A DIFFICULT ONE! | Battle Brothers Learning Run #1

battle brothers is one of my new favorite games there's so much under the hood in this game and it has such a level of depth that you can't even believe it's it's one of those games that you can pull apart and uh customize every single thing about all the characters we're gonna get started with a new campaign and try to do a full run here i have none of the dlc installed except for lindworm which i believe was installed by default uh this game is in insanely difficult we're not gonna play the tutorial because we i know what i'm doing i'm not great at it but i somewhat know what's happening around me in the game now and i know how a lot of the trade systems works there's gonna be quite a lot i'm still learning and quite a lot i don't know let's pick this because it looks kind of moody uh we're gonna play beginner economic difficulty we're gonna play beginner yeah we'll play beginner combat difficulty and high starting funds because you're gonna see that this is one of the most outstandingly difficult games uh turn-based rpgs that there is on the market today um i i feel very late to the party with it we start off with a band of battle brothers and you might think this is too much text but you of course you can read um so this is customized to our campaign we have three warriors hildebert corey and hilderick whose names we'll probably forget within a few minutes so i've paused on our spawn map we're here uh i'll just zoom in on our battle brother band uh we just got one guy here and let's see what characters we got for our battle brothers now i want to point to the fact that every little detail in the menus in this game matters like even the way that i order and arrange my battle brothers here is how they're going to appear when they spawn in to battle and everything on our characters is drawn just the way that it'll appear on them as they enter combat um that is to say that everything is kind of like wysiwyg in quality about it you know what you see is what you get um though of course their traits don't display these are pretty important for the game that we're going to be playing and i i think it is a very ingenious turn-based combat system whereby you can stall your turn which gives you a lot of control over the nitty-gritty in combat i really like this uh i don't know a ton about the traits but it seems we didn't get anything too negative we've got an optimist plus five resolve that positive morale checks is great because corey is probably going to be a frontliner what you'll see is this is pretty much a classic frontline backline turn based combat game where there's a couple of guys who really stay in there as your tanks in combat and there's some guys who hang back and probably hilderick or hilderich whatever it is uh is going to live the longest in this company because he's 51 range skill and he's got two stars on this which means that he learns faster it's kind of like a passion in rim world if you're familiar with my channel or anything that you know speeds up combat i'm gonna i just always kind of compare everything to rimworld because i believe a lot of people are rimworld on my channel this guy's very good frontliner too because he has a lot of hit points or he has a hit point proficiency um you have all kinds of other stats that you can really get into and you can look at this and you could totally we could totally reject this campaign if we wanted to at the beginning um so i think we got a decent spawn probably not amazing because i'm not like the best player at this by any means um but i have some idea of what's going on around me das wonder cat and seraphim thanks very much for the prime and the sub much appreciated as well as honorary snowman so it's kind of like oregon trail i'll compare it to that where you go around from city to city uh but of course you don't have a destination you're just kind of completing contract so i suppose maybe not oregon trail but mountain blade bannerlord or mountain blade is sort of the formula they're going through here albeit when you get into combat uh it's turn-based and it's a really good turn-based system um so we have 2 900 crowns we have 44 food we have 40 tools with which to repair our armor and stuff like that um and we have ammunition and medical supplies those are our main you know consumables that we'll be going through as we go through the campaign you need to pay your men you need to feed them unless you get a mission where the mission people will feed them for you you need to repair your armor or you could repair armor that you get and then resell it to shops for a profit which is great that there's an economy system and there's a very interesting economy system in this game in which you can do things like arbitrage and all kinds of other uh important garbage and you can accept of course contracts at various levels of danger and uh payment you can also build reputations with towns okay that's enough like uh exposition to begin with i'll get more into it as we go because there's so much to say about this game uh we have various nations that we could go to much like in banner lord we could earn their loyalty or their enmity if we don't complete their contracts if we break things off and we kind of lie to them but there's a lot to be done here and again i'm not even using all the dlc but let's go ahead and accept or at least check out what's the most dangerous contract uh this looks to be a i'm not gonna read every single thing but this icon always means that it's a delivery contract since i'm going to try to boost my