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Relic of War is a Real time strategy flash game from Toge Productions, the creators of the Infectonator! series.
Originally released as Reich of Darkness, the game was later removed from Armor Games after someone complained the game was Pro-Nazi to the point the creators got a letter from The Anti-Defamation League
. Reich of Darkness can still be played here.
Set in Alternate History World War 2, the players take control of either the Axis or Allies after a secret SS division discovers an Ancient Artifact that allows them to create super weapons.
The game can be played here.
Tropes:
- Action Girl: Lt. Helga Frauscharf.
- Arbitrary Headcount Limit: Forces are soft-limited by food, and capturing buildings increases the limit.
- Bilingual Bonus: What the Axis units say, if you speak German (though it's pretty easy to understand).
- Colonel Badass: Col. Price Sterling.
- Came Back Wrong: After Genzken absorbs the power of the Relic portal, his appearance looks like the Red Skull. He doesn't make a big deal about it since he's now powerful.
- Cosmetically Different Sides: Nearly every unit has an equivalent with the same stats.
- Diesel Punk: Largely of the Weird War strain. The mechs are a good example of this.
- Doom Troops: Uber-Soldat troops have Glowing Eyes of Doom and BFG's. They are also huge.
- Elite Army: Green Berets / Uber-soldats. Ranged infantry with lots of HP and damage that only cost a little more than a normal squad, and take up just as much time to build and food cap. Especially compared with the mechs, which build slower and cost more.
- Enemy Chatter: Units will say lines in speech balloons usually about killing the enemy.
- Establishing Character Moment: Hanz Genzken first appearance has him ordering enemy prisoners tortured for information before killing them with delight. This will give you an idea how evil he is.
- Evil All Along: By the end of the Allied Campaign, both Helga and Abigail discover that General MacDouglas is not so different from Genzken who, rather than destroy the Relic Portal, he wants to use its power to attack the Japanese, the Soviets and rule the world for America.
- Expy:
- General Arthur MacDouglas is an expy of General Douglas MacArthur.
- Heichler is... yeah.
- After absorbing the power of the Relic from the portal, Genzken now looks like the Red Skull.
- Frankenstein's Monster: Uber-Soldats.
- Genki Girl: Jeanice.
- Glass Cannon: Snipers.
- Heel–Face Turn: Helga becomes a mole for the Allies after Genzken killed her Commander and later defects after her betrayal is discovered.
- Hero Unit: The enemy's hero unit is announced by a mini-display in the corner, and they tend to be difficult to take down.
- Invaded States of America: The Allied campaign focuses on the Allies fighting back the Axis after they successfully invaded the American East Coast.
- La Résistance: The French Resistance aids the Allies during the Axis campaign in France.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Genzken remarks that the player can casually send soldiers to their deaths as if the player is watching through a window from another world. He's not too far off.
- Mission Control: Lt. Helga Frauscharf to the Axis Commander and Lt. Abigail Steamfox to the Allied Commander.
- Non-Entity General: Lampshaded by Genzken, who notes that you casually send troops to their deaths as if you were looking at them through a window from another world.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Hanz "The Hellspawn" Genzken, in charge of the SS Paranormal Division.
- No Swastikas: The Axis uses a triskellion (an inverted Y) instead.
- Mad Scientist
- Shout-Out:
- The Elite Axis troops resemble the Kerberos unit.
- An elite Allied soldier named Ramboo.
- Super-Soldier: Literally, with the Uber-soldat (several corpses stitched together, reanimated and given a minigun).
- Stupid Jetpack Hitler: Most of the weapons both sides uses are ahead of their time.
- Top-Heavy Guy: The Palette Swaps of the large soldier has arms half as thick as his chest, and has legs like toothpicks.
- Wrench Wench: Jeanice. Her portrait has her literally holding onto a wrench.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: MacDouglas reveals himself to be this in the Allied campaign finale.
