r/JaggedAlliance

Hey everyone, I'm back with a new trailer for my post-apocalyptic game. I spent two hours making it, so please rate it.

Hi everyone, with the mods permission I would like to share my own turn-based strategy game I am working on called Contract Corps: Lead your Aces.

It's heavily inspired by squad games like Jagged Alliance and others like XCOM/Battletech/Battle Brothers, but with the idea of putting your squad within much larger 200v200 conflicts. To avoid long turn times watching the AI I split the game mechanics:

• Your units: during your player phase you move/use abilities/attack with your elite units (called Aces) sequentially, so pretty standard
• The wider army:  the remaining AI units operate on a WeGo model. This means that they all plan their turn independently, but the execution and visualization of their actions happen in parallel. You are able to influence your allied units (your Corps) indirectly (e.g. by marking an enemy hero as a priority target), but they act on their own.

It's still early days, but the Steam page with the first Devlogs is up, and there I go into more details about the Design Philosophy in general, design challenges such as visualizing important events in a 200v200 or finding the right "level of control" for the AI units, and so on. 

JA players are pretty much the core audience for the game, so if this sounds up your alley check out Contract Corps: Lead your Aces on Steam and wishlist it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4813610?utm_source=reddit .

Final note: I am aiming to have a first Closed Playtest towards the end of September and would love feedback from everyone in here to shape the game (again, core audience :-) , so will make another post about that nearer the time.

More than happy to answer any questions or thoughts you might have, I will be hanging around in the comments :-)

Edit: it seems there is the feeling that this was not really relevant to the sub, so my apologies for that. I genuinely believe it shares the same DNA as JA ("lead a small amount of units whilst having a strategic layer", unit customization etc.), but obviously takes the genre it in a different direction. I have no intentions of spamming though so will refrain from posting here in the future.

I got Stracciatella, the open source JA2 engine, compiling to WebAssembly, so the game runs in Chrome now. Full campaign, tactical combat, mouse and keyboard, and sound.

Own it? Play it: https://ja2.virtastic.app

Short video of it running if you want to see it first: https://youtu.be/h1NLDfVc3o8

All credit to the Stracciatella team, the engine is theirs. I did the browser build, and the source is GPL like upstream: https://github.com/Virtastic/ja2-web

I would really like to know whether it holds up for people who know this game properly.

Doing some killing in Arulco!