Jagged Alliance 2

Just bought this off of GoG and am becoming incredibly frustrated. I'm all for turn based strategy, but the implementation of action points in this is so bad it's nigh unplayable. For instance I can literally take no more than 2-3 steps a turn before I have no AP left, which leaves me nothing else for shots or using items, nothing. I can barely move, much less fight. Need to reload? There goes a turn. It's ridiculous, and I'm getting slaughtered, not helped by the fact that the enemy seems to have three times as many AP as I do and can travel a significant distance AND fire multiple times before their turn ends.

Does this get better as the game goes on? I have a hard time believing this is the way it is and that maybe I'm doing something wrong. Are there any mods that increase APs? It seems like a cool game but I'm quickly getting to the end of my rope with this.

You can hire better mercs when you get more money. They have higher agility and more APs during turn-based mode. Another thing that really brings down your APs is being injured. If your mercs are injured, you may need to bandage those wounds and let some time pass for them to heal up. Are you in Drassen yet?

The game is very challenging to people who have little experience in the turn-based tactical genre. You might need to restart on the easy difficulty.

Press R before you move your characters to put them into the run stance. Thank me later.

^^^ yeah, I was about to say that. You have to make them run. Otherwise you turtle, and just wait for the enemies to come towards you. And forget about hand to hand combat... you'll be shot to pieces. And it's best to fight at night, and to create your only custom guy to be a night fighter. Oh... and don't wear sunglasses at night.

I always get a kick out of the VA whenever I play that game...