User Reviews

Even for a game with a (slightly) fantasy setting (pretty much Europe in WWII) this game is absurd. You can protest all you want ''but it's fantasy! It's a videogame! Of course things don't make sense!'' Yes but it's heavily based on actual events in a real place and these things are not simply inaccurate; they're annoying. * Soldiers moving one by one. Them moving one at a time is silly, especially since the enemy can do interception fire; if you get within range of them you get shot at so get within range of even a few enemies or too close to one shocktrooper or Gatling gun and you're dead quick and if there's a mortar around they might keep blasting you so you can't get through. One soldier is essentially operating against the whole enemy army. Yes there is the command function but that can only be done once per turn and can only affect up to 3 soldiers out of a possible 10. * Sandbags seem to confer some sort of magical armour to soldiers; a soldier could be shot by a sniper rifle, attacked by a flamethrower, have a grenade thrown at them or even have a mortar explode on them and end up surviving if they're crouched behind a sandbag. The person's head is still exposed so being shot by a sniper rifle round and especially being set on fire at close range should kill them and someone surviving a direct hit from a mortar makes no sense; these things can destroy walls; what use is a sandbag against them? Surviving a direct hit from a grenade also doesn't make sense for the same reason. * Ducking. Before a soldier is about to be hit they might duck if above level 9 (yep, randomness, as if this mechanic wasn't bad enough). Why don't they duck since level 1? It's a basic thing to do. Worse yet a soldier can duck before being hit by assault rifle fire (Reisings etc.)? How? With how quick those weapons fire you'd have no hope of ducking in time. Not only that but after the first shot from a scout's or engineer's rifle doesn't hit why can't they correct their aim? They aren't automatic rifles; they don't shoot all that fast. As for shocktroopers yes their guns fire much faster but they could correct their aim after the first few miss rather than firing into the air where nobody is. * The death mechanic. When a soldier loses all of their hp they're dead; unless they're Federation in which case a comrade can go over to them and call for the medic who will then evacuate them but if an enemy soldier gets to them first they're dead. This makes no sense; in both cases they were shot or set on fire or blown up and have 0 hp. They're dead. It shouldn't make the slightest difference whether a friend or foe gets to a lifeless corpse. Even more bizarre you can somehow resurrect soldiers at the cenotaph after finishing the story. Not with magic or Jesus performing another Lazarus miracle but with points. An arbitrary number can somehow bring somebody back to life at a place that's for letting the dead rest in peace. * Not much has changed since the original VC. True they added command, too little of it and it should have been there since the original VC, and the grenadier class but apart from that the same problems remain.