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No expiration date. I usually work by milestone.
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Incline Battle Brothers + Beasts & Exploration, Warriors of the North and Blazing Deserts DLC Thread
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No expiration date. I usually work by milestone.
Anthony Davis
Blizzard Entertainment
I don't know if any of the BB devs are still here - I just want to let you know that I still have the game installed and I would still pay money for more content. Even just more mobs, events, whatever.
I understand the business and there might not be a return there for the the work - and the last thing I want is for you all to stop making games...
I guess what I'm saying is I'm ready to give you more money for something. More content or a new game.
EDIT: The reason why I made this post is because this thread keeps showing up as having activity, and each time I get my hopes up that some new info or new stuff is being added. Alas, that has only been the case once, when the Wyrm was added.
I understand the business and there might not be a return there for the the work - and the last thing I want is for you all to stop making games...
I guess what I'm saying is I'm ready to give you more money for something. More content or a new game.
EDIT: The reason why I made this post is because this thread keeps showing up as having activity, and each time I get my hopes up that some new info or new stuff is being added. Alas, that has only been the case once, when the Wyrm was added.
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Sarissofoi
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They're Germans, I appeal to their Easter
You doing it wrong Jim. They are Germans. You should appeal to their fuhrer.
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They're Germans, I appeal to their Easter
You doing it wrong Jim. They are Germans. You should appeal to their fuhrer.
Ivan
Arcane
Just started my first playthrough. Learning the ropes on Beginner and I've been getting whooped. Finally did my first real fight without any casualties. I doubt I will replay fights to perfection once I get the mechanics down. Also, is there no way to gauge difficulty when taking on contracts/ encountering battle maps in the wild?
Prime Junta
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The contracts are tagged with one, two, or three skulls depending on difficulty. Three-skull contracts are usually pret-ty murderous.
In the wild you can see the type and rough number of enemies by attacking, at which point you still have the option to withdraw.
If you get jumped though you're SOL.
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Sarissofoi
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<shoot us>
Hm.
Its a challenge or something?
Hm.
Its a challenge or something?
Need to check if that granpda post German Mauser is still working. I mean if they asking so nice.
Ivan
Arcane
Any tips? While my solders are leveling up, my gear progression has been completely ZERO. Not sure if I'm playing this "right." I'm completing the Ambitions (one remaining) and taking on 1 to 2 skull contracts. It's starting to feel like a grind.
welcome to battle brothers
enjoy your stay
Unless your bros are still using pitchforks and wearing straw hats and rags, this isn't true. You're not going to see vorpal blades and wands of meteor storm.
Prime Junta
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It is a grind. The only way I know of to lessen the grind is to not play in ironman mode and take on high-risk contracts; those shake things up a bit. But then you'll end up savescumming a lot if you don't want to go bankrupt or die outright.
As to gear, there are basically four ways to get it: find it, claim it, buy it, or hire it. To find it, listen to tavern rumours and follow them. To claim it, pick fights with bandit chiefs. To buy it, grind grind grind until you have the money, then buy it. To hire it, grind grind grind until you have the money, then hire a really expensive bro.
IMO the early game is a tremendous amount of fun but once you hit mid-levels and mid-tier gear it just becomes a chore. I've only ever even gotten to the endgame crisis twice and they were ... disappointing.
Put another way, it's a really good, tough but fair TB combat mode with the bare bones of an actual game around it... and some rather nice flavour text.
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Also Ivan there is the stabby-stab tactic that you should be aware of and can provide with good armor early on:
Daggers have an attack that bypasses armor so you can isolate an enemy with good armor and have all your bros carry an extra knife so that they can all (or the 6 that can hit him anyway) stab him without damaging his armor.
You see in BB, if the enemy's armor is destroyed it won't drop as well. But with this method it will
Also to get special gear you have to go out of your way and raid encampments. Pay in taverns to learn info. Eventually they will tell you where some legendary item is
Daggers have an attack that bypasses armor so you can isolate an enemy with good armor and have all your bros carry an extra knife so that they can all (or the 6 that can hit him anyway) stab him without damaging his armor.
You see in BB, if the enemy's armor is destroyed it won't drop as well. But with this method it will
Also to get special gear you have to go out of your way and raid encampments. Pay in taverns to learn info. Eventually they will tell you where some legendary item is
Prime Junta
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Yep, pulling out the daggers is a good tactic. Can be risky and tricky though.
Don't forget about flails and clubs/maces either, you can target the head with those which spares the armour. They're also excellent weapons in their own right.
Don't forget about flails and clubs/maces either, you can target the head with those which spares the armour. They're also excellent weapons in their own right.
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Specifically flails have an attack that aims for the head. Maces/clubs I think only have a stunning attack? I'm not sure it hits only head armor
Nice weapon types both though
Prime Junta
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I'm pretty sure the stunning attack targets the head.
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Sarissofoi
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Do not forget about nets. They greatly reduce enemy defense and make him more easily stabbed.
But yeah its a grind. Whole game is just looking for better gear and better soldiers.
Most fun is in early levels when you have mostly disposable rag tag band of losers. Later its just to much grind to replace loses so harder difficulties are more frustrating, there is also level scaling...
No, maces Knock out do not hit only head. Tested 5 sec ago - it hit randomly body too but if you use the lightest one its great to stun enemy so he not attack back and they do little damage to heavy armored ones. Great with net combination.
But yeah its a grind. Whole game is just looking for better gear and better soldiers.
