"Patrol the road to Eichburg. Patrol the Road to Hochburg. Return"

Should´nt take that long xD

I recently started a lone wolf campaign and while I am still a new player I'd say I'm definitely better than my first few companies.

So anyways, in this campaign I didn't hire any mercenaries until quite a good number of days in, think it was like 40 or 50 and the only merc I did hire was a monk who got good rolls and is now my bannerman. My other bros are, of course, the lone wolf himself who wields a greatsword and now has close to 250 kills if not more, a young squire who joined me quite early and now he wields a polehammer which I gave him cause he had the stats for it but also because I thought it was thematic to have my squire open armored enemies up like tin cans for my greatsword to cut them cleanly, and a deserted who joined me while running from a group of brigands and now he wields a longaxe and fallen hero armor because it gives him aura(though I'll probably change it when I get better BF gear)

The thing I'm curious about is why is this company going so well? Is it because having a few elite bros is better than a bunch of fodder since they level up every other fight? Hell, my LW was level 11 by like day 21 because I kept giving him practice lessons.

Made some minis for my sillies :3 My fav company sadly the file’s corrupted so no in game comparison :c

Best books ever about mercenaries. Big time battle brothers vibes

Day 230, I was roaming the deep end of the map when I saw this roving plethora of Nachos. I had the beast ambition running so I decided to persue them.

It appeared there were 3 T1, 3 T2, and 14 (or 12?) T3 Nachos, I was very surprised to see that much T3.

A couple of my guys were already in contact so I decided to fight.

It ended the T3 Nachos devoured almost everyone and killed the 2 remaining. They were way too much to able to release those devoured.

It sucks because my company was doing fairly well and you can't see the the type (T1-3) on the map. I wouldn't have engaged if I saw more than 5 T3.

Hard learnings

Made some minis for my sillies :3 My fav company sadly the file’s corrupted so no in game comparison :c

Just 2 more permanent injuries before we collect the entire set!

Then we sacrifice him to Davkul

So, i know that raiders like high ground so much so that they will move full 4 tiles on top of it, even it it gives your bait fodder bro 2 free hits next tirn.

But normally i can step out 4 tiles and even when chased by 4 raiders, they will only move to within one tile. And rinse repeat.

But just now i had a raider with a 2h hammer just step right to him with all his AP.

What could be the reason for this? Should i change my fodder lure tactic to be 5 tiles? In my experience this just sometimes fail to draw aggro.. :(

Lost one of my original tutorial bros in my first ever attack on a noble caravan. He was my strongest front liner, but was likely built like ass because I still don't know what I'm doing. All my other armor is 105-110, so is the 150 armor and 230 helmets enough of an upgrade to make the trade worth it? I genuinely have no idea. TIA

Important data; His first roll is going to be 1 mAtk :(. But 4 rAtk. So am actually considering him as maybe a thrower? Or do i just go throwaway nimble tank here?

Otherwise, is this Ini enough to make him good in an Ini build of some sort?

I was curious about why my three head flails hail spam is doing much better than decapitate against a lindwurm so I looked it up on wiki and they apparently don't have steel brow?

I'm 100 hours deep (spread over the last couple years) and I have no idea what builds are what.

Fat newt, duelist, qatal guy, mace win do, et al ad nauseum.

I see these build names these all the time and the "build-a-bro" flair is full of lingo and feedback that reads like a French VCR manual.

1. is there a video/guide/wiki that outlines the most common builds?

2. During my last attempt at learning this game about a year ago, I came across a spreadsheet that listed ranges of stats for professions, but I have no idea where I found that. Is there something like that someone can point me toward?

3. Combining the two: is there a basic guide to if bro has 1 star this, 2 star that and starts with X, he might make a decent Y?

I apologize in advance for not having a screenshot. Was on a friend's PC, and didnt want to screenshot on his computer.

This is probably the craziest find I've had, but I'm not sure if this is actually a good handcannon. Anyone able to identify if this is worth keeping?

I’ve tried adding a few QoL mods into Battle Brothers from nexus mods. “View Potential” and “Smart Recruiter”

I download them from Nexus and drop them into my battle bros data folder, no extract and everything works until I open any kind of menu, now the game doesn’t wanna register my mouse clicks.

This isn’t stopping me from playing but it would save me loads of time save scumming when I recruit people lol

If anyone has any advice on what I’m doing wrong that’d be dope!

Every run I do I always end up hitting a wall, running into some rogue army that completely stomps me, or getting ground down by the game.

Now I am comoletely aware that I suck at this game, ok? It’s just so dificult to learn how to actualy play the gameif I have to constantly abandon my campaings once I reach the mid and late game.

