Black Powder Red Earth®

what a terrible game. i bought this a super long time ago and have come back a couple of times to check it out. the first time, i was not impressed but i chalked it up to early access. this last time, i can't believe the devs left it in this state. the campaign is just the 3x mission types strung together between motion comic cutscenes with very vague descriptions of what is going on. it is masquerading as a mission briefing, but it's just fluff to make the campaign look like it's something other than a bunch of random scenario missions strung together. the actual missions are totally devoid of any compelling gameplay, or the entertainment of having solved a puzzle or some tactical scenario. the NPCs dumped out into the mission area are either 1) jihadists who can shoot back at you, or 2) unarmed "military-aged males" (nice 0pr8r lingo) who might tattle on your unit to the guys with guns. you are not penalized whatsoever for smoking unarmed civilians, so the optimal strategy is just to go in with your units and smoke everyone on the map, whether it's someone with a bomb strapped to their chest, or an unarmed guy taking a walk outside and looking at his phone. (btw - i did not ever see this explained anywhere, so i did not realize you could canoe unarmed non-combatants until i found/used the "overwatch from XCOM" ripoff, and one of my units split an unarmed guy's head open as he walked into their field of view. no downside.) i know the game is set in a comic book/tabletop wargame universe, but this game - specifically the campaign, which appears as if it is making references to the comic book lore - is so boring and dissatisfying that i will go out of my way never to support another product from this brand again.

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This game lets me kill civi's without any consequences 10/10

this game is horse s***, im a big fan of table top games and found this game because of the small community that im a part of concerning tactical table top style games, unfortunately there is very VERY little instruction on how to navigate the games increasingly complicated mechanics. Ive wanted to play this game for a good time and finally bought it with anticipation but have been incredibly let down by unexplained mechanics, horrible game mechanics and lack of understanding game objectives.

Fun tabletop-esque turn based game, good for burning small bits of time off.

it's fun and i love BPRE, but only entertaining for so long.

great simple tense and highly replayable squad strategy. only wish the game had a bit more content