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

[Reinhardt]

But if you win it early - you are pretty much ready for crisis. Their equip will let you stomp easily any enemy you can encounter at this point of the game.

 

[Murk]

It is also a legit challenge since they will use a lot of abilities, auxiliary items, and require a different approach than bandits or barbarians. It's a good test of your company's strength, but yeah I wouldn't fuck with it early on unless you're lucky enough to pull some neutral monsters/enemies into the fight to use as meat shields.

 

[Reinhardt]

The only legitimately scary thing when dealing with mercs is swordmasters. Because fuck swordmasters. They don't care about your tactics or other shit.

 

[Murk]

The only legitimately scary thing when dealing with mercs is swordmasters. Because fuck swordmasters. They don't care about your tactics or other shit.

They may have a named sword tho

 

[Grampy_Bone]

But if you win it early - you are pretty much ready for crisis. Their equip will let you stomp easily any enemy you can encounter at this point of the game.

One of them had a juicy looking warbrand. On the first try I sniped their crossbowman but the rest of their guys tore me to pieces. I'm willing to save scum like a degenerate but I don't think there's a winning scenario for my sub-80 armor bros.

 

[Monocause]

Then explain to me how it is trolling.

You're probably the only person on this board who ever used the words "Battle Brothers", "feminism" and "affirmative action" in a single post. Neither the SJWs nor Nazis bite. So it's not only trolling but it's also incompetent trolling. If it's not trolling, I assure you that everyone is much happier playing a cool game about dudes murdering other dudes and monsters for cash and loots rather than discussing this bullshit on the premise that BB is in any way shape or form a political statement.

But then again - is killing for cash ethical? Discuss

 

[Tigranes]

By the time I'm ever strong enough to take those guys on those named weapons usually aren't a huge deal anymore

Until my company, obsessed with a truly legendary weapon of which they have only heard rumours in taverns, will journey deep into the orc heartland to find it. The civilised world would never hear from them again.

 

[Razzoriel]

Then explain to me how it is trolling.

You're probably the only person on this board who ever used the words "Battle Brothers", "feminism" and "affirmative action" in a single post. Neither the SJWs nor Nazis bite. So it's not only trolling but it's also incompetent trolling. If it's not trolling, I assure you that everyone is much happier playing a cool game about dudes murdering other dudes and monsters for cash and loots rather than discussing this bullshit on the premise that BB is in any way shape or form a political statement.

But then again - is killing for cash ethical? Discuss

Everything is a political statement, even the complete absence of it. When you promote the emptiness of political imaginery in things and enforce it, you're promoting positivism, which wants to remove all ideologies. So in a way, you're being an ideologue by trying to promote lack of ideologies. Furthermore, I've asked opinions, nothing else. If you don't want to create an opinion, it's simple, ignore the post. You had to bite though, because you're probably oversaturated with the subject. That's fine, it's just not the truth that my original intent was to troll, however, and a simple search on some subjects would imply that.

No, it is not, regardless of how low the person to be killed is.

 

[Zariusz]

What do you think about plate armour in Legends mod? I think that BB had this unique climate of high medieval period and this dont work well there. Plate armour in such setting is like adding war planes to napoleonic wars.

 

[Tigranes]

I do enjoy going back to some of BB's earlier art styles. I think the current look is great, but there were some charming moments in the older ones that had a stronger old school / tabletop feel:

Honestly, I think I prefer the old world map.

 

[Dr Skeleton]

The old map also had rivers.

 

[Barbarian]

I do enjoy going back to some of BB's earlier art styles. I think the current look is great, but there were some charming moments in the older ones that had a stronger old school / tabletop feel:

Honestly, I think I prefer the old world map.

I agree.

Also, the banners were much better. There is a reason why historically coat of arms were like this(simple geometric shapes and simples designs). You know the ultra elaborate designs most of the current banners have? Who the fuck would paint a shield like that lol. Unless of course it was to be used in decoration and not in battle! I go REEEEEE every time I see those.

That is why I always autistically pick the few simples designs available for my companies(i.e: the raven or the kraken banners). It is ironic that the noble house designs are mostly very cool, simple graphics. Too bad they didn't go with a similar style for mercenary banners.

I have been dying for simple stuff such as a skull or skull and crossbones type banner, or even plain color banners(for a color based company name such as "black company" or "crimson company" or whatever) .You know, the type of cool imagery a mercenary company in such a setting would actually use! Instead we got stuff like tranny mermaid and other deviantart designs. Hopefully the new dlc will add cool ones such as the kraken banner that was added in m&e.

 

[Reinhardt]

The old map also had rivers.

AND GREENER PASTURES!

 

[Reinhardt]

There is nothing wrong with cool stuff attached to banner, but not every banner should be like that.

I, personally, want cross like this for my company

 

[Darth Canoli]

So this weekend I played this, had some fun, rage quit, uninstalled, and came crawling back and reinstalled.

Four times.

