer and Wirth in the Flak Tower's basement, they are ambushed by the remaining German garrison holed up. The latter manage to escape, but Travers is unwittingly left behind and forced to fight his way out. This, however, saves his life, [[spoiler: as Setzer and Wirth are subsequently killed in an ambush just outside the tower.''

* ItsRainingMen: TheGame. The cover features an American Paratrooper jumping out of a C-47, and pretty much every level in-game starts this way.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Travers, Wirth, and Setzer escape the Flak tower using the tower's sewer system. Unfortunately,