All content can be played in both Campaign and Career Modes. Aside from the longer gaps when traveling between systems, extensive refits and lengthy pilot recovery can sideline a significant portion of your strength for multiple missions, requiring careful management of resources.Īside from these missions, seven additional High Reward Quests were included with Legend of the Kestrel Lancers. As the game itself warns, the player must maintain a stable of multiple pilots and 'Mechs with gaps between missions only long enough for minimal repairs or light injuries to be healed. Separate from the game's main campaign story, the player again takes the role of Commander Jake Mason of Nik's Cavaliers, succeeding in rebuilding the unit after the death of his father, Nikolai Mason, and their shattering on De Berry.Īt its base, the Kestrel Lancers Missions are a series of multiple mission operations with extensively scripted events and unique map layouts on an exceedingly tight timetable. It's a solid beer-and-pretzel board wargame for the computer that's worth a look.MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries Kestrel Lancers Missions details the unique campaign featured in Legend of the Kestrel Lancers. On the other hand, if you enjoy Risk or even chess, give Call to Arms a try. If you prefer complex wargames with a lot of statistics and realistic features, this isn't a game for you. In the end, Call to Arms' limited gameplay is both a boon and a bane to wargamers, depending on what kind of game you want. When one player captures all the territories on the map, the game ends. After you finish your turn, the computer than makes moves and calculates combat losses and wins, updating the number of units in each territory for the next round. Gameplay in Call to Arms is perhaps best described as a "numbers" wargame: orders are limited to reinforce, attack, and pull, plus choosing the number of units to carry out each of these orders. There are only 2 maps to choose from: Europe in 1942 and Scotland in 1750, but at least you can toggle various options to make the game more replayable, such as random assignment of countries and the number of initial force in each. One of the first abstract wargames ever made, Call to Arms is unfortunately not among the best, although it is by no means a bad game.
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