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Interesting ideas, needs more tuning
The game I was playing seems to have disappeared and I'm being forced to start over.
The battle system doesn't reward the use of overwhelming force, and using multiple units against a lone holdout with a defence modifier is an exercise in annoyance.Orange<><
Political game to show you can't fight drugs
Point of this game is to show you that the war on drugs will never be won. Even when you are winning they suddenly receive dozens of troops and wipe you out. I had over half the map and they suddenly received 50 troops. Only way I "won" was to support the president that was legalizing drugs.Sophie26773389:
Laughable
It did not take me very long to find a strategy that makes this game trivially easy. Even on the hardest difficulty, if the player amasses a large number of troops in a territory with an attack bonus, they can steamroll their way to victory by attacking every adjacent territory. Taking a territory grants a monetary bonus which can be spent on another attack, so within a turn of occupying an attack territory, all of the surrounding territories can be easily captured. The game can be completed without any real challenge so what's the point?Show lessKaiju15
Interesting and fun
This game does a nice job of informing about the war on drugs in Mexico, and it seems like a lot of data is based off real-world information. It's a bit hard (I get destroyed on easy if I play aggressively), and it really suffers from not saving your progress after each turn.
For those who think it can't be beat, play more passively. Don't attack the cartels all the time. Just keep them in check till the price of drugs goes down. Less money for the cartels means fewer recruits... which leads to easier-controlled regions.Show lessputermcgee
Ok ish
It's a good game but if you have a iPhone or iPod the small screen size make the text unreadable.james FINN
Good game
I love a game like this wish there was moreFearTheTech
No Point in Playing
This game does a good job showing the futility of the war on drugs by NEVER ALLOWING YOU TO WIN. I controlled half of Mexico and lost everything but 1 territory. The cartels could wipe me out but don't. Yeah, that's realistic. NOT FUN.Black Pyramid
this game rocks
Great gameplay and extremely challenging. I learnt a lot about drug cartels, so much so that I then joined one.drugbaron
Just Because You Don't Win, Doesn't Mean it Was a Bad Game
Take the strategy of Risk and combine it with an educational experience on the drug war. Putting yourself as head of the Mexican battle against drugs may be a bit far-fetched, but it is humbling. In a world where everyone not in office knows the political solution, this game is a humbling experience. Even if you do everything right and have a numbers advantage, you can still lose.
To those commenting about the difficulty of the game, I believe that is part of the lesson! Real life is not as simple as the good guys beat the bad guys easily. The point is this—even if we are doing our best in fighting the drug war, there will always be corruptible authorities and money available. But that doesn’t mean it is not worth fighting, just that we will lose more battles than we would like.
There is much more to this app than a simple game. It is an education in the ongoing battle that, like it or not, affects the world around us. Even if this does not become an all-time favorite for you, it is worth the buy for the realization that sometimes solutions are not as simple as we think them to be in our head.Show lessChuck42181
Nice strategy game
The gameplay is really good! You have to think to play this game but its also rewarding!Adarsh Kosuru