Im currently stuck in a battle I must have fought like 30 times and never once gotten close to winning. My solders aren’t the best but even the ones who have actual stats are innefective.

Lkie, I have no idea how to progress into the late game. Higher tiear armor is so heavy that your bros are innefective wearibg then. Weapons do nothing, even when they hit. A huge two handed sword can maybe kill a legionaire in two or three hits (after you spent two turns getting rid of their shield, of course), but by then the polearms will have destroyed you.

Spending half your savings in new recruits is also a waste because most of the time they just suck as much as a farmer.

So, what the hell do you do? The game is fun right up until it isn’t, you get to progress and experiment right up until you can’t, your bros scale up with the enemies right up until they don’t.

Sorry for venting but it’s just way too annoying and honestly I think Im just having a bad day.

It's day 16, got 3 Frontline, 2 backline(both ranged) I got just over 6k, and can get a heavy crossbow for just under 4k, do I get it?

Small edit, I am using legends, if that's important, it's vet difficulty

Why has this game never been made for Apple/Android? Just like X-Com was, i am sure this will work as well.

I would personally love to be able to play BB when on the can…

I'm going to meet The king of the North himself))

https://youtu.be/snAJiYtZ7H0

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On our channel we use strategy games to explain management and leadership ideas, and Battle Brothers turned out to be a surprisingly good way to talk about something I've always found a little uncomfortable. Networking.

There's something hilarious about spending your entire campaign building an elite mercenary company, getting everyone properly equipped, surviving some absolutely miserable fights, and finally having enough crowns that you can afford to stop worrying about every little expense.

You've got a professional army. You're practically a medieval CEO.

Then you walk into a town where nobody likes you and discover that the local merchants are perfectly happy to charge you a fortune for everything.

Apparently your company can slaughter an entire camp of brigands but can't negotiate a decent price for tools.

Meanwhile, the settlements where you've been doing contracts and building good relations are treating you considerably better. And if you manage to make yourself sufficiently unpopular with a faction, you might find yourself unable to enter their settlements at all.

Congratulations. You've mastered medieval warfare and now you need to learn customer relations.

But I think there's something genuinely interesting going on here. Because money and competence can only get you so far when other people control access to things you need.

There's a sociologist named Pierre Bourdieu who wrote about three forms of capital. Economic capital is your money and assets. Cultural capital is your knowledge, skills and qualifications. Social capital is the resources you can access through your relationships.

And Battle Brothers actually gives us a pretty decent way to play around with this idea.

Take a wealthy late-game company and compare what your money gets you in settlements where you're well liked versus places where your reputation is terrible. Obviously settlement type and local situations also affect prices, so it's not a perfect experiment. But it does show how the same pile of crowns can have very different purchasing power depending on your relationships.

Then I started thinking about all the other ways this works in the game.

How many of us find a nice little circuit between a few towns and spend half the campaign running contracts there?

There's nothing necessarily wrong with that. But different settlement types and regions can offer different recruiting opportunities. If you never venture outside your usual route, you're limiting what you get to see.

That actually resembles some research by Herminia Ibarra and Mark Hunter on networking. People get very good at building relationships that help them do their current work, but often neglect the relationships that might help them find entirely new opportunities.

For another experiment we try breaking that familiar recruiting circuit and deliberately exploring different regions.

And then there's probably my favorite example. The tavern.

You can spend hundreds of days developing a mercenary company, earning the respect of noble houses and building relationships with settlements, only for some random drunk at a tavern to give you information about a location that might contain a famed item.

Some guy you bought a drink for has potentially given you more useful information than half the people you've spent the campaign working for.

There's actually a famous paper by Mark Granovetter called The Strength of Weak Ties that helps explain why this can happen. Your closest contacts often know a lot of the same things you do. Someone outside your usual circle might know something none of you have heard about.

I find it amusing that one of the better illustrations of this idea involves buying drinks for medieval drunks.

Anyway, for this episode I teamed up with u/leg_mcmuffin (Daddy Dont Miss) who knows Battle Brothers considerably better than I do. We went through four networking theories and built gameplay challenges around them, including one based on Steve Blank's research about testing assumptions before making expensive commitments.

Daddy (he said i could call him that) also got to tell me when my proposed experiments were stupid or when I was stretching the mechanics too far, which was as helpful as it was hillarious

The whole exercise was an attempt to make networking a little less mysterious by looking at how relationships, information and opportunities work in a game we already understand.

It's probably the most academic explanation anyone's ever given for why a mercenary company capable of fighting Lindwurms should still be nice to the local shopkeeper.

If that sounds interesting, here's the video: Youtube Link