About This Game Ironclad Tactics is a fast-paced, card-based tactics game set in an alternate history Civil War - with steam-powered military robots!Key Features:Includes the 'Rise of Dmitry' and 'Blood and Ironclads' add-on campaigns!No microtransactions! Unlock cards by playing the game, not by purchasing them separately.Experience unique gameplay, with rapid, simultaneous turns that blend the precision of tactics and card games with the spontaneity of fast-paced strategy games.Follow the campaign story through a fully-illustrated, character-driven interactive graphic novel.Collect cards as you play through the campaign and build your own decks to crush your foes.Play with your friends in the co-op story campaign or against them in skirmish and nemesis modes.Face off against online challengers in quick-skirmish mode, and unlock special cards when you win.Bonus! Includes a high-quality digital artbook, a printable papercraft model of an ironclad, and the Ironclad Tactics OST, with music by Evan Le Ny and Farewell to the Woods. 7aa9394dea Title: Ironclad TacticsGenre: Casual, Indie, StrategyDeveloper:ZachtronicsPublisher:ZachtronicsRelease Date: 18 Sep, 2013 Ironclad Tactics Activation Code [hack] ironclad tactical gloves review. ironclad tactical grip. ironclad tactics best deck. ironclad tactics ps4. ironclad tactics igg. ironclad tactics pc. ironclad tactical pro. ironclad tactics rise of dmitry. ironclad tactics deluxe edition. ironclad tactics steam. ironclad tactics guide. ironclad tactical shirt. ironclad tactical grip shooting gloves. ironclad tactics tips. ironclad tactical gloves. ironclad tactical operator grip. ironclad tactics ios. ironclad tactics gameplay. ironclad tactics experimental only deck. ironclad tactics trophies. ironclad tactics cards. ironclad tactics wiki. ironclad tactics cheats. ironclad tactics free download. ironclad exo tactical gloves. ironclad tactics coop. ironclad tactics ps4 trophy guide. ironclad tactics android. ironclad tactics new game plus. ironclad tactics all cards. ironclad tactical wallet. ironclad tactics apk. ironclad tactics metacritic. ironclad tactics. ironclad tactics gog. ironclad tactics ps4 review. ironclad tactics download. ironclad tactical gloves uk. ironclad tactics chomikuj. ironclad tactics test. ironclad tactics deluxe edition review. ironclad tactics walkthrough. ironclad tactics slay the spire. ironclad tactics trainer. ironclad tactics ps store. ironclad tactical pro gloves. ironclad tactics apk full. ironclad tactics menacing. ironclad tactics mobile. ironclad tactics review. ironclad tactical kydex wallet. ironclad tactics achievement. ironclad tactics abandoned warehouse. ironclad tactics trophy guide. arkanaut ironclad tactics. ironclad tactics port of seattle (Most of the critisism here is about the expansion campaigns-- although I found the original campaign frustrating at times, it was in a more pleasant way!)I love pretty much every game Zachtronics has released, and while I find this game mostly enjoyable, the amount of artificial difficulty introduced is maddening. The AI isn't particularly intelligent. The computer will frequently, for example, equip a weapon to an ironclad that is 3 empty spaces away from making it to your side, which is a waste of AP. If you pop an ironclad with a melee weapon right in front of an AI ironclad two spaces from your side equipped with a 2+ range weapon, they wont swap that weapon out to kill your ironclad and make it to your side-- it'll just sit there and die. To make up for the lackluster AI, however, the player is handicapped in a number of ways, making the game feel exceedingly frustrating at times.The player receives a base 1.0AP per turn, while the computer gets 1.5AP. Then add on the fact that many of the AP-boosting objectives tend to be on the enemy's side, and the enemy often has units on the field to claim or defend them before turn 1.This provides the illusion that the enemy's deck is an endless bag of cards where they can just pull out any card they desire at any point. The computer rarely needs to play defensively because they can just spam units to put YOU on defense. Maybe 10% of the time am I able to sneak a raider by the AI when there is an ironclad in play that they can maneuver into his path. Manage to an armored ironclad out to scrap with one weilding a 1 damage weapon? you've got about a 75% chance that they have some way to boost the damage to ignore the armor(depending on enemy factions). You can see how many cards the enemy has in hand, so I don't think the computer actively cheats in this regard-- it's just because of the massive AP boost that the AI gets-- cards don't need to go to waste.TL;DR- Playing