Last time was after beating a 3 skull bandit mission without a loss only to meet bounty hunters afterwards telling me my kill was now their kill.

I tried fighting them but lol nope, not happening. They one-shot doods every round with crossbows. Of course this is a special encounter with no way to avoid. Maybe I can run away after the battle starts?

I'll probably reinstall again after work.

Just had something similar but with orcs (legends mod) everything was alright until the game threw at me a group of orcs, not only there's more of them but they have orc warriors as well and we're talking day 30 or so.

After the dust settles, 2 rookies down, my fencer and another one with a permanent injury.

But the story doesn't end here, around day 45-50, at some point , i'm ambushed by another orc group, again, they have the numbers for them, like almost x2, but this time, a lot more of orc warriors and 3 special fucking orcs with their fucking war-cry giving them morale and having the Gheist effect on my guys ...

I was handling them from the top of a hill with 2 good archers and my seer when they made my hedge knight panic ...

Reloaded, tried to escape, failed and ran away as soon as the battle started, a fine strategy, if you ask me.
God bless the auto-save!

Tigranes early screens have a HoMM 2 feel as well.

 

[Tigranes]

Usually, modern depictions of medieval stuff tends to be a lot more ostentatious because people are going off the rare ceremonial piece that ends up in a museum - that beautiful jewel-encrusted solid gold handle sword was never used in combat, it was for some Italian prince's elaborate coronation, but it's the most spectacular thing in the museum.

That's not exactly the case with coat of arms, though. Interestingly, as far as I've read, coats of arms originated with tournaments, a more ceremonial setting to begin with, and only later expanded into actual battlefields (as well as civilian populations), so it wouldn't be quite ridiculous to imagine a derivative setting with quite elaborate coats even for mercenary companies. It is still rather fanciful to find things like the 'screaming souls in the underworld' banner.

 

[Reinhardt]

Well, mercs actually liked fancy stuff.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Swiss mercs. Don't fuck with the pope bros

German Landskneckts . SUPER FANCY LADS.

Italian Condottieri

Fantasy fiction is way too grim and dark. Real Battle Bros had SWAG.

 

[agris]

In artistic renderings, sure. In practice, if they were in battle, they were in stinking clothes that reeked of blood piss and sweat, and poorly tying off tourniquets for their friends while those around them died with exposed bones and severed organs.

Battle was not pretty, not even in France in the 1700s.

 

[Razzoriel]

In artistic renderings, sure. In practice, if they were in battle, they were in stinking clothes that reeked of blood piss and sweat, and poorly tying off tourniquets for their friends while those around them died with exposed bones and severed organs.

Battle was not pretty, not even in France in the 1700s.

You gotta look slick when your brother is hammering that arrow stuck in your thigh to remove it safely.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Running away worked. Why didn't I think of that last night?

aaaaand got double the quest award due to having the bounty



Until the next rage quit uninstall that is...

 

[Barbarian]

I see some warhammer art with those elaborate banners frequently, but honestly? The simpler stuff looks much better, specially if it matches the available helmet/armor colors(and most of the available banners DON'T). Also a matching painted shield that doesn't look like a professional painter spent 3 months working on it with paint and brushes(just for some random orc to smash it in 2 seconds).

Noble houses do look great and I wish I could get such a theme for my company. Well, not like a heraldic noble house style, but say a black shield with a simple logo(i.e: white skull) couples with matching shields and the black painted helmets. Likewise other simpler designs that match the available helmet paint colors. The Kraken banner is a good example, with the available crimson helmet paint.

Just the noble banners alone look better than most of what is available for the mercs, imho. Also it doesn't make much sense that the noble houses would go with simple and straitforward designs while the sellswords would go with elaborate drawings with golden decals and whatever.

 

[Harthwain]

Everything is a political statement, even the complete absence of it. When you promote the emptiness of political imaginery in things and enforce it, you're promoting positivism, which wants to remove all ideologies. So in a way, you're being an ideologue by trying to promote lack of ideologies.

Absence of something is proof of something?

 

[Darth Canoli]

I see some warhammer art with those elaborate banners frequently, but honestly? The simpler stuff looks much better, specially if it matches the available helmet/armor colors(and most of the available banners DON'T). Also a matching painted shield that doesn't look like a professional painter spent 3 months working on it with paint and brushes(just for some random orc to smash it in 2 seconds).

Noble houses do look great and I wish I could get such a theme for my company. Well, not like a heraldic noble house style, but say a black shield with a simple logo(i.e: white skull) couples with matching shields and the black painted helmets. Likewise other simpler designs that match the available helmet paint colors. The Kraken banner is a good example, with the available crimson helmet paint.

Just the noble banners alone look better than most of what is available for the mercs, imho. Also it doesn't make much sense that the noble houses would go with simple and straitforward designs while the sellswords would go with elaborate drawings with golden decals and whatever.

Or maybe you like them better because you can't have them ...

 

[Zariusz]

Ok but when we are going to have orc bros?