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** Heroes of Stalingrad has:
*** Rifleman: Armed with a bolt-action rifle and anti-personnel grenades, this class is a filler one that has a limit equal to the team's highest possible player count (in other words, really none). Serving as the JackOfAllStats, they aid more specialized members with whatever's needed - accurate covering fire, guarding flanks, providing more bodies into a capture zone and the like. While their equipment isn't as impressive as other classes, a high-powered rifle bullet in one's torso will easily kill anyone, leaving them to still be feared regardless.
*** Elite Rifleman: A limited class, using a semi-automatic rifle and anti-personnel grenades, this is essentially strictly a superior version of the Rifleman class, with their higher fire-rate leaving them a more potent threat to more individuals and in closer combat.

*** Engineer: A limited class containing some overlap with the Assault class due to also using a sub-machine gun, the Engineer's real unique advantage is the satchel charges they carry to destroy walls and defences to aid their comrades' attacks.
*** Marksman: A highly limited class, they use a bolt-action rifle with a scope (they can also use a semi-automatic rifle with a scope in some game modes) shoot accurately from farther away, though they also have a pistol and anti-personnel grenades. Also strictly better than Rifleman, their long-range scopes combined with their limited numbers make them best deployed to strike at valuable targets (such as commanders, squad leaders and machine gunners) instead of aiding frontline offence or defence with much greater risk to the individual.

*** Machine gunner: A limited class, they use a heavy machine gun to serve as their team's larger source of static firepower. Machine guns can fire much more slowly while moving or standing still, but may fire much faster while set up against ground or cover. A well-chosen position while set-up lets them distribute death in copious amounts to enemy infantry in their sights, but they lack grenades and the necessity to set up causes them a certain predictability leaving them vulnerable to flanking or marksmen.
*** Squad leader: A limited class, these non-commissioned officer have command of squads to order them, have clearance to mark positions for fire support at the decision of their team's commander, and squad members can elect to respawn at their position. While armed with anti-personnel grenades and another gun, their class' most valuable "weapon" is their smoke grenade which can be used to screen allies so they have clear routes with which to run by enemy positions and attack. They also have binoculars to aid in spotting enemies and finding desirable coordinates for indirect fire missions. Squad leaders can elect to use a sub-machine gun to aid in attacking with other Assaults or hang back with a semi-automatic rifle to provide covering fire (and more safely provide a spawn point closer to the front).
*** Commander: The most limited class in that your team can only have one, these commissioned officers can command the team's squads and are the only ones with the clearance to use a radio to call in mortar, artillery or rocket fire support on positions. These require a mark on a coordinate set by the eyes/binoculars of the commander himself, or the team's squad leaders. The radio can also be used to call in aerial recon to report enemy positions to the entire team, or instantly respawn all allied players waiting on the queue. The radio's options all have cooldowns associated with them, requiring decisive and appropriate use to them - a commander must watch the battlefield and work with their team and vice-versa to ensure victory. While armed similarly as squad leaders, it is certainly risky for the team to be without the support sent by the radio should the commander be dead.

* {{BFG}}: Treated realistically in ''Heroes of Stalingrad'' - machine gunners need to be prone or on cover to place their weapon down to fire it fully automatically. It may be fired from the hip, but very slowly. Anti-tank rifles in both games have a similar requirement and are impossible to fire when not set up.

* GroinAttack: A killing shot to the groin has the unique kill-icon of an acorn on its side, cracked all the way through it.

The sequel has been released in September 2011.

* TakingYouWithMe: A game mechanic for the Japanese of ''Rising Storm'' - being killed by your own grenade will not cause your team to lose a ticket as long as the grenade killed at least one enemy.

* TranslationConvention: In ''Heroes of Stalingrad'', after the BilingualBonus from the original.

* BottomlessMagazines: An interesting example - the fixed machine guns (for the Russians, a Maxim M1910, and an MG34 on a tripod for the Germans) need to be reloaded, but they have an infinite number of ammunition belts to do it with.

* DeathFromAbove: Commanders in ''Heroes of Stalingrad'' and ''Rising Storm'' can call in mortar, artillery and rocket fire missions on positions marked by themselves or allied squad leaders - proper use of these are vital to attacking and defending alike. The Japanese team in ''Rising Storm'' also has a ''Light Mortar'' class which includes a small mortar for the class to direct-fire or over an arc onto a location.

* BottomlessMagazines: An interesting example - the fixed machine guns (for the Russians, a Maxim M1910, and an MG34 on a tripod for the Germans) need to be reloaded, but they have an infinite number of ammunition belts to do it with.
* ChargedAttack: Melee attacks in ''Heroes of Stalingrad'' can be swung fast to do some damage or have the button held down to ensure a kill with a hit.
** Doing this while sprinting also causes the attack to cause some suppression. There are faction-specific benefits to doing this - Germans suppress more after having already killed enemies, Russians resist suppression and suppress more if done simultaneously with nearby allies, and the Japanese also suppress better if done simultaneously with nearby allies while letting the chargers ignore some damage than otherwise would kill them. Americans have no faction-specific benefit to charging.
* ConcealmentEqualsCover: AvertedTrope in ''Heroes of Stalingrad''. The standard high-powered rifles easily pierce through the thin walls of houses or sheet metal to OneHitKill the poor bastard behind it. Think carefully about firing and potentially exposing your position... being unable to see and shoot at someone isn't necessarily mutual.

* VideoGameFlamethrowersSuck: AvertedTrope by the one of ''Rising Storm'' - while its short-range is a certainly noticeable drawback, the weapon is nearly unstoppable within that range by nigh-instantly killing any targets hit by its flames, the flames' area of effect allows success with less precise shooting than other weapons to give the user an easier time shooting first before enemies, and the fairly deep fuel tank considering the impressive killing power makes it unlikely you'll run out in a desperate close-up fight. There is simply no better weapon to be used on an enemy's flank in close-quarters, clearing a tight room... or stopping a Banzai charge cold (or rather not very cold ''at all'').

* NoCampaignForTheWicked: Averted in the sequel, there is a single-player campaign for both the Russians and the Germans.
* NightmareFuel: The death screams for the flamethrower.

** Similarly, there is only one commander on each team in ''Heroes of Stalingrad'', and only they have the clearance to call in support with the radio.

* PoirotSpeak: Used by both sides.

** However, a player going it alone can drive, then switch seats to the gunner position when needed. Many players do this almost exclusively. Solo tankers can use the movement keys from the gunner/commander positions to direct their driver, though there's naturally a delay between pressing the key and the driver responding, unlike controlling the driver directly.

** However, a player going it alone can drive, then switch seats to the gunner position when needed. Many players do this almost exclusively.

-->''Aaannnnngreeeeeiiifen!''

* ConcealmentEqualsCover: AvertedTrope in ''Heroes of Stalingrad''. The standard high-powered rifles easily pierce through the thin walls of houses or sheet metal to OneHitKill the poor bastard behind it. Think carefully about

* CoverEqualsConcealment: AvertedTrope in ''Heroes of Stalingrad''. The standard high-powered rifles easily pierce through the thin walls of houses or sheet metal to OneHitKill the poor bastard behind it. Think carefully about

* OneHitKill: Very likely, though not always.

* InstantDeathBullet: An AvertedTrope in ''Heroes of Stalingrad'' - if you are fatally wounded, you may conk out instantly (likely from a BoomHeadshot), but occasionally instead you may still survive some seconds more to continue firing before your character blacks out. As well, being non-fatally wounded requires your character to bandage themselves before they bleed to death (you get two).