checkers with a skilled player is fun, even if they beat you. Playing checkers with an incompetent player whos friends pop in to give them extra game pieces whenever they lose some is frustrating.. I tried really hard to like this game. I beat the main campaign and then did the NG+. I lost countless times on the second map, which is part of the NG tutorial. You have a set deck of cards, and it was still almost impossible to beat and required amazing luck.And that's what makes this game so bad. This game lacks strategy. There is a little bit in deck building, but even if you have the best deck for a mission, there's a big chance you'll lose because of the luck of the draw. The last two boss fights had me cursing at the screen because the game puts all odds against you.Losing isn't fun, and this game does its best to make sure that you're going to lose. This game isn't worth it for free because it will just stress you out trying to enjoy it.. I would rate this game a 7\/10. Although, I probably would never replay this game or play through a card based coop campaign game similar to this one again. Pros: -Tons of Card Customization-2 Player Coop campaign-Lots of DLC and Side Quest contentCons:-Cheesy Story-Not Dubbed (Although, my friend and I had fun voicing the characters ourselves. :P)-Too much Time is focused on Deck Customization than on actual Gameplay. You have to consistently take the time to customize your deck for each scenario, otherwise you get trampled or overrun easily. -Most of the mission pass\/fail outcome is entirely based on the luck-of-the-draw than on actual skill.. I was kind of dubious about this one. Real-time card-based tactical battles sound like they could be fun, or a disaster. In reality, it's kind of in between. You only have a window of a couple seconds to play stuff, and if you're trying to do multiple things, it's easy to click in the wrong spot and screw up your whole plan. It also sounded like it was based on the old Bureau of Steam Engineering browser game, which I played only a minute of and found incomprehensible. Luckily, there's no connection except theme.The game also has the problem that you're drawing at random from a 20-card deck, so even with a lot of redundancy, you can get starting hands and continued draws that are exactly not what you need. If one side gets a good draw and is running right out of the gate, while the other has to wait around for a few turns to get anywhere, the game could be effectively over already. That's because board presence is vital, and there aren't that many ways to catch up once you're behind.The other thing about the game is that it lives or dies based on card variety and interactions (like most card games). The cards are divided into factions, and you can only have 2 different factions in your deck at a time. Some of these factions feel more fleshed out than others. You unlock cards by completing missions in the single-player campaign, but even 100%ing the 2nd playthrough doesn't get everything. One faction's cards wait on the first expansion campaign, which is good, but has to be purchased. Once you've done the campaign, there's not much else to do but try multiplayer. Each match you win here gets you a card unlock from a new, distinct faction. The trouble is, there hardly ever seems to be anyone on. So, it's a catch-22. You want to get more cards, but can't get them until you win, but have only MP battles to use them on once you do, but can't even get those battles in the first place.Still, I enjoyed it quite a bit. These potential difficulties mostly fade away when you get into the game. The interface, the look and sounds of the units all feel right. Evan LE NY returns to do the soundtrack, which once again fits the style well.. Really intriguing concept, but gameplay (single-player, at least - I haven't played any online matches) is awkward and ultimately unsatisfying.On paper it sounds great: take the deck-building elements of a CCG and then use the deck to spawn not just static units, but pieces on a small gameboard (lane-based, in this case.) The biggest reason it doesn't all come together is that given the scrolling card mechanic, even the best decks show huge variability in effectiveness depending on draw order. You can play one round and get nothing but "upgrades" while your opponent rolls out unit after unit, then start over with the same deck and steamroll her right off the map. I know, you're thinking "L2P n3wb, u hav to balance ur deck." But that's really not it. A deck that's statistically well balanced can still hit awful runs, and because each player's hand is constantly pruned to the last 5 cards dealt, there's no recovering from them.As it stands, the