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Promising tactics ‘em up The Lamplighters League will sneak out on October 3rdQuite the change from Battletech
Quite the change from Battletech
Image credit:Paradox Interactive
Image credit:Paradox Interactive
The Lamplighter’s Leagueis an intriguing proposition, with theBattletechtech devs setting aside their big stompy mechs and stepping into the much sneakier shoes of 1930’s scoundrels as they wage shadow wars over supernatural artefacts. Its blend of real-time sleuthing and turn-based squabbling impressed Katharine when she snuck her hands on the opening mission last month, heralding it as a game of the year contender.
Big words! Exciting words. As announced yesterday, we’ll get to judge for ourselves when it comes out on October 3rd.
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There’s also much more of an emphasis on your team as people rather than units, with unique abilities and fleshed out personalities. It worked well forMarvel’s Midnight Suns, though here you’ll be chinwagging with “outcasts, scoundrels and cutthroats” rather than goody two shoes superheroes. They’re still banding together against an eldritch cult, but they’re like, cool about it.
Katharine’sprevious Lamplighter previewhas lots to get excited over, too, drilling down into power-changing tarot cards, proc-genned levels and debuffs for when both you and your enemies get stressed out. I particularly like the sound of building towards “one big turn”:
Systems knocking on other systems, complex webs of synergies, all that good stuff. I wants it.
I’ll gets it on October 3rd, from eitherSteam,the Epic Games Storeorthe Windows Store.
