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''[[Tradewinds]]'' is a series of video games released by Sandlot Games. The original version, simply called ''Tradewinds'' (now called ''Tradewinds Classic''), has since spawned a number of sequels.

 

The original ''Tradewinds'' was considered a turn-based strategy game due to the way all battles are conducted, with each side taking turns to fire at each other. Every sequel since conducts all battles in real-time. ''Legends, Odyssey'' and ''Caravans'' all have Story Mode.

 

* [[Arms Dealer]]: You, especially. You buy weapons and you sell them to other ports. And in the majority of the games, weapons and armaments are contraband.

* [[Arabian Nights Days]]: The backdrop of ''Legends.''

* [[Battle Aura]]: There are several people or magic items in ''Tradewinds 2'' and ''Tradewinds Legends'' that grant you this. As an example, the Berserker's Blade{{spoiler|!}} in ''Tradewinds Legends'' {{spoiler|gives your cannons near-perfect accuracy, but at the same time giving your ''enemies'' a slightly better shot at you.}}

* [[Big Bad]]: Several to list, depending on which character you play as.

** In the rest of the series, you may be called to capture or kill a pirate in the story.

* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: Played straight with ''Tradewinds 2''. You cannot buy more than one ship. Your enemies can.

* [[Cool Ship]]: In ''Odyssey'', Triton's Destroyer. Yes, a ship that looks like a ''marlin.''

** [[Cool Airship]]: In ''Legends'', Dragon Boats.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: All of the player characters appear to be this in varying degrees.

** In ''Odyssey'' Asterion and Phil are of particular note.

* [[Doom Magnet]]: Sindbad in Tiger Bai's storyline. Despite very clearly knowing this, Bai is very good friends with him and [[True Companions|is always willing to have him on her ship, no matter what misfortune may follow.]]

** This is also referenced in a few other character storylines: at one point one of the kings even shows that threatening to make someone [[Red Shirt|be cabin boy on a Sindbad voyage]] is a very effective means of punishment.

* [[Fake Ultimate Hero]]: Theseus.

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Just read any of the quests carefully that supposedly have you on a time limit. Yet when you "run over" the time, there is no punishment.

* [[Greek Mythology]]: The backdrop of ''Odyssey''.

* Hello. [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|My name is Ignacio Verdugo]]. [[You Killed My Father]]. [[Prepare to Die]]. If you play as {{spoiler|1=[[Big Bad|Sebastian LaRoche]]}} in Story Mode in ''Tradewinds 2'', be prepared to hear this several times throughout the course of your game.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] / [[Ho Yay]]: In ''Odyssey'' Petrakles and Ganymede are this.

* [[Immortality Hurts]]: One of the two connected storylines in Daimones the Goddess' Story Mode

* [[It's Up to You]]: The tasks given by the head of authority in most ports, ranging from grocery shopping to slaying the [[Big Bad]].

* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]: The merchant Baobab in ''Legends'' has a inexplicable French accent.

* [[Kill It with Fire]]: The Fire Pot special ammunition in ''Tradewinds 2''.

* [[Long-Lost Relative]]: The Tazere brothers in ''Tradewinds Legends'' ... twice. {{spoiler|Hasan Tazere's plunge into the high seas and skies started when his brother, Omar, went missing. The first time this trope occurs is when Hasan encounters a Djinn-possessed Omar at sea. Hasan must eventually kill the King of the Djinn, but at the same time put his brother to the sword. Hasan believes that Omar died from the two stabs, but when he visits a temple later on, he meets his brother again, alive and well. Omar promptly forms a [[Sibling Team]] with Hasan for the rest of Story Mode and beyond.}}

* [[Magikarp Power]]: The ''Tradewinds Odyssey'' characters' special attacks are based on total damage dealt, and the DPS rates get ''huge'' later in the game as you get [[More Dakka]].

* [[No One Should Survive That]]: Sindbad. His habit for surviving through sheer chance what should and does kill everyone he's with on a constant basis is so amazing that it's strongly suggested that the murderous djinn who pursues him, Ivory, is actually a force of nature who has come to ensure he finally dies the death he is due.

* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: On one route in ''Caravans'', you play a {{spoiler|supposed}} widow. At the end of the game, she mentions the possibility of remarriage...to her husband's brother. ([[Truth in Television]]; this was virtually expected in the cultures of the age.)

* [[The Paralyzer]]: The Hive of Bees "Magic Curse" in ''Tradewinds Legends'' does this in battle, rendering a single target unable to return fire for ten seconds. Considering that most enemies have at least five cannons, and each one fires every four seconds, the Hive of Bees can actually come in handy in cutting down the damage taken by your fleet. It saved this troper's character twice during the course of the game.

** Muse's Revenge definitely is this, which can be boosted with one of the relics from the Reliquary.

* [[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: The backdrop to ''Tradewinds 2''.

* [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]]: One of the side quests in ''Odyssey.''

** In Phoebe the Priestess' story, it's a girdle of the Goddess that poses a lot of problems for her when she has it.

* [[Storming the Castle|Storming the Port]]: If you previously had access to a port and it's now blocked off due to certain circumstances and suddenly the port is hostile towards you, this happens. In ''2'' and ''Legends'', you have to fight a fort and several ships in order to regain access to the port.

** Subverted in ''Odyssey.'' Instead of a port fight, it becomes the usual navy vs navy fight.

* [[Subsystem Damage]]: With every hit your vessels take, they run the risk of losing a cannon. In addition, when the hull strength of a ship is reduced to around half, as well as a quarter, it looks visually damaged.

* [[Swashbuckler]]: Many characters, Hasan from ''Legends'' being a particularly good example.

* [[Symbol Swearing]]: This can happen in two quests in ''Tradewinds Legends'', once when dealing with the crap wine manufacturing system in the Ten Kingdoms, which sends you to at least four different ports just to get ''one'' bottle of wine for the quest, and a second time when you have to deal with [[It Makes Sense in Context|a bunch of golden women, a retirement home, and massive damages.]]

* [[Theme Naming]]: The original ''Tradewinds'' and ''Tradewinds 2'' do this with virtually every ship for sale, excluding the Juggernaut in the former. Also probably classifies as [[Meaningful Name]] if you take into account the size and cannon mounts of their real-life counterparts.

* [[The Unfavorite]]: In ''Odyssey'' between Ariadne and Asterion, Asterion is the definite unfavorite of King Minos.

* [[Unlockable Content]]: In pretty much all the games you have to complete one of the storylines to unlock the custom character mode.

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Petrakles the Athlete in ''Tradewinds Odyssey''. [[Lampshaded]] by other characters.

* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]: Free Trade Mode, also Story Mode once you finish it.

 

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