Changing their engagement mode to passive stops them from rushing in, but most often results in them standing around glassy-eyed while the enemy hacks them to bits. Regardless of how many times you desperately order soldiers on the brink of death back from the fray, after a few steps they’ll charge right back in as if desperate to throw themselves on your enemies’ blades. On top of that, broken pathfinding and bizarre engagement ranges mean that retreating your wounded or breaking your units into distinct groups only results in more casualties.
Targeting enemies is difficult under the best of circumstances (often the cursor refuses to change to the attack icon, regardless of how closely over an enemy you hover it), and attacking specific enemies amongst a group is almost impossible. And then the proper game loads, and the sighing begins in earnest.įrom the outset, the controls are unwieldy at best. Though the voiceover acting is remarkably good, the still frames don’t do a tremendous job of imparting any momentum or energy to what is a clichéd and unimaginative narrative. The story, such as it is, is presented through black and white comics that tell the tale of a dispossessed monarchy whose kingdom has been stolen by an evil usurper. As soon as you’ve loaded up one of the game’s two campaigns (either military or economic), the clunky presentation douses some of that initial excitement.
The disillusionment begins almost immediately.
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