Congo Merc

CONGO MERC: SOLO MINI-GAME WITH TOO MANY BUGS The Congo in Africa has long been a focus of conflict due to its natural resources, which continue to attract the attention of foreign powers and businesses to this very day. CONGO MERC is a single-player event-based historical game loosely covering the Simba rebellion (the word 'simba' in Kiswahili means 'lion' in English) of 1961-64, at the height of the Cold War. You control foreign mercenaries plus Belgian (and Congolese? what about them?) and exiled Cuban units, fighting Congolese Simba separatist rebels and their Soviet-Cuban allies. The Simbas were supporters of Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence leader and first democratically elected leader of Congo. After peaceful independence from former colonial power Belgium in 1960, and being elected Prime Minister of Congo, Lumumba was captured and executed by pro-U.S. separatists in Congo's resource-rich Katanga state in 1961. Crisis and civil war ensued, and in 1964 Simba ...

Earned all 12 achievements & have replayed all secnarios & campaign: Verdict from a turn base game lover: ***** Excellent fun due to replayability & variety of tactics ***** The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Good: * Turn based move & battle knowing rebels will fight you every step of the way (Hint: rebels +1 in towns, fight in open, use recon on towns, fight in towns for civilians) * Unit mix: air power, helicopters, paratroops, CIA ops, armoured cars, heavy weapons, PsyOps... (Hint: use commado jeeps to fight 1st to absorb hits and save best units for kills) * The excellent favorite unit PsyOps lets you choose to keep 1st event card or discard for 2nd event card that you must encounter (Hint: can try to avoid large rebel forces or try for better cards like Intel) * Use of airpower that can be re-armed by turn around for next battle (Hint: Best done 1st with commando jeep) * Helicopter reinforcment (Hint: bring in reinforcement to battle and replace losses) * Recon and ...

I'm recommending them game with one major caveat, this is good -IF AND ONLY IF- you already enjoy the tabletop game. This is a bare minimum reproduction and nothing more. But considering the physical game costs 15 dollars and this is 5? There is value in it. Congo Mercs is a minigame created by decision games that revolves around recruiting soldiers, rescuing civilians and exploring rebel controlled Congo. It's rules lite, random and extremely fast paced. Most plays take 5-10 minutes, four missions in total and one optional campaign run where you tackle all the missions back to back. This version adds nothing and really doesn't offer any benefits over the physical game aside from the price. The single biggest problem with this release is that the tutorial is less than garbage. This game tells you the controls, but core mechanics of the board game are left out leading to an extremely random looking game. - They never explain that ATTACK is the number of attack dice you roll, but de...

Light and highly abstracted simulation of mercenary operations in the Congo during the rebellion of 1964-5. Recommend only for the casual gamer or a gamer new to wargames.

what a shitty game

It's games like this that make you wish for a curated approach. A short bugfest with painful game play.

Head into the jungles and urban chaos to fight the Simba rebellion as Roland with his CIA friends. As one may expect, the jungle is full of many bugs so bring your "Alt+F4" bug spray and chuck dice back and forth to maintain that positive KIA counter. Objectives typically include killing rebel leaders and rescuing civilians.

I recently have rediscovered my love for turn based wargaming. This game is a lousy mobile port from a promising developer. The controls are confusing for troop movement and creating battlegroups. Thankfully this game is cheap enough to excuse its indiscretions. This is one of those games to avoid unless you are looking for a time waster. Consider something else. I'll give the other HexWar titles a chance. I'm sorry I spent time with this.