Every time a character levels up, you're allowed to further improve their attributes and choose a perk.īuilding a company capable to survive the harsh world in Battle Brothers is no doubt the most complex aspect of the game, but not the only one. All this information is very important if you want to build your characters for specific roles. What the game doesn't show you before recruiting a character is their attributes, talent star distribution, and starting values. Many don't have any traits at all or just positive ones. Some potential recruits have negative traits that you should avoid like Asthmatic and Dastard, while others have both positive and negative traits. Your next objective is to recruit three new people and add them to your roster, and while this might seem easy enough, recruiting the right fighters is the secret to success in Battle Brothers.īefore you recruit someone for your company, you're allowed to see their traits (if any) for a small fee. It's the perfect, yet cruel, opportunity to start building up your company again. Once the difficulty and company origin is selected, the game starts abruptly with your band of brothers being decimated in an ambush. You're not just leading your army into battle, you're also recruiting, gearing up, trading, and make meaningful decisions that will influence the outcome of your campaign.

Don't be mislead by the game's description though.īattle Brothers is one of the most complex RPGs I've played, and I'm playing these types of games quite often since it's my favorite genre. On the surface, Battle Brothers might seem like an ordinary turn-based tactical RPG sprinkled with some resource management elements. If you've decided to pick up Battle Brothers on the Switch, you should definitely select the easiest difficulty, not necessarily because the game is very hard, but mostly for the things, you'll learn by trial and error. To describe my experience with Battle Brothers after I've played so many hours on PC would be a bit unfair for new players, so I'm going to try and touch only those aspects that I think will be useful for newcomers to the franchise. I've played Battle Brothers for several dozen hours on PC when it launched three years ago, so when I heard the game is going to be ported on the Nintendo Switch, I thought it's the perfect excuse to jump back right in.

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