strategy aspect of the game feels pretty much absent - less like poker, more like war (you know, the card game "war.") Plenty of flavor, just not much depth.. A rather disappointing game considering the system itself had potential, but is unfortunately woefully incomplete (apparently more content is coming out as DLC, but the base content as it is is barebones).Initially the game possessed a intriguing system of unlocking new units through the completion of mini-achievements, allowing your cards to evolve into a more effective and specialised fighting force. Unfortunately this feature is only seen in the first half dozen cards before never being seen again.The game also featured several factions with different tactics and units that you can mix and match. Unfortunately again, all the factions with the exception of the army (Union and Confederate's are both considered the same, begging the question as to why it is set in the Civil War) have barely enough cards for a playable deck, much less one that you can base a unique strategy out of. This is further made worse by every faction's units being essentially the same thing (Army riflemen and bandits have absolutely no distinguising characteristics between them).Even worse, the potential dynamic was there, in the form of unattainable weapons and units the computer gets during the campaign. After completing the game, and every last achievement (both single player and multiplayer) I was upset that the only things I receieved were more of the same cards. Indeed, the final boss's deck is displayed as an available playable faction, but does not have a single unit or weapon card in it.The story serves it's purpose I suppose, so it is hardly disappointing, but it is somewhat baffling that early in the story you can clearly see a sibling rivalry, only for one of the brothers to disapear, and only come back at the end of the game to do absolutely nothing, unlike the collection of minor characters who assemble for the purpose of serving as an Deus Ex Machina during a mission. Whoever is actually manning and directing your ironclads is never mentioned (unless it is assumed that the sergeant who gets a brief mention early in the game is the PC). The Civil war is barely mentioned, and the game might as well be set during the Anglo-Russian war for all it matters.The campaign itself is not so much challenging as it is putting you in a situation with an outright disadvantage. In the early stages this disadvantage is negated by unlocking a new weapon. However, due to the fact that there are no decent unlocks in the later missions the game simply becomes a matter of chance. Hoping that the luck of the draw gets you exactly the unit you need, and that the computer does not use the obnoxiously overpowered ability that he is granted this mission on the turn it would hurt the most. The last mission in particular is guilty in that the enemy boss is not only invincible (unless you kill two heavily armoured units guarding an electric outlet, and procede to occupy both outlets with infantry that can be killed instantly by said boss) but possessing a repetoire of weapons far superior to what you can get, and heals completely should you fail to stop him from going to your side. The strategy towards defeating him involves praying to your chosen deity that the enemy AI will decide to lay waste to your ironclads, rather then stepping on your infantry, and will stand still for that brief moment where you miraculously achieve enough firepower to destroy him in one turn. God help you if you decide to go for the achievements.All that said, the game has potential. If it simply had more content and diverse factions that would allow for actual tactical options.. What can one truly say about Ironclad Tactics. I raged to the point to where I didn't know whether I was the Confederacy or the North but the Final Boss (who shall not be named due to spoilers) had me raging. I loved the game, card system, matches and the little Ironclads were pimping. Credits and musical score at the end were rocking. Rock on little robot dudes. Love this game.Hint: for those having a difficult time a few stages in, try completing the secondary objectives in each of the beginning stages. This unlocks more powerful units and tools.. A middling card game. Poor graphics, easy to learn but tactic options are extremely limited; ideal for kids. Not bad to pass few whiles although has expansions; maybe good against other player, because AI is shamefully cheater. Would be better with a turn-based system and (especially) big maps. The first loading time is long, afterwards runs well. Only worth with a huge discount.
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