弹性敌人数量真是最大的败笔。我开局四个角色，和敌人遭遇战打四五个，等我中期队伍庞大了，十一二个雇佣兵碰到的遭遇战，敌人也是十一二个，那我还扩张队伍干鸡毛啊？？？就不能让我正义的群殴？

The game has some solid mechanics and can be quite fun to play, but if I knew that the devs intended to spam DLCs and lock content behind a bunch of paywall, I never would've bought this game in the first place.

Wartales is tricky for me to recommend. I really love this game, a lot. I love not being the hyper important chosen one just doing stuff that becomes important, I love turn based combat, I love little interactions between members of my troop to make random, personal stories, I love having animal companions of various types. I love the story being grounded in low-fantasy medieval style for the most part, but being loose enough for exceptions(you want a female mercenary? All fine. You want 70 individual mercenaries and animals in your troop? Sure. You capture an animal? It's fighting for you instantly no matter what it is. Fables and adventure tales? Real if you go looking, within reason and the worlds lore).

However, the game is far from perfect. There are ads for DLC within the world itself which is frustrating to deal with if you don't own it. The walking and running speed is slow even with horses with horseshoes to speed up movement. The game is not balanced well after lower levels, but you can take this as a power fantasy. Then the power fantasy becomes a slog again because it never switches up combat unless you're doing DLC content. There's also just flat out better and worse classes in game. A Swordsmaster can kill off an entire combat encounter in one turn if you play it right. The grind for your Profession(a separate add-on for your character to be a Cook, Bard, Miner etc. for a bonus and to interact with the world) is not balanced at all and very oriented to repetition to the point it's frustrating. Those small random interactions to personalize your playthrough repeat on a loop, same wording and all, just picking random companions. I truly wish there was more variety because the mechanic starts showing more than the emergent storytelling.

The biggest problem in the game is twofold. There's no end point, and scenarios don't change much when complete. So you just stop playing when you're done with no overall satisfaction to 'your' mercenary troop unless you're imaginative, and there's very little replay value because after a scenario is finished the world doesn't change very much to respond to your choices and there's only A or B outcome.

WarTales is also buggy, sometimes critically so. And the DLC as mentioned are fairly expensive and numerous for what they are. This is a game tailor made for me, but it's probably best around $15-20 USD.

Tips and Tricks for the interested:

-I always keep 1 prisoner in camp to swap around to professions I don't care for or don't want to drop progress for. A trait can crop up to give you a bonus for this, too

-You can recruit prisoners you capture, but they are not worth it. The exceptions are Wrongdoer(good for every playthrough, 30% Crit bonus party-wide does not stack with more than one), Juggler(good for animal focused troops), and Purifier(good for Guard)

-Animals count in Adaptive towards enemy count. A bear for example spawn ~3 more enemies, despite the creature attacking once per turn.

-Special recruits with a small backstory usually have special traits or an extra Skill

-Any and all DLC should be picked up on sale, but the only ones I found worth the price were the Skelmar and Belerion

-Personally, if you play Adaptive, try favoring a small troop under 8 active combatants. Because if you have like 70 fighters, the game will have 90+ and eventually you're taking hour(s) on a single combat encounter. For example.