To Battle!: Hell's Crusade

Nope. I struggled to give this one a chance. From a technical standpoint, it's fine. Graphics are good, no glitches, combat system is simple, economics could use work but not a big deal. But the voice acting and the writing are nothing short of dreadful. I might have given it a pass, chocked it up to being geared towards the humor of a grade-schooler, until one of the characters said "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥". Nope. Voice acting is a bunch of amateur Americans doing their Ye Olde Timeie Englishetheth Gov'nah accent, the writing is at par with Adam Sandler. "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ my breeches" kind of stuff. I wish I were being sarcastic, but that's actual dialog. Nice idea. Needed to be made by an entirely different group of people.

To Battle!!! (much rejoicing.) Hell’s Crusade as they put it is old school turn base play. Very old school. It is satirical medieval turn base with two early options for you in campaign and veteran play. How would I describe it? It has a style of tabletop figurines battling in a chess strategic format warfare and childish humor. It has some pros and cons. Pros: Game play: Hexagon play, easy to learn, move, action and kill or be killed chess play. Leveling up soldiers and some bonus terrain. No real micro managing supplies, building stuff, or expense sheet accounting to worry about. Check. Tactics: The Tactical warfare is very easy to grasp with multiple in turn purposes, classes and base function to each unit. Like Chess, the Bishop does one thing, Rook another. From Peasants to Scouts, with progression upgrading and trait bonuses. So far so good. Narrative: An attempt at Python storytelling, narration, and very little luck involved. Choppy voice overs that showcases the table-top battlefield. Shrug my shoulders...ok Presentation: Very easy purchasing layout, UI friendly, decent controls, tutorial, and more potential additions and perks later on. Sounds good to me. Combat: Some challenging battles that you can either overwhelm or out maneuver the enemy. Have at Thee! Visual: Special effects of sounds and grunts are passable, could have been more dynamic, but gets the job done. CONS: Humor: Very choppy story with some tolerable voice acting. The main issue, its not that funny to attempt this sort of humor, but it does not take itself that seriously. They would have been better served with more humorous professional writing and crisp profound voices. Delivery matters. Even funny animation to match would have helped. Very difficulty to do and pull it off with figurines. You cannot teach funny. It either is or isn't. Slight con for me. Aesthetics: Unless you get in close, very hard to see the detail and variant color schemes of the armies. I would have liked to have seen this scaled up with players able to customize those figures. May need a figurine case to show your entire army instead of cutting it off at a certain number. Makes army management difficult at times. Capped: The lack of factions and another game that limits the army sizes and confrontations. Go 50 vs 50 if you have to. Nothing new in 6 vs 12 or capped battle options. No player vs player modes, and with only two factions for now. Limits the game. Adding multiple factions and great humor that fit those factions. You can expand the storylines and gameplay That may change, but con for me. Concept Design: Not great layout on several pages. The mode selections with two huge splashes are clunky and in between after battle pages are not well done. The layout presentation on selecting battles, store, and modes could have been done in figurine choices instead of badly contrasted pages. Con for me. OVERALL Despite some developer presentation and execution cons. If you like turn base, tabletop games, tactical games then you may enjoy To Battle-hell Crusade. Is it a great game? Could be. I understand the hard work and effort that goes into any game and your only as good as the developers who dream them up. As a board game, it leaves it opens to additional factions, storylines, and tactics. A nice effort by Filthy Peasant Games and not overpriced for a PC boardgame. See the Video section above discussion to see if the game play is for you before buying. May wait for a nice sale. If you like Battle Brothers, Demon’s Rise, and Warband Bushido, then To Battle: Hell's Crusade maybe for you. My Score 2.5 out of 5

If Monty Python made a board game it would probably look like this. So quitteth thy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and goeth and buy it already ye filthy peasants!

'No ♥♥♥♥' jokes in 2019? Really?

なかなか魅力を説明するのが難しい作品で、公式のチュートリアル動画ですら地味…あるいは特徴のなさすぎる作品に見えるかもしれませんが、しかし面白いです。XCOM系を含むターン型ストラテジで1タイルを巡るような緊迫した攻防に出会い、「こういうのだけ続くゲームがあればいいのに」と思ったことはないでしょうか。これはそんな感じの、飾りのない、純粋でクラシカルな戦術ゲームです。 ・メタ戦略のほとんどない簡素なコアデザイン：リソースは1つのみで、スキルツリー・ベースビルド・生産といった概念も無しです。したがって「効率を最大化するためにまず○○をするべき」「実はこの2つの能力のシナジーは強い・弱い」といった方向の攻略、前提知識の必要がありません。たとえば弓兵は最初から最後まで - 1タイル先に遠隔攻撃ができて - 敵ターン中その範囲内で戦闘しようとするユニットに先制反撃（いわゆるAttack of Opportunity）をする ほぼこれだけです。経験によってPerkこそ選択取得できますが、（たとえば岩場では射程が1伸びるなど）そのボーナス効果は自明です。 ・乱数性がかなり低い：命中判定がなく、つまり双方の攻撃は100%当たり、ダメージ値は各25%で±1される程度の影響のみ。戦闘前に被害計算は表示されるため、実際に攻撃を行うとほぼその通りの結果がもたらされるわけですね。AI挙動にも揺らぎはなく、同じ盤面であればAIは同じ行動を取ります（例外として高ダメージを受けたユニットには逃走判定がありますが）。また、ゲームにはランダムイベントやプロシージャル生成がなく、すべて手製のマップ・スクリプトとなっています。 ・具体的な面白さの流れはというと、 - 質の良いマップ・キャンペーン、的確に隙をついてくるAIに対し、限られた手駒とその能力を極限まで活かして挑む。 - シンプルな各要素が生み出す戦場は奥深く、『急いで味方の救援に行きたいが、その間に流れている川をどう渡るか？』『襲来してくる敵に対し、この地形を使って防衛陣をどう築く？』『攻撃が集中した負傷兵をどのように後列に下げ、予備のユニットを前線に上げるか』等々。ある種パズル的ですらありますが、もちろん用意された正解に辿り着くタイプのパズルではなく、プレイヤーが構築した状況で最適解を繋げていくものです。 - 一方、システムの複雑なゲームに付随しがちな『この行動が結果にどう影響するか、関連する因子が多すぎて予測が難しい→考えても意味がないのでは？』といった感覚と無縁です。結果に対する原因がダイレクトに繋がっており、失敗時の印象は「なにが悪かったのだろう」ではなく「あ、それはそうだ」という感覚。このすっきり納得できる構造は、ストラテジの楽しさに与える影響が大きいですね。 - ミッション中のセーブはできず、致命的ミスをした場合はリスタートになります。これが単に上手く行くまで繰り返すというゲームプレイではなく、より良く洗練された駒の動かし方を削り出していくような感触で、これが本作におけるリプレイ性となっていると思います（そうやって最適化を進めすぎると、AIに配置の油断してる部分を狙われて、再び「あ、それはそうだ」となったり）。 ・魅力的な世界観：悪魔の軍勢に信仰を掲げた騎士とその人間軍が立ち向かう、と一見正統派な設定ですが、実際のノリは諧謔を交えたコメディタッチで、空飛ぶモンティ・パイソンを連想している人も多いようです。特にキャンペーンのうちボイスのある方は「どこからこんな声優探してきたんだろう？」という程に[strike]笑える[/strike]熱演ぶりが。自分勝手だとか妄想癖があるとか、どことなく貧相さの漂うユニット達ですが（あるいはそれゆえに）キャンペーンを進めるうち愛着が湧いてきます。また音楽もボードゲーム的な空気によく合っています。 ・以下は留意点となります。 - ゲーム自体は軽快かつ快適に遊べますが、周辺インターフェイスが不便とまではいかないものの、手慣れてないというか、こなれてない部分が幾つか残っています。たとえばターンエンドのショートカットは実装されましたがユニット選択の順送りは予定中、といった具合（ユニット総数から考えると無いと困るというほどでもないですが）。プレイしているうちに把握できるとはいえ、正式なマニュアルも整備されていません。 - 比較的ボリュームのある物語型キャンペーンと、短めのよりボードゲーム的なキャンペーンの2種が実装済みです。ランダム性を可能な限り廃したデザイン上、本作はいかに面白いマップ・キャンペーンが沢山あるかが重要になります。個人的には計40時間近くと現在でも充分以上に遊べましたが、プレイヤーによってはもっと欲しいとなるかもしれません。[strike]予定としては、このあたり今後キャンペーンを増やしていくとのこと。[/strike]→残念ながらチームの意見相違により更新停止となった模様。追加が無いものとして満足できそうな方にのみお薦めできる形になりました。

Despite quite a nice looking aesthetic and an interesting art-style that suits the medieval atmosphere, I couldn't really get on board with this one. I guess I was kind of hoping for a turn-based version of Wartile but the low production value of this game really does harm it. From the cheap looking title-page and the atrocious voice-acting; to the weak combat animations and lacklustre sound quality, there is just not enough here to make me want to continue with the campaign. Add the fact that the figures kind of get lost in the landscape and this is a definite thumbs down. Finally, for a game with such low system requirements why does it heat my PC up like an oven?

Not a big fan. You will lose units. You have to train them up and do objectives in a certain turn limit. I've never been a fan of games that downgrade your rewards, based on turn limits. Which means...the worst players, stay bad and the good players, get awesome. Resources are hard to come by and you have a choice of using them to rest and heal your wounded, constantly or try to save them, for purchasing new units, between scenarios. Obviously, there is a balance, between those two alternatives, but it means your units will frequently not be at 100%. Even if you are going to overall route an enemy, the AI is good at focus firing one unit and killing it. Killing one unit will take probably half of your resources, to replace, in the between game muster. Add to that, the unit likely had several level ups, that the new unit didn't have. So, your army is now weaker, but going to face tougher foes. I don't find this game all that fun. I can't recommend it.

40/100 very annoying combat Storytelling is nice and good Atmosphere.. but everything else from menue to combat to map is crappy Looks very much like a fast-produced mobile app ->>> avoid it.. unless you want a subpar turn-based hexgame (price is far too high for what it is..!!)

This is a good TBS tactics and level-up game. Looks like you can command a decent squad of maybe 20 men at some point. After the second level I was allowed 12 men but only had room to deploy 11 men again Lord Turnacoat. I guess this is a bug. Nevertheless, anyone having trouble can simply use CheatEngine to increase their recruitment points. At the current sale of $7.50, I would say a must-buy. Full price I might hesitate if money is any object.

the games to hard and the saves is what really sucks yu cant save during play so you ll be a hour into your game map and you have to start pver becauce you do one bad morve and one of your best men gets killed so you have to strat over again really sucks about the gamfererersdfsdfsdfwsfwerwerwerwer