Imagine being a kid in 2001, thinking it was just going to be a Top Gun-esque arcade flight game, and then the narrator describes their experience of being invaded, their parents killed, being a refugee and war orphan. War is bad but planes are rad.
This was me. 12 years old, just got a PS2 and AC4. Still one of the most memorable gaming experiences of my life. A true generational shift from my Dreamcast. AC5 would be the next, keeping much of what I loved about AC4 but expanding in ways I wish the other games would have done.
8:45 my exact reaction as well during that mission. Destroying Stonehenge was one of my favorite missions in AC04 and then defending it in AC7 felt very poetic.
"When history witnesses a great change, Razgriz reveals itself... first, as a dark demon. As a demon, it uses its power to rain death upon the land, and then it dies. However, after a period of slumber, Razgriz returns, this time, as a great hero." I love that this applies not only to the original Razgriz squadron, but also - now - to Stonehenge.
@@Soundwave.Superior99 I haven't watched any of their streams but considering there were other voices in the background I assume that maybe it wasn't the reaction of the narrator of these videos.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Hell, the Razgriz story can even be inverted for some series villains. The most notable example I've seen of this is Captain Matias Torres. Instead of starting as a demon destroying the land, then coming back to save it as a hero, Torres started out as the Hero of Comberth Harbour, saving his men from Mobius 1, but returned as a demon to try destroy Oured with the Alicorn. You could also argue Pixy also fits this reverse Razgriz story. AC0 radio audio makes note of Pixy's single red wing rather than Cipher's blue wing tips; it may have been the latter drawing watching eyes during sortie, but Pixy himself was also a hero in the eyes of the Allied forces. Then, he disappears, only to return as the Sleeping King of Avalon; the champion of A World With No Boundaries; the demon who'll reset the world to zero. In both cases, true Razgriz stop them. Trigger's Razgriz arc starts with him as Harling's alleged murderer then returning at the hero Three Strikes. Cipher's heroics in the first phase of the Belkan War can be the Razgriz' demon phase, with him downing all the Knights of the Round Table, then he saves the world from Pixy and AWWNB to become Razgriz.
You know what? For a bunch of anonymous soldiers, the guys holding the Menhirs were some of the most heroic dudes in the whole series. They deserve some serious RESPECT.
"I remeber in my youth, when the stars fell from the heavens. And we built a great weapon to shoot them down. And then when that weapon was used to wage war." - Unkwown, Ace Combat 4.
"I was just a child when the stars fell from the skies. But I remember how they built a cannon to destroy them. And how the cannon, in turn, brought war upon us."
"I remember when I was young. I remember when the sky fell upon us. I remember when we built a great cannon to stop it. I remember when it was stolen from us. I remember when war came." ~~ Grandpa
"I was just a child when the stars fell fom the skies. But I remember how they built a cannon to destroy them. And in turn how that cannon brought war upon us. War was an abstract idea, nothing more than a show on TV. As a child, I only saw it as something that happened in some far away land... Until that final day of summer..."
As a kid, I remember how hyped I was to finally destroy Stonehenge. However at the time I didn't understand that It was once Usea's savior. Later on when I got older and actually understood the ace combat lore a little more, it made me kinda sad that Stonehenge was used to kill people rather than save them. But then AC7 came along. You can bet "Stonehenge Defensive" was one of favorite missions in all of Ace Combat. It was satisfying seeing what was once a great evil, waking up and rising as a great hero with one final shot.
@@nickkorkodylas5005 Ah yes, I sure do love supporting a nation which has repeatedly attempted to take over a continent via superweapons that killed hundreds and thousands of lives which were spent in the hopes of defending their country from said nation.
@@nickkorkodylas5005Erusea did Everything wrong that Goddamn thiefs,They don't even know how to build superweapons they just steal ISAF and osean ones.
Did anyone else just get flashbacks from when you were barely old enough to understand video game cutscenes. The game is all explosions but the cutscenes are all sad, ethereal and dreamlike. Ace Combat games have a weird place in my brain right next to waking up to see adult swim on.
"When history witnesses a great change Stonehenge reveals itself... First, as a Dark Demon. As a demon, it uses its power To rain death upon the land, and then it dies. However, after a period of slumber, Stonehenge returns. This time, as a great hero."
Ace Combat 4: Enemy Soldiers are human too they have their own personalities, motivations and dreams. Ace Combat 5: The soldiers you're fighting aren't your enemies those who seek war for profit, hatred or gradiose delusion are the true enemy of all, most people just wants peace. Ace Combat 7: Technology and develoment aren't good nor bad but progress without humanity will lead to perpetual conflict. Ace Combat 3: Don't cuck scients or they might upload your conciusness to the cloud.
Stonehenge from this game is still one of the most fascinating WMDs shown in video games. Its impressive because of its scale, range, and its intended purpose. However what has always fascinated me is how its something that can actually be achievable by current technology even if its a wholly unrealistic project from a logistics, cooperation, and financial perspective.
Stonehenge of all the Ace Combat superweapons to me has always seemed like the the most plausible, not only because of it's design and construction but because of why it was built. Between flying aircraft carriers, force fields, and giant lasers mounted on jets... Somehow a 20 meter railgun designed to shoot down asteroids an entire continent away doesn't seem that unrealistic considering the absolutely cataclysmic event Usea was facing at the time it was built... To me it's the only superweapon in AC that makes me go "if all this happened irl, somebody probably would do that"
It was meant for survival. I don't think people cared enough for things like economics or logistics when everythimg you own and love is about to be obliterated.
