Friday, 21 September 2007

OSM: Battle for Wesnoth II

Hmmm.. I seem to be not that good strategic..

Well at the beginning the word "kampanja" was confusing. I search for a word like "aloita" or something. When "kampanja" was the only word worth trying I tried it. Since the others were obviously something else. But I expected there to be instructions of something.

And when I realized that "kampanja" was a kind of style to play the game, to choose the situation, then the word "kampanja" was quite ok. Maybe on the first page should be a kind of text box telling that if you want to start an individual game choose your "kampanja" first.

From the campaigns I chose the "Etelän vartiosto" since it was a kind of introduction to Wesnoth. And I took the "siviili" -level since it was recommended to beginners. BTW the first longer text on the foreword was in English, the others in Finnish.

Are there any female characters? Not that I mind, but it would give some variety :)

The music is nice, it supports the story and creates the atmosphere, but isn´t too controlling.

At the beginning of the game I was confused. What should I do? Ok, there were this talk boxes which told where to go, but it isn´t so clear what you can do and how much on your turn. The idea of these kind of adventure/role games is excellent, that the enemy has it´s turn.

It´s good that there are these talk boxes and some automatic moves, cause otherwise playing would be more difficult. Quite many times I was in the situation of thinking "what now?". And just did something and ended my turn.

I didn´t get quite far from the river and "Jokilinnoitus". My gold was spend quite fast, I didn´t realize that I could keep my main character all the time in the fortress and make him have more people. It was not clear where to get more gold, but somehow it was collected in turns.

My first game was mostly WTF and defending. Next time I´ll try to be more aggressive. I thought I was it this time, but obviously not. I ended the game before loosing, it started to repeat the same pattern (get one man with the gold I managed to have - oh, another is dead - oh, the enemy is healing it´s men - yeppiii...)

Another strategy next time! Maybe today..

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