Congratulations to you, Jesse, and your team for your successful Mission! I was excited to watch all 3+ hours of your video over a 2 day period. I had just completed my own Mission 1 with mixed results --- full success on Objective 1 with 3 injured agents and 1 healthy Agent plus 6 maquisards surviving. I failed Objective 2. At least none of my Agents died or were mortally wounded or missing in action. I had entered France by boat. I was happy that in your new replay you selected entering by paradrop as an experimental simulation to see how different it would be. I certainly didn't expect to see an entirely new adventure unfold from choosing this 2nd option. On the one hand, it made watching your video much more exciting because I had no idea what would happen. However, on the other hand, I felt somewhat disappointed and cheated that so many new narrative sections had been added to Mission 1 that I would never get to experience. Even if you had never made this video and I knew ahead of time that there was a whole new branching alternative to explore, I definitely would have chosen not to play the paradrop scenario myself. My desire is to go through the 3 Missions in War Story only once and do the best that I possibly can in achieving the objectives required. To do otherwise is to sacrifice the sense of urgency and realism that this game creates IMHO. Instead of rolling 2 games into one to maximize replay value, I would have much preferred if the designers had given me twice the paragraphs in the narrative book for me to discover and experience in my single run-through. I enjoy War Story very much and feel enthusiastic about proceeding to Mission 2. I'm not sure if I should watch your overall review of the game now or when I've completed all 3 Missions. Usually you don't put any spoilers into your reviews, but I want to maintain the element of surprise as much as possible as I progress further. Heikki (aka Jimmy Pattaya)
Awesome. There's nothing wrong with buying a game a game like this and playing through it only once. There are some general strategy tips in my review, but whether watching those tips it would hurt or hinder your playthrough I can't say.
This was interesting to see play out. We probably could have completed Objective 2 last time, felt like we did better first playthrough but still was only a partial success on Objective 1. The only way I think I can see to get full success on both objectives is to have more Agents die - you can only afford to lose 2 Marquis for a full success so it's a balance between getting a good result on the first mission objectives and harming your chances in later missions by losing agents here. Saving time and gaining mines probably wasn't worth the effort because the extra German troops outweighed the 1 red cube killed by the mines. Overall getting there with the lowest level of alert (which we didn't quite manage first time) seems like it would give the greatest chance of coming out of that last battle with a full success on both objectives due to reducing the German forces / potentially giving them a more basic plan. Fun game, and some fun / interesting branches that do seem to impact the last battle quite well - but ultimately your enjoyment & replay value all comes down to how much you enjoy / are engaged by the battle mechanics & wanting to get a "perfect score". I probably won't be able to join any other live playthroughs, but I am interested in seeing how you get on.
Congratulations to you, Jesse, and your team for your successful Mission! I was excited to watch all 3+ hours of your video over a 2 day period. I had just completed my own Mission 1 with mixed results --- full success on Objective 1 with 3 injured agents and 1 healthy Agent plus 6 maquisards surviving. I failed Objective 2. At least none of my Agents died or were mortally wounded or missing in action.
I had entered France by boat. I was happy that in your new replay you selected entering by paradrop as an experimental simulation to see how different it would be. I certainly didn't expect to see an entirely new adventure unfold from choosing this 2nd option. On the one hand, it made watching your video much more exciting because I had no idea what would happen. However, on the other hand, I felt somewhat disappointed and cheated that so many new narrative sections had been added to Mission 1 that I would never get to experience.
Even if you had never made this video and I knew ahead of time that there was a whole new branching alternative to explore, I definitely would have chosen not to play the paradrop scenario myself. My desire is to go through the 3 Missions in War Story only once and do the best that I possibly can in achieving the objectives required. To do otherwise is to sacrifice the sense of urgency and realism that this game creates IMHO. Instead of rolling 2 games into one to maximize replay value, I would have much preferred if the designers had given me twice the paragraphs in the narrative book for me to discover and experience in my single run-through.
I enjoy War Story very much and feel enthusiastic about proceeding to Mission 2. I'm not sure if I should watch your overall review of the game now or when I've completed all 3 Missions. Usually you don't put any spoilers into your reviews, but I want to maintain the element of surprise as much as possible as I progress further.
Heikki (aka Jimmy Pattaya)
Awesome. There's nothing wrong with buying a game a game like this and playing through it only once. There are some general strategy tips in my review, but whether watching those tips it would hurt or hinder your playthrough I can't say.
This was interesting to see play out.
We probably could have completed Objective 2 last time, felt like we did better first playthrough but still was only a partial success on Objective 1.
The only way I think I can see to get full success on both objectives is to have more Agents die - you can only afford to lose 2 Marquis for a full success so it's a balance between getting a good result on the first mission objectives and harming your chances in later missions by losing agents here.
Saving time and gaining mines probably wasn't worth the effort because the extra German troops outweighed the 1 red cube killed by the mines.
Overall getting there with the lowest level of alert (which we didn't quite manage first time) seems like it would give the greatest chance of coming out of that last battle with a full success on both objectives due to reducing the German forces / potentially giving them a more basic plan.
Fun game, and some fun / interesting branches that do seem to impact the last battle quite well - but ultimately your enjoyment & replay value all comes down to how much you enjoy / are engaged by the battle mechanics & wanting to get a "perfect score".
I probably won't be able to join any other live playthroughs, but I am interested in seeing how you get on.
I agree it seems like we would have survived and completed Objective 2.