I firmly believe that it can be achievable, you never know the capability and the things that the human mind can achieve specially if it involves the survival of the Human Species!
I wonder just how confused people who aren't familiar with Ace Combat are. How Strangereal is an alternate world but not distant sci-fi or fantasy. How the timeline is so modern and close to ours but not. It really is something special.
Ahhh I’ll never forget the moment in Ace Combat 7 when they said the Stonehenge targeting computer was destroyed so they’d have to manually shoot the railgun at Arsenal Bird I using firing tables. As a former artilleryman I was like…that basically impossible. 😳
The arsenal bird was supposed to be the pinnacle of superweapon design in strangereal; autonomous, heavily armed, supreme defenses and an onboard squadron to boot. They threw it against a decades-old rusting chemrail cannon, the ancient gun crippled, blinded and running on fumes. Stonehenge merely turned to the sky, used its dying breath to say "fuck you", and promptly annihilated the shielded arsenal bird like a .50 cal through a paper plane. It's gorgeous.
Operation stone crusher is just hilarious. “Hey guys what do we call our secret operation to destroy Stonehenge” “Stone crusher!” It’s so obvious what it’s meant to do, it sounds like a counter espionage nightmare.
"This battery of guns which state down the heavens is the keystone of our salvation... A space guard system like this had been advocated before, but there has never been a plan this concrete until now." -- Titan Guns
I really like the Ace Combat Infinity version of Stonehenge, our real world Earth literally made five different Stonehenges across the globe and it was still only barely enough to stop Ulysses from destroying the world order
8:01 The fact that not only is the relationship between the player character and Stonehenge poetic, the story of the structure itself is also poetic in this sense.
Seeing this video made me want to see Stonehenge Firing at Ulysses in game. A lot of people talk about wanting to see the next game take place in a WW2 era Strangereal, but I kinda want to see a game play out over the course of the Ulysses Disaster.
I was one of those people asking for a ground / tanks Ace Combat perspective. War Stories Anthologies, since Battlefield and CoD are in the crapper. Tanks with a fleshed out story to give something not controlled by the complete bastards WarGaming or Gaijin. The old classic Ace Combat 04 aesthetic as you are put into the fire control officer position to shoot down asteroids [which secretly gives cash bonus for campaign as the capital not destroyed means more supply for you later]. The latter plus Ace Combat Zero morality meter to decide events like enemies deserting to aid you or civilians pushing back against "liberation" and what not. Tactics that take pressure off you as they can deploy and take extra objectives later, create access to special missions, or hinder you. Would be interesting to get stuff thrown at you for collateral from ISAF strikes we don't see normally. "Osean puppet!" spitting would add some greyness to the storyline.
Also a "Yellow" and "Belka Forever" entry in the series before a full "Burn Osea to the Ground" post Lighthouse story arc that moves us into Electrosphere.
I love how Stonehenge becomes less of a one time gimmick superweapon series is known for and more of a symbol in Ace Combat series. Hopefully we'll see it again in the series as heraldry or as a site for peace talks or base of operations for some neutral power.
Ace Combat and Mass Effect are both in my top 3 gaming franchises of all time. You guys absolutely NAIL IT every time! Thank you so much for making this and it inspires my own content as well!!!
"When history witnesses a great change, Razgriz reveals itself. First as a dark demon. As a demon, it uses its power to rain death upon the land, and then it dies. However, after a period of slumber, Razgriz returns. This time, as a great hero."
@@hecksters423 that wasn’t the poem itself, that was a line from Ace Combat’s in-universe fairy tale that talks about the Razgriz. I can post the poem too, if you want, though!
Somehow the thought of Ulysses bringing an extinction-level event to Usea never caught onto me. Imagine how terrifying an alternate scenario would be if Stonehenge wasn’t completed in time
That last clip made me smile I love Stonehenge, and I love the meme that came afterwards, Stonehenge with the Grimm Reaper I was terrified of that weapon in AC4, had me sweating when I was a kid hearing the countdown AC7 really did that weapon some beautiful justice
**MISSION UPDATE** SkyEye here. We've confirmed via Radar that Stonehenge was destroyed. But it looks like we got company. Five Bandits coming in at Mach 2. Not to worry, our aces are faster than theirs are. You are all clear to engage!
You can usually tell what games is gonna get remastered or a sequel when templin starts making multiple videos about it. I hope it’s true in this case cause I loved this version of ace combat
@@manemperorofmankind8119 dont give up hope, even as a newcomer to ace combat i still itch for a sequel after i beat ace combat 7 in just three days after buying it. hell, im probably gonna have to get ace combat 6 to fill the void (i have xbox one).
The thing I loved about Ace combat 4 was that it taught you to fear your enemy. This stonehenge and yellow squadron over the course of the game were a serious threat.
@@pacificfederationpeacekeep999 And considering how available the developers are compared to ace combat, I think they should collaborate with the PW team in the creation of a PW video.
Honestly hope we'll get another ace combat in the future. A modern version of electrosphere. A con would be that a lot of classic aircraft would not be there though but it would be nice seeing original aircraft designs.
I'm glad Ace Combat getting more attention, My Older Brother was a Big Fan of Ace Combat Series, the last AC he played is Ace Combat Zero, now he's a Fighter Pilot.
