War of the Human Tanks - Limited Operations

An active-time(?) system strategy/tactics game. Somewhat similar to Battleship mixed with a tactics game. Gameplay:[list] [*] Deploy units on the grid (there is a deployment area, usually a small section on the bottom of the map). [*] You don't take turns: time passes until a unit is ready to go (units have a speed rating, faster units move more often than slower ones). [*] Select a ready unit, move them, then either scout (scan certain tiles to temporarily dispel fog of war) or attack (attack fogged tiles to brute force it and hope for the best). [*] Hope that the enemy doesn't see any of your units so yours survive until their next action. You can see when the enemy fires onto random tiles so you can figure out the general area they're at (unless they're something like an artillery unit that has very high range but low movement). [*] Make progress upwards, clearing enemy tanks as you encounter them. [*] Once you clear all the enemy command tanks you win (or lose if they destroy yours first). [/list] While the battle gameplay is pretty much the same as the previous games, this game takes a pretty different approach to the out-of-game stuff. There is no more currency (so no currency grinding) but also no way to create tanks or modules. Every mission you're given a static preset group of tanks and you pick which ones you'll deploy. It's unfortunate you don't get to use tanks like [spoiler]the wide variety in the second game (you don't use any of the really OP tanks including the Pokari line of tanks). I think the best you get is one Line-Mon unit[/spoiler]. Instead you get ranked on a point system based on how well you perform (points equate to a C-S rank) and you can aim for high scores (but no leaderboard support). I personally prefer the older style because it let you eventually get OP things and had more freedom but I recognize that being limited forces you to be more strategic. If you like/tolerate anime plots (or are fine using the skip text function) and like the tactics gameplay you should try the first game. This builds off the first two games in world-story (but apparently takes place in the future and barely references characters in previous games - disappointing because I prefer resolution). You should also be fine with getting hit before you can even act (you can generally change that by seeing where they hit and adjusting where you deploy units but it means continual reloading). Other thoughts:[list] [*] Kind of weird that it keeps track of the top score of any level instead of total score for every level. [*] It was a little disappointing that the first story arc didn't [spoiler]end with a battle with pre-placed tanks.[/spoiler] [*] Third game has some very barebones battle-just-to-indicate-travel (no story, not even filler) campaign missions that feel more like free missions. I forget if the previous games had similar campaign levels. [/list]