FRUSTRATING mechanics!

User Rating: 6 | Warhammer: Battle March X360
By MACEAC08 | Review Date:
I had hoped this game would be a shiny new update of similar games that I had enjoyed on the old PS One a few years ago (Shadow of the Horned Rat & Dark Omen). Sadly, this was not to be. Though the game looks pretty nice, the mechanics are a bit overly complex and, at the same time, clunky. It's very easy to lose units on th battlefield as you try and cope with what should be fairly basic combat controls for other units (often with disastrous results for the individual regiments).

I've also found that the options provided for individual unit upgrades don't seem to have a very great effect on how those units perform in combat (even when they are experienced, undiluted veterans of several battles). After upgrading my "core" regiments' (the units of swordsmen, handgunners, and halberdiers that you either start the game with or acquire very shortly thereafter) armor, weapons, etc, they actually seemed to fight WORSE.

My overall impression is that "Battle March" has overcomplicated the systems that worked 10 years ago on the previous games without really adding anything that makes up for the hassle. The older games, "Shadow..." & "Dark Omen" had a decent learning curve to them, and some of the battles required several replays with different regiments, different deployment strategies, etc...but that was what made those games appealing to me.

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