One little fun fact to point out the reason why the Astra was going to spread over a much larger area than originally predicted, was due to the fact that it was hollow on the inside, making it would be breaking apart, much faster how much wider than originally intended
Just one correction; the Ulysses1994XF04 asteroid was not broken up and scattered by the Earth's atmosphere. (By the time a meteor breaks up in the atmosphere, it's already too close and too late for large fragments to be spread out far and wide around the planet, even if it explodes.) It was broken up and scattered by the Earth's Roche Limit. That's the region of space around a planet/star/black hole/etc. where entering objects will slowly get torn apart because one side feels a stronger pull of gravity than the other. Because this region of space is so large, and because this process of "gravitational shredding" is so slow, fragments of the torn-apart object can become spread very far and wide. It's actually theorized that Saturn's rings were once comets (or maybe even a small moon) that got trapped and torn apart by Saturn's Roche Limit. Otherwise, great video!
2:10 - for perspective, 1,024 nodes each capable of 9 GFLOPS would put this network at almost 3x the performance of the fastest supercomputer in the world in 1999
I would love to see someone animate what it must have looked when Stonehenge was fully-operational, and firing at the raining asteroid debris. All eight cannons operating independently as chunks of space rock come raining down.
The Stonehenge Defensive mission was pretty neat. If you think about it, in a way, it was like playing Stonehenge Offensive from Yellow Squadron's perspective.
Ace Combat has so much freaking lore and backstory to it, it's really kind of crazy how easy it is to overlook it while you're out dogfighting. Great video you guys!
Huh, I was always under the impression that STN stood for Stonehenge Turret Network. It's also a shame that Belka decided to use Excalibur as a weapon during the Belkan War given how useful it would've been as an additional interception system.
Due to intensity of Ace Combat themed video publication can we await the announce of new Ace Combat game? (Skies unknown was announced 4 years later the release of Assault Horizon. 3 years have already passed after the 7th game release).
@@justinambru8529 yeah it was annonced in 2021 its going to be a sequel of Ace combat 3 but like they said between 2021 and 2025 and whit covid it probably going to take even more years
If not for the fact that the militaries of Strangereal WOULD shoot people with them, I'd argue that guns like these need to be installed all across the planet. This system can only cover a limited arc, and an asteroid strike could come from any direction. Not mention that you'd probably want overlapping fields of fire in case 1 cannon wouldn't be enough to take out an impactor. Not to mention that even with international rushing of repairs on the original site, they'd probably be at best months out from reactivating the system to full capacity. There's no reason to assume that there won't be more big rocks.
Other nations tried, but for obvious reasons, even in the more advanced world of Ace Combat, build Stonehenge was a behemoth of a task, and was barely finished right before the asteroid struck. Other nations like Estovakia tried to build similar turrets, but they only managed 75% of the first cannon before the asteroid struck.
Most of the non-vehicle super weapons after the belkan war probably were meant to stop the asteroid, or future ones. They just didn't get finished in time.
The funniest thing is the turrets are controlled by a cluster of supercomputers capable of a combined "trillion floating point operations per second" which can now be exceeded by a single graphics card in a gaming PC.
Stonehenge was super advanced for its era, but a relic by the time we saw it on AC7. For a fair comparison, compare Stonehenge's computers with the ones before Y2K, and modern computers with the likes of Hugin and Munin. Stonehenge is about as obsolete in universe as it is IRL.
Hoping for a Solo Wing Pixy video! (There’s just so much to unpack about him, Cipher, Ustio, Belka, Osea, and a World With No Boundaries, and the craters...)
My memories of Stonehenge are still clear in my memories, flying overheard keeping enemies forces at bay. To return there many years later was like a dream come reality!
Ace Combat is a series I missed growing up and have always wanted to go back and experience. Can't imagine the early games are easily available at this point though.
Love all of the Ace Combat Lore you are covering, keep it up Templin can't wait to see what is next, all of your work is top notch, mainly your narration and even your story telling, like with the Star Wars Sequels reimagined.
An it also made the PERFECT Anti Air weapon too... So naturally what's the BEST counter to this WMD??? Obviously you send your BEST fighter pilot on a loan suicide mission to destroy it... Yeah... Think I see WHY the good guys in every game struggled and almost lost all their wars until the mute legendary"pilot" to their air forces shows up an literally brought the pain an rained destruction on the enemy an turned it all around.
The sheer epicness of the single decades-old weapon rising from the dead to bring down the brand-new, state-of-the-art Arsenal Bird, showing how truly powerful Stonehenge was, is impossible to overstate.
I mean, there's a lot of fun stuff they can go over. Megalith, the lighthouse, the arsenal birds, the arc bird, the Big flying wing from 6 i forget the name of. The huge cannon from 6 a I also forget the name of. For some reason every time I try to think of names from 6 I hear that stupid catch phrase everyone loves
Please please please do a video for Best Country Estovakia, or one of it's creations. The Aigaion or it's entire Aerial Fleet, The Chandelier, or the CFA-44 Nosferatu and it's Malebolge drones. Absolutely love the channel
I just finished the campaign of Ace Combat 7, with the only previous game in the series I played being Assault Horizon, I had no idea of the history or context around the defense of Stonehenge mission. Hail the TH-cam algorithm.
I love watching these videos! I would love to see someone give the country of Ustio some respect and have a video showcasing the might of Ustian soldiers and pilots throughout history.
Those super computers should be put to use for scientific calculations. While the Railguns themselves are now just artifacts of a war long over, the computers can be maintained and upgraded for their calculation and processing power alone. Let the site be a working monument, once used to save the continent, then rule it, and finally used to save it.
Attention all aircraft! Incoming from Stonehenge confirmed. All aircraft descend below 2000ft to terrain mask.
2000 feet? What do you expect us to do, fly underground?
@@justinkam9729 "The canyon! Get in the canyon and proceed 090 to the return line!"
@@Tank50us What are you talking about? It's suicide to fly into that ravine!
@@justinkam9729 INCOMING WAVE FROM STONEHENGE! 10SECONDS TO IMPACT!
*Tango Line music intensifies*
Imagine being a kid in 2001, thinking it was just going to be a Top Gun-esque arcade flight game, and then the narrator describes their experience of being invaded, their parents killed, being a refugee and war orphan. War is bad but planes are rad.
Ace Combat4 Shattered Skies was a Ps2 selling point for me !
Practically
And humanizes the "bad guys" to the point where you feel shitty after taking on the entire Yellow Squadron in Farbanti.
This was me. 12 years old, just got a PS2 and AC4. Still one of the most memorable gaming experiences of my life. A true generational shift from my Dreamcast. AC5 would be the next, keeping much of what I loved about AC4 but expanding in ways I wish the other games would have done.
"War is an abstract idea. Nothing more than a show on TV..."
8:45 my exact reaction as well during that mission. Destroying Stonehenge was one of my favorite missions in AC04 and then defending it in AC7 felt very poetic.
"When history witnesses a great change, Razgriz reveals itself... first, as a dark demon. As a demon, it uses its power to rain death upon the land, and then it dies. However, after a period of slumber, Razgriz returns, this time, as a great hero."
I love that this applies not only to the original Razgriz squadron, but also - now - to Stonehenge.
Was the from a templin stream? It didn’t sound like them.
@@Soundwave.Superior99 I haven't watched any of their streams but considering there were other voices in the background I assume that maybe it wasn't the reaction of the narrator of these videos.
Long Caster should’ve called all aircraft to dive below 2,000 feet for old times sake.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Hell, the Razgriz story can even be inverted for some series villains.
The most notable example I've seen of this is Captain Matias Torres. Instead of starting as a demon destroying the land, then coming back to save it as a hero, Torres started out as the Hero of Comberth Harbour, saving his men from Mobius 1, but returned as a demon to try destroy Oured with the Alicorn.
You could also argue Pixy also fits this reverse Razgriz story. AC0 radio audio makes note of Pixy's single red wing rather than Cipher's blue wing tips; it may have been the latter drawing watching eyes during sortie, but Pixy himself was also a hero in the eyes of the Allied forces. Then, he disappears, only to return as the Sleeping King of Avalon; the champion of A World With No Boundaries; the demon who'll reset the world to zero.
In both cases, true Razgriz stop them. Trigger's Razgriz arc starts with him as Harling's alleged murderer then returning at the hero Three Strikes. Cipher's heroics in the first phase of the Belkan War can be the Razgriz' demon phase, with him downing all the Knights of the Round Table, then he saves the world from Pixy and AWWNB to become Razgriz.
You know what? For a bunch of anonymous soldiers, the guys holding the Menhirs were some of the most heroic dudes in the whole series. They deserve some serious RESPECT.
ohh yeah they do !
“take 60 seconds to get some grub”
Chads
This is a stupid question but I don't know what you're talkin about
@@EnterpriseXI a quote from the mission
“Give me a minute to reattach my lost limbs” -Menhir 6 commander (I think)
"What once killed asteroids , now kills assholes" - Maxor
Dang it! That was about all I knew to joke about!
Captain Torres: "Aye me matey. It's me Captain Tar."
@@thegoodwin "Did you know that ye can prevent, like, 99% of wars by nuking the capital of Osea"
"Hey guys, I heard that someone was taking an unauthorized bathroom break and I've had it up to here with that shit."
@@prinz4279 this is a fact
"I remeber in my youth, when the stars fell from the heavens. And we built a great weapon to shoot them down. And then when that weapon was used to wage war." - Unkwown, Ace Combat 4.
"I was just a child when the stars fell from the skies. But I remember how they built a cannon to destroy them. And how the cannon, in turn, brought war upon us."
"I remember when I was young.
I remember when the sky fell upon us.
I remember when we built a great cannon to stop it.
I remember when it was stolen from us.
I remember when war came."
~~ Grandpa
"I was just a child when the stars fell fom the skies. But I remember how they built a cannon to destroy them. And in turn how that cannon brought war upon us. War was an abstract idea, nothing more than a show on TV. As a child, I only saw it as something that happened in some far away land... Until that final day of summer..."
As a kid, I remember how hyped I was to finally destroy Stonehenge. However at the time I didn't understand that It was once Usea's savior. Later on when I got older and actually understood the ace combat lore a little more, it made me kinda sad that Stonehenge was used to kill people rather than save them. But then AC7 came along. You can bet "Stonehenge Defensive" was one of favorite missions in all of Ace Combat. It was satisfying seeing what was once a great evil, waking up and rising as a great hero with one final shot.
holy fuck.
stonehenge is Razgriz.
It was never used for evil until it it fired its last shot.
ERUSEA DID NOTHING WRONG!
CUM HISTORIA
MUTAT VALDE RAZGRIZ
REVELAT IPSUM
@@nickkorkodylas5005 Ah yes, I sure do love supporting a nation which has repeatedly attempted to take over a continent via superweapons that killed hundreds and thousands of lives which were spent in the hopes of defending their country from said nation.
@@nickkorkodylas5005Erusea did Everything wrong that Goddamn thiefs,They don't even know how to build superweapons they just steal ISAF and osean ones.
Did anyone else just get flashbacks from when you were barely old enough to understand video game cutscenes. The game is all explosions but the cutscenes are all sad, ethereal and dreamlike. Ace Combat games have a weird place in my brain right next to waking up to see adult swim on.
This is kind of eerie to read because of how it made me have those flashbacks even more.
That's a strangely apt analogy
perfectly said
I was going to go with an "Incoming from Stonehenge" joke, but the Institute beat me to it. Goddamn Space-Time Travelers.
Same here. First line I wanted to post. Deep strike and Tango Line memories
Blame Belkan Black Magic.
You can always try an Arsenal Bird joke
"When history witnesses a great change
Stonehenge reveals itself...
First, as a Dark Demon.
As a demon, it uses its power
To rain death upon the land,
and then it dies.
However, after a period of slumber,
Stonehenge returns.
This time, as a great hero."
Ace Combat 4: Enemy Soldiers are human too they have their own personalities, motivations and dreams.
Ace Combat 5: The soldiers you're fighting aren't your enemies those who seek war for profit, hatred or gradiose delusion are the true enemy of all, most people just wants peace.
Ace Combat 7: Technology and develoment aren't good nor bad but progress without humanity will lead to perpetual conflict.
Ace Combat 3: Don't cuck scients or they might upload your conciusness to the cloud.
Ace Combat 6: Go dance with the angels!
Ace Combat 0: Spanish guitars are *rad* and borders are not.
Ace Combat Assault Horizon: 'MURICA GOOD, RUSSKI BAD **caveman grunts**
Project Wingman: Many suffers for The glory of a few.
Your contract is fullfilled.
Ace Combat X : This is the Naiad
So many times, the name Stonehenge has been met with bated breath.
It's final shot, was met with cheers.
>shows up
>kill asteroids
>kill aerial forces
>slumbers
>wakes up
>shoots a massive bird
>does not elaborate
>dies
Welcome back Razgriz.
wow. from now on, I'm expecting many Ace Combat super weapons lore from The Templin institute.
That would be nice.
I hope The Templin Institute would cover the Excalibur super weapons
That's gonna be such a long series I'm in
i hope they do one on the arsenal birds at somepoint
First Erusea and now Stonehenge? Really hoping for a vid about a certain submersible aircraft cruiser and it’s colorful captain
What about his clean white sheets?
@@Stoicswimfish They got walked all over, unfortunately
You mean the anime enthusiast?
1 MILLION LIVES
Yeah.. or a couple pairs of VERY EXPENSIVE and ridiculously over armed giant Nuclear Submarines...
Loving these Ace Combat videos. One of my favorite franchises and too many sleep on it.
I could not agree more, fantastic gameplay and lore, really struggle to get better than ac
There should be games of more different genres in Strangereal.
I love the world of Strange Real. I would also love an Ace Combat game that takes place during Strange Real's equivalent of WW2.
@@ryusantos6145cough cough AC0
Stonehenge from this game is still one of the most fascinating WMDs shown in video games. Its impressive because of its scale, range, and its intended purpose. However what has always fascinated me is how its something that can actually be achievable by current technology even if its a wholly unrealistic project from a logistics, cooperation, and financial perspective.
Stonehenge of all the Ace Combat superweapons to me has always seemed like the the most plausible, not only because of it's design and construction but because of why it was built.
Between flying aircraft carriers, force fields, and giant lasers mounted on jets... Somehow a 20 meter railgun designed to shoot down asteroids an entire continent away doesn't seem that unrealistic considering the absolutely cataclysmic event Usea was facing at the time it was built... To me it's the only superweapon in AC that makes me go "if all this happened irl, somebody probably would do that"
It was meant for survival. I don't think people cared enough for things like economics or logistics when everythimg you own and love is about to be obliterated.
I firmly believe that it can be achievable, you never know the capability and the things that the human mind can achieve specially if it involves the survival of the Human Species!
I wonder just how confused people who aren't familiar with Ace Combat are. How Strangereal is an alternate world but not distant sci-fi or fantasy. How the timeline is so modern and close to ours but not. It really is something special.
It is pretty unique. I don't think I've ever seen anything else quite like it.
I was horribly confused at first
I mean, it has some sci-fi tech, but it is more due to different tech tree progression than just being more advanced.
I think that was every Ace Combat fan’s reaction to “Stonehenge Defensive.”
I sense a running theme here. Could this be the prelude to an Ace Combat Week?
I was wondering that as well
The coming of the Razgriz?
Please I hope so. That'd be so rad.
I am here hoping we have an Ace Combat 8 or more dlc going to be announced.
I sure hope so
Ahhh I’ll never forget the moment in Ace Combat 7 when they said the Stonehenge targeting computer was destroyed so they’d have to manually shoot the railgun at Arsenal Bird I using firing tables. As a former artilleryman I was like…that basically impossible. 😳
The Stonehenge Defensive was a great mission, they even used music bits from the original
The arsenal bird was supposed to be the pinnacle of superweapon design in strangereal; autonomous, heavily armed, supreme defenses and an onboard squadron to boot. They threw it against a decades-old rusting chemrail cannon, the ancient gun crippled, blinded and running on fumes. Stonehenge merely turned to the sky, used its dying breath to say "fuck you", and promptly annihilated the shielded arsenal bird like a .50 cal through a paper plane.
It's gorgeous.
“What once killed asteroids now kills assholes”
Well,1200mm is 1200mm no matter which era
Operation stone crusher is just hilarious.
“Hey guys what do we call our secret operation to destroy Stonehenge”
“Stone crusher!”
It’s so obvious what it’s meant to do, it sounds like a counter espionage nightmare.
Lol it does
It's so obvious that it comes around to being brilliant again.
It's so overt, it's covert
Let's face it. Strangereal military intelligence is a bit lacking at times
Check UK atomic program... You be quite suprise how straight forward the name was...
I hope we get a vid on the CFA-44 Nosferatu. That thing is insane.
Yet it is the most aerodynamic and structuraly possible plane in the series.
@@fernandomarques5166 with the best special weaponry.
@@fernandomarques5166 Are the spamming micromissle system realistic too?
@@MA-jn7rd If they're the size of MANPADS I'd say they could be, probably wouldn't as destructive IRL as they are in-game.
@@fernandomarques5166 Then we will lace the warheads with cordium warheads to compensate for damage.
I knew nothing about Ace Combat before this video except that is is an air combat series. This world is wild.
Now, it's your duty to play all of them.
@@MrDalisclock
"This battery of guns which state down the heavens is the keystone of our salvation... A space guard system like this had been advocated before, but there has never been a plan this concrete until now." -- Titan Guns
Stonehenge was always my favorite superweapon in Ace Combat, Excalibur being a very close second!
I really like the Ace Combat Infinity version of Stonehenge, our real world Earth literally made five different Stonehenges across the globe and it was still only barely enough to stop Ulysses from destroying the world order
I played Infinity, got the feeling Stonehenge wouldn't fit in on a more realistic world, but it actually just makes them much cooler.
8:01 The fact that not only is the relationship between the player character and Stonehenge poetic, the story of the structure itself is also poetic in this sense.
2 AC videos in a week? Truly this is the best timeline
Seeing this video made me want to see Stonehenge Firing at Ulysses in game. A lot of people talk about wanting to see the next game take place in a WW2 era Strangereal, but I kinda want to see a game play out over the course of the Ulysses Disaster.
I was one of those people asking for a ground / tanks Ace Combat perspective. War Stories Anthologies, since Battlefield and CoD are in the crapper. Tanks with a fleshed out story to give something not controlled by the complete bastards WarGaming or Gaijin. The old classic Ace Combat 04 aesthetic as you are put into the fire control officer position to shoot down asteroids [which secretly gives cash bonus for campaign as the capital not destroyed means more supply for you later]. The latter plus Ace Combat Zero morality meter to decide events like enemies deserting to aid you or civilians pushing back against "liberation" and what not. Tactics that take pressure off you as they can deploy and take extra objectives later, create access to special missions, or hinder you. Would be interesting to get stuff thrown at you for collateral from ISAF strikes we don't see normally. "Osean puppet!" spitting would add some greyness to the storyline.
Also a "Yellow" and "Belka Forever" entry in the series before a full "Burn Osea to the Ground" post Lighthouse story arc that moves us into Electrosphere.
I love how Stonehenge becomes less of a one time gimmick superweapon series is known for and more of a symbol in Ace Combat series. Hopefully we'll see it again in the series as heraldry or as a site for peace talks or base of operations for some neutral power.
Ace Combat and Mass Effect are both in my top 3 gaming franchises of all time. You guys absolutely NAIL IT every time! Thank you so much for making this and it inspires my own content as well!!!
The Razgriz analogy also works on Stonehenge, to be quite honest.
"When history witnesses a great change, Razgriz reveals itself. First as a dark demon. As a demon, it uses its power to rain death upon the land, and then it dies. However, after a period of slumber, Razgriz returns. This time, as a great hero."
@@spiceracksargent0014 And right on cue, here's the poem of the dark demon....
@@hecksters423 that wasn’t the poem itself, that was a line from Ace Combat’s in-universe fairy tale that talks about the Razgriz. I can post the poem too, if you want, though!
Somehow the thought of Ulysses bringing an extinction-level event to Usea never caught onto me. Imagine how terrifying an alternate scenario would be if Stonehenge wasn’t completed in time
You don't need to imagine it, just look at what happened to Estovakai
“After fighting for several generations, you look to the sky and hear the sound of money rubbing together”
In Ace Combat tradition. Big baddy must either take over big thing, or the MC kills da big thing.
That last clip made me smile
I love Stonehenge, and I love the meme that came afterwards, Stonehenge with the Grimm Reaper
I was terrified of that weapon in AC4, had me sweating when I was a kid hearing the countdown
AC7 really did that weapon some beautiful justice
**MISSION UPDATE**
SkyEye here. We've confirmed via Radar that Stonehenge was destroyed.
But it looks like we got company.
Five Bandits coming in at Mach 2.
Not to worry, our aces are faster than theirs are. You are all clear to engage!
1:28 Give that man an Oscar. He said all
that in one breath!
