In Army Men 3D, a Grey Colonel is captured in one of the last missions.
Whilst both are at war with Green, they are also at war with each other and Sarge finds himself in a three-way shooting match. The first encounter with Grey forces is in the original PC game: Sarge is attempting to outflank the Tan and finds himself on the Grey-Tan border. Also, in the real world, plastic army men with a Grey scheme were typically associated with the American Confederacy in contrast with their opposing color the blue and even the creators of the Army Men PC games used this influence at least partially in making the Grey Nation.
With the opening letters to the last missions stating something about the capital and the presence Grey and Tan forces engaging in combat throughout the city and cemetery, then it is very logically possible that the city was the Grey Capital under Tan occupation and that the majority of the southern bayou region is the Grey Nation itself. The colonel in the bayou level had a house in the swamplands and the weapons facility you retake from the Tan has unfinished Grey tanks. The reason for this statement is that in Army Men 3D during the Bayou campaign you have what is heavily implied to be Grey settlements, weapon factories, and the occupied Grey capital at the end of the game. If we make educated inferences from the first Army Men games (Army Men for the PC and Army Men 3D) the opening video states about the natural geography of the world "from the northern mountains, to the western desert, and as far as the southern swamps." then most of the Grey Nation is in the southern lands. Now, most of their country is occupied with the Grays staging guerilla war to win back their homeland. Sarge with 3 Grey soldiers in Sarge's Heroes.Īccording to some recent sources from the internet archive and the concept discussions of the 3DO staff, the Grey Nation was once a powerful nation of proud warriors whose pride became their downfall when they were invaded by the Tan they were too sure of their might to ask the Green for help when the Tan were conquering their country. However, they are not on good terms with the Green Nation either. The Grey are at war with the Tan Republic in most games in which they appear. Also, the guerrilla tactics employed by the Grey are reminiscent of the Vietnam War era Viet-Cong. Their beleaguered state during the onset of the events of Army Men PC and from some citation from the 3DO staff hint at the Grey Nation as an amalgam of WWII era Russia but in a weaker capacity just as the Greens represented as an underdog America in the PC games.
The Grey plastic army takes or took its influence or inspiration (according to the original creators) from the civil war plastic play-sets with the Grey representing the Civil War era Confederacy.
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