What is Burn Notice?:
Burn Notice is a TV series on the USA Network created by Matt Nix and centering on Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan), a CIA operative who is suddenly blacklisted ("burned") for reasons unknown. Stuck in Miami, Michael begins putting his myriad talents to work helping desperate people out of desperate situations. Assisting him are his former IRA operative demolitions-expert girlfriend Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar), his amiable gold-digging ex-Navy SEAL buddy Sam (Bruce Campbell), and, from Season 4 onwards, burned CIA counterintelligence agent Jesse (Coby Bell). The series has just completed its fifth season, with the sixth scheduled to air this summer.


What is Jagged Alliance 2?:
Jagged Alliance 2 is a turn-based tactical RPG created by Sir-Tech Canada and originally released in 1999. The game places the player in the role of a mercenary hired by the exiled President of the tiny island nation of Arulco and charged with the task of killing the despotic Queen Deidranna and restoring liberty and prosperity to Arulco's people. The game was very well regarded when it was released for its mix of tactical and strategic gameplay, RPG elements, characterization of the various mercenaries you can hire, and replay value, but its longevity was assured in 2004 when the source code was released under license. In the last eight years, the thriving mod community has created (and continues to improve upon) Jagged Alliance 1.13, a mod that adds a huge number of improvements to the original game and externalizes most of the settings to enable players to tweak the game experience to exactly what they want. For those who are interested in learning more, please see the Jagged Alliance 2 thread, which is full of useful information and links (including details on where to buy the game).


What is Burn Notice: A Jagged Alliance?:
Burn Notice: A Jagged Alliance is a Let's Play featuring Burn Notice's Michael, Fiona, Sam, and Jesse becoming entangled in Arulco's resistance against evil Queen Deidranna. It won't quite be the typical JA2 experience; with four very good, very free, and very plot-armored soldiers in the Burn Notice characters, the game will lose a good chunk of the challenge. However, I'm hoping that the straight-up fun of Mike and crew running around Arulco shooting poo poo up will keep this LP modestly interesting (naturally, here and there I will be taking some liberties with the original JA2 story to better fit the characters). In terms of the Burn Notice timeline, this episode would seem to fit best somewhere around the first episode of Season Five.

Although I will be playing through the tactical battles myself and posting the results, I plan on soliciting input from the thread on strategic moves (which city to attack next, which mercs to hire, how to equip the characters, etc.). Preference will be given to advice that can be justified as being generally 'in-character' for Mike, Fi, Sam, and Jesse, and requests that are blatantly out-of-character will be shunned (i.e., no massacring of the Hicks just for their gear).