No slaps, tho
You can usually tell what games is gonna get remastered or a sequel when templin starts making multiple videos about it. I hope it’s true in this case cause I loved this version of ace combat
Seems like I was wrong about this :(
@@manemperorofmankind8119 dont give up hope, even as a newcomer to ace combat i still itch for a sequel after i beat ace combat 7 in just three days after buying it. hell, im probably gonna have to get ace combat 6 to fill the void (i have xbox one).
@@Post_Stall_Maneuver id personally love a remake of 5 or 6 (forget which one I played on PS2)
Ah so that’s what that ring of rocks in Salisbury does!
The druids wanted to keep the earth safe from asteroids
The thing I loved about Ace combat 4 was that it taught you to fear your enemy.
This stonehenge and yellow squadron over the course of the game were a serious threat.
*"Its a gun that started it all, and the gun that helped end a war."*
Project Wingman needs some love. Cordium, the Pacific Federation, Cascadia, a lot of topics could be covered
They should make a vid about pw
@@pacificfederationpeacekeep999
And considering how available the developers are compared to ace combat, I think they should collaborate with the PW team in the creation of a PW video.
Honestly hope we'll get another ace combat in the future. A modern version of electrosphere. A con would be that a lot of classic aircraft would not be there though but it would be nice seeing original aircraft designs.
I'm glad Ace Combat getting more attention, My Older Brother was a Big Fan of Ace Combat Series, the last AC he played is Ace Combat Zero, now he's a Fighter Pilot.
One little fun fact to point out the reason why the Astra was going to spread over a much larger area than originally predicted, was due to the fact that it was hollow on the inside, making it would be breaking apart, much faster how much wider than originally intended
Just one correction; the Ulysses1994XF04 asteroid was not broken up and scattered by the Earth's atmosphere.
(By the time a meteor breaks up in the atmosphere, it's already too close and too late for large fragments to be spread out far and wide around the planet, even if it explodes.)
It was broken up and scattered by the Earth's Roche Limit. That's the region of space around a planet/star/black hole/etc. where entering objects will slowly get torn apart because one side feels a stronger pull of gravity than the other.
Because this region of space is so large, and because this process of "gravitational shredding" is so slow, fragments of the torn-apart object can become spread very far and wide. It's actually theorized that Saturn's rings were once comets (or maybe even a small moon) that got trapped and torn apart by Saturn's Roche Limit.
Otherwise, great video!
2:10 - for perspective, 1,024 nodes each capable of 9 GFLOPS would put this network at almost 3x the performance of the fastest supercomputer in the world in 1999
Yeah, strangereal computers crush IRL ones.
While we are doing chatbots and procedurally generated art, they have sapient, tactically capable AI.
I would love to see someone animate what it must have looked when Stonehenge was fully-operational, and firing at the raining asteroid debris. All eight cannons operating independently as chunks of space rock come raining down.
6:20 This name drop though. I hope we're getting a dossier soon.
That's David Hartmann Ibis (Ace Combat Zero Enemy Ace) Creation
Damn! This was awesome!
Imagine if the Templin Institute did a video on the Lighthouse War and a dossier investigation on Three Strikes
The Stonehenge Defensive mission was pretty neat. If you think about it, in a way, it was like playing Stonehenge Offensive from Yellow Squadron's perspective.
Ace Combat has so much freaking lore and backstory to it, it's really kind of crazy how easy it is to overlook it while you're out dogfighting. Great video you guys!
Impeccable use of the LRSSG briefing footage to describe the guns.
Huh, I was always under the impression that STN stood for Stonehenge Turret Network. It's also a shame that Belka decided to use Excalibur as a weapon during the Belkan War given how useful it would've been as an additional interception system.
Due to intensity of Ace Combat themed video publication can we await the announce of new Ace Combat game? (Skies unknown was announced 4 years later the release of Assault Horizon. 3 years have already passed after the 7th game release).
@@justinambru8529 yeah it was annonced in 2021 its going to be a sequel of Ace combat 3 but like they said between 2021 and 2025 and whit covid it probably going to take even more years
I hadn't realized it had been that long already.
I'd also settle for ports of AC4-6 and Zero to something a little more modern.
Just saying
@@MrDalisclock Me too. Even just a straight remaster of these classics would be amazing.
From having to take out that installation, to having to defend it. What a world
The first time I played the Stonehenge Defense mission I couldn't help myself. I used the Su-37 with the Yellow skin.
Not a bad choice! I just used a Thunderbolt. Was the best plane for it I had unlocked at the time.
@@RJALEXANDER777 I somehow had unlocked the Eurofighter Typhoon by mission 12 or was it the JAS-39E I used
One last shot, the final redemption
If not for the fact that the militaries of Strangereal WOULD shoot people with them, I'd argue that guns like these need to be installed all across the planet. This system can only cover a limited arc, and an asteroid strike could come from any direction. Not mention that you'd probably want overlapping fields of fire in case 1 cannon wouldn't be enough to take out an impactor.
Not to mention that even with international rushing of repairs on the original site, they'd probably be at best months out from reactivating the system to full capacity. There's no reason to assume that there won't be more big rocks.
Other nations tried, but for obvious reasons, even in the more advanced world of Ace Combat, build Stonehenge was a behemoth of a task, and was barely finished right before the asteroid struck. Other nations like Estovakia tried to build similar turrets, but they only managed 75% of the first cannon before the asteroid struck.
Most of the non-vehicle super weapons after the belkan war probably were meant to stop the asteroid, or future ones. They just didn't get finished in time.
