History VideoGame / NintendoWars

* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Advance Wars 2 has Sturm and his 4 subordinates, each of which is in charge of invading one of the countries. Naturally, the continent facing the most incompetent (story-wise) one of them gets liberated first and it gets more difficult from there. This is even noticeable in the enemy AI: Flak doesn't take advantage of his factory and produces cheap units. Adder, on the other hand, deploys a Battleship against you. [[OhCrap On day 3]].

* {{Dieselpunk}}: Some parts of the artstyle of the first three games and ''Duster'' unit from Days of Ruin is borderline invokes this design.

* CoolAirship: The Great Owl from Days of Ruin could possibly qualify as this, considering it's a gigantic flying laboratory... with a hangar bay big enough to have a full-scale battle with [i] tanks and rockets and stuff [/i].

* TheNativesAreRestless: In the Advance Wars 2 Mission Liberation, Adder says this to Flak before the battle.

** Battleships in Days of Ruin can move and fire, unlike other indirect units, and they also happen to have the longest range in the game. Did I mention they're also ''cheaper'' than they were in previous games despite the massive buff?

* InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou: Blue Moon, which [[CanadaEh also resembles Canada]]. The Tundran Territories in ''Battalion Wars'' really takes this and runs away with it (Their leader is an {{Expy}} of ''[[RockyIV Ivan Drago]]''.)

** Everybody's cheap: started in ''Dual Strike'', but ''Days of Ruin'' gets really bad. You know something is wrong when an overpowered character is the only character with an actual weakness, no matter how pointless.
*** And ''Game Boy Wars 3'' has a debatable example in the units, which are generally GlassCannon ones. The game's attempt to balance this, the price gaps, ends up backfiring.
* {{Fantasy Counterpart Culture}}

* AwesomeYetPractical: Neotanks are more powerful than Md Tanks, but have none of the latter's weaknesses. (Loss of mobility/fuel compared to light tanks) This ''really'' shows in Dual Strike, where although they're a bit weaker than Megatanks, their lack of crippling flaws means they're the better option most of the time. And they're a little cheaper too!

* ImprobableHairstyle: ''Days of Ruin'' suffers from this -- AfterTheEnd it may be, but Will/Ed's [[AnimeHair Spiky Shonen Hairdo]]™ is always impeccable, crippling lack of supplies be damned. Maybe he managed to make away with the entire military academy's supply of hair lotion...

** Game Boy Wars 3 has the Anti-Sub Helicopter. Its primary attack is effective against subs, but they can't be used against ''anything'' else, at which point the helicopter needs to rely on its weak machine gun. Even if it tries to attack a sub, the helicopter's liable to get blown out of the sky right away by the game's heavily anti-air naval units.

** Anti-Tank units too, considering they're an indirect unit with the ability to counterattack (even against ''copters'') and do at least decent damage to just about anything. See DemonicSpiders.

The ''Advance Wars'' series, known in Japan as the ''Famicom Wars'' series, is a series of TurnBasedStrategy video games produced by {{Nintendo}}. The original ''Famicom Wars'' was developed in-house by Nintendo's R&D1 staff (the same team behind ''{{Metroid}}'' and ''KidIcarus''), while the sequels were all made by Nintendo subsidiary Intelligent Systems (of ''FireEmblem'' fame), with HudsonSoft behind later parts of the ''Game Boy Wars'' series and Kuju involved with the ''Battalion Wars'' series. The series is composed of the following games, with most of the titles being [[SuperTitle64Advance named after the platform they were released on]]: