Mechabellum

I instantly fell in love with this game! I was sceptical in the first place because I came from the Battletech BTA3062 Community Mod, which is packed with additional complexity and i feared this "mini" game would be too simple to fit my favors, but its true: Fear is a terrible advisor. Meachabellum got nearly unlimited powerful strategies which needs you and your opponent to adapt and rethink every single round. More than this, becoming more advanced in this game, reacting won`t be enough for winning, but foresee the next action of your opponent. Being a passionate Poker player I love the parallel very much. The quick rounds of deploying units on the field, observing the strategies of your opponents and taking guesses of his/her intention also gives me strong vibes of chess, especially the phases where you can just enjoy watching two armies a fully armed heavy metal mechs and deephink about the how, where, and when: "If i place this unit here, it will arrive there one second before my infantery, which means i it will survive long enough to eat some heavy bullets from this tank, so MY tank is safe for a a while which means i will win the right flank, and if........" A simple but genious design decision is imho the pre-game tech assignment, which ensures the astonishing variety of strategies: Even if you have the same units on the board, you wont (while not playing the default settings) have the same tactical palette, since youre units are able to transform into completely different roles because the upgrade paths differ from another. And, last but not least: The community is just refreshingly sweet, kind and non toxic. Never experienced rude, flaming or other assy behaviour, while having 200+ hours in the game now with disabled chat filters. 6/5 Nuclear Robo-Hearts for this game! <3<3<3<3<3<3 btw: This game brought me to write my very first steam review ever, ever, ever, in almost 30 years of gaming. Micdrop