# Trope-a-Day: Bling of War **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [November 6, 2024, 12:32pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/trope-a-day-bling-of-war/1925 "2024-11-06T12:32:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
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**_[Bling of War](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlingOfWar?ref=eldraeverse.com):_** Except for the brief chunk of time that matched our Industrial Age, played mostly straight by the Imperial Legions.  Beforehand, for much the same regions as Napoleonic (and previous) armies were quite dressy – well, that, and the giant steam clanks stomping around on the battlefield – and afterwards because big stompy [_Powered Armor_](http://eldraeverse.com/2012/04/08/trope-a-day-powered-armor/) with both noise and the ensuring thermal and neutrino emissions tends to make stealth something that happens to other people _anyway_, so you might as well go back to looking _gorgeous_ on the battlefield if you’re anything other than scouts or special ops (who sneakily enough do have their own “field drab” armor which somehow never shows up on parade).  And, of course, so long as the bling of war is _on top_ of the fully functional deadliness of war and doesn’t interfere with its functionality. This is, of course, completely unnecessary and not done by most people who advance past Industrial Age warfare – it’s just a local aesthetic preference.  (The trope – which is still generally true in their universe – that the side with the shiniest uniforms tends to lose therefore has at least one qualification to it.  That some people haven’t heard of said qualification and will fall right into the wrong assumptions isn’t strictly _intended_ by the Admiralty, but they certainly don’t _mind_ that it happens.) * * * This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://eldraeverse.com/2012/05/19/trope-a-day-bling-of-war](https://eldraeverse.com/2012/05/19/trope-a-day-bling-of-war) ---
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Thinking of bling of war, you just know the Imperials would love to field this beautiful ludicrous tankko: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/eldraeverse/original/1X/7cda13c4256f2afc18358aab9e69a71962c421e7.jpeg "► The Real GOLDEN Type 59 - World of Tanks Type 59 Gold Gameplay") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orzD1bVPtms) ---
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