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''Gadget Trial'' is a PC game released in 2006 by Kogado's Kuma-san Team. Referred to as a fusion of [[Advance Wars]] and mecha musume, it is one part turn based tactics simulation and one part [[Visual Novel]].
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Research and development has yielded two main types: Type Black, which have no aspects of human personality and are designed to be ruthless battle machines, and Type White, designed with human personalities. In order to decide which type to mass produce for the military, the top brass has decided to hold a series of trial battles between a Type White team and a Type Black team.
The player character (Major Shitoshi Mihara) takes control of the Type White team, and must lead the personalities under his command to victory in the trials.
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* [[A Commander Is You|A Mihara Is You]]
* [[A
* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Granted, the dresses you can buy with the girls' kills gives certain strengths and weaknesses.
* [[Anti
* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]] of 50 units. Justified, because you're not actually deploying a full army, and an E-Series unit is said to be equivalent of a conventional squad.
* [[Armor
* [[Big Eater]]: Izen. Seriously, ''fifty popsicles''?
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Major Mihara's "Put some spirit into it!" or "kiai wo irero!" in Japanese. In one of the later missions, Nei [[Hangs a Lampshade]] on this, by saying that a certain problem can't be solved just by putting some spirit into it.
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** Nei is the milder version of this, perfectly fine with eating bugs and snakes for the nutrition.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Major Wakabayashi}} is a variant of this,{{spoiler|starting out as Mihara's opponent in the trials before actually defecting to the Continental Army.}}
* [[Five
** Izen as [[The Hero]], with a dash of [[Idiot Hero]] tendencies. Doubles as a literal [[The Medic]], gameplay-wise.
** Mihara as [[The Lancer]]. He has elements of [[The Hero]] himself, but fits [[The Lancer]] role better due to his tendency of being in contrast of the team's generally cheerful mood.
** Nei as [[The Smart Guy]], for arguably being the one with the soundest tactical knowledge among the White Team members. Doubles as the [[Cool Big Sis]].
** Souka as [[The Big Guy]], for being the second tallest in the cast, and sporting large... energy tanks. Gameplay-wise, her bomber form is the most devastating offensive force since its introduction mid-game, while her fighter form had the double role of air superiority maintainer and scout with its long movement range.
*** In actuality, Souka and Nei have a somewhat interchangeable roles in the [[Five
** Hisoka fits best as a dedicated [[The Chick]] for her [[Sugar and Ice Personality]] who provides good artillery cover in her battleship form. Her submarine form is better described as a [[Ninja]] [[Glass Cannon]] though, with its relatively thin armor and considerable damage.
** Yu-ri fits best as The [[Tagalong Kid]] for her height and stature as well as her limited land holdings, although her rather feminine frilly dresses strengthen her [[The Chick]] aspect a bit. She's also borderline [[The Load]] gameplay-wise, since she's rather hard to use because of her inability to target adjacent enemies and her limited movement range.
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* [[Geo Effects]]: Wise players will use terrain-granted defense bonuses to prolong their unit's longevity and resist attacks that would otherwise kill the units outright.
** Which lead to [[Garrisonable Structures]], in a sense. Structures (towns, ports, factories, airports, Radar installations, [[Kill Sat]] installations, and HQ) grant a considerable defense bonus regardless of occupation status, so defending in that area is advisable.
* [[Hey,
** Major Shitoshi Mihara: [[Tomokazu Sugita]]
** Izen: [[Ryo Hirohashi]]
** Nei: [[Shizuka Itou]]
** Souka: [[Ryoko Shintani]]
** Yu-ri: Rika Morinaga (voices [[Rozen Maiden|Hinaichigo]] and [[Saki (
** Hisoka: [[Kaori Nazuka]]
** Major Yuuki Wakabayashi: Minako Sango (best known as Mai Momoi from the [[Futakoi]] series)
* [[
* [[Informed Ability]]: Souka is good with math and crack decision-making (a requirement for [[Real Life]] pilots), and Izen is a musclehead.
* [[Kill Sat]]: there is an installation that gives the player (or the enemy, whoever got to control it first) the ability to launch one large-area [[Kill Sat]] attack that hits for 50 damage (all units have 100 life) regardless of terrain defense bonus and can be dropped on any place in the map. There are only a few such installation per map, thankfully.
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* [[Magic Tool]]: Medic-Izen's ''giant syringe'' can repair anything from other Izens to ''battleship'' configuration Hisoka. Granted, they were all made out of some kind of biometal or something.
* [[Robot Girl]]: The E-Series are at least partly biological versions of this trope.
* [[Shout
** So far, this troper has identified also [[Firefox]], [[Jules Verne|Facing the Flag]], [[The Hunt for Red October]] and [[ER]], plus an unidentified mecha anime.
* [[Tactical Rock
* [[Taking You
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Wakabayashi. First in her class in the academy, gorgeous long black hair, and a [[Spirited Competitor]] {{spoiler|who gets all sore loser for her defeats and finally defects to the mainland near the end of the game}}.
* [[Token
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Yu-ri: "... na no desu!"
** Izen: "Oho...?"
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Most of the main cast averts this by having more or less normal-colored hair, but Hisoka (pale green with a tinge of blue), the Silver Team ([[Exactly What It Says
* [[Zerg Rush]]: Many scenarios pit you against enemies with quite a numerical and production advantage, and they are prone to deploying lots of infantry units to try and capture your structures.
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: primarily Nei in her human form, but the others have at least one equipment setup that has [[Zettai Ryouiki]] by virtue of stockings or high-rising leg protector.
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