So I read the manual & linked AAR & then spent a few hours playing yesterday…
… and I really don’t understand what’s going on most of the time.
It’s incredibly ambitious but also feels like a shambling pile of over complexity & the exact opposite of an elegant design. Why are there, for example, so many nearly-overlapping kinds of currencies and points? Fate points, logistical points, action points, political points, industrial points, bureaucratic points, research points, bonus points. It’s endless and I honestly don’t think i’ve remembered or listed them all!
Hopefully I’m just overwhelmed & frustrated by the huge design and will start to understand it a little better on future attempts. But wow this is not what you’d call approachable & who can even begin to tell if the AI actually knows how to play the game?
Gary Grigsby meets Derek Smart so far.
Diego