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* In ''[[Achron]]'' the remnants of the human fleet find themselves fighting against a section of the military that seems to have its own objectives. In the Grekim campaign one of their leaders decides he would be best to lead their race, and hunts down the others. The Vecgir end up fighting against their own when they face a group of runaways that went and joined the Grekim.
* In ''[[
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*** The end of the Orc campaign involved squaring off against a camp of corrupted Orcs. Though the enemy orcs were much stronger counterparts of your own, they still matched up well enough.
*** ''The Frozen Throne'', the expansion pack for ''Warcraft III'', had a three way war between the Forsaken (Undead) VS. Scourge (Undead) VS. Dread Lord Rebels (Undead) missions, and a couple Blood Elf vs. Alliance missions, the Blood Elves being a [[Cosmetically Different Sides|visually different but statistically identical splinter faction of the Alliance forces.]]
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* Speaking of which ''[[Dawn of War]]'' ''Dark Crusade'' features two scenarios with either the Imperial Guard fighting the Blood Ravens or the Blood Ravens fighting the Imperial Guard because each has their orders concerning Kronus and neither will give ground even to their own Imperial allies.
** And of course it happens again in ''Soulstorm'' this time between the Imperial Guard, the Blood Ravens, and the Sisters of Battle.
* Happens a few times in ''[[
** Notably, it isn't until the very last mission of the expansion pack that a UEF-UEF battle takes place, though during any mission, you have the option of capturing enemy units (or better still, factories), and gaining access to that tech tree. The most entertaining example this troper can think of is capturing a Seraphim factory in the fourth mission of the expansion and building Ahwassa experimental bombers.
** And with proper preparations (a few Salvations, Experimentals or an ACU with a nuclear tactical missile launcher) the UEF-UEF battle will be one of the shortest in recorded history.
* [[World in Conflict]] has Soviet special units take over an US base and use an absurd number of captured US vehicles in an attempt to attack New York. However, there is no chance of fighting your own faction in multiplayer.
* ''[[Rise of Legends]]'' inverts this: most missions have you fighting an enemy using the same units as you are, or dark glass versions in the Alin campaign. Only a few missions have inter-factional warfare, and all but two amount to skirmishes.
* The ''[[
** Barbarossa's campaign in ''[[
** It's actually very common in ''Age of Empires'' and its sequel, often when your civilization is fighting a rival state of the same civilization (e.g. Athens vs. Sparta, France vs. Burgundy).
** The first Salah ad-Din scenario has the Egyptians start off as your friend, then declare war on you, then become your friend again when you convince them you ''really are'' only going through Cairo to go kick some Crusader asses.
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** The expansion starts of fairly normal, but then turns into this again when it turns you've been fighting for the wrong side.
** Of course, the main game has a dream sequence where you join the legions of Hades to fight the "Evil Empire", that being {{spoiler|Arkantos's lovely seaside kingdom of ATLANTIS!!!, packed to the gills with Olympian heroes.}}
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** In the final level of the expansion ''High Treason'', {{spoiler|the bad guys also inexplicably get their hands on a ton of Task Force Talon equipment}}. The game makes no attempt whatsoever to explain how this occurred plot wise, and again the player must fight his own side.
** The Consortium has plenty of connections, merely telling a General of his division that the TFT has captured the president isn't too far of a stretch as Chamberlin was one of the Consortium members. For TFT, remember that the TFT was also forced to fight the US army remnants whom had confiscated TFT equipment while on the run.
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** somewhat averted in that larger craft sprout nasty, fungus-like nodes of beam-spewing death later on...
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