Government reinforcements arrive in Heroes of the Revolution update

It’s now harder to fight city hall.

There was a big update last week for one of the year’s real underdogs: Cuban rebel wargame Heroes of the Revolution, an experience that I was quite fond of despite some wooly flaws. A couple of those flaws are addressed head-on in the new patch, which (thank the gods) adds the option to skip the tedious dice-rolling animations. There’s also new recruits for the enemy Cuban regime’s army – in version 1.0 Batista’s boys were an olive drab fly for your rebel juggernaut to swat by the late game, as their strength didn’t scale along with yours very well. Hopefully the new update means that there’s a good level of challenge all the way through.

There’s also an update to disable the in-game music, though why you’d want to turn off that saucy little Cuban guitar number is beyond me.

Read my review of Heroes of the Revolution, which is available on iOS for three bucks. I talked to GamerNationX boss John Ellenberger last week and he’s already cooking up some new ideas for his next title.

Dig that soundtrack.