[BigJackBrass]

A very enjoyable and comprehensive review. Congratulations.

The assumption that players will want to "fight the system" does bar a number of very interesting possible adventures and campaign styles, although as others have mentioned this is so easily adjusted as to be a fairly small problem. Personally I very much enjoy the game despite its focus on being a "gutter runner"; to my mind it is entirely possible to include serious social commentary even if the player characters are in favour of the status quo.

A few errors, mostly pointed out in Heresy's errata document, do crop up, such as occasional references to the year being 1857 instead of 1867 (apparently a late change) and one I noticed today where a character is described as a "good Christian" even though the main religion of the setting is not actually Christianity, at least not in name. And some of the changes (the late start of the Crimean campaign and the late death of Napoleon) never made a great deal of sense to me... but overall I think the authors did a good job of tailoring an interesting setting to the needs of gamers. It really deserves more success than it seems to have had.