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Anonymous11/14/25, 08:58No.2236485/bbg/ - Battle Brothers general
Tabletop edition
How are your dudes faring?
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Anon11/14/25, 09:20No.2236527
picked it up again recently, I'm still ass, dudes dying left and right.
Doesn't help that the primary source for learning to git gud seems to be watching some str*amers on YouTube yapping for hours, I mean I'm sure they're good and can play blindfolded but videos shouldn't be the main source for guides/in depth analysis, they're not searchable for once and I also can't be bothered to check what episode of your dick ridding series has the relevant info for my current run, sorry.
Also the wiki is on Fandom, outdated and ridden with ads.
Why doesn't anyone write good guides for anything anymore? I might have to check steam guides but navigation is awful there and I think they're pretty outdated as well.
What the fuck do I do?
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Anon11/14/25, 11:59No.2236703
>im shit so everyone must also be shit
zoomie, please
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Anon11/14/25, 17:46No.2237276
>managed autobattler
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Anon11/18/25, 06:15No.2245740
Here's a game mechanics issue. Why does Relentless screw up the Mdef? I'll have brothers with 40s, low 50 Mdef then picking Relentless kicks them down 10 or even into the 20s Mdef. I understand Dodge has some kind of 2x if hp is ~50. I can understand how Colossus can knock Dodge back down to it's normal 15%. My understanding was to synergize Dodge, Relentless, Nimble. I guess sometimes in the inventory screen the brother defense stats will change just unequipping and re-equipping the same weapon.
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Anon11/18/25, 11:19No.2246098
Samefag some more. Might help you cope.
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Anon11/18/25, 13:07No.2246245
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Anon11/20/25, 09:54No.2250506
The ability to have 5 noble houses and the camp from the Legends mod should be baseline, alongside the armor customization from Reforged. The devs should take these ideas and pack them into the game.
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Anon11/20/25, 13:35No.2250707
Why are the people who play this game the biggest faggots on the internet? You'd think RNG would add some variation but you guys roll 90s every check.
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Anon11/20/25, 13:51No.2250729
Ask a normal question, usually get a normal answer. Whine and bitch, get treated as a whiny bitch. Shrimple as.
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Anon11/23/25, 12:14No.2256426
I think Crippling Strikes and Executioner should be replaced with perks that increases the threshold for injuries/lower the strength of injuries.
Dealing injuries is completely worthless to the player since half the enemies are just immune to them, and the other half are barely affected by most of them (so Crippling Strikes is worthless), and an enemy that start receiving injuries is usually near death anyway. (so Executioner is worthless).
Meanwhile it can randomly fucks even your best bro and the only thing that reduces it is the Iron Jaw trait.
>whoops your tank bro missed his 5% roll and took scratch damage
>now he have "grazed dick hole" which deal -50% m.def and -50% m.atk so now he's out of the fight
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Anon11/23/25, 18:41No.2257220
>i will got a niche space and complain to a niche audience about how a niche game is played
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Anon11/23/25, 18:50No.2257232
I genuinely offered to help your illiterate ass but keep screeching impotently at your monitor. It might soothe that bleeding asshole a little. :)
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Anon11/23/25, 19:58No.2257336
>can't talk about game because there's a dedicated schizo derailing the thread the instant someone criticize it even slightly
Every fucking time.
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Anon11/23/25, 21:54No.2257532
BOO!
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Anon11/23/25, 22:01No.2257543
I'm looking at the stats of Geists and I feel like they got reworked at some point and Incorporeal is a leftover.
They have 999 r.def by default so the r.def bonus is worthless, and most melee weapons don't activate the m.def bonus, so all it really does is give geists +10 m.def against pole weapons and +20 m.def against whips.
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Anon11/29/25, 23:24No.2270221
>be newfag
>finally get cripples killed off in a difficult fight and no one else
>loot decent armor
>close the window without pressing the loot all button
>it's all gone
fuck sakes who designed this UI
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Anon12/01/25, 14:12No.2273142
Playing more Legends and finally have a 100 day ironman. I'm still really struggling with economy. Maybe day 10-30 is great, but that's it. vet/vet/zero $/unex. idk if veteran difficulty makes the economy worse because of less enemies and items available? I start with low-borns and randos. "Ranger" start or hedge knights or gladiators on day one subtracts some spirit of the game to me. Those are probably cheese starts for a great player.I think the game feels very good on this mod. I love the random+class perk trees. I'm wondering if Legends has implemented importance to unimportant character classes like miners? I've just recently gotten the hang of the camping system. Caravan camping. Saving a few dollars on meds and tools is very important to my origin starts. I haven't learned rune craft.Here are some general ideas I'm working on:BB fighting is momentum based. The to-hit and damage don't track how the fights unfold at face value.On average the new bros are almost 1/2 an order of magnitude worse than advertised. 50% to hit, more like 10%. 90% closer to 1/5-1/3.Fast Adaptation is much better than it gets credit. In Legends, FA also returns a few action points.Ranged attacks work better when in a direct line of hexes."More numbers is more good." The game just works better for bros with huge useless stat piles than bros that are meta min/maxed in a few skills.Good bros need stats and equipment. This goes without saying.I can't pick things up in battle. Even disarmed weapons/shields.Difficulty scaling isn't extremely fast, maybe because of vet dif. Most of the struggle is feeding and paying for bros and trying to be efficient.
