YMMV / Rise of the White Sun

• Good Bad Bugs: One of the civilian class abilities is "Supervise". The intended use is to speed up all the ongoing projects in a specific territory by 10%. What it actually does is make all projects progress by 10%, including those not yet started and those from higher tiers. It also causes all three tiers of the Arsenal to progress all at once, meaning you have in the same time Gun Workshop and Arsenal I, II and III running alongside each other, providing a silly amount of rifles and support weapons - and you can then upgrade the regular way the workshop into 2nd Arsenal I or even all the way up to 2nd Arsenals III. With a bit of fiddling around^note You must manage your buildings in such a way that lower tiers finish before higher ones of the same line, or you risk losing some of the bonuses from the higher tier, it is possible to finish all possible constructions in a specific territory within 6-10 turns, depending on number of characters you have that can use that ability. Needless to say, it completely breaks the whole game when done in even just one province - and there is really nothing preventing you from just moving to the next province and repeating the process.
• Scrappy Mechanic: There is close to zero control over how many troops you are going to be Press-Ganged into your armies. Same with coolies. Except when you have too many, it does dunk the combat efficiency of the whole army and, much worse, makes it harder to manoeuvre such unit around the map, since it will require far greater support and will loot harder for forage. Trying to "shrink" it via combat and looting will turn soldiers disloyal, while still hurting your economy anyway.
• Underused Game Mechanic:
  • One can completely ignore the inner party management, other than appointing your best commander as the top military inspector, offering few additional options. But the rest of the related mini-game and balance of power is entirely ignorable, despite on paper making quarter of the gameplay.
  • Using troops to help with various projects. There are only a few who can "benefit" from it, and it's difficult to tell if the option is bugged or a Schmuck Bait, given that it frequently causes more problems rather than solving them. Even then, one would think sending local militias to help with road construction or digging irrigation ditches would play a bigger role, given the setting.

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