As I mentioned I completed Jagged Alliance once, but it was a very long time ago.
This is somewhat of an annoying game. You start with hiring mercenaries. Some of them don’t have weapons at all. Some have a pistol, but no ammo. There’s plenty of .38 ammo to begin with, but if you hired someone with .45, you may run dry.
If you didn’t hire a medic: though luck. After taking a single hit your mercenary will continue bleeding out. If they seriously hit, they also lose HP… permanently.
The inventory space for each mercenary is very limited. So you also need to know that some of them come with useless items, like detonators without the explosives.
In general, you need to know a lot of stuff. On the first day you’re told that you can’t get any money until you find a stolen purifier chip. Where is it? Nobody tells you. I went north and found it on a mercenary there, but I wonder if I went west, would I be stuck without source of income for a few days?
On the other hand, if you know where to go first, you may be good, as some of the items are not random. For example there are some best vests (maximum inventory slots) in the first couple of sectors. If you know where to head first.
I think I didn’t know there were quick saves in the game. Otherwise I’d abuse that option as a kid. Although there’s just a single save for an entire day, a day may include multiple fights, and if you quit the game, that quick save is lost. How do I know that? Guess.
Another thing I surely didn’t know: there is a sneak move. It’s nowhere in the UI, you just need to read the manual to know that Shift is sneak modifier. How efficient sneaking is without cones of sight or any alert indication for that matter is another question. The only way I know enemies saw me is when the bullets start flying.
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