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If you’re obscured or otherwise unable to land a hit, your merc will tell you before you waste a shot. Sadly, the dreaded chance-to-hit mechanic is a feature, though if you have a clear shot you’ll hut more often than not. Once in combat, you’re on a square grid complete with full and half cover points, elevated vantage points, and environmental features. In certain situations, you’ll get the chance to deploy squad members wherever you like. Once you’re spotted, combat will initiate, and you’ll have a turn to get into cover or begin shooting. Each mercenary can be moved individually or in groups of however many you choose, and there’s an option to enter stealth mode and sneak around crouched to avoid detection. You can move freely around the map until you enter combat. Only a medic can bandage up your soldiers, adding yet another limitation.

You’ll be told how many enemy troops you’re against in each zone, but your gear is finite. Missions take place in grid-based maps, with each square representing a conflict zone you’ll need to move through. Once you’re deployed you’ll begin with basic equipment which you can improve by scavenging, salvaging, or upgrading in safe areas. It’s not quite the same as creating and customising your troops in XCOM, but it’s affecting nonetheless. This combined with the perma-death element is borderline genius, as it almost immediately forms a connection to the individual character. Interestingly, almost every mercenary I took on a mission had their own personality, name, fully voiced responses to NPCs and reactions. You can hire between four and six per mission, and it’s ideal to have a good spread of skills and abilities. More experienced mercenaries come with higher attributes, and more skills and abilities, but cost more initially. You select a group from a handful of premade mercenaries from archetypes such as engineers, medics, snipers, explosives specialists and assault experts. In the preview I was given $30,000 to put a squad together. I’ve recently been saying though a preview build that offers a deep dive into all elements of the gameplay, even with a handful of assets that are yet to be added.

You’re part of A.I.M, a mercenary outfit who puts together teams of hired guns for deadly missions though active war zones across the world. Sure you can opt to modify the difficulty, and there’s a suite of options to tailor the challenge, but the default mode is perma-death and autosave all the way. Jagged Alliance 3 is a hybrid of stealth and exploration, and XCOM-style turn-based combat that refuses to coddle you in any way.