Incline Battle Brothers + Beasts & Exploration, Warriors of the North and Blazing Deserts DLC Thread

[Prime Junta]

Are there any benefits to buying food besides Grounded Grain, aside from the expiration date?

Grain isn't always cheapest.

 

[JarlFrank]

If you have different foods in stock, your guys might become happy from having a variety of stuff to eat.

 

[Ezeekiel]

Sarissofoi, do you know if there are any negative events or debuffs assosiated with the mystery meat you can get from orks/undead/goblins, or did the devs not think that far?

 

[Jimmious]

Btw when I mentioned getting more expensive bros I didnt mean the ones with the expensive equipment but higher level. A level 4 Raider for example can be around 2-3k which is an "OK" price to pay at that point of the game and usually guarantees a 70+ melee skill (at least after you do the level ups)

 

[Ezeekiel]

German Gamestar magazine did a video on the game (German only):

Loving the "racist" ratings hahahaha

Can't believe gamestar still exists though.
I remember reading that old rag like 15 years ago and wondering how they can have super-intricate walkthroughs for, say, earth 2140 or whatever it was but every time you'd see them play on video they were complete amateurs. In retrospect it's rather obvious what was going on, but man...
And those useless fucking tests that just spoil the story and tell you nothing of value about the gameplay beyond comically obvious generalities. Little in the way of bug mentions either.

 

[Reinhardt]

If you have different foods in stock, your guys might become happy from having a variety of stuff to eat.

Also they might become unhappy if it's only grains.

 

[Ezeekiel]

Btw when I mentioned getting more expensive bros I didnt mean the ones with the expensive equipment but higher level. A level 4 Raider for example can be around 2-3k which is an "OK" price to pay at that point of the game and usually guarantees a 70+ melee skill (at least after you do the level ups)

Raiders can work as sort of mid-tier guys in terms of expense, yeah.
They do clash with caravan hand backstory guys though, and I usually have a number of those...

 

[Andnjord]

Sarissofoi, do you know if there are any negative events or debuffs assosiated with the mystery meat you can get from orks/undead/goblins, or did the devs not think that far?

In my experience, they never cause any problem. In fact they're my main source of food when I go raiding in the wilds.

 

[Sarissofoi]

Sarissofoi, do you know if there are any negative events or debuffs assosiated with the mystery meat you can get from orks/undead/goblins, or did the devs not think that far?

There is "Taste like chicken" event but you need specific background and only strange meat as supplies for sometime. Probably plenty of luck too.
I was once raiding wild lands, eat all food and get supplies from destroying orc camps and their hunting parties.

 

[Parabalus]

With the release build's higher lethality (marksmen spam etc), I'm considering skipping the 150 pt armors tbh. Could work if you can get 210pt armors in a small fort, or even a settlement, or if you can get them on sale in the market at low durability.
Buying stuff at low durability in markets in places with blacksmith/weaponsmith and the relevant resource buildings has really helped me get guys equipped early.

I think scale/lamellar armor with 220 is the sweet spot for first buys. The stuff below is barely better than standard banditry and plate is too expensive, while these are enough to get you through crises.

Mercenaries can be extremely(maybe not) easy to defeat if you lucky and have mid gear and mid level at last mostly because you can use your number advantage. Skills needed.
6-8 merc with 1-3 dogs vs your 12 plus dogs(up to 12).
You can not do much farming against them(need to kill them quickly) but if you have flails you can get some nice armors cheap and plenty.

If you CTRL-L mercs you will only get a drop in disposition from their contractor, not the affiliated noble house, correct? Basically I would have to find one hired by a town, not a noble house.

Loving the "racist" ratings hahahaha

Can't believe gamestar still exists though.
I remember reading that old rag like 15 years ago and wondering how they can have super-intricate walkthroughs for, say, earth 2140 or whatever it was but every time you'd see them play on video they were complete amateurs. In retrospect it's rather obvious what was going on, but man...
And those useless fucking tests that just spoil the story and tell you nothing of value about the gameplay beyond comically obvious generalities. Little in the way of bug mentions either.

Favorite of mine from the German bunch was PCGames.de, they already had a "old-school RPGs" genre in the '00s and regularly gave low reviews to AAA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohy6lolYOes

Step 1
>take high ground
Step 2
>take high losses
Step 3
>endure and win

You don't show your guys equp/spec at the start so it's kinda hard for me to gauge. I asked mostly because I thought you did it without losses, throwing bodies at it doesn't appeal to me. Thanks for the channel link tho.

 

[Ezeekiel]

Sarissofoi, do you know if there are any negative events or debuffs assosiated with the mystery meat you can get from orks/undead/goblins, or did the devs not think that far?

There is "Taste like chicken" event but you need specific background and only strange meat as supplies for sometime. Probably plenty of luck too.
I was once raiding wild lands, eat all food and get supplies from destroying orc camps and their hunting parties.

I never could bring myself to make my bros eat that stuff haha, too paranoid.

 

[Sarissofoi]

It was a mixed rabble of failed builds with some of new ones that were properly trained.
I should replay this actually and I will do it but not today. Will add more info about company and setup.