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Anon12/01/25, 15:07No.2273230
Why does every battle bro youtuber have a speech impediment?
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Anon12/01/25, 23:48No.2273981
i remember reading somewhere a while ago that the double proc of fearsome on 2h axes doesnt work in some way or another or something like that so is not really that good wich made me stop using
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Anon12/03/25, 08:41No.2276787
I get my company drunk before facing witches.
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Anon12/04/25, 00:46No.2278113
thinking of playing again but then i remember it takes like 12 hours to get a good run going, kinda wish there was a kick play mod, kinda like the xp mods but that would also increase enemy time scaling and everything else time related to compensate
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Anon12/04/25, 10:33No.2278539
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2633041922?t=0h6m18simagine not picking 9l or at least colosus on your important bros
could never be me
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Anon12/04/25, 16:17No.2279023
big black gock thread
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Anon12/04/25, 16:18No.2279027
least pornsick tranny above me
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Anon12/04/25, 23:28No.2280210
>progressing somewhat and having fun
>taking some losses but not a big deal
>reach brigand leader
>no one can hit anything, random beheadings, 2-3 remaining bandits suddenly wipe out 5 of my guys
Eh it's cool but the rng and the incessant inventory management are getting to me
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Anon12/05/25, 11:03No.2280880
Sell me on why manhunters aren't great
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Anon12/05/25, 16:43No.2281307
“I never expected Barkud charging into a goblin’s nest to not get some goblin vomit and schlop and blood on him”
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Anon12/05/25, 17:29No.2281411
Every couple of months i get addicted to this game until it makes me mad enough to quit.
Why should i fight anything except humans?
Why is acting like a pack of deranged murderhobos wandering the woods looking for victims the optimal way to play?
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Anon12/05/25, 18:36No.2281540
in Legends, is there any way for any character to survive 3 swings? 90s mDef, rDef and they eat it in 2-3 rounds if they're enemy focused.caravan hand checkmate, necro 150 dmg to the face every round, spider poisons in the first shot
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Anon12/05/25, 18:45No.2281560
ifrit is cash crop
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Anon12/05/25, 19:08No.2281598
Nachzehrers? I flee.
Nomads after day 40? I flee
Gheists? I flee.
Glacier apes with chosen? I flee.
Hexen? No way, fag.
I only fight bandits and noble houses.
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Anon12/05/25, 19:12No.2281606
>Nachzehrers? I flee.
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Anon12/05/25, 19:30No.2281643
How did the not germans even survive when they have genetically superior ubermensch to the north, and more technologically advanced turkmen to the south.
And that is not including all the orcs and other beasts.
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Anon12/05/25, 19:50No.2281696
I just read the old developer diaries and man the developers are insane or just straight up trolling.
These niggas said barbarian reavers are about as strong as brigand raiders, and that the southerner armies have lower morale than northerners.
Did anyone ever see the barbarians actually get tired?
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Anon12/05/25, 19:54No.2281699
Has anyone actually tried the german's new game?
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Anon12/06/25, 05:03No.2282636
How do you fine people feel about swords?
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Anon12/06/25, 23:15No.2284073
Can we just all agree that BB has the best difficulty scaling of any strategy game ever, it's the only game I have ever played where you don't just snowball after early game, every encounter is important and difficult at any stage of the game
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Anon12/07/25, 08:48No.2284767
How does /bbg/ feel about spetums?
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Anon12/08/25, 08:24No.2286710
meds
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Anon12/08/25, 18:31No.2287244
>The game now supports more than 2 GB of RAM to avoid crashes
wooooooooooo!
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Anon12/08/25, 18:49No.2287290
Is there a go-to mod these days? I remember there being one that gave you perks based on your character's origin and people loved that
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Anon12/08/25, 20:26No.2287487
Get a room already you weirdos
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Anon12/08/25, 20:36No.2287510
also stop trying to defuse the clowny situation you put yourself in samefagging you dunce
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Anon12/08/25, 21:01No.2287575
I suggest settling your differences in a honorable duel. Standard lords of the lockerroom rules ie to the first moan.
