>>713242468 (OP)>any tips? Agility is really important in this game, it affects your movement speed and the number of action points you have. Wisdom is another really important stat, you can't gain wisdom from skill books, only through random chance. So characters with low wisdom stats are going to be unable to get the higher level wisdom related perks.
Heavier armours lower the amount of free moves that you have, and there's perks to extend that range. Leapfrog for example gives 6 tiles of guaranteed free move if you start the turn in cover. Generally speaking having free moves and exploiting them is good.
Flanking is a little weird in JA3, you need the enemy in a crossfire between two characters, but once you have it every character is able to take advantage of the flank. An enemy that's flanked only improves your damage, in order to improve the chance to hit you need to either get around their cover, break it, or inflict the Exposed status effect (shotguns are the most ready source of it, I think you need Saltshot)
>How does one initiate combat?If you want multiple characters to shoot then you need to put them on overwatch first. I can't remember if that kills their turn or not, but I don't think it does. The best weapon to do that are machineguns, because they can be readied which gives automatic overwatches but uses a lot of ammo.
Otherwise, just pay attention to your team comps, you ideally want a psycho/scoundrel/negotiator in your main team. You have 9 perks you can take for each character, some are pre-chosen. The weapons you use are important too, some have better aim bonuses than others, some can get situationally better mods. Try not to rush mines too early too, it'll progress the story and you'll miss some content because of it. When you get to the mainland a good route to take is a circle from Fleatown, up the river, then across to the top-left mine, then back down to Fleatown.
