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* [[Car Fu]] - Or at least, it would have been if the truck-bomb plan had come through...
* [[Fighter Launching Sequence]] - Happened once before a British airstrike on their operating base. More often than not, though, it's the enemy who need to launch... Then it happened again, with Djibouti airport being raided by Iran.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]] - The entire Georgian campaign, involving a [[False
* [[The GM Is a Cheating Bastard|The GM Is A Magnificent Bastard]] - GM Steve, while definitely not making it easy for the Black Aces, has avoiding being accused of cheating by making it clear all game scenarios are influenced by real life.
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* [[Action Girl]] - Several pilots are female and all are well versed airmen.
* [[Affably Evil]] - Hell's Black Aces, the PCs from the original Planes and Mercs, are routinely described in near demonic terms; but seem quiet and polite whenever anyone meets them.
* [[Anti
* [[Anti-Hero]] - Most of the characters can fall into this category. Notably Sabine "Hamlet" Eichler, who is the anti-pilot in her cool, calm, professional manner, but who has lately proven her lack of pilot-like God Complex when she falls into a deep depression and begins self-mutilation.
* [[A Nuclear Error]] - During Operation Babylon it seems that regular laser guided "bunker buster" bombs had been swapped out for low yield nuclear weapons. As to who did this, it is unknown. One was dropped, another came back and was turned in as "evidence" (most likely to disappear) and another somewhere at the bottom of the Strait of Hormuz.
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* [[Guy in Back]] - Of the PC pilots, Aquila flight's Walter Johannes is this to Haakon "Hammer" Gustavson. Jack "Grizzly" Gruesser also has an NPC RIO by the name of "Vamp". Another flight carries six pilots in four planes, rotating pilots around for piloting the 1 seaters and taking turns flying or [[GI Bing]] the 2 seaters.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]] - Patrick "Creek" Dawson died protecting his buddies with a gun run on a fortified position. NPC Co-pilot Darrel "Widebody" Richardson, a civilian who is only in Djibouti to provide for his family back home, sacrificed himself to save the Coke Bottle Express. [[Manly Tears]] were shed.
* [[High
* [[Hollywood Tactics]] - Averted. Doing this is the quickest way to get a missile up your ass.
* [[Just Plane Wrong]] - Averted. The game and stats reflect real life fighting tactics and aircraft capabilities, any real life knowledge you have about different missile ranges or weaknesses of enemy aircraft will be useful to you. Somewhat simplified for gaming purposes though.
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* [[War for Fun And Profit]] - It's a world dominated by Private Military Contractors. You tell me.
* [[We Have Reserves]] - The Iranian mentality during Operation Granite Harvest.
* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]] - The different player squadrons have cordial relations and will help each other, but by no means are the "On the same side". Notable exclusions can be Aquila and Griffin squadrons (as they both work for Advantage Flight Solutions) and Swart Katte and Musketeers who (Witch and Warfrog not withstanding) have struck up a sort of friendship.
* Wingman - All players are this. You cannot survive for long without your wingmen covering your back.
* [[World War III]] - It's what the players are participating in. Except not a huge nuclear war, rather dozens of small brushfire wars fought by PMCs that are secretly funded by national governments. A Cold War 2.0 if you will.
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