History YMMV / SymphonyOfWar

* ScrappyMechanic: There is a bit of a SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear matter going on with the story-centric characters and their squads. At several points, characters will leave the army for plot reasons, often for quite a few chapters. They take their squads with them. While this ensures that they are still combat-ready upon their return, the fact that players have almost complete freedom to customize squads means you can arbitrarily lose access to units you may have quite liked or depended on purely because you put them on a story character, while, had you had the foresight to assign them to a generic officer instead, you could've kept using them. While it's always possible to raise up replacements, you may be reluctant to do so given that the story character with the original squad could return at any point and then you'd just end up with a surplus of one unit type. To give one noteable example, Lysander, who you may have well put all your gunpowder units on due to his beneficial skill, is at one point absent for a solid ''seven'' chapters.

* ScrappyMechanic: There is a bit of a SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear matter going on with the story-centric characters and their squads. At several points, characters will leave the army for plot reasons, often for quite a few chapters. They take their squads with them. While this ensures that they are still combat-ready upon their return, the fact that players have almost complete freedom to customize squads means you can arbitrarily lose access to units you may have quite liked or depended on purely because you put them on a story character, while, had you had the foresight to assign them to a generic officer instead, you could've kept using them. While it's always possible to raise up replacements, you may be reluctant to do so given that the story character with the original squad could return at any point and then you'd just end up with a surplus of one unit type. To give one noteable example, Lysander, who you may have well put ''all'' your gunpowder units on due to his beneficial skill, is at one point absent for a solid ''seven'' chapters.

* ScrappyMechanic: There is a bit of a SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear matter going on with the story-centric characters and their squads. At several points, characters will leave the army for plot reasons, often for quite a few chapters. They take their squads with them. While this ensures that they are still combat-ready upon their return, the fact that players have almost complete freedom to customize squads means you can arbitrarily lose access to units you may have quite liked or depended on purely because you put them on a story character, while, had you had the foresight to assign them to a generic officer instead, you could've kept using them. While it's always possible to raise up replacements, you may be reluctant to do so given that the story character with the original squad could return at any point and then you'd just end up with a surplus of one unit type. To give one noteable example, Lysander, who you may have well put ''all'' your gunpowder units on due to his beneficial skill, is absent for a solid ''seven'' chapters.

* ScrappyMechanic: There is a bit of a SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear matter going on with the story-centric characters and their squads. At several points, characters will leave the army for plot reasons, often for quite a few chapters. They take their squads with them. While this ensures that they are still combat-ready upon their return, the fact that players have almost complete freedom to customize squads means you can arbitrarily lose access to units you may have quite liked or depended on purely because you put them on a story character, while, had you had the foresight to assign them to a generic officer instead, you could've kept using them. While it's always possible to raise up replacements, you may be reluctant to do so given that the story character with the original squad could return at any point and then you'd just end up with a surplus of one unit type.

* ScrappyMechanic: There is a bit of a SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear matter going on with the story-centric characters and their squads. At several points, characters will leave the army for plot reasons, often for quite a few chapters. They take their squads with them. While this ensures that they are still combat-ready upon their return, the fact that players have almost complete freedom to customize squads means you can arbitrarily lose access to units you may have quite liked or depended on purely because you put them on a story character, while, had you had the foresight to assign them to a generic officer instead, you could've kept using them. While it's always possible to raise up replacements, you may be reluctant to do so given that they could return at any point and then you'd just end up with a surplus of one unit type.

* ScrappyMechanic: There is a bit of a SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear matter going on with the story-centric characters and their squads. At several points, characters will leave the army for plot reasons, often for quite a few chapters. They take their squads with them. While this ensures that they are still combat-ready upon their return, the fact that players have almost complete freedom to customize squads means you can arbitrarily lose access to units you may have quite liked or depended on purely because you put them on a story character, while, had you had the foresight to assign them to a generic officer instead, you could've kept using them.

* PlayTheGameSkipTheStory: Consensus among critics and players alike is that the gameplay is excellent, but the story is lackluster at best.

* ClicheStorm: The game's setting, plot and characters all are constructed from elements you have seen many times before, played perfectly straight with almost no twists. It's still put together well enough to make for an enjoyable experience.