Sarissofoi, do you know if there are any negative events or debuffs assosiated with the mystery meat you can get from orks/undead/goblins, or did the devs not think that far?

There is "Taste like chicken" event but you need specific background and only strange meat as supplies for sometime. Probably plenty of luck too.
I was once raiding wild lands, eat all food and get supplies from destroying orc camps and their hunting parties.

I never could bring myself to make my bros eat that stuff haha, too paranoid.

Just kidding - nothing happen - there is no event. Its safe food. Try and eat it. Its delicious.

 

[oneself]

Well you can always hunt for bandit leaders and hedge knights or mercenaries and bounty hunters. They use to drop good armors.

Yeah, that's how I got most of my armor in my current playthrough. I would just leave a tank shieldwalling the leader on his own (rotation helped with that) while the rest of the company would rout the brigands then turn around and dagger the leader in the back. But it's day 150 now and all those Hedge Knights never had any named weapons. Plenty of 300 durability armor though

My day 150 im still running around in raider armor lul

 

[Ezeekiel]

Well you can always hunt for bandit leaders and hedge knights or mercenaries and bounty hunters. They use to drop good armors.

Yeah, that's how I got most of my armor in my current playthrough. I would just leave a tank shieldwalling the leader on his own (rotation helped with that) while the rest of the company would rout the brigands then turn around and dagger the leader in the back. But it's day 150 now and all those Hedge Knights never had any named weapons. Plenty of 300 durability armor though

My day 150 im still running around in raider armor lul

Many losses, bad map, lots of wasted upkeep...?

 

[oneself]

Well you can always hunt for bandit leaders and hedge knights or mercenaries and bounty hunters. They use to drop good armors.

Yeah, that's how I got most of my armor in my current playthrough. I would just leave a tank shieldwalling the leader on his own (rotation helped with that) while the rest of the company would rout the brigands then turn around and dagger the leader in the back. But it's day 150 now and all those Hedge Knights never had any named weapons. Plenty of 300 durability armor though

My day 150 im still running around in raider armor lul

Many losses, bad map, lots of wasted upkeep...?

Playing too safe. Only doing parcel quests and find out whats troubling town X and maybe per head quests.

Good things I only lost 2 dudes! Yee

 

[Reapa]

do stars do fucking anything??

 

[Sarissofoi]

do stars do fucking anything??

Yes.
1 and 2 stars increase minimal rolls and 3 stars can increase maximal rolls.
Good rolls still happen.
This game have one of the most craziest RNG I ever seen. And personal bias my ass. It doesn't help that most rolls are hidden from a player.

 

[Parabalus]

do stars do fucking anything??

You got cucked hard there .

Each star gives you an +0.5 EV per level in the related skill, it's 25% to get both lower ends which isn't even that little, happens.

Sarissofoi how do you get the special background mercs related to the crises? Random lucky event as with everything?

Had a glutton get fat in an event - sent him to feed the wolves right after, obese fuck. Avoid gluttons like the plague.

 

[Sarissofoi]

Never get one.
So yeah, you know that much as me now. Having free slots probably help. Dunno about levels.

 

[Murk]

Patch today; the AI delay seems gone for me.

 

[Alienman]

So, my greenskin war ended in the most anti-climatic way possible. I took out a camp and when I got back to the map the game crashed. I tried to load it but it said something about scripts not working, so restarted the game. Loading in and it worked and I got tasked with getting 2000 gold for a banner which I already have. So I bit of a wtf moment. Anyway, got the banner, so now I have two banners, but the ambition of stopping the greenskin invasion is gone. Is there something to happen when the invasion fails, what did I miss out? Spent so many hours on surviving this and this is how it ends...

Or maybe it hasn't ended just the ambition trigger that failed. I don't know.

Edit:

Seems the ambition totally broke and is restarting for me. Getting all the easy ambitions that I have already done.

 

[Reinhardt]

So you can get another inventory expansion?

 

[Alienman]

Never got that ambition. I'm on the kill 12 dudes now. Probably a easy one since all the parties are over 12.

Looks like the war might still be going on. Just had a major fuck up with the ambition. Kinda annoying since now I can't see how the war is progressing.

Edit:

Hmmm, the whole map also got uncovered for some reason. Fog of war is just gone.

 

[Kuattro]

Never got that ambition. I'm on the kill 12 dudes now. Probably a easy one since all the parties are over 12.

Looks like the war might still be going on. Just had a major fuck up with the ambition. Kinda annoying since now I can't see how the war is progressing.

Edit:

Hmmm, the whole map also got uncovered for some reason. Fog of war is just gone.

Seems your save got pretty bad.

Maybe Overhype would be interested in taking a look at it.

 

[Jimmious]

Btw I see complaints about the "grind" that you need in order to reach the late game...which is the most boring part imo, at the moment at least. The feeling of imminent doom that you have in the early game makes the whole experience much more interesting. Late game that gets less and instead you fight battles with 30-40 enemies (which take muuuch longer)