Chrome Hounds: Difference between revisions

Regarding the minimal story the game has: The cold war combined with solar flares caused America to become extremely isolationist, and several wars broke out as a result, leading to the independence of 3 nations within Neromius: Tarakia, which does have America's backing, Morskoj, a nation that broke away from the USSR, and a stereotypical middle-eastern nation- Sal Kar (backed by South-east Asia). (Oh, there's some other groups, too: Rafzakael, a sort of "Mercenaries R Us" business the player works for, and a mysterious organization on level of the Knights Templar, called Cerberus. But they don't matter that much, {{spoiler|outside of the fact that they're responsible for starting the Neromius war.}}) Also- these wars lead to the development of a new type of tank: the Advanced Combat Vehicle or ACV, which could interchange weaponry parts based on a standard hexagonal frame. This in turn lead to the development of the titular weapon, the Hound, an advanced ACV that could interchange all of its parts. With this, mercenaries took to the field in the Hounds, and soon began a series of events that lead to war...

 

 

This game gives examples of:

* [[AFGNCAAP]]- The Player Character is one.

* [[Alternate History]]- The game is set in 2006, with the USSR still in existence, but fractured along ethnic lines, the US out of touch with mostly everyone, and most importantly: [[Humongous Mecha]] being deployed in warzones.

* [[Art Major Physics]]- The most obvious liberty that the game designers took was omitting the effect of height on a Hound's center of balance. Because of this, even basic designs tend to be absurdly top heavy. Competitive players arrange their guns in tall and narrow stacks to make them harder to hit. Recoil from hits also seems to be absent no matter how large a caliber the shots are. A Hound that gets destroyed by a single absurd volley simply explodes in an upright position.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]- The Morskoj Unidentified Weapon, the MSK-X0, which is GIANT HOWITZER that fires shells that are larger than people, while still incredibly tough, never seems to be able to fire at hounds (with the main gun, anyways), because the cannon can't rotate.

* [[Enemy Mine]]- Given Squads and players alike can switch sides every now and then, the country you were fighting for could be your enemy in your next deployment.

* [[For Want of a Nail]]- Solar Flares disrupting global communication lead to [[Humongous Mecha]].

* [[Humongous Mecha]]- ACVs and Hounds. Even bigger: Ghalib, Sal Kar's Unidentified Weapon.

* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]- The unguided Rocketlaunchers, which fire in an arc to saturate an area with HE rockets. They fire six at a time with a slight dispersion and high rate of fire...mounting 4 of these spams rockets everywhere. They are probably THE strongest close combat weapon, as the damage output is very high and the enemies Cockpit goes massively off target.

* [[Real Robot]]- Gives Patlabour a good run for its money on how real.

** the mecha even have frikkin ''fuel gauges''. though they don't really have that great an effect on gameplay unless you <s>take a ''really'' long time</s> play command-centre games, though...

** [[Urban Legend of Zelda]]- There are lots of theories and rumors of if Sega will reactivate the servers and when.

* [[Yanks With Tanks]]- The M-99 is supposedly American. Guess what it is? (If you guess GIANT Tank, you're right on the money.)