reputation with the first town i'm going to go ahead and accept this just outright 310 crowns we might be able to get paid more for this which i'd usually negotiate however one of their earliest quests in the game is to get a good reputation with one of the first towns friendly not friends thanks very much for the gifts up um excuse me all right so we're gonna accept the contract unfortunately we can't hire anybody in town right now because it's night we could go to the tavern find out rumors we could buy our men drinks to boost their morale um but i think i'm just gonna leave and i actually did not pause when i first started but i think we're in relatively little danger right here we can always outrun an enemy probably unless if it's like dire wolves and i get extremely unlucky but i don't think that's going to happen uh so i think we're just going to deliver this contract and come back um wouldn't recommend taking two skulls contract at the beginning i like to play high risk because we have only 100 days and i've found that i generally speaking don't tend to make enough money the early game is largely about being a scavenger um we're gonna buy some cheap man at the beginning uh just to [Music] like keep keep our main battle brothers alive you find yourself buying a lot of fodder throughout the game and just getting a lot of guys killed not funny but it it's kind of funny um so the main thing that we're looking for here as far as i can gather is cheap we want cheap men we can get really good brothers later on uh the the irony is that unless if you try them out you can't really figure out what you're working with but all i really need are people that take hits for us to help my ranger level up and keep my other tanks alive paul quasi thanks very much for the prime so i'm going to take bowser the restless because he's cheap uh this is his daily payment of seven i'm gonna hire him i'm gonna hire all the other cheap guys this guy's cheap to pay but that doesn't really make a major difference we're gonna we're gonna hire him this is background he's a tailor generally speaking we're looking for like farmers i believe monk probably not amazing i don't think that they did a lot of fighting quite obviously uh i think we'll take alberic i'm a little wary of that monk background again i'm not an expert on all the trade systems or anything like that but there are certain professions that are good um okay so we need to pick an ambition for our company why is it only a hundred days uh because then a crisis i believe happens in the world i made it to about day fifty but rng can really throw you throw you off in this game so we can basically set an aspiration of destroying uh some enemy camp out in the wilderness or forging allies with a faction so i think we're going to take the ally faction forging because that's a pretty good one um well let's also just see what do we have for our company uh this is the order of deployments so we're going to keep our strong guys at the edges uh corey and hildeberg they're in more danger but they're also going to be way better brothers actually we'll put them in the middle for right here where they're so that they can level up in peace there's a lot that i'm not saying here too i'm kind of glossing over a lot of details so forgive me for that um but the main thing that we want to do in the first couple of days is really just horde gear that we find we're going to buy cheap weapons from the marketplace to begin with uh knives honestly might be fine knives bucklers we want to keep these guys alive so we want to give them shields shields can go a long way to keeping your men alive um excellent seeing that a lot of people love battle brothers i didn't expect that i would get so into this game now i'm not going to buy tons of stuff i'm not going to buy them great weapons because i really just don't expect these guys to be alive for a long time and i'd rather scavenge weapons off of the people that i kill in combat um other things that you can do and i'm not really microing this is that in certain places goods are very expensive like see this bread is worth only 65 gold pieces but you could buy it for 98. um i'm kind of rushing for weapons right now so i'm not particularly worried about the cost of those but gold is important at the beginning actually it doesn't look like this was a particularly good place to buy because i don't think i'm going to buy anything else here because look everything is overpriced in this town um now that you can kind of game this you can find a village where there's like uh what is this wheat field so actually let's go back for one second wheat fields is wheat cheaper here bread uh ground grains ground grain uh it's still kind of overpriced here so if we can find some place where food is underpriced that would be a good thing for us uh i think for right now since this was just a delivery contract it'll probably be fine but we want to be careful here i'm going to go slow through the marsh because that seems like a dangerous place to go through uh who is the best in uh you might you might actually be good later on with that kind of skill hang on a second i might want to keep you alive i'm going to give you a shield so that you don't die i'm going to give you this uh both of these other guys are kind of trash hesitant yeah i don't really care about him [Music] uh plus 10 hit points okay this guy is not as bad as he looked uh you are fat and have a double grip the fatigue isn't great oh wait double grip is just from what he's got on right now i think i'm just literally gonna give those guys chills