Nintendo Hard/Video Games/Turn-Based Strategy: Difference between revisions

* The [[TurboGrafx-16]]/[[PlayStation]] game ''Military Madness'' is an example of this trope in a turn-based strategy game. Things get tricky by mission 3, the enemy matches your numbers and has the advantage of a factory to repair units. In the later missions, and especially in hard mode, you will often be pitted against ridiculous odds; the enemy will have a lot more factories than you, have soldiers spread throughout the entire map, the player will be grossly outnumbered and have inferior weapons (the game loves to give the player's side "Rabbits," buggies that move quickly and pack a pretty good punch but apparently have [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|cardboard armor]]. Meanwhile, the computer will get half a dozen Slaggers, tanks that have heavy armor, staggering firepower, ''and'' move faster than any other tank in the game). Making things worse is, in the original game, it was impossible to save mid-mission and the AI was damn good for 1988. In nearly all of the later missions, the player will have to exploit the AI's flaws and have no room for error to even have a snowball's chance in hell. The Playstation version's CD case doesn't kid when it says "This mission calls for only the most seasoned operators with the wit and cunning of a chess grandmaster." (I still love the game, though).

* ''[[Yggdra Union]]'' are probably the hardest game in GBA, although subverted that the game actually got easier if you perform better. Most of the time, you must plan ahead for a turn or two so that your enemy won't form a union to wipe yours out. Playing badly will make the game outright hard due to the lack of +2 MVP bonuses and good items.

* ''[[Serious Sam: The Random Encounter]]'' has random battles against up to more than a hundred enemies at a time. It gets difficult really fast and game overs are numerous.