Comrade or Czar! Beta Game

In every battle, I like to keep a way to win with no deaths, but I did nerf them. R.U.S.S.I.A. troops only allow 2% of the entered units to live. 2% of 100 is well, 2. I took out the cheat code and dealt with the negatives. Thanks for your help!:relaxed:

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The cheat code is fine, maybe use it as a debugging key so like if you just wanna win all the battles quickly to make sure all scenes work, fine, but for the actual release perhaps don’t allow them to enter a code like that.
If you want, Comrade could give you a starting bonus of +10 Communism, and “Czar” +10 (the other one?)

The battle stuff is also kinda repetitive, and no offence intended, the entire gameplay follows a pattern of:
Make choice (chance to die) -> build army -> build stuff -> war -> make choice (chance to die) etc.
Perhaps add other characters we can interact with, and relations with other country scenes?
The basic troops should also be boosted-- sure 1 soldier isnt great but 10,000 soldiers do more damage than 1 soldier damage * 10,000 (going over the top, trench warfare stuff)
And maybe add if too many casualties are sustained lower popularity or something?
And the Russia troop description is kinda strange-- “minimal casualties”? You only send in 1 troop.

*What I mean is sending in 2,000 riflemen should do more damage than sending in 1 rifleman 1000 times, if that makes sense?

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Great start. I love the underlying structure, theme, setting.
I did a very-quick play-through…
I’m mixed on the battle emphasis… Some-ways I like it:

  • Simplify, 10 clicks max, except for a climax? I do really like that there is a way to win a battle without loosing. ( I realize that could be a lot of work)
  • Make less do-or-die. Trotsky and Stalin lost battles all the time. What is exciting about their careers is the recovery from defeat.

With the Russia troop, you send multiple soldiers, but only one dies. I will try not to force people into names so they may have freedom to be whoever they want. I boosted Rifle Rush and I will add a time where you can walk about Russia. I also added the Gypsy House where you can get special boosts and hints about the future. There is also a time where you are sneak attacked. By the way, when this is released, I am not done with that add-on, but it will be released. And, new things get available as you go (You later unlock research, then fixing Russia). Along with that, there is small meetings about diplomacy discussing whether or not you keep a country.

Thanks for your support, but the reason if you lose you die is because you are actually fighting in the battlefield. However, I added a time of crisis where you are sneak attacked and have to deal with that until your army arrives. I hope this will make your play-through longer and more fun.

I wonder, given the choice of Comrade or Czar, what would people choose? If you can give a reason, that would be nice.

  • Communist
  • Czarist
  • Neither

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Czar all the way.(obligatory 20 characters)

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I chose communist because I just like the idea of playing with peroanlities of Lenin/Stalin/Trotsky… and I don’t know enough about the czarist faction.

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Its good. Its like turn based rpg only without graphics.

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What a horrible choice to have to make the communists who murdered millions or the Czar who’s secret police were famous for making people disappear.

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Finally, someone knows that it’s bad vs bad.
If you want to, in this game, you can reform the faction you choose. Hint hint.:wink:
Or you can just leave Russia and not be with either.

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Russia
Communism

yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes

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love this game concept. hope for more meat in the story in the future. any chance for aircraft in the future?

When I first saw this game, I became interested. That’s a game with a rare and unusual topic and setting.
Unfortunately, the game has many flaws, and that has been bothering me for months. I feel I have to examine this game. Spoilers ahead.

First, let’s review its historical accuracy.

The revolution itself.
What the game got right:
Some of the fractions and historical figures are there, such as Lenin, Trotsky and others.
This is a potentially interesting event for alternative history, as well as interesting event in general.
What is wrong:

Which revolution is that, exactly?

There were 2 revolutions in 1917 in Russia. First, February revolution, which ended with Nicolas II abdicating the throne. Lenin wasn’t in Russia until April of 1917, and Trotsky joined him even later.
Bolsheviks came to power during October Revolution.
The Red Army was founded in 1918.
What we see in the game? The Czar’s army fights the Red Army! Two revolutions and Civil War united in one poorly defined mess.

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The World War I.
What the game got right:
It mentions that “the blasted Great War is the reason of the revolution”.
British and French forces helping the Czar could be a plausible alternative reality in case Czar stayed in power and bolsheviks retained their position regarding that war.

What is wrong.

The game doesn’t show how exactly the war became the reason for the revolution. Refugees? Deserters? Ottoman Empire blocking trade routes? Not mentioned. Early in the game, only the Ex-soulder MC’s background mentions the war.
After our main character defeats communists/czarists, the game suddenly turns into the World War I game. Even when you play for bolsheviks! They opposed the war and signed this peace treaty after the revolution.
The MC spends more time fighting Ottomans, Austrians and Germans then participating in the revolution.

Moscow, the capital, and other geographical weirdness.
At some point in the game, this happens:

The Czar comes to the base and is saying something about an evacuation to Moscow, the capital.

What is wrong?

Moscow wasn’t the capital of Russia in 1917, Petrograd was. But the actual capital wasn’t even mentioned.
It is unclear where our main character even was before Moscow.

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@Kotosinica
Please not post on WIP threads that have been inactive for more than 2 months.

Please post on this thread: :slightly_smiling:

Sorry, I’ll move there.

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