Congo Merc

I own the original board game this is based on (Decision Games Congo Merc). This video game is a good approximation of the game, but there are two main shortcomings. One is that you don't know the intel cards you may possibly pick because they are never shown, you only see the results. If there was a deck to look through or a reference, it would help. The other issue, and this is why it is a 2.5 star game is that the battle engine is really bad. I have now played 10 full games and the OPFOR have a 100% hit rate while the mercs are more like 1/6 of the time, which is normal. The board game gives a combat power value to each unit and that is the number of D6 you roll and the Cubans are the most powerful unit with a value of 6. So the player roles a corresponding number of dice to determine combat outcomes. Since you don't see the dice in this game, you don't know the roll results except for the outcomes and the impact if extra logistics and leaders are not apparent. Overall a good first try, but has bugs and needs work.

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I quite enjoyed Vietnam '65, so figured I would give this game, also a look at cold-war counter-insurgency, a look as well. Unfortunately, it doesn't play nearly as well. Vietnam 65 was designed specifically as a tablet game, and it takes advantage of all that the format offers. Congo Merc was a board game, and it's adaptation to iOS is pretty awkward. I have a feeling there's a good game in there, but damned if I can figure out how to play it. The "rules" are nowhere near complete, and reading them from beginning to end is a hopeless task. Ditto for the tutorial: I went through the whole thing twice, and still wasn't sure how to play the game. A better approach would be something like Tigris and Euphrates, that walks you through an actual play of the game. As is, there are certain basic things I just can't get to work properly, such as air insertion, air movement, and recon. It's not clear how Ops are spent either. Movement itself is difficult enough, and it's often not clear which areas a unit can or cannot reach. Clearly there are terrain factors it work, but that is not well explained either. I've encountered other bugs, like not being able to select a group at all, even though it is clearly there on the map. I don't think the game is necessarily all that hard, it's just not explained clearly, and the UI is buggy and awkward. With a little work, it could certainly be improved.

The concept is great, as I love this game and others that have been pushed out. But it is hard to grasp at 1st and for whatever reason the city of Leopoldville does not allow me to click on to retrieve my solders they are just stuck there. When i click on it the screen darkens and only when I click on Air recon does it go back to normal. You get that fixed and some minor adjustments this would be a 5 star for those who enjoy this type of game play

...be sure to picture a big fat negative sign in front of it...thats right I give this app a whopping -4 stars !! Read on why... 😒👎➖4⃣ I sure do wishthat I could actually play this game, just once, and have it work; after all I did spend hardearned $$$ on it that I could have used elsewhere! The buttons don't show up, i'm on an iPhone 4 with iOS 7.12 but of course the devs didn't mention that it doesn't work on that phone so they could SCREW MORE PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR CASH something they have done with other games of theirs and of course as usual for this company their customer service/tech support is USELESS... So look at how many stars I gave, and put that negative in front of it!!😒👎

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Granted, I have not read thru the 6,000,000 pages of documentation, but thus far, I find it as I titled it....inscrutable thus far. I love all the WW2 games from these guys, the Tank Battle Eastern Front games, Tank Battle 1944, Normandy but this one..... All the other games are install and play, you don't need to read much, just start a mission, learn as you go, and get better with more practice. The play is intuitive. Their is none of that in this. And not what I like in iPad games.....I don't have the patience or frankly the ability to play with the manual open beside me as I go. If you like the other games I've mentioned, I bet you WON'T like this one, and not worth the $4.99 I gladly pay when they have released other games, or the $1.99 scenario packs.