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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Some military board games have weather rules, such as Avalon Hill's ''[
* ''[[Blood Bowl]]'' has weather rules. In most matches, the weather has no effect, but sometimes players can collapse in the heat, drop the slippery ball in the snow, or be blinded by the sunshine -- ''no matter which direction they're facing!''
* The ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' canon features a battle between the [[Ax Crazy|World Eaters]] and the [[Sense Freak|Emperor's Children]] legions of Chaos Space Marines which took place on a [[Genius Loci|Daemon World]]. The battle was interrupted by a blizzard so severe it caused the [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]] to take cover. [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Kharn the Betrayer]] of the World Eaters did not like this one bit and proceeded to, ''[[One-Man Army|on his own]]'' burn both the World Eaters and the Emperor's Children out of their cover, breaking the ranks of both legions so severely that neither has fought as a united force in nearly 10,000 years.
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** Meanwhile, in ''[[Command and Conquer Tiberium|Tiberian Sun]]'', Ion Storms afflicted some campaign maps and could strike at random in skirmishes. Not only did they occasionally lightning-strike random points of ground, they shut down radar, aircraft, and hovering units.
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim]]'' has a weaponized version in the form of a shout that creates an instant thunderstorm, which strikes down your foes with lightning. Another shout lets you [[Inverted Trope|invert]] this by clearing the sky, in case you want to fight under a starry sky with an aurora
* The [[New Game
** Green Fields: A periodic shower of acid rain damages all topmost minirobots.
** Waste Sands: Earthquakes occur periodically, damaging any minirobots on the ground.
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