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

[Darth Canoli]

I like shields, and I got one front-line two-hander, with a bunch of dudes that throw javelins and use 2tile-reach weapons. And the sling-guy is just a personal meme thing, he have used that thing since the beginning but I'm really I'm starting to like it. He does some serious damage to people without helmets, and a hit usually has a stun effect too.

I don't really meta in any game, so I don't follow the best optimized killing scheme.

The more damage you can ditch, the less you take in return, i just can't play a defensive party in BB, the more the combat drag, the more the RNG is likely to fuck you up.
Also, there's a shitload of combat and heavy offense makes them shorter.

And i don't meta either, after playing BB (Legends in my case) a couple of times, you know how things work.
But don't worry about it, it was just my two cents.

It's also fun (even if slower than regular 2 sides battles) to join ongoing battles.

 

[Hobo Elf]

I had decided to start over last Friday. Now that I know a bit more about the game I wanted to do things a bit differently. Also with more knowledge I now realize how important map seeds are and my first one was pretty awful. Hardly any big cities and every place rolled poorly for buildings, i.e there were hardly any. Even the southern states were quite empty. Tbh this is one thing I definitely do not like in the game. I wish it had the option to se some parameters for frequency of things to pop up in the world. Instead I found a fun seed now and it's unlikely I'll play on anything else.

Anyway, this time I took the Perk that gives you more XP and Gifted for an instant level up and my start was a lot smoother. Colossus seemed like a really good choice when I started as a newbie which is why I gave it to everyone, but I came to realize that it's almost a trap choice as armor is where it's all at. I find that the early perks are somewhat situational and the stats you get from leveling up matter more, and having faster access to the mid tier perks is great since they are less situational. I don't see Gifted as a wasted perk since most of the guys you have at the start are going to get replaced by better ones anyway.

I have two guys throwing axes and spears and they're really beastly. I also have an archer but it feels like he misses most of the time (despite having the best ratkt) and when he doesn't it's not all that effective. Good for sniping enemy archers, but I think a Crossbowman would've served me better. Did some trading and got a massive amount of wealth pretty fast and was able to kit my ddues with decent 100 dura armor and helmets, which makes a big difference at making the early game less of a RNG fest.

I fought an Alp but didn't really like it. Feels like there's only one way you can reasonably expect to win this creature, which is to stun it with a mace. At the time I didn't have anyone with a mace. I think having pros and cons on weapons is good, but this kind of railroaded gimmicky enemy design where it at least feels impossible if you don't fight against the enemy the exact way the developer intended is not so great imo. Also fought some giant yeti/ogre guy who I liked a lot more. He was cool.

The music is pretty underrated. Overall I think it's a great soundtrack, especially the world and battle themes of the south.

 

[Darth Canoli]

I fought an Alp but didn't really like it. Feels like there's only one way you can reasonably expect to win this creature, which is to stun it with a mace. At the time I didn't have anyone with a mace.

Or you just one-shot him with a two-handed bro...

Anyway, this time I took the Perk that gives you more XP and Gifted for an instant level up and my start was a lot smoother. Colossus seemed like a really good choice when I started as a newbie which is why I gave it to everyone, but I came to realize that it's almost a trap choice as armor is where it's all at. I find that the early perks are somewhat situational and the stats you get from leveling up matter more, and having faster access to the mid tier perks is great since they are less situational. I don't see Gifted as a wasted perk since most of the guys you have at the start are going to get replaced by better ones anyway.

There's the exceptional bros, you don't want to mess with their build, every perk count and there's the bad and average ones who will die to protect the formers, theirs builds have to be efficient right away and it doesn't matter if it's not optimized for the end game nor for mid-game for that matter.

By the way, there's a war out there, pretty much like Gothic old camp versus new camp, it's nimble bros vs armored bros.

Spoiler

And of course nimble berserkers with two-handed weapons are the best.

I have two guys throwing axes and spears and they're really beastly. I also have an archer but it feels like he misses most of the time (despite having the best ratkt) and when he doesn't it's not all that effective. Good for sniping enemy archers, but I think a Crossbowman would've served me better

Don't give a bow to new recruit, don't give a bow to an average recruit either.
The way of the bow is the way of excellency, only the best make good archers and they're a lethal weapon capable of killing a unhold by themselves, they're orc berserkers nemesis, direwolves and hexens will run away when they spot them from afar.
First, you give them an arbalest and when they get 75+ ratk and bow mastery, they're ready to be apprentice archers.
When they reach 90-100+ they'll crush your enemies, see them driven before you and you'll hear the lamentations of their women...

