Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution

I dont understand how this is positively reviewed?

1. No ability to manage your army or garrisons.
Sitting on a million gold and fuel? Bad luck, go fight some battles and force your own units to die because those basic units you started with are unable to be disbanded despite you being able to afford some of the best units in the game now. Just such a massive thing thats missing, no idea how its out of early access.

2. No "Objectives"? The game is constantly telling me about stuff happening but i can never tell if im actually supposed to do anything about it or if its just flavor text because. I was just told stationing a colossi in the garrison would be good to keep the peace, and it was delievered in the exact same way as when i got told i should stop the king fleeing. Expect the king was a unit on the map i could interact with when i looked, but i dont seem to have the ability to add colossi to garisons. Neither was listed as an objective, how does the player know what they are supposed to act on?

3. I can only have one army it seems? So not only can i not dismiss units, i have an army with a 10 unit limit and am sitting on a ton of money but cant use it to create better units.

4. The combat is mediocre. Its fine. If the rest of the game was good, it would serve. But combat seems to be the main part of the game. The national convention has limited policies where only one or two seem to do anything interesting, the strategic map also seems fairly limited in what you can build or do, everything is incredibly basic when compared to any otehr game in the genre, which means it needs a good story and the ability to interact with that story to make it stand out, and after a few hours playing its just not doing it.

As someone who came into this looking for either an interesting grand strategy game or an alternate historical game where i could make some interesting decisions in a revolution, ive been thoroughly underwhelmed and cant understand why this is in the "positive" range or reviews, it feels so bare bones i could be playing a game just entering early access, not a game thats supposedly launched into 1.0.

Nicely done for a first Early Access version. The game was easy to pick up and play, and the user interface provided the information I intuitively looked for. I did play an earlier version and the jump in quality is very noticeable. I didn’t run into any showstopping technical issues, everything ran smoothly. I enjoyed the early combats and diplomacy, and it seems like there’s a lot of depth to it.

Actions could have more musical / sound feedback (buttons, end of turn, etc.), dialogues could be shorter, and a few UX tricks could make the experience even more enjoyable for me, but overall playing Bonaparte felt robust and satisfying. Looking forward to seeing how it evolves!

I've been playing this game for a short little while and I really like how it feels like a familiar mix of the UI from hearts of iron with plenty of explanation as to where is what, what resources are used for, etc. Overall is an interesting twist on historical events. I wish there was more explanation as to why the mechs are there though, I feel like it's a major missing plot point?

I absolutely recommend this game and can't wait to keep going. Death to the king! For the People! Vive la révolution, vive la France!

The only negative thing I have to say about it is that the French translation looks like it was made by someone who doesn't speak French. There's lots of sentences that either make no sense, have the wrong determinant or pronoun, or is an English sentence, with a direct translation to French without the proper sentence structure. I'd be happy to help out!