Antartopolemos Tactics

I really liked being a nuisance On strategy There's a new overworld system similar to Mount & Blade with random events, interactive settlements (to shop in, defend or capture using armies), places to raid, planning and recon to work with outside of shooting people, but I never really got what the day system mentioned in Cuba does and why we didn't get a day/night cycle using that mechanic. I think the [spoiler]Ansarallah[/spoiler] campaign was my favorite in strategic regard for some reason The player gets very limited rewards from missions ([b]especially[/b] in [spoiler]Gaza[/spoiler], 1000 moneys even after a victory), which I think was a step in the right direction to balance the original CTT shop system, where you could genuinely earn millions in an hour or so [spoiler]Unless you just begin selling enemy weapons and ammo to the point of being able to buy out the entire regime you're fighting. Simply selling stuff in bulk was always broken since 2024 release I guess[/spoiler] On combat All of the OP agility-boosting drugs (Booster, Buzz, Stimulant) were removed, and (i assume) default agility levels for all guerillas were reduced marginally for realism. Every battle now flows much slower and demands good team positioning or suicidal actions (true guerilla) to engage, instead of just snorting down a kilo of cocaine and heroin before battle to make all fights trivial Making color-coded dummies for the turn menu instead of having to draw 50+ unique face & equipment sprites again is a smart dev shortcut, however I wish that same color system was applied to enemies in some way I've also noted that losing team members and even squad leaders en masse is a lot easier to emotionally get over instead of reloading the last save the instant someone dies in APT. Maybe it's because they're no longer people and the encounter difficulty was raised high enough that the result of actually winning a battle finally outweighs the costs (from my experience i had to go through like 3 different squadleads and many other members in the [spoiler]IRA[/spoiler] campaign because of the sheer amount of death) New things like functional sandbags being added was really cool to see, but unfortunately they were limited to just enemy positions and not something I could reliably use for myself A lot of my rating also comes from M16A1, M16A2, Cristóbal Carbine and M1 Garand being added because I like these guns and armed my squad only with them on [spoiler]VC and M267[/spoiler] runs Overall Antartopolemos basically fixes most of the gameplay issues the original Convict Team Tactics had: low difficulty, weak economy, balancing; but severely sacrifices characterization and original plot for more or less serious historical accuracy (which i dont mind for the theme of the game being about real life) I'm starting to think that the dev has hit a plateau because of RPG Maker technical limits (i doubt the militia management mechanic could be expanded on any further other than being numbers to add/subtract and random rolling). Imagine how amazing a similar tactical JA2/M&B hybrid would look like on Godot or Unity with proper AI and mechanics This game also teaches you to always smoke 8/10