12/26/2023 0 Comments Brigador up armored edition review![]() You, the citizen of futuristic space colony Solo Nobre, are a contract soldier working for the Solo Nobre Concern (SNC). But Brigador doesn’t buy into the perfidious morality of this year’s The Division or Homefront: The Revolution, whose mistake is to present their violence as justice this game is quite clear about its amorality from the beginning. That the game gives almost no thought at all to the human cost of this destruction could be troubling. The more damage you incur, the more money you accrue it’s a futuristic mercenary’s dream come true. Don’t like the way that statue is looking at you? Blast it with your double lasers, and call it a day. Need to get to the other side of that apartment complex? Steer right through it. From the vantage point of your mech or tank or modified shortbus, you are free to “enforce a devastation more or less relentless” as the mood takes you. Each of the 21 campaign missions-all of which have their own maps and distinctive, throbbing EDM scores-gives you a specified list of targets to destroy, but as the game likes to remind you, nothing is out of bounds. It plunges you into the middle of a different civil war, and gives you only one objective: blow shit up. In a speech to soldiers high on the fumes of destruction, he cautioned them against confusing military necessity with moral triumph: “There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.”īrigador has little use for such hand-wringing. But Sherman took no joy from his victory. Sherman would have his forces march south through Georgia, and where commanders met with anything less than full cooperation, their orders were to “ enforce a devastation more or less relentless according to the measure of such hostility.”Īlthough the Union Army didn’t target civilians, everything else was fair game: “mills, houses, cotton-gins, &c.” Sherman’s “March to the Sea,” as it has come to be known, accomplished just what he promised: it demoralized the South, and left their infrastructure in tatters for years to come. He found his earth-scorching muse in William Tecumseh Sherman, who proposed a simple strategy that proved to be devastatingly effective. Grant, General of the Union Army, sought a way to break the South with minimal loss of life. The Confederacy’s efforts to bring the war to the North had been effectively routed in the previous year, and the South was forced to take the defensive on its home ground. ![]() ![]() In late 1864, the American Civil War had come to a decisive point.
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