TacticsOgre: Reborn, on the other hand, likes to make its players sweat early.

Still, there’s no use dwelling on ‘might haves’.

Also like XCOM, you’re not so much recruiting individual characters as you are different classes.

Warriors stand in around a solider in a medieval town in Tactics Ogre Reborn

Whereas previous versions had you levelling classes, Reborn lets you level up each individual unit.

Not that that helped me much in my old fort battle, of course.

I’ll let you know if I succeeded when Tactics Ogre: Reborn launches on November 11th.

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Warriors talk outside a fort in Tactics Ogre Reborn

Warriors prepare for battle on a grassy plain with a river running through it in Tactics Ogre Reborn