Each has their own goal - Castro's trying to raise an eldritch god, Marteau is obsessed with exploiting weird science for profit, while the Strum are totalitarian raiders looking for lost artefacts to bring the whole world to heel - and a dial meter to go with it. The rest you'll need to find and recruit out on the map, which is currently being controlled by three evil factions in this alternate 1930s cold war: the Castro, the Marteau and the Strum. You'll only have three to start with, mind, which you can pick from individually or let the game's randomiser choose for you. The Lamplighters League starts in your team's hideout, a hub screen where your ten agents hang out between missions. Rogers won that dollar, and here's how the game's emphasis on deep, customisable character builds set him up for success. He certainly had his work cut out for him. It's quite a different proposition from their last game, Battletech, and in this quite literal trial by fire, studio head and co-founder Mitch Gitelman actually pulled a dollar out of his pocket at one point and put a bet on whether Rogers would make it out alive. Rogers was in the control cockpit for this one, showing me exactly how Harebrained Schemes' latest game actually works. In truth, I played no part in this downfall. He gets knocked down, and the tide of battle quickly goes south. But with that extra fire damage he receives, it's just a little too much all at once. "You want him to get attacked," game director Chris Rogers tells me, calling on the phrase 'you wouldn't like him when he's angry' as the basis for Fedir's ability set. As an ex-mob enforcer, he's certainly built to take a few punches, and his abilities are all focused on making him the centre of attention, his attacks growing more powerful as his rage levels continue to grow. A load of enemies were instantly enveloped in its hot sea of death, as intended, but one of our heroes - the tank-like bruiser Fedir - also ended up getting burned by mistake. As is so often the case in systemic turn-based tactics games, things started to go wrong in my preview session for The Lamplighters League when a nearby torch met a cunningly placed oil slick and erupted into flames.
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