Carrera's Legions: Difference between revisions

** The Legion's fleet, while nonetheless capable of landing assault forces and suppressing piracy, cannot stand in the line of battle against a modern fleet.

* [[Bilingual Backfire]]: In ''A Desert Called Peace'', when the main protagonist is [[Drowning My Sorrows|drowning his sorrows]] over the wife and children killed in a terrorist attack, he demonstrates to a woman insulting him in Spanish that he, too, speaks the language in spite of a conversation with the woman's friend being in English.

** [[Averted]] by the Legion, which prefers to keep decorations and medals lower key in comparison to other armies.

** Played straight by Gallic General Janier's [[Custom Uniform]], which is a reproduction of Napoleon's uniform.

* [[The Captain]]: Two of them - Roderigo Fosa, commander of the Legion's fleet, and [[Badass Grandpa|Tadeo Kurita]], who serves as his [[The Mentor|Mentor]].

* [[Cool Tank]]: The Volgan White Eagle, renamed Jaguar in Legion service. Colonel Sitnikov's sales pitch in ''A Desert Called Peace'' makes it sound like it's the greatest tank in the world; Carrera doesn't believe half of it, but the important thing is that the new tankers believe, for self confidence.

* [[Taking You with Me]]: Hunted by four Gallic frigates, the Captain of a Legion sub decides to invoke this.

{{quote|"Friends, we're dead. But we're going to sell ourselves dear."}}

** Secondary protagonist Ricardo Cruz, who goes from [[New Meat]] in ''A Desert Called Peace'' to [[Sergeant Rock]] by the time of ''The Lotus Eaters''.

** Maria Fuentes, protagonist of ''The Amazon Legions'', who goes from runaway to [[Sergeant Rock]].

** In ''A Desert Called Peace'', the Legion tricks an Amnesty Interplanetary investigator into taping them brutally interrogating several prisoners with mock hangings and blow torches, then storming into her press conference to reveal that everyone in her tape was actually a Legionary soldier and the whole thing was one big set up.

** At the same time, the said Legion operates a ship<ref>reported, in an off-hand mental comment in ''The Lotus Eaters'', as having been sunk once its purpose was fulfilled</ref> where captured Terrorists are subjected to horrific procedures, from dental drilling, to finger breaking, to sex change operations over a period of months to get them to give information. It is mentioned repeatedly that they verify all the information gained with that other prisoners and from intercepted messages. If the captured terrorists are found to be lying their parents are brought in.

* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Carrera isn't quite ugly, but both his wives are hot. Also, Sergeant Major MacNamara and Miss Balboa, Artemensia Jimenez.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Adnan Sada and the Salah al-Din Brigade, who fight courageously against the Legion in Sumer while remaining within [[The Laws and Customs of War]]. This later leads to a [[Heel Face Turn]] and [[Defeat Means Friendship]].

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