Game Diary 10 December, 2008
After a gameless Tuesday, Wednesday also looked to be heading that way since i got back home late from the office. Fortunately i had around 45mins to spare before the Porto-Arsenal champions league game so i decided to play one battle in Valkyria Chronicles.
I went overtime though and only finally beat it after around 1.5 hours thus missing the first half of the match (thank god!). Back to Valkyria now. I was playing the first desert battle in the story and i had the problem that most of units that had positive links with one another, and thus increasing their combat abilities, were not desert fighters. In fact some were even allergic to the desert. That left me with a squad that really did not connect as a team. Combined with some very slow moving of my troops towards the enemy base it led to a really bad win (D rank) and thus not that many Experience points and Currency.
After playing a couple of skirmishes too, its obvious that the game favours speed and casualties over caution and rewards you depending on how many turns the battle is won. This affects future battles since your R&D and levelling up of classes is greatly affected by this. It goes against my style of play which is to use caution and avoid casualties so it’s interesting to see how i adapt to this.
More news from the Gallian front soon……