Most fun is in early levels when you have mostly disposable rag tag band of losers. Later its just to much grind to replace loses so harder difficulties are more frustrating, there is also level scaling...
No, maces Knock out do not hit only head. Tested 5 sec ago - it hit randomly body too but if you use the lightest one its great to stun enemy so he not attack back and they do little damage to heavy armored ones. Great with net combination.
C.H.A.R.L.I.E
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I disagree with that. Your're looking for better soldiers and gear so you can beat the next milestone challenge. 3 skull contracts, first orc warband, camps in the wilderness, sea of tents. After i beat the black monolith i consider that playthrough complete.
Quatlo
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Its not really a grind when you start to understand what kind of gear you need for your bros to actually become effective murderfuckers. There is a couple of things you need to do to turn your bunch of retards into semi-working war machine and after you level them up or hire some better dudes enemies like bandit raiders become laughable loot piniatas that barely even scratch you.
The most important thing is to get heather shields, I cant stress this enough, they turn even the biggest retard into unhittable Neo with shield wall, every city and keep you go through make sure to get those from the armoursmith. Second thing you should care about is getting some decent weapon composition. Spears are shit except when fighting monsters or your bro is half blind and has 40 melee skill, from my experience Bandit Raiders very often have flails with them, which are excellent weapon for your every decently melee skilled bro, every fight you have 2-3 morons that forgot their hats that you can instagib with flails, that nets you their armour for free from the get go. Flails also go around enemy shields which are pain in the ass in the beggining, so although they dont have any to hit chance bonus, they dont get the enemy shield malus so its pretty much the same as using a spear, except you actually deal some damage. Flails and hammers also deal the best debuffs in the game.
Dont split shields unless you know you are going to kill the guy this round, otherwise instead of cowering behind his shitty wooden board he will get the two handed grip damage bonus and go berserk at your dudes.
Backstabber and crippling blows are AWESOME for your bros with reach in the second row, you usually level up bros with pikes or longaxes or even pitchforks, with backstabber position them on flanks and they easily turn the tide of battle. Just dont give backstabber to guys you know are going to be front line after leveling, but for sarge or dedicated billman its awesome.
Now, getting armour is the difficult part, you really want to have some chainmail by day 5 or something like that so you can actually do every contract instead of phishing for easy, barely paying jobs.
Consider having a specialist stun-bro with some mace early on when you have no armour so you can stun the enemy you want to peel from armour, its even good to give that stupid mace to one of your most accurate bros so you can reliably stun your target. Now, you NEED to have a dagger or at least a knife on everyone, they dont cost any stamina to wear so when you see an opportune target to steal items from you just knife the motherfucker to death while surrounding him for maximum flanking bonus. Bandit leaders become a walking pinatas of loot if you block them with your best tank, they always start behind their dudes so before they enter the fight usually a couple of enemies are dead, then you just whack 2-3 more dudes, start a rout, and surround poor leader with your knifebros.
The only problem I constantly have is to actually find competent recruits, its stupid that you have no idea what your recruit can do besides his background and name title they sometimes have. Trying to find a competent duelist candidate is such a pain in the ass I've never actually fielded one.
The most important thing is to get heather shields, I cant stress this enough, they turn even the biggest retard into unhittable Neo with shield wall, every city and keep you go through make sure to get those from the armoursmith. Second thing you should care about is getting some decent weapon composition. Spears are shit except when fighting monsters or your bro is half blind and has 40 melee skill, from my experience Bandit Raiders very often have flails with them, which are excellent weapon for your every decently melee skilled bro, every fight you have 2-3 morons that forgot their hats that you can instagib with flails, that nets you their armour for free from the get go. Flails also go around enemy shields which are pain in the ass in the beggining, so although they dont have any to hit chance bonus, they dont get the enemy shield malus so its pretty much the same as using a spear, except you actually deal some damage. Flails and hammers also deal the best debuffs in the game.
Dont split shields unless you know you are going to kill the guy this round, otherwise instead of cowering behind his shitty wooden board he will get the two handed grip damage bonus and go berserk at your dudes.
Backstabber and crippling blows are AWESOME for your bros with reach in the second row, you usually level up bros with pikes or longaxes or even pitchforks, with backstabber position them on flanks and they easily turn the tide of battle. Just dont give backstabber to guys you know are going to be front line after leveling, but for sarge or dedicated billman its awesome.
Now, getting armour is the difficult part, you really want to have some chainmail by day 5 or something like that so you can actually do every contract instead of phishing for easy, barely paying jobs.
Consider having a specialist stun-bro with some mace early on when you have no armour so you can stun the enemy you want to peel from armour, its even good to give that stupid mace to one of your most accurate bros so you can reliably stun your target. Now, you NEED to have a dagger or at least a knife on everyone, they dont cost any stamina to wear so when you see an opportune target to steal items from you just knife the motherfucker to death while surrounding him for maximum flanking bonus. Bandit leaders become a walking pinatas of loot if you block them with your best tank, they always start behind their dudes so before they enter the fight usually a couple of enemies are dead, then you just whack 2-3 more dudes, start a rout, and surround poor leader with your knifebros.
The only problem I constantly have is to actually find competent recruits, its stupid that you have no idea what your recruit can do besides his background and name title they sometimes have. Trying to find a competent duelist candidate is such a pain in the ass I've never actually fielded one.
Ivan
Arcane
recruits pugilist only to discover he's good at archery
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