You often have to choose whether you want to shell out for new members, pick up better gear for your current soldiers, or nab extra guns to pass off to the locals to help defend your turf from being taken back. Part of the difficulty comes from the abundant choices you have to make with very limited resources. It's a slow, tedious process early on that grows extremely challenging. Expanding your influence earns you additional sources of income to use for purchasing arms and hiring more mercs to round out your fighting force.
Once your group is formed, you work to reclaim territory from the queen one town at a time through cunning strategy and brute force. You're initially armed with enough funds to hire just a few starting mercs from among 40 eccentric military-minded ruffians with different specialties, weapons skills, and distinct personalities. The game follows the same story as Jagged Alliance 2 you're put in command of hiring a ragtag mercenary group to liberate the fictional country of Arulco from the dictatorial regime of the queen. It's a game that longtime PC purists will want to love, and you just might if you can tune out the frequent aggravations it throws at you. Back in Action can be fun to play, despite the fact that it bogs you down in excessive micromanagement and bludgeons you with some mind-boggling design choices on the battlefield. It still looks and plays like a relic from the past, which may be a selling point for some, but the transition from turn-based strategy to quasi real-time combat is a bumpy one. That's partially the case with Jagged Alliance: Back in Action, a remake of the second game in the series that attempts to freshen up the old-school formula. Going back to improve on older games can sometimes muck up what worked rather than fix what was awry in the first place.
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