The poetic thing to have happened next would’ve been for me and my buddy to heroically win the match we didn’t (sorry), but the rush of reversing a seemingly doomed battle using the bizarre, brilliant card mechanics in the new Blitz mode of Halo Wars 2 was something special, and could mark a interesting new direction for the RTS genre.īut let’s rewind, and explain why the hell playing cards have found their way into a real-time strategy game.īlitz mode sees two teams of one to two players each battling it out for control of capture points on large plain maps. Wisely, they retreat, and I regain control of the checkpoint while my teammate’s rebuilt army comes to reinforce me. It’s a Legendary! I select it, spending my remaining 300 energy points to beam a colossal gunship into existence over my Last Stand, raining a hell of rockets and laser-thingies down on those bastard red-and-yellows.
I shuffle again, knowing that this could be my last shuffle as my battalion of brave, hapless Hellbringers looks set to fall. With nothing to lose, I spend 50 energy to shuffle one of my cards in the hope of it being a Legendary. Related: take a peek at some of PCGN’s most beloved strategy games. My zippy Warthog buggy is in a distant corner of the map trying to harvest some precious energy so I can spawn something – anything – useful using my hand of cards, but there’s nothing there that looks like it could be a game-changer. We’re on the brink of being at the wrong end of Total Domination, in the game’s words – or total humiliation, in mine. My teammate’s rebuilding his currently non-existent army back at the main base, and mine is on the verge of being obliterated from the last of the three capture points on the map.
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