The third Super Robot Taisen game is the first to appear on the Super Famicom and a direct sequel to its predecessor. Six months after the war against the Divine Crusaders, the heroes that defeated them (now organized in the Londo Bell special forces unit) are called back into action. The DC remnants have regained strength under the control of the Zabi family. Additionally, unexplained disappearances near lunar colonies indicate that there might be another faction in play. It is up to Londo Bell to investigate and fight the next Super Robot War.
Like its predecessor, the game is a turn-based strategy game with heavy RPG elements that crosses over characters and robots from various animated TV series and puts them into an all-new story. The game features 58 missions (more than doubling the number from SRW2) and introduces a branching mission path to the series. The path through the game is determined via direct player choices during and after missions as well as mission performance (i.e. number of turns required to complete the level). The choices made also lead to three different possible endings.
The basic gameplay of the series remains unchanged from the predecessor, with players having their units move and attack on a map of the area via context-sensitive menus and fights played out as animated scenes. Series mainstays like the spirit (for unleashing special powers) and negotiate (for making enemy units defect) commands also make a return.
The strategic complexity however has been increased. Pilots and their robots are now separate entities with separate stats, making it possible for pilots to switch robots between missions, but only within their own franchise (i.e. Amuro Ray can control all Gundam, but no Mazinger robots). Another new feature is the ability to set one of four global counterattack strategies: from aggressive (always counterattack) to conservative (only if the counterattack can't destroy the unit or if it has more than 50% HP) to defensive (never counterattack).
The pilots are rated in six stats: attack power, probability to hit, piloting skill (determining damage potential and chance of critical attacks), response (determining chance of evading attacks), willpower (required for special attacks) and intuition (a static overall bonus). Stats are automatically raised through leveling, done by gaining experience points in combat. The robots are rated in hit points, energy, range, armor and maximum response (limiting the respective pilot's stat). All stats but range can be upgraded between levels by spending money, which, like XP, is gained through defeating enemies. Additionally, both pilot and robot are also rated in their adaptability to different terrain types. Each robot comes with a variety of unique weapons, which also all have their own stats: attack power, range, probability to hit, and ammo or energy requirements. Ammo, like spirit points, only refills at the end of a mission.

Super Robot Wars 4 Scramble (aka Dai 4 Ji Super Robot Taisen): The first SRW to feature an Original Character protagonist, along with separate Real and Super paths. First SRW to feature items that can be equipped to a unit to improve its performance or restore its HP or EN. Additionally, most stages contain hidden items or money on the map, which can be collected by moving a unit onto the items' locations. First to allow players to manually decide whether to counterattack during enemy turns. Debut of Shin Getter Robo. Series premiered: Tosshou Daimos, Super Bestial Machine God Dancougar, Dunbine OVA, Gundam Sentinel, Heavy Metal L-Gaim, Gundam Sentinel. Ported to Playstation as SRW4S.
4th Super Robot Wars Scramble: A remake of SRW4, featuring voice acting and CG movies for the first time.
Three months after the Third Super Robot War...
Due to the successive disturbances from the wars, the Earth economics are severely hurt. Angered by increasingly brutal terrorist acts, the Earth Union Government (EUGO) decided to round down all space colonists, in order to promote the Earth supremacy.
Nominated to guarantee the safety of the Earth Sphere, Commodore Jamitov assembled a secret police-like special force, the 'Titans'. For successfully suppressing terrorist and guerilla-type LICs (low intensicy (sic) conflicts), he was promoted to Vice-Admiral and steadily secured his position inside the Union - while the Titans, composed by former DC members, occupied a major place in the Union Army, substituting the Londo Bell.
In the meantime, the Union Independent External Team Londo Bell was stolen of all its privileges and downsized, under the pretext of their one-month absence during the 'La Giars Incident' (Super Robot Taisen EX); only the intervention of Vice-Admiral John Corwen saved the Londo Bell from complete dissolution, and it no longer has the fighting power it once did.
Far from the events on the Earth Union's territory, DC remnant Haman Karn steadily gathered resources (by using Dozul Zabi's posthumous child Mineva) to create 'Neue DC' at the mining asteroid Axis. Unlike DC, Neue DC defends the colonies should receive economic relief to compensate the EUGO's despotic ways. Thanks to the cooperation of colonists dissatisfied with the Earth Union's policies, Neue DC has power that could match former DC's.
DC, in its turn, managed to rebuild in a surprisingly short time, despite having lost the colonies' support to Neue DC - thanks to their new leaders, Don Zauser and Korosu. From his Mars headquarters, Don Zauser used miraculous new technologies and abundant financial resources to restore DC to its former glory - its third installment.
On the other hand, after a harsh departure from the Union Army, Captain Quattro Bajina formed the Anti-Earth United Government (AEUG), with financial support of unknown origins. Based at the Side 1's Londenion colony, they rose in revolt against the Union Government.

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