[Talkie]

Hello,


I have never played Jagged Alliance before. I heard a whole lot about this franchise through the years, but always somehow managed to ignore it. As I'm always zigzaguing between playing a current title and an older rumoured-to-be-a-gem title, it's time for me now to attempt playing this.

I have to mention that I already had to restart all over because I used a full 8 mercs from day 1 (at normal setting) and was having many problems while moving along, expecially concerning funds. Now, I am playing on easy level (hate to admit that) with more careful selection of mercs. Had major problems on sector 29, where I wasted A LOT of ammo, but I read here this is a common sector people find difficult, so I won't panick too much.

What I'm panicking about is this:

I keep reading that you MUST capture 3 sectors a day in Jagged Alliance, or you risk getting half-way through the videogame and not able to move on and you might have to restart from day 1 or very early on. I hate when that happens, when I have to restart everything, so that is why I opted playing on Easy. My question is: can I relax about this whole 3-sectors-a-day deal on Easy mode? Is it fine if I just make 1 or 2 sectors? I find everything to be a bit slow, so it sounds to me that 2 sectors a day would be a better rhythm. Is there in fact, a limit of "days" available in the overall plot?


Someone earlier mentioned that quick-save during combat is worth nothing. Not sure what they meant: I use it all the time. I can even return to the last quick save when I relaunch, so that's pretty useful when I get stressed and need a long pause (because things here CAN get a little stressful, but that's the fun of it). Yes, I heard that sometimes it's buggy and won't relaunch. Never yet happened, but I also save each starting day.


I need to learn the best distance for firing, because my mercs keep telling they have a view of the enemies, but waste a lot of ammos on them. So I suppose the perfect distance for each weapon has nothing to do with enemy sight, and I haven't mastered that yet. It's hard, what with the little action points and all!


Another small question: the canteens. I dropped them after use. I'm guessing am going to have serious problems real soon. I can't seem to use them on the rivers. That's part of why I'd prefer do a couple sectors each day, so I can rest my mercs because they only can do so much. What do I do to get more water?


Thanks for any reply, in advance.