Incline Battle Brothers + Beasts & Exploration, Warriors of the North and Blazing Deserts DLC Thread

[Norfleet]

Battle Brothers ⅃L: Modern Warfare

So, what, like JA2, but without legs?

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

I'm just saying bringing gunpowder into BB is a slippery slope.

Single-shot gonne might be somewhat interesting addition, but grenades will be tricky (or very under powered) in game that is mostly about tight formations.

 

[Brancaleone]

Most likely it's a naphtha / naphtha + sulphur incendiary bomb.

 

[Reinhardt]

I just want proper sieges and siege machines. Make greenskin machines operable!

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

I just want proper sieges and siege machines. Make greenskin machines operable!

Drums of War could scratch that itch.

 

[Reinhardt]

Oh, i see now. Because first result was... unexpected...

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Oh, i see now. Because first result was... unexpected...

Warbanners is good too.

 

[Old Hans]

I just want proper sieges and siege machines. Make greenskin machines operable!

waiting outside the castle for months on end as your men die of sickeness

 

[Reinhardt]

For some reason sometimes i don't see it too... So reuploaded

My body is ready.

 

[Zariusz]

When you play Solo Crusader in Legends mod and you fight with bandits

 

[Alienman]

Impressive armor, the bolt from the crossbow just bounced off

If it was Battle Brothers that would have been a crit to the face and game over.

 

[Murk]

I love battle scenes where the guys not immediately engaged with the protagonist are just flailing around in the background at thin air.

 

[Reinhardt]

Hey, no cheating! Only ajanced hexes and one crossbowman.

 

[Geckabor]

Losing brothers seriously hurts my soul.

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Maybe I should stop playing ironman mode.

 

[Harthwain]

Losing brothers seriously hurts my soul.

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Maybe I should stop playing ironman mode.

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Play Deserters. They can outrun everything.

 

[Zariusz]

Game says that losing is fun. I certainly wasnt feeling fun when my starting bros died after many hours of playing.

 

[Murk]

The tragedy of the loss of a brother you had from the very start to what is sometimes a careless mistake is part of the experience.

As is restarting until you get iron lungs n shit.

 

[Johannes]

Losing in this game is not fun, since what will happen is you'll just grind your way to get to the same position. Totally different from Dwarf Fortress or such, where taking losses often takes you to a totally novel gameplay situation. And restarting is not fast like in a roguelike either.

 

[Tigranes]

I'm not sure I would enjoy this game if I never lost any bros. Then I'm just riding a safe boring linear trajectory upwards. There's no sense of danger, and all my dudes are clearly defined powerhouses by like level 6-7. The battles I really remember are the ones where I make it out but Starting Bro loses an eye, his grand sacrifice changing him from the master bowyer to a barely competent shieldman, and eventually causing his ignomious death to a low level enemy's lucky crit after months of fine service. Or it's about seeing that dude get an arrow in the lung and thinking he's a goner, but somehow he soldiers on to save his fellow bros battle after battle as long as he takes a 3 turn break after each swing.

I do agree that there's a design limitation about how repetitive it might feel to raise a new bro, partly because of how recruitment works. But anybody who just wants to walk around with 12 iron lungs clones and reload on every death can go fuck themselves with a wet copy of Oblivion

 

[Murk]

I had one campaign where two bros had shitty vision to begin with and lost even more through injuries. At night, they couldn't see for shit, like 1 hex at best.

Was such a weird situation to realize what was going on when I moved the other bros away from them and went "wtf" only to put that 2+2 = I'mfuckedlol with them alone.

One was a duelist

He truly became the blindniggasamurai

 

[Zanzoken]

I'm not sure I would enjoy this game if I never lost any bros. Then I'm just riding a safe boring linear trajectory upwards. There's no sense of danger, and all my dudes are clearly defined powerhouses by like level 6-7...

... I do agree that there's a design limitation about how repetitive it might feel to raise a new bro, partly because of how recruitment works. But anybody who just wants to walk around with 12 iron lungs clones and reload on every death can go fuck themselves with a wet copy of Oblivion.

I agree with all this, but it doesn't change the fact that getting bros killed is harshly penalizing due to the lengthy and/or expensive process of training replacements. If I recall correctly it takes around 30 battles to get a bro to that level 6 or 7 threshold you mentioned. Losing a few of those guys in short order may not technically be a game over, but I am not willing to endure the many hours of grind it takes to recover.

If that is what the devs were going for with the design, then fair enough... "git gud" is a valid response here. But if the game had faster progression, a flatter power curve, or some other adjustment to make character deaths a bit less punitive, then I'd be more apt to take risks and keep playing through adverse circumstances.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Do you guys not use reserves or what? If you have to train up a bro from scratch every time somebody kicks it you're doing something wrong.

 

[Reinhardt]

Play peasant horde - everyone will be equally pathetic low level hobo.

 

[vazha]

I am ok with losing the initial spear dude, slightly less so the crossbowman, but the two hander bro? Just no. Reload.

 

[hivemind]

Losing in this game is not fun, since what will happen is you'll just grind your way to get to the same position. Totally different from Dwarf Fortress or such, where taking losses often takes you to a totally novel gameplay situation. And restarting is not fast like in a roguelike either.

i got dogpilled on in this thread several times for pointing this out btw

just sayin