 

[Barbarian]

Can't deny this game has staying power. Every couple of months I keep getting back to it.

Itt, thematically I have decided Northern Raiders to be the best origin. Love that Bob Howard esque start. Just wish it had more events.

 

[Jrpgfan]

Can't deny this game has staying power. Every couple of months I keep getting back to it.

Itt, thematically I have decided Northern Raiders to be the best origin. Love that Bob Howard esque start. Just wish it had more events.

Not to mention every new DLC, you can't help it and buy it to play another 300h.

 

[Shaki]

Can't deny this game has staying power. Every couple of months I keep getting back to it.

Itt, thematically I have decided Northern Raiders to be the best origin. Love that Bob Howard esque start. Just wish it had more events.

Not to mention every new DLC, you can't help it and buy it to play another 300h.

Same on every new release of Legends mod

 

[Space Satan]

I always get back to it because, well, WHAT IF I will used my two-handed cleaver instead ofregular zweihander? Or Flail headhunter duelist? Or go full choppa? Or have berserker with orc two-handed axe?

 

[Old One]

I've been playing this on and off all summer. I'm impressed that it remains interesting even after you progress to the late game. Not many games can pull that off.

Starting out is still the most fun though.

 

[The Wall]

New DLC, New game in work? Any new news?

 

[Barbarian]

New game in the works. They are looking for 3d artists so whatever is coming will be 3d.

Personally I think they should do a sequel. It would be dumb not to do so, being that this was a hit.

 

[Beowulf]

New game in the works. They are looking for 3d artists so whatever is coming will be 3d.

Personally I think they should do a sequel. It would be dumb not to do so, being that this was a hit.

What an amateurish business approach.
It's obvious that instead of 3d artists they should look for leg artists.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

New game in the works. They are looking for 3d artists so whatever is coming will be 3d.

Personally I think they should do a sequel. It would be dumb not to do so, being that this was a hit.

What an amateurish business approach.
It's obvious that instead of 3d artists they should look for leg artists.

They might've blown most of the next game's budget on Can-can.

 

[Old One]

Maybe the characters in the next game will only appear from the waist down, so they'll be just legs.

 

[Reinhardt]

Glad to see modders keep working

 

[fredsteel]

Glad to see modders keep working

Maybe eastern mods will deter the krauts from making an eastern dlc.

 

[CoronerZg]

Nice mods, indeed. Jurchen army is scary as fuck. Unfortunately they are full of bugs atm... ctd, immortal enemies and shit.

 

[Darth Canoli]

Glad to see modders keep working

This is one of the few games (the only one?) where modders do it better than the devs every fucking time...

Their southern shit is mediocre at best with a few good ideas.

 

[Reinhardt]

Nah, legends is still bloated mess. Typical "modders gonna mod" shit.

 

[Darth Canoli]

Nah, legends is still bloated mess. Typical "modders gonna mod" shit.

If you take your time to read what's inside and played vanilla before, you can choose what to pick, the only things making it into a bloated mess are armors layers and legendary difficulty, everything else is just QoL or adds depth and replay value to the game.

 

[Old One]

I like about 75% of Legends, and I don't like about 25% of it. It's good, but it could use some serious fat trimming.

 

[Rieser]

I like about 75% of Legends, and I don't like about 25% of it. It's good, but it could use some serious fat trimming.

Sounds like my ex. No thank you.

 

[Old One]

One annoying thing is that you can turn off battle bitches in the settings, but bitches keep turning up in the ranks of your enemies.

 

[RNGsus]

Is legends popular because the battle bitches dolls show boobs?

 

[Old One]

The player base would have to be pretty damned desperate for that to be true, so...maybe.

 

[Dwarvophile]

Tigranes Playing BB without Legends is like playing ToEE without Temple+

Correct me if I'm wrong (I didn't play it extensively), but the Legends featurelist is all about setting up a much larger (up to 27) party of far more individualised and powerful bros (unique recruits, dozens of new perks) then set them up against equally individualised and powerful legendary enemies and locations.

That can obviously be fun, but it also is a significant departure from BB's original philosophy. It's a different beast in many ways. Hence, I have nothing against Legends, but I'd never say it's a "must have mod" and similarly, new players should enjoy the base game before deciding for themselves.

I have played this game regularly since it came out and I never used a mod. Never felt it was needed except maybe to renew the events and dilemmas.
But now I'm curious, what would be those "must have mods" ?