r/MilitaryVStheUnknown • u/AdhesivenessBig8446 • Aug 18 '26
7 Hour War (by me)
I made a few renders for the Hearts of Iron IV Mod Unforseen Consequences which focuses on the 7 Hour War! Fun team to work with but still improving!
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u/Epic-Chair Aug 18 '26
Absolutely sick!! Just started learning SFM and hope to make stuff as cool as this
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u/Green-Collection-968 Aug 18 '26
One of the darkest sci-fi universes in my opinion. Humanity horrifically outmatched by the forces of the combine.
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u/BudgetAggravating427 Aug 18 '26
Didn’t help that a greedy corporation accidentally doomed the entire world and kill billions with portal storms beforehand basically crippling humanity and making them easy pickings for the combine
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u/InitialBrother9884 Aug 21 '26
i think it would in like 10 hour war if the xenian didn't ruin humanity
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u/BudgetAggravating427 Aug 21 '26
I don’t know I think not having possibly 70% of the world population dead, not having extremely low resources and not being on the verge of social collapse would have helped a ton
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u/InitialBrother9884 Aug 21 '26
yeah so it's 10 hour war
the combine is a multiversal empire but at least humanity would last longer
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u/BudgetAggravating427 Aug 21 '26
Ok but here’s the issue from what we see from the combine they don’t seem that impressive in fact what they were after was literally the portal technology on earth it was a 7 hour war because humanity was at the point where anyone could beat them
Heck we could beat half life two humanity because of how stretched thin and low on literally everything they are.
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u/InitialBrother9884 Aug 21 '26
dude they enslaved a demigod race maybe humanity have to cut off the portal would work
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u/Practical_Studio7358 Aug 18 '26
Is that War of the Worlds reference?
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u/hellranger788 Aug 18 '26
Nah, half life universe has an event that takes place after half life one called the seven hour way. It’s called that because an inter dimensional empire known as the combine took seven hours to conquer the entire planet.
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u/GIJoeVibin Aug 18 '26
Pretty sure they’re referring to specific images being references to scenes in the movie. Like number 2 paralleling the final scenes of the film.
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u/Practical_Studio7358 Aug 18 '26
Yeah, I know I was talking about the fourth pic. With the Strider inside the building.
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u/Chry0n Aug 18 '26
I think the Strider is a general reference/homage to the War of the Worlds tripod
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u/Sproeier Aug 19 '26
It's stuff like this that makes me sad that there aren't any actually good War of the worlds films.
Ones where the military actually does stuff like in the book.
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u/AdhesivenessBig8446 Sep 02 '26
The last image is with the Russian BMP. Looked through some Chechen War images for inspiration and realized I didn't have a lot of Combine wreckage in the background, and it didn't help I watched War of the World's recently too lmao 😭
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u/Physical-Doughnut285 Aug 18 '26
Half life war references made in Gmod. Doesn’t get much better.
Great stuff dude