Ironcast - A Matchthree (But good) Steampunk Mechwarrior Permadeath Timesink.
~-~- This is gonna be bit Explain and OMG Own thing -~-~
Ironcast is good, very good, addictive too. The goal is to defend Britian from the French Army coming in large Steampunk Mechwarrior and Railless Traintanks. The Game starts you with 100scrap (Cash) and what ever Walker you chose to fight in battles to earn more Scrap, Experience, Blueprints (Loot) and finally Wareffort (Soldiers). The first challenge is surviving the sorties you have to face in preparation of stopping the great monster that is the first boss. Much like FTL you can spend forever getting there only to die in 2 seconds to start all over again. I had made it to them only once before and was halfway down before they exploded me...
Anyway I had had a quite successful run, getting over 2000 Wareffort which results in a huge chunk of Hull being removed from the boss equal to the soldiers. I had two rare weapons and a strong shield. This had been my 50th retry and the first time I face him was on my second run (God has no idea how I succeeded that). By matching the different system 'gems' to power Ammo, Energy, Coolant and System Repair which you then use to fight. Coolant being a main concern cause you need it to power the shields, walk and fire your weapons I had gotten two useful abilities through leveling up, one that stole coolant from foe and another which gave me one every round...
BUT, as with all Permadeath Bosses, he comes with Two POWERFUL weapons. One a Laser doing around 100dmg to my Fully Shielded self and a Rocketlauncher that fires 4 rockets doing around 150 dmg if it hit on all accounts. I was scared, "Overdrive" a special gem when used with weapons doubles the shots it can take, and that was how I lost my first encounter...
Trying my best to lower his shields so my shotgun can do damage to ALL Systems at once was my goal, a heavy cannon that fired twice aiming at the shield system took it down a couple of times, but he would repair and get it back up, then I got lucky. Tons of Ammo came down, making sure to make most of my 3 Matches to collect enough I was able to down both the shield and get many good hits with the shotgun onto him, he had 200HP left, I had 100HP. I was scared...
THEN THE RNG CAME DOWN AND BLESSED ME WITH AI STUPIDITY, perhaps his table had no ammo, perhaps it was just him being stupid, but he didn't fire, I was saved, I was able to beat him finally!!!
Now, only gotta click this and the game is ove...... FUCK THERE IS MORE BATTLES AFTER THIS!!! WAIT WHAT!!!
Spoilers in case...
Turns out France wasn't actually pulling their pants up and being aggressive instead of surrendering and running away, their attack on Britain itself was a Runaway attempt from a greater, larger threat on the mainland of Europe, they were attempting to take Britain over for its natural Island Defenses against whatever this thing is...
Oh well, time to see how much longer I will last now...