Anti-air vehicles to guard against enemy helicopters and bombers, tanks to guard the vulnerable AA trucks, jeeps to quickly secure objectives, infantry to guard those objectives, helicopters to hunt down unguarded enemies, and bombers and artillery to pound the enemy to pieces. Ideally your army should have a good mix of units. Controlling more territories around the map means more money to buy and repair units.
The larger strategic map comes into play here. You do not have an unlimited supply of units in the game. Each faction also has special powers that can be deployed in battle which add more texture to the game, bringing a bit of a wild card element to what would just be a straight numbers game without them. Some battles are almost decided by bringing the right mix of units to do battle and how you deploy them around the map.
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At the players disposal are a full array of infantry, tanks, jeeps, artillery, helicopters, jets, bombers, and anti-air units. The only mis-step in the learning curve of the game is that Pop Top has only included a video tutorial of how the game is played, far from the ideal hands on learning most games offer. The magic of the game comes with the variety of the units and their strengths and weaknesses, a rock, paper, scissors dynamic only in this case it is amour, infantry, and aircraft. Even resupplying and repairing units in the field is handled automatically, no worries there. The battles are won by holding strategic locations around the map, once again, pretty standard stuff here. A simple point and click interface either moves your units or attacks nearby enemies that are highlighted. It's very easy to pick up and play the battles. What is presented is a straight forward turn based military game. Now the final cliche: easy to learn, hard to master. You command a mix of real world and fantasy military units in an effort to guide one of seven factions to dominance over the "shattered union" of a United States embroiled in a civil war. Still with me? A larger campaign map to select where you will attack and a smaller strategic map where your military maneuvers are performed are the focus of the game.
Turn based, played on a hex map from the top down. Are you a bad enough dude to lead your people to victory?Īvoiding using cliches while discussing 2K Game's and Pop Top Software's turn based strategy game "Shattered Union" is difficult, but let me begin with them to get them all out of the way. Washington has been destroyed by a nuclear explosion.
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