Hello everybody. I have something very special to share with you today! It's my first after action report for Arms Race. I bring you this AAR because the design of Arms Race has finished. Yes, all in game features have been successfully coded and implemented into the game and well balanced. May be little adjustments to do for the balance later but it plays well already. To avoid long boring AAR text I just post my pictures and short description to it.
Also, this AAR is going to be great example to introduce you two new in game features - Global Influence effect and Global Consequences features.
So, let's start. I'm going to play as Brezhnev ( I love this guy! He is so funny to me ), in Historic mode. Historic mode means my opponent leaders will be changed in historical sequence ( not sandbox ). In the picture below you can see Brezhnev has Diplomatic suit. Brezhnev and his Diplo suit provides me with unique bonuses listed below the leader picture.
The game starts in 1950. USA-USSR score is 22 to 22 and budget is 2500 to 2500. Global influence 1301 to 1301 ( 50% to 50% ). The bigger the global influence of the leader, the bigger the Firepower bonus will be when that leader authorises a fight. All other screenshots will be taken in December at the end of each decade. You will be able to see and compare how my game has changed from one decade to another. I will avoid graphs and statistics and show you the screens with Global Consequences only. In this decade I will face militaristic Truman.
And now, let us see how the decade has changed the Soviet Union. As you can see I'm leading in Global Influence. It's 1834, 57% which provides me additional +10 Firepower to my military. It saved me lot of military resources in the past wars. Unfortunately for me, Truman managed to win different wars on the globe and our score is still even - 26 to 26. Truman was a tough guy! Luckily for me three of six global consequences events were in my favor and only one for USA.
Now we move to the 60's, where the United States have elected John F Kennedy, an economic leader, as their President. I was leading in global influence and my highest pick was around 64% ( +15 Firepower ). My budget is much bigger compared to America and it's around 6000 but Kennedy managed to go over me in one score point and it's 30 to 29 now. Luckily for me the Prague Spring global consequence event didn't happen in United States favor! I could have lost 3 score points and 300 budget wealth if Prague Spring happened in the United States favour.
In the 70's the United States have elected Richard Nixon, a diplomatic leader. It was the worse decade for the Soviets. Nixon managed to have a bigger lead in scores with 39-32, however the Soviet Union was leading in global influence and wealth. It was really hard to fight America during this decade. They had built up their military and I lost some wars just because I had no military to participate in proxy wars vs Americans.
In the 80's, the United States elected Ronald Reagan, a diplomatic leader. Reagan pressured really hard on me! He managed to keep America leading in the scores with 41-39. I got only one global consequence event to my favor which brings me an additional +10 Firepower bonus and it helped me to prevent global American military expansion. My superiority in budget helped me to keep my dominance in global influence at level of 58%
In the last in-game decade, I was struggling vs Reagan again. Americans gave up their leadership in scores only because I managed to influence Australia and India to join the Soviet bloc. It took me a really long time to do so. Both countries provided me with 3 scores ( 6 in total ). If not Australia and India I'd lost 42 to 39. Americans significantly improved their budget because of "Reorganization of oil market" event but "Crisis of the elites" pulled them down again.
My game lasted for about 1 hour 50 minutes. Play time flies really fast and is incredibly enjoyable! It was a really fun game, full of action and unpredictable surprises.
The game is going to be released in September 2017! Stay tuned for more news about Amrs Race in Steam.
http://store.steampowered.com//app/583590?beta=0