So... Congo Merc. Looks pretty nifty!

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JasonPratt

July 10, 2015, 07:52:10 PM
I'm not in the mood to buy anything more for a while, but I did see the site ad for Congo Merc today, and it'll be released on PC (which means on my new Surface, too).

Seems pretty nifty; anyone have any experiences yet?
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JasonPratt

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July 10, 2015, 07:52:55 PM
Oh, crap, somehow I added this to the movie category...  :buck2: :uglystupid2:

Ad/mod delete please.
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bayonetbrant

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July 10, 2015, 07:53:54 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on July 10, 2015, 07:52:55 PMAd/mod delete please.

how about "move"? ;)
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JasonPratt

#3
July 10, 2015, 07:54:53 PM
I'm not in the mood to buy anything else for a while, but I did see the new add on the sit for Congo Merc; and since it isn't out on Steam or GG (yet?) I can't wishlist it, so I'm doing the next best thing.  O0

Anyone have any experiences with it yet? (A forum search turned up nothing and suggested that I try "con go Merck" instead.  :D )
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PanzOrc Corpz Generals -- Fantasy Wars narrative AAR, half a combined campaign.
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RobO Q Campaign Generator -- archived classic CMBB/CMAK tool!

bayonetbrant

#4
July 10, 2015, 07:56:18 PM
based on an older Decision Games solo boardgame, and pretty cool.  Definitely worth the $$s.  Review coming next weekend.
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Barthheart

#5
July 10, 2015, 08:07:02 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 10, 2015, 07:56:18 PM
based on an older Decision Games solo boardgame, and pretty cool.  Definitely worth the $$s.  Review coming next weekend.

Hmmm... Might have to pick up the iPad version then....

jomni

#6
July 10, 2015, 09:31:30 PM
What?  No link?

bayonetbrant

#7
July 10, 2015, 09:43:35 PM
Quote from: jomni on July 10, 2015, 09:31:30 PMWhat?  No link?

we're running an f'n' ad for it right now! 

Click.
On.
The.
Ad!



it helps us keep the lights on around here :)
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Staggerwing

#8
July 10, 2015, 10:12:08 PM
TBH, you have to refresh the page lotsa times before the Congo Merc banner shows. Are these banners ranked somehow for odds of appearance?
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#9
July 10, 2015, 11:06:03 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on July 10, 2015, 10:12:08 PM
TBH, you have to refresh the page lotsa times before the Congo Merc banner shows. Are these banners ranked somehow for odds of appearance?

Nope - everything runs equally.  We're just blessed with some decent inventory at the moment.
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tgb

#10
July 11, 2015, 05:43:13 AM
I bought it at release, and so far it's not doing anything for me.  Everything (and I DO mean everything) is luck based, and the few decisions you do make aren't that interesting.

Once you assemble a squad (and there is a nice assortment of units to purchase), the game consists of moving from one location on the map to another.  Every time you land on a spot you get a random event.  Some help you, some hinder you, and some lead to pretty boring combat, which is resolved by rolling a 1d6.  There's also a couple of bugs (one which allows you to continue playing even after you've lost a scenario).

I realize solo board games have to rely on luck to provide any sort of game play at all, but the best of them (Elder Sign:Omens or Infection:Humanity's Last Gasp) allow the player to make meaningful decisions to try to alter the odds. Congo Mercs doesn't do that.

I'm going to attempt one more game over the weekend just to see if by chance I'm being overly harsh, but I couldn't recommend it.  Not so much because of the bugs, which you can work around, but because to me it's not a well-designed game.

tgb

#11
July 11, 2015, 07:34:58 AM
Yeah, I fired it up again and started a new campaign.  When, after I won the first mission after a couple of tries, there was no sense of accomplishment.  All I thought was "Well, I got lucky".

Time to uninstall.

Jarhead0331

#12
July 11, 2015, 07:45:17 AM
That's really disappointing, tgb...especially considering the subject matter is so interesting and so rarely gamed.
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#13
July 11, 2015, 08:44:59 AM
to be fair, that's a reasonably accurate assessment of the board game - which I happen to enjoy.
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tgb

#14
July 11, 2015, 08:50:26 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 11, 2015, 08:44:59 AM
to be fair, that's a reasonably accurate assessment of the board game - which I happen to enjoy.

I realize that, and for that reason I don't hold the people who programmed the conversion at fault, but the original designer.  This could have been a better game if there was more to it than moving and flipping over random event cards.
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