@@ArkaSaurusRex218 was that the Chandelier?
@@legomancb12 Yeah
That is what Lighthouse is for. To send preemptive space expeditions to stop the next Ulisses.
The funniest thing is the turrets are controlled by a cluster of supercomputers capable of a combined "trillion floating point operations per second" which can now be exceeded by a single graphics card in a gaming PC.
Stonehenge was super advanced for its era, but a relic by the time we saw it on AC7.
For a fair comparison, compare Stonehenge's computers with the ones before Y2K, and modern computers with the likes of Hugin and Munin.
Stonehenge is about as obsolete in universe as it is IRL.
Stonehenge. So many memories flowing back. AC4 was a favorite game of mine. Seeing it back on AC7 was something else :)
Hoping for a Solo Wing Pixy video! (There’s just so much to unpack about him, Cipher, Ustio, Belka, Osea, and a World With No Boundaries, and the craters...)
My memories of Stonehenge are still clear in my memories, flying overheard keeping enemies forces at bay. To return there many years later was like a dream come reality!
Please give the Templin Institute treament to UN Spacy, Macross. You guys are great!!
I’ve been to Stonehenge and this Stonehenge is even better than the one in real life.
I love that is 20 year old game is still getting acknowledged all there’s years later
Been expecting this one for some time. Hope you'll do other videos on the superweapons and experimental aircraft of Strangereal.
Oh hey, a video about Stonehenge? That's great!
I've got a Blender 3D model of one of its guns
From the depths awakens the Razgriz, its wings of black sheath.
A Templin series on every Ace Combat superplane is literally my dream
We're doing Ace Combat super weapons now? It's not even my birthday
Ace Combat is a series I missed growing up and have always wanted to go back and experience. Can't imagine the early games are easily available at this point though.
The PS1 games emulate perfectly. The PS2 games not so much, but they're still playable especially 0.
Love all of the Ace Combat Lore you are covering, keep it up Templin can't wait to see what is next, all of your work is top notch, mainly your narration and even your story telling, like with the Star Wars Sequels reimagined.
I remember playing this Mission in Ace Combat Infinity where youre tasked to capture Stonehenge. Good game.
Infinity took place on our earth not in Strangereal
An it also made the PERFECT Anti Air weapon too... So naturally what's the BEST counter to this WMD??? Obviously you send your BEST fighter pilot on a loan suicide mission to destroy it... Yeah... Think I see WHY the good guys in every game struggled and almost lost all their wars until the mute legendary"pilot" to their air forces shows up an literally brought the pain an rained destruction on the enemy an turned it all around.
Against Stonehenge Mobius 1 was not flying alone heck even a tanker aircraft is showing up at the start refuling one of the other ISAF pilots
“I was just a child when the stars fell from the skies..”
The sheer epicness of the single decades-old weapon rising from the dead to bring down the brand-new, state-of-the-art Arsenal Bird, showing how truly powerful Stonehenge was, is impossible to overstate.
You know why does it feel like makarov is voicing as a narrator?
"There is a giant meteor approaching strangereal!"
"Big fucking gun?"
"Big fucking gun"
"Big fucking gun it is"
Can you please do a video on the Militia and IMC from titanfall
The IMC has already been covered. The Militia has yet to follow.
@@jimmyseaver3647 okay thank you
Two Ace Combat videos in a row? Now I’m curious
Love that you are reviewing Ace Combat again.
never played ace combat, but stonehenge is a fucking great name for a defensive installation
You gotta do a video on Ace Combat X the Gleipnir and Fenrir.
Seconded. That game is amazing.
Think you can do some for Project Wingmen? Like, say, the Eminent Domain?
And if it’s only AC, how about stuff like the Alicorn or the Arsenal Birds?
I mean, there's a lot of fun stuff they can go over. Megalith, the lighthouse, the arsenal birds, the arc bird, the Big flying wing from 6 i forget the name of. The huge cannon from 6 a I also forget the name of.
For some reason every time I try to think of names from 6 I hear that stupid catch phrase everyone loves
@@MrDalisclock Chandelier and the P-1112 Aigaion, P-1113 Kottos and P-1114 Gyges
2 Ace Combat videos in 1 week! I hope you guys do some infamous characters of the series like Torres, Dision, or Navarro.
Today was the 17th anniversary of Operation: Stone Crusher.
Stonehenge from AC4 ends the war in AC7?! Oh wow. That's awesome!
Please please please do a video for Best Country Estovakia, or one of it's creations. The Aigaion or it's entire Aerial Fleet, The Chandelier, or the CFA-44 Nosferatu and it's Malebolge drones. Absolutely love the channel
Outstanding video, thanks for sharing! 👍
Once kills asteroids now kills assholes
-Max0r
High Roller is betting that the next video will be about the Arsenal Birds.
I just finished the campaign of Ace Combat 7, with the only previous game in the series I played being Assault Horizon, I had no idea of the history or context around the defense of Stonehenge mission. Hail the TH-cam algorithm.
Thanks for the update. I let my Usea Today subscription lapse years ago.
I love watching these videos! I would love to see someone give the country of Ustio some respect and have a video showcasing the might of Ustian soldiers and pilots throughout history.
Those super computers should be put to use for scientific calculations. While the Railguns themselves are now just artifacts of a war long over, the computers can be maintained and upgraded for their calculation and processing power alone. Let the site be a working monument, once used to save the continent, then rule it, and finally used to save it.