these guys literally just stand in combat and punch the other guys and hold shields in the other hand yeah the town had raided caravans so every town has different status effects like you know i hope that this overflow of verbosity and loquaciousness has just convinced you that this game has so much detail to it that i really can't describe everything that's going on what i'm looking on for early on in the game is now what is this town suffering from this sound is ambush trader it's not good uh so goods are probably going to be kind of actually not as expensive as they were in the last town all right i'll take it i'm gonna take knives to begin with because knives are actually quite good um for some of the things you can do you can totally ignore target's armor with them heat bricks [Music] all right still a little bit overpriced i'm not crazy about it [Music] but i think i've just got to buy some cheap weaponry here to be honest with you i'm not crazy about it uh malicious spear might be decent we'll go with that though i mean look at tools here you would never want to buy tools in this town a horrible place to buy tools never uh six is decent you are who is the best in melee here all right so this guy is the best in melee we want to keep one of these guys alive and you can't who is better in melee oh now everyone has a weapon okay great so everyone has a weapon to do something with now there are certain contracts that we really don't want to do i'm going to accept this offer but drive off brigands at 30 access in camp and south east of i mean we can say we don't want to do this this does look like a rather difficult one i'm going to accept this and be very careful because brigands can be a great early quest but it can also be a great way to get yourself killed very early on uh we're going to need more stuff if we want to survive this i'm probably going to hire two more guys just because our only hope here will be outnumbering the enemy so many guys will die in these fights uh let's see worth 210 uh which one is really better of these two the pole arm is pretty good because we can stand back but we're just going to throw bodies at our problems for the first couple of fights i'm going to do this okay and now we're going to hire two more gentlemen and probably get them killed fairly quickly humbert the wild man and alfred oh corey is quite good with the flail but i need cheap bodies to die i started playing rimroll again because my stress levels are rising already and i haven't even pressed start yet jesus rimworld is a banger but if you enjoy room world i pretty much guarantee you'll enjoy this now we want to just throw a lot of bodies at this fight so who is this this guy might actually be rather good in melee and some at some point in time so we'll give him some decent gear um this guy is let's look at the other traits spartan brute uh hits to the head so you know you have to kind of negotiate all of their traits this guy is a wild man so he's not as good with experience gains supposedly uh but you know we got them for cheap so that's fine uh do we have anybody else in our front line who is good and oh you are rather good in this no i want to keep you alive because you're one of my original brothers so i'm going to take away some gear from other people because i don't care if they live as much uh we'll also take this away from you whoops you can also have weapons in reserve there's so much i'm not even explaining here this just got so much to it in this game -10 melee defense yeah it's a terrifying weapon to hold this thing because whoever wears whoever holds this weapon is probably going to die in fact we won't give it to you either um okay this guy i probably won't end up ultimately keeping in my company why don't you hold the big death uh uh axe whatever it is there we are okay we have enough food to feed these guys for maybe one more day is it one more day two more days max well most of them are gonna die we have enough to feed them for a long time but look here's the uh the 30 axis encampment now are we ready for this fight this will actually be a rather difficult fight i'm guessing we can retreat if we decide everything is horrible [Music] i think we're fine most of them will probably die in this fight i gotta be honest with you that's how this game often goes off in how this game goes get the helmets oh we could get helmets actually too let me go back just one second now we're better off preparing for this fight yeah no i've been a little bit uh slow to armor but in truth in this game what i've found is that gear is more important than men's lives early on in the game okay this may actually keep them alive so we'll take it uh we had a few other things you know like this is slightly better tunicage so we'll take that i don't think we'll really get to this though all right let's uh look at who's probably going to be taking the biggest hits now our two main brothers are outfitted in now i'm going to keep these guys alive because they're companions they're our first original guys they're usually just a little bit better than everyone else um okay see like this guy is wearing leather wraps it's some people just wear like a tattered loincloth you're wearing a sackcloth and you're on the edge so you're probably gonna be taking a lot of hits i don't want that to happen and i don't want him to die but who is also really valuable here because people can get like disfigured i had people lose their noses in my first playthrough that was not funny um because they couldn't breathe for the rest of the time and then they just started to kