Recent reviews by Bovril Brigadier

One of those games you find that's an absolute gem and wish you had found it sooner. Calling it an Advanced Wars clone is a disservice. This manages to be its own thing with a surprising amount of depth to it.

This is jank and unplayable jank at that. Consistent crashes and framerate drops turns this into too much of a chore to bother completing.

You get to shoot up a furry convention.

This is surprisingly fun with friends and worth it on sale but there's a few caveats.
+ Surprising amount of missions and equipment to choose from.
+ Map and mission editor is nice.
+ Includes theatres and factions that rarely if ever get covered in games.
+ Supports large maps, a fair amount of units and will still run rather well.
- Single player the AI seems to overly focus you down, not really an issue in multiplayer.
- Some of the mechanics and controls are highly clunky and could use more work.
- Some of the equipment that appears is rather ahistorical but understandable, small dev team and doesn't hurt gameplay.
- Could use a few more gamemodes as its basically one side attacking and the other defending, which is a pain to setup if you want to do specific co-op as a faction.

If you are having performance issues try running on DX12 mode. First time you do the menus will be ridiculously slow but after that it should be a much smoother experience.

Anyway saying no to this game as it is just simply disappointing compared to the first. The mission design is often very bland, boring and quite bad. The locations manage to feel a little dull and somehow feel smaller than the first game with the first time you are being alerted about breaking the map boundary is when it is too late and then forced to revert to a saved location. Dialogue is full of forced humour and forth wall breaking that is a massive step down from the first game.

Game did have a few enjoyable moments and a few sensible chuckle situations but even then didn't stop some bits being a chore to get through. Overall would say if going to get it, get it on sale and don't go into the game with high expectations.

5.7 / 10

Worth a single playthrough at least.

Fun little game to kill time when you are bored and don't know what to play.

Would you like to lag more?

This a game with a lot of attention to visual detail, however the person who is in charge of gameplay must be a fan of ♥♥♥♥ and ball torture. There is no other way to describe some of the balance decisions that have been allowed to take place.

There is still the glaring problem that the majority of weapons are no fun to use so you are shoehorned into using a small selection of the arsenal available; not because said weapons are overpowered but because everything else is so laughably underpowered that you may as well be firing blanks or hitting enemies with nerf bats while using them. Bolters especially are so garbage because they combine doing poor damage with limited ammo alongside huge recoil and poor accuracy that there is really no reason to use them aside as a from of self torture, which when a good chunk of your weapons in game are Bolter derivatives means a lot of self flagellation options.

Somehow melee has gotten worse where it has managed to become even clunkier and less responsive where if you don't time your parrys to the correct millisecond you end up stunlocked and losing virtually all your health especially against Tyrannids, which speaking seem to have been made far tankier bullet sponges that has made them a chore to fight.

Overall the newer updates have made the game progressively worse leaving it more frustrating than fun to play and devs are showing no signs of wanting to reverse course despite having plenty of opportunity to do so. The game is still worth a playthrough of campaign and operations but you'll not be left wanting to go through it a second time.