Never before was the sequel to a turnbased strategy game that much fun, never before a dictator so ruthless and yet so hilarious, never before was a game so captivating.
The land is Arulco, your mission is to kick Deidranna Chivaldori from the throne. Your contractor? Enrico Chivaldori, her husband who had to fake his death in order to escape the nation. Now in exile he gives you everything he has to stop his ex-wife from oppressing the people. A myriad of characters roam Arulco in both the cities and the countryside, both helpful and dangerous. It is a long way before you free the nation and serve the queen a bullet between the eyes. And Deidranna Chivaldori is a very dangerous and driven woman...
Each mercenary you can hire either in Arulco or from AIM and/or MERC has his/her own set of dialogue to a myriad of situations. Each merc has his/her own personality and will act accordingly.
The game itself was patched by the developers to the version 1.12, however the community took the torch and modded a communitypatch together, version 1.13, which brings more options into the game. Make the game as hard or easy to play as you want it to be. Even to this day, there are projects that not only add new features and 1.13 adds TONS of features, but also an arsenal worthy to wage a world war in Arulco. Think outside the box. You are no national army, you can throw at them whatever you want... Forbidden mustard gas or thermobaric missiles? You name it! There is also an addition on the way that is called AIMNAS that adds even more items to the game as well as bigger sector maps. Yes, you read that right: The community was able to edit new sector maps several times bigger than vanilla maps. From the 256 sector maps on the surface currently in the game, the subterrain ones not included, only about 50 to 60 remain to be built.
In short: The vanilla game is awesome and has replayability, the modded game has replayability beyond compare. Everyone should own this gem of a game.