History VideoGame / RingOfRed

* GrenadeLauncher: Subverted. Mechanics are armed with rifle grenades, effective against infantry and vehicles.

* CognizantLimbs: Body (more damage) legs (immobilizes the unit, both in combat and strategically), and gun (the unit can't hit the side of a barn).

* CriticalExistenceFailure: Any [=AFWs=] and Infantry Squads can still keep going and be brought back from the brink of destruction if they have 1 HP.

* AbnormalAmmo: Crews give their vehicles options to load specific ammo. In most cases, this is normal: they simply load the shell into the main gun and let the pilot fire. In some cases, however, the [=AFW's=] gun is not a breech loader; as a result, the crews make do by loading the ammo into a signal flare gun and shot them directly. This includes [[IncendiaryExponent incendiary shrapnel]], poison gas, and armor piercing rounds strong enough to damage other [=AFWs=].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In Mission 4, John and Kisugama have a chat about the largest artillery peice ever built. [[spoiler: It's the final boss, the Dora Gustav, AKA [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav Schwerer Gustav]], now given a land-battleship sized SpiderTank as a lower body.]]

* CripplingOverspecialization: Once a 4-legged AFW is in short range, it may as well present its exhaust pipe. Accuracy drops to single digits (as low as ''three!''). At long range, it's king, at medium, it can still send heavy payloads hurtling downrange, and at short, it's cannon fodder. It's actually more effective to walk up to the enemy and let them hit you once with their PowerFist to end the battle sooner than risk taking a handful of cannon shots while you futilely spit potshots.

* RealRobotGenre: One of the hardest example in any fiction, without being too impractical. Early AFW designs were postponed due to poor leg workings, and they performed badly in the relatively flat European Theater. They are by far slower than ''any'' WWII era tank in even ground. Crippling the legs are important to the point of LampShading; there are no less than four infantry techniques for crippling them (two different types of landmines, tying them down with high-tension cables, and frying them with electric shocks), and the targeting computer, when allowed to calculate a maximum-accuracy [[note]]99.99 %[[/note]] firing solution, invariably hits the legs. They're also quite noisy. Outside, they're [[StompyMook stompy,]] and inside, you can hardly hear yourself think over the squealing and grinding of the transmission.

* RealRobotGenre: One of the hardest example in any fiction, without being too impractical. Early AFW designs were postponed due to poor leg workings, and they performed badly in the relatively flat European Theater. They are by far slower than ''any'' WWII era tank in even ground. Crippling the legs are important to the point of LampShading; there are no less than four infantry techniques for crippling them (two different types of landmines, tying them down with high-tension cables, and frying them with electric shocks), and the targeting computer, when allowed to calculate a maximum-accuracy [[note]]99.99 %[[/note]] firing solution, invariably hits the legs.

* StupidJetpackHitler: As mentioned above, the AFW's were developed by Germany in the tail-end of WWII. It's downplayed, however, as they're AwesomeButImpractical in most places EXCEPT Japan, where their legs can outperform caterpillar treads or wheels on the tectonically-active archipellago, are as cheap and are as easy to mass-produce as tanks (once the bugs were worked out, that is. Their complexity compared to wheels stalled the whole project).

* DiselPunk: Cold-War era with reverse-engineered nazi {{Giant Robot}}s. They even have disel motors hanging off their backs.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Infantry squads that ride on [=AFWs=] or follow behind in the rearguard position will never cause damage. So the only reason why they're even shooting their guns in the first place is ''to look busy''.

* {{BFG}}: [[spoiler: the final boss is the Dora Gustav, a gun so friggin' big that it requires ''multiple trains'' to haul it around!]]

* CognizantLimbs: Body (more damage) legs (immobilizes the unit, both in combat and strategically), and gun (the unit can't shoot).

* StockFootage: Played in very interesting way, most of the [[FullMotionVideo live action sequences]] are RealLife war footage... but in certain scenes, [[HumongousMecha AFWs]] are [[ChromaKey inserted creatively]] that because the footage is [[JustifiedTrope old, has low framerate, and very much grayscale]], the mech's presence and actions look [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome very realistic]], averting ConspicuousCG. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuizKom-bjo Observe]].

* TheMario: Medium [=AFWs=] are capable of fighting well with their medium cannon as well as mixing it up in close combat (though not as well as Anti-[=AFWs=]).