Calculon000 plays Shattered Union

[calculon000]

-Good premise.
-Simple and to the point campaign interface, in a good way.
-Interesting dynamic in how each territory has specific advantages in owning
-FUCKING RETARDED COMBAT

Shattered Union is the case against turn based combat wrapped up into one game. While I thought the game was pretty neat up until I actually go to attack something, once I get into the combat it does nothing but frustrate me.

Here’s the process I go through every time I try and play it:

-Select units you want to bring in
-Deploy units onto the hexes.
-Move units toward cities
-End Turn
-Watch a few units get damaged/destroyed
-Destroy/damage enemy units
-End Turn
-Watch all aircraft get destroyed by anti aircraft aircraft with no way to defend them using my AA guns because this is turn based.
-Watch my units get raped with artillery
-Kill some more units
-End turn
-Get what I have left raped by uncontested artillery and aircraft.

God damn I hate turn based combat.

 

[victor]

This is the very reason I stopped playing that piece of shit game.

 

[clercqer]

So it's not just that maybe Calcy has sucky strategic skills?

 

[Per]

"X Plays Shattered Y" threads always end with someone being dragged away by the FBI.

Also, calculon, contest those artillery positions!

 

[calculon000]

The enemy aircraft kept killing my artillery.

After which they can go run away.

 

[Pajari]

That's pretty much what Advance Wars and Dai Senryaku are like. Still fun, though.

 

[SimpleMinded]

Hrmm if Shattered Union is like Advance Wars, I'm in. I love that game, have probably put a good 50-60 hours into it so far. I think there are differences though as Calc said the enemy can attack him and then move off which doesn't work in Advance Wars.