Burrito Studio's latest update for Highlands shares a few images that help to explain the game mechanics. As for the game it still needs $9.000 to get funded.
More information.More Game Mechanics Explained!
Let’s resume our mid-campaign crusade explaining the gameplay features of Highlands!
Wounded Characters
Academics will use your food resources to prepare potions and ointments that will heal characters injured in battle.
Upgrades!
Academics will also spend their time testing strange contraptions and try to discover new ways to make your resistance more effective.
For instance they can increase the ballistic range of a bombardment or find ingenious ways for your mechanics to make their barricades stronger.
Special Buildings
Here are a few of the special buildings you'll want to secure and defend along your way.
Tavern: a place to meet wanderers and know the local folks. Use leadership points to recruit people and assign leaders to generate leadership points each turn.
Workshop: where your mechanics have all their tools to craft weapons, grenades and other useful items.
Medical Ward: a building where you can assign characters that are very injured. They will not be able to perform any other action but will recover Combat Points more quickly.
Barracks: a building where your combatants will train and setup artillery bombardment.