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Battle Brothers Review on AWNT - 3/25/2017 6:14:46 AM   
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I had to make sure I posted this review here because I think a lot of you guys might like it. It hits a lot of the same buttons as games like Mount & Blade, XCOM, Darkest Dungeon, etc. It's a lot of fun building up your company of mercenaries, and slightly less fun watching them die in horrible ways.

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RE: Battle Brothers Review on AWNT - 3/25/2017 2:27:53 PM   
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RE: Battle Brothers Review on AWNT - 3/25/2017 3:02:06 PM   
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This game is hard. I die too much to have fun anymore.


Yeah, I had to switch to easy difficulty for the purposes of the review, kept getting wiped out on the medium setting! Even on easy you can lose three or four guys in short order if things go poorly.

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RE: Battle Brothers Review on AWNT - 3/25/2017 3:34:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		I read the review, that was a very good one.
Question though, what it is the main difference that distinguish this game from M&B other than randomize world and low fantasy setting, I am really considering to get that but I need something to convince me more, I really loved M&B single player but the quests can get tedious and repeating a lot of small battles get old and boring quickly.

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RE: Battle Brothers Review on AWNT - 3/25/2017 4:13:18 PM   
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I read the review, that was a very good one.
Question though, what it is the main difference that distinguish this game from M&B other than randomize world and low fantasy setting, I am really considering to get that but I need something to convince me more, I really loved M&B single player but the quests can get tedious and repeating a lot of small battles get old and boring quickly.

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The quests are more interesting than in M&B. Early on there are a few of the "Take this over there" type of quests, but you eventually run into more interesting ones. You can also have seemingly standard quests be altered by the choose your own adventure moments, where your choice might make one of the major houses mad at you or cause something else to happen. I hated the quests in vanilla M&B (Deliver a letter to so-and-so for the hundredth time, bleh) and these are not nearly that tedious, though they are still of the randomly generated variety.

The combat doesn't vary wildly from one battle to the next, but if you are playing on anything other than easy you will have to think about what weapons you are using, depending on the type of enemy you are facing. I know in M&B the small battles got pretty repetitive, since it didn't really matter what you did. You can see the general difficulty level of a quest before you accept it, so you can just skip over the easy ones after a certain point, if you want.

There are some Let's Play videos on youtube, might check some of those out to get a feel for how it actually plays.

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RE: Battle Brothers Review on AWNT - 3/25/2017 4:30:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		thanks a lot ranger, thats sound awesome, i will watch some youtube, mostly it will be my next purchase.



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RE: Battle Brothers Review on AWNT - 3/26/2017 2:08:37 PM   
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Huh discovered the auto save. And saving regularly finally got me going.
I'm now 30 plus days into the campaign. Leparning something new every hour I play. The weather wa9s bad yesterday so I gave the game a good thrashing, up to 15 hours now. The detail is incredible, I think many gamers here will find this little game most enjoyable.

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RE: Battle Brothers Review on AWNT - 3/28/2017 12:54:04 PM   
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RE: Battle Brothers Review on AWNT - 3/28/2017 10:22:27 PM   
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Hey Wodin how do you deal with those pesky Direwolves? I don't have problems dealing with humans, but animals and undeads challenge me.

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RE: Battle Brothers Review on AWNT - 3/28/2017 10:45:09 PM   
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RE: Battle Brothers Review on AWNT - 3/28/2017 11:57:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have seen a few play through and read Ranger's helpful review- looks like a fun but interesting game - definitely on the buy list for me.(assuming I can find time to play

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RE: Battle Brothers Review on AWNT - 3/29/2017 10:04:46 AM   
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Me too something a little different.
Hey Wodin how do you deal with those pesky Direwolves? I don't have problems dealing with humans, but animals and undeads challenge me.



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