Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.
Iron Harvest, it's a pretty functional conceit: It lets the developers use big historical personalities as frontline warriors on a tactical grid without as much concern for their historical job, which was to stay a comfortable distance from flying bullets. The mechs are stand-ins for your hero characters, done and dusted.
To win battles, then, you want to attack from their flanks as much as possible while preserving your own. So you'll sometimes get neat Napoleonic-looking battle lines of troops, but eventually battles will collapse into chaotic positioning-based melees as you outfox the enemy. The complication there is your individual units' morale, which can make them take more or less damage depending on how high or low it is.
From there you have Skirmishers, whose rifles give them a 2-3 space range to harass Line Infantry without being fired back on. There are also Hussars, cavalry whose long movement and straight-line charge range let them get behind the enemy and deal devastating flanking attacks. And finally cannons, fragile, long ranged and very effective at devastating enemy morale—or taking down their mechs.
The Leaders themselves are recruited from your territories using an Influence resource, and include historical characters like Napoleon's best bro Joachim Murat. Having those characters, each with their own statistics and loyalties to your cause or its allied philosophies, makes Bonaparte very interesting indeed.
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