They played extremely passively, hiding in buildings and taking ridiculously long shots with less than a 5% chance to hit on almost every turn, rather than moving up into their weapons' effective range. The one time I tried to participate directly in a settlement defense to help my militia buddies, it was an absolute comedy of errors. It's nice to not have to babysit every settlement you've liberated, but I found that it's paradoxically far better to leave them to their own devices and use the auto-resolve battle option if they do get attacked. And enemy bases will send out their own squads to take back sectors you've captured, until you assault them and end their threat for good.Īnother interesting consideration on the campaign map is the ability to train militias in friendly villages to defend them while you're gone. Capturing diamond mines will be your main source of income, allowing you to hire and equip more squads. Ports let you move around quickly by water.

Villages can serve as strong points, particularly if you do enough side quests for the inhabitants to increase their loyalty. Jagged Alliance 3 is set in Grand Chien (which I believe means 'Big Dog'), a former French colony in West Africa with hundreds of discrete sectors to explore. Even on the standard settings, I found that I had to be pretty careful with my squad, as accumulating injuries eventually catches up to you on the campaign map. 'Forgiving Mode' makes it easier to recover from a bad mission, while settings like 'Dead is Dead' and 'Lethal Weapons' make every mistake far more costly, as you can't save in the middle of combat and downed mercs can't be rescued by emergency first aid. There are several ways to tweak the experience based on how punishing and gritty you like your tactics games, too. Flanking, suppression, and drawing fire are all great ways to gain an edge, which makes big firefights feel dangerous and authentic. You can spend extra action points to aim if you really need to make a difficult shot. Each merc has three stances to switch between, with standing granting the most movement, prone protecting you from enemy fire if you find yourself in a bad spot, and crouching being a good balance between the two.

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