way too much, guess i better buy it now in that case
edit: or wait till its 75% off
edit2: or download a full content demo
edit3: or replay dungeon siege 3
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Game News Battle Brothers releasing on March 24th
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way too much, guess i better buy it now in that case
edit: or wait till its 75% off
edit2: or download a full content demo
edit3: or replay dungeon siege 3
Harold
Arcane
Wow, they even got Jon Snow to narrate the trailer.
Anyway,
Anyway,
Schizophrenic monolog
Savant
Game looks awesome.
But I didn't understand how it works as a campaign.
Is there any plot in the game?
But I didn't understand how it works as a campaign.
Is there any plot in the game?
Skittles
He ruins the fun.
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Not strictly speaking. You're just tasked with building a strong, wealthy, and renowned mercenary band. The closest it has to a plot is an "end game crisis," victory in which the game considers a de facto campaign win. Apart from that, there are ambitions that you can choose to work towards that serve as milestones in the development of your band, but most of the game is taking individual contracts and raiding enemy locations.
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Yeah. It is kinda like Pirates! in that regard.I just remembered!
You cannot die in MB!
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Ignatius Reilly
Scholar
Gasped the first time I got a dude beheaded. Feels so bad! Game is very good at communicating your horrible decisions. The jump out of two man coverage and lose head move. Also my archers hitting 1/10 62% shots is gloriously heart breaking. Any deaths in that battle of which there were many, I put on their shoulders, nothing to do with me. Last time I buy them a round.
Try crossbows, that armour penetration feels good, man.
Then what is the point of other ranged weapons? Or rather... what is the downside of crossbows? Longer reload time?
Skittles
He ruins the fun.
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The reload and the shorter range. The reload means you'll max out at 2 shots a round (with a kill) vs. the bow's potential 3, you'll wind up having a range 2 tiles shorter vs. a bow with mastery, and the fact that firing and reloading is essentially a full turn action means you're less mobile in general than with a bow.
That said, I think crossbows are usually the stronger choice. Bows are devastating against low defense, barely armoured enemies, but so's just about everything.
EDIT: Actually, the fire rate difference is bigger than that. A bow can do 3/rd. on average; the crossbow can get 2 on the first round, then 1 thereafter unless they take a full round off. So it's more like 1/rd. with a step every other round vs. a bow's 3/rd. still or 2.5/rd. with two steps every other round.
Additionally, the cross bow needs to get a kill with the first hit, while the bow has two opportunities to score a kill, meaning that it's much easier to fire bows at full ROF.
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Indeed. Mid/late game enemies with armour are a real pain in the ass.
Chris Avelltwo
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I'm ready
Josh Sawyer has been tweeting about this a lot on his twitter lately. If it has his seal of approval, then I'm sure it is good, wholesomely balanced fun. It is probably the closest modern equivalent there is to Darklands, and likely to remain so - at least until Sawyer's historical RPG comes to fruition, anyway.
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They have contacted GOG.Any news on a GOG release guys? I really dont want to pirate this but dont do Steam...
So it's now in the hands of potato roulette, or however GOG decides these things.
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Srsly, tho, I'm VERY happy with this announcement and I'm sure Battle Bros will be an extremely strong contender for the tittle of Codex 2017 GOTY. If anyone wants to see some cool combat footage, I got some:
Can't say I'm gonna
because I already own the supporter's edition 
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#SupporterEditionBrothers
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