Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism

Another Stupid anti-communist propaganda. The story they portrayed in the game isn't far worse than the official history text book from even the US schools. It feels like they are written by Nazi sympathiser. I get it, you don't like communist. But I paid my money to enjoy a game, not to listen to your nagging of your political opinion. So stop your Subliminal Messaging.
The game play itself also has a lot of problem. All units wear the same colour as the terrain, it was very hard to pick them out at the first glance and there were no high-lights or symbol on each of the units. If you play this for too long, trying to find each units can make your eyes hurts so much, especially when the in-game time turns into the night. You will have a hard time finding anything. The mini-map lacks polish. Everything in your team will be green and everything enemy own will be red; and it doesn't matter if those are units or city or airport. So you can't differentiate them in your mini-map. When moving a unit, there is a random chance that the camera will drag you into a closer look to see the fight or move. This angle change will increase your chance of losing track on your unit after the animation ends. Combine this with what I said earlier about the lack of high-lights and label, it will make your eyes hurt even more, and further increase your frustration during play.
Further more, there is not indicator to show which units had already moved for its turn. You have to go through the entire unit list to check on at a time. It is such a chore to go through every turn.

There are other design oversight that are game breaking. For example, the 4th mission of the campaign, we have to evacuate all core units to the button right corner of the map. But the thing is that one of my core unit ran out of fuel and therefore can't move. And there is no way to refuel it. But you must withdraw all your core unit with limited time to pass the mission. And you are not giving an option to disband the unit.

There are more design oversight. For example, if your air units run out of fuel, they will drop off the sky and are destroyed. But some times, with over 100 units to go through, it is hard to remember if you have looked after your air units. There are no reminder for unmoved unit when you click "next turn".

it eazy to play

Another solid instalment in the Strategic Mind series, I've actually found this one a lot more challenging to "puzzle" some missions compared with Blitzkrieg and Spirit of Liberty.

For fans of games in the Panzer General genre, I highly recommend these games. I really enjoy both the Strategic Mind series as well as Panzer Corps and Order of Battle and find there's enough variation between each of these 3 systems to recommend all titles to fans of the genre. The only draw back I've found with the SM series is that late in the campaign it can feel quite easy once you have several units with Heroes attached reach level 7 xp.

I have been trying to like the game, as you can see by the hours played. Overall, it turned out to be a kind of Company of Heroes on a strategic hex map - which makes it a bad mix. It simply makes the maps too huge, and gives you too many units based on mechanics that are really meant to be for much fewer units.

Add to that that you are confused with many sidequests that are basically unachievable in their majority, while your main missions are a challenge even on easy mode.

And I do have quite a bit of experience in both strategic and tactical war games, so this wasn't just me...