One-inch Tactics

~CAN YOU TRUST THIS REVIEW?~ So, I had purchased the quite good Vestaria Saga here on Steam, and was looking for the fantastic OST for the game rather than the dinky-dooders one as DLC here, and a found full 3 Disk one from LILT Records. As I added it to my cart, I saw LILT also did the Power Dolls Resonance AST, which I grumpily never purchased it because I prefer the MIDI originals to the Jazzy Arrangements here, but I was in a good mood and bought it too. Turns out there's a second disk to Resonance with FM and MIDI versions of the tracks, I made it to Track 3, (FM) ALTERNATIVE WALLS, before being like "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE" and ran to my computer to look for Mecha games on Steam. The first one I opened a new tab for was One Inch Tactics, which I was like "Tabletop Mechs? Yep!". All the reviews were like "Power Dolls! Power Dolls!" and I thought that was a bit unreasonable until I scrolled up and saw the developer. I may have then sneezed and bought this, and a few other Mech games. Now as I sit here holding my Power Dolls OVA, listening to my Resonance AST, can you be certain the following review is in any way trustable? You must decide for yourself. ~ This easily slides into my top 5 tactics games of all time. Outside of the Miniature presentation, and jazzy soundtrack, which you can decide for yourself if it’s is up your alley, the game has a great breadth of tactical gameplay. The crux of it comes down to controlling vision in Fog-Of-War and utilizing camouflage to maximize defense. It can be a little vague to understand that you have vision on target, but not enough to fire on them, but it helps that the CPU isn’t a GBA Advance Wars Cheating buttblaster. Rarely is your mission "Kill All Enemies", but rather a variety of actual objectives with parameter and margins of success/failure; escort supply lines, destroy enemy ammunition depots, steal prototypes, etc. This combined with limited ammo, creates tense tactical choices, “do I hide, or do I take out one more enemy?”. There is nothing cooler than seeing enemy reinforcements, and deciding nope, then shooting smoke grenades to conserve ammo, and make a rapid b-line to the exfil point. This is how all Fog-Of-War should play, period. It's both your biggest danger, and your most powerful tool. Oh, and when the mission is "Kill All Enemies"? It’s a every bullet spent, forced into close combat, cheeks clenched tightly together, total fire fight. The game doesn’t fully explain everything it’s doing, but it’s 10,000% worth it. Best thing I ever bought on Steam good. P.S. I always meant to get my DOS copy PD1 going on my Steam Deck, that's now less of an option, and more of an imperative. P.P.S. Real One Inch Tactics minis and game set when?

玩了几关，这游戏就是披着Q版皮的PD，PD机器人进一步Q版化，弄了个45度3D，完全的回合制。各种装备的型号都是高度借鉴PD系列。说是PD的精神续作不为过。

快出特勤机甲队！ We need POWER DoLLS！ パワードール 出してください！

(AD)PD2懐古勢向けの温いPOWER DoLLS。

It's not the original series but at least it's not as hard, either. Speaking of which, please release the full series in English please!

Its a pretty cute "Battletech Lite" kind of game with a really chill tabletop game vibe. There is a bit of reading that is required to really get things going but the mechanics arent all that overly complicated, just the menus front load a lot of info (and probably could use some tooltips for the stat pages). Don't be afraid to use the help menu here until reading the tables becomes second nature. Once things get going it's a solid little turn based strategy game! Not the flashiest but a pretty fun light playthrough that will scratch any mech wargame itch you might have. Nice Smooth Jazz OST too (No comment on Power DoLLs, which is what the game is based off of apparently but if they are like this i'd be happy to buy em)