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Anon12/09/25, 11:37No.2288394
>Battle Brothers
>your men aren't blood relative
I want a refund
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Anon12/09/25, 11:44No.2288402
Am I missing something, or is the southern recruitment pool poor compared to the northern one?
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Anon12/09/25, 18:02No.2288889
also the stat line of gladiators kills it for me, hedge knight cost range with abysmal hp and fat, really not worth the price imo, same with southern assasins to a lesser extent
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Anon12/10/25, 09:01No.2290027
I never get around to using 1h axes. Have I been missing out? Talking in general not only lategame orc choppa duelist in particular.
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Anon12/10/25, 17:48No.2290742
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Anon12/11/25, 14:07No.2292016
Axe bad
You want them on your high matk bro cause high damage and no accuracy bonus, but their secondary is basically a support skill that never miss, so you just equip a more versatile weapon and leave 1 or 2 axe to rot in your inventory, just in case (you will never use them)
Only meme builds use axes, and only 2h or orc axe
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Anon12/12/25, 05:09No.2293156
i do wish there was a higher variety of viable builds, but that'd probably make the game easier.
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Anon12/12/25, 10:26No.2293441
>AAAAAAAA
>AAAAAAAA
>AAAAAAAA
>AAAAAAAA
>AAAAAAAA
>AAAAAAAA
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Anon12/12/25, 14:35No.2293702
I have wittowoly 10,000 houws maximizing optimol bros and elite game pway. Theyre melie defense and melie attack is over two hundwid. It's not about the weapon but how you utiwize your tactics. Don't distract me with questions.
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Anon12/12/25, 14:44No.2293723
Who let the gimp out again?
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Anon12/13/25, 18:57No.2295610
Bit much innit
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Anon12/14/25, 17:47No.2296735
>nomad throw rock
>chance 5 rolled 1
>150 dmg
69 rDef don't do shit vs power roll laptop. Heal the character.Next fight ifrit pops him like a blueberry while he's surrounded by a shield wall.
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Anon12/14/25, 18:02No.2296749
new campaign to splat
>assassin, female, quick, iron lung, intelligent, lucky
hey, don't give me Arya Stark pls
>assassin, male, asthmaticcritical drinker.png
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Anon12/14/25, 18:05No.2296752
>2296749
>>>/lgbt/ [//boards.4chan.org/lgbt/]
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Anon12/15/25, 20:23No.2298033
my dream origin? heh, glad you guys asked:
you start as a barbarian ex-chieftain who lost a duel to his brother and then was exiled from his tribe for trying to coexist and do businesses with civilized southern weaklings
the origin would have a -20% price modifier, cold relationships with houses and huuuge restriction on hirable bros because nobody trusts you but in exchange youd get some cool events like hiring unique barbarian backgrounds, crafting barbarian gear and maybe even unholds sometimes joining your fights
and on day like 200 you get an event where you either choose to duel your brother or do a regular fight against his squad or flee and if you beat him you get a legendary axe or a trait called "the king of the north" that gives you something cool
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Anon12/16/25, 18:35No.2299181
>archers are bad
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Anon12/17/25, 11:59No.2299806
What's your go-to strategy dealing with mass schrats? I usually wait like a little bitch until they leave the forest tile and then stack overwhelms and pepper them with fire pots. And that's on a shield heavy frontline with spare axes.
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Anon12/17/25, 13:32No.2299849
Hey asshole is your nose broken or gone, pick one, even if it was invented yet you don't have health insurance anyways.
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Anon12/17/25, 19:12No.2300192
Shield spec should double shield bonus, bros and enemies.
Blocking maces should impart fatigue damage.
Maxed fatigue should impart a debuff.Is there a reason poison doesn't work correctly when it's applied to enemies? It functioned great for a few fights, now it generally doesn't do anything.
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Anon12/17/25, 19:15No.2300196
Fatigue damage past your fatigue recovery, -15 for most should cause "gassed" one turn stun.
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Anon12/17/25, 19:21No.2300205
Given that they're now working on the not-xcom game, what are chances of them dropping a new DLC for battle brothers?
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Anon12/17/25, 21:07No.2300274
>swing axe at shambling corpse
>miss
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Anon12/23/25, 19:14No.2305969
I wanna do a run where I play deserters who turn things around and become heroic... but it looks like the optimal strat is to murder peasants and you get your shit stomped if you don't... sad...
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Anon12/24/25, 04:15No.2306351
>alright this fight should be simple
>have way more attack, armor, damage than enemy
>80% chance to hit
>miss
>miss
>deploy dog
>dog misses twice
>miss
>dog misses twice again
>enemy finally eats through armor and kills broI don't feel bad about resetting that at all.
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Anon12/25/25, 14:50No.2307661
When is it viable to fight undead for a chance at famed weapons? I keep sending my bros with raider gear and banner man at around the 20/30 day mark and they get fucked too hard, I would call it a skill issue but I don't know if I'm just not supposed to send my level 5-ish bros to those fights without contract modifiers yet.
Also thanks to the anon from /vg/ for guiding me here
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Anon12/25/25, 16:25No.2307738
reminder that expert ironman is the only proper way to play the game
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Anon12/25/25, 16:27No.2307740
I need help, how do you calculate B.F perk? I want to do it manually
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Anon12/26/25, 06:25No.2308289
I need help reviewing this image I made for BF builds, maybe I'm missing better combinations? Obviously we're not taking into account legendaries
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Anon12/28/25, 15:50No.2310125
I'm having nomad fatigue
What's a good day to start nomad camps? Any strats to cheese those fuckers?
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Anon12/28/25, 21:45No.2310519
Easily the biggest problem with this game is the lack of a battle preparation screen. Things will just happen, and while the event text you're given implies plenty of forward notice, you won't get to mess with your battle line, their gear, or anything before you're thrown right in with the enemy in your face, sometimes from a position that no sane person would have walked into if they knew they were heading into a fight. It's not like people are wearing plate harnesses that take assistance and fifteen minutes to put on either, the setting is smack in the middle of the transitional armor phase where it's not much more difficult than putting on a jacket.I just had an event that's phrased like it should give me an advantage, where I sally out and dispatch a vanguard (which turned out to be a full fucking field battle) and immediately afterwards without any pause whatsoever I'm thrown against another force. Even just being able to rotate bros in or out that you have off the line at the start would go a long way towards fixing this. It's a basic convention of tactics games that's absolutely baffling is missing.
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Anon12/29/25, 12:44No.2310955
Is the alchemist a good buy if you want to sell snake oil?
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Anon12/30/25, 13:16No.2311568
reminder that according to the official lore from the books only the most powerful hexens can charm beasts including even lindwurms
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Anon12/31/25, 08:01No.2312403
It's funny that noble houses instantly know where you are the moment you enter their territory and chase you all over the map when IRL merc companies were difficult to track down and would use that fact to pillage your land while not working.
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Anon12/31/25, 20:12No.2312809
>got a contract to raid some fag's bone pile
>5100 worth of bling *Hot Damn*
>can afford some good shit with all that gold
>head to the location
>14 Ancient legionaries + one priest
>6 (six) Fucking Pikemen
>all i have are 4 decent bros and a bunch of mediocre ones in medium/light armor
tell me with your vast wisdom how can i cheese this encounter to secure my riches.
can i lure some barbarians or brigands to the location?
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Anon01/01/26, 12:25No.2313148
I like this game since you get to learn a lot and you don't always get to win even if you do everything right.
My question is: What is the difference between a good BB and a bad BB player?
For example I know some basic strategies like using canon fodder to keep the important bros alive, trading to get maximum profits, repair equipment looted from other enemies for cash.
But I can't snowball as quickly as other people who play this game religiously (I.E 60 days in and I haven't reached nimble or managed to get more than just raider gear) I know I'm missing something but I don't know what
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Anon01/03/26, 12:08No.2314511
Ignore the shitters advice, make your entire company out of asthmatic cripples, get them the heaviest armor you can find (Nimble more like Gayble) and 2H axes.
Ignore contracts, you should be going straight for the Black Monolith by day 5. Ironman only.
Perks: Crippling Strike, Resilient, Dodge, Anticipation, Relentless, Sword Mastery, Overwhelm, Head Hunter, Battle Forged obviously, Duelist.
Enable permanent destruction and then ignore endgame events.
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Anon01/03/26, 20:09No.2314751
Anyone tried their new game? I ran a few playthroughs on the medium difficulty and found it pretty fun. Some of the complaints I have are that there are a lot of things that look like you couldn't shoot through, but you can. Movement also seems pretty limited per turn. While battle brothers can be understood with zero delving into the game mechanics, menace feels like you need to read up on them to even begin with it
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Anon01/04/26, 17:31No.2315260
two handed hammers look cool as fuck but should I actually use them?
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Anon01/05/26, 12:47No.2315800
guys when is BB2?
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Anon01/07/26, 16:27No.2317225
>take anti nomad quest
>arrive at location
>17 alps fighting 14 undead over the nomads
>join in
>this clusterfuck happens
not pictured about 10 dead alps to the left, funky three way, alps fighting nomads, while undead fighting both, direwolves zooming + undead crisis dead nomads coming back to life, holy
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Anon01/10/26, 10:41No.2318910
this entire game is designed with as much time waste as possible
there are no real permanent losses just "you need to grind another 10 hours to get back to this point lmao"
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Anon01/12/26, 22:09No.2320553
The desert is so efficient at farming fights with and get XP fast, unfortunately I keep losing bros in most early game encounters, is this normal? Sacrificing fodder sounds logical but in practice I lose a lot of morale when I try it and I don't know how to efficiently use said fodder.
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Anon01/13/26, 23:00No.2321308
Good god man.
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Anon01/14/26, 12:47No.2321551
>no menace thread
So, what's happend? 3 weeks until release and no hype?
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Anon01/15/26, 01:02No.2321881
As a new player, what type of QoL mods should I get? Is there a list?
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Anon01/15/26, 08:28No.2321968
any particular reason some people are hating on their new game before it is even out? Is it because that means battle brothers won't get any more content?
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Anon01/17/26, 08:13No.2322993
I have 3.5k hours in this game. Havent cleared a single legendary location yet. Heck I still havent cleared a single crisis. I just keep dying and reroling, everything rapes me because my guys level up too slow.
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Anon01/17/26, 19:15No.2323249
>game looks cool
>font is locked to ant size
>90% of the screen goes completely wasted
I swear the monitor lobby has a strangehold on game design
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Anon01/18/26, 01:51No.2323433
>BB general
I forgot about this, anyway I replaying the game trying to learn how to instead of just throwing brothers into the meatgrinder, going around broke and full of injuries.
So far I get how to fight, I barely get scratched now but I still too dumb to build brothers the proper way, same with what thresholds counts as a good brother even without stars.
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Anon01/18/26, 03:54No.2323478
What does the game gain by being procedurally generated instead of having a premade map like Mount and Blade? It seems to just add a layer of annoying RNG to finding the things you want.
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Anon01/18/26, 19:12No.2323889
Don’t let the chill get you, Hans.
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Anon01/18/26, 20:51No.2323957
Menace looks like shit I dislike the vibe, they should jist make Battle Brothers 2.
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Anon01/19/26, 21:48No.2324704
Outside buying and jumping Mercenaries where in the fuck I get armor over 125-140 durability?
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Anon01/20/26, 09:33No.2324957
then fuck off you dimwit
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Anon01/20/26, 09:47No.2324963
>retarded grammar nazi fucked by grammar
many such cases
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Anon01/20/26, 13:47No.2325058
Why are you still arguing with yourself??
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Anon01/20/26, 20:20No.2325229
>vanilla lone wolf players
it's not even a game at that pointMake yourselves useful and go draw pictures of barbarians. Real gamers are ITT.
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Anon01/20/26, 21:10No.2325257
How do you cope when things like this happen to you?
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Anon01/21/26, 01:44No.2325368
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Anon01/21/26, 04:20No.2325416
When I power level, the game matches that energy. It's sending bounty hunter waves, alp ambush, and arena tournaments in the first week.fuck around about a few stat points
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Anon01/23/26, 07:42No.2326571
Question: if I knife a Fallen Hero and he revives do I have to knife him again for his armor or it's safe just to wack him?
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Anon01/24/26, 10:30No.2327358
MAKE THIS THREAD LAST
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Anon01/25/26, 09:04No.2327945
Ok how in the fuck I deal with 20+ goblin camps? Its too much arrow spam to deal even with Kite Shields on everybody.
Chuck a fire grenade on the middle of the camp?Dog Spam?
Im kinda lost
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Anon01/26/26, 06:58No.2328417
Is one actually supposed to solo brigands in a Lone Wolf run or are you actually supposed to take chaff to offset their action economy and preserve your armor as best as possible?
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Anon01/26/26, 17:32No.2328602
Only a few days until Menace is out brothers, are you hype?
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Anon01/26/26, 18:02No.2328619
>Orcs and Goblins crisis
I hate those fuckers so much, even when I load on hammers, mace and axes I still get curbstomped by late game Orcs and Goblins are dicks.
I rather fight a 10 man Necrosavant ambush again.
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Anon01/27/26, 06:35No.2328926
As a brand new player, how necessary is the DLC? Should I buy and play the base game first or get the whole package? In any case I'm not sure I want to get blazing deserts because I don't like sand 'people'
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Anon01/29/26, 08:35No.2330157
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2601980/Space_Scum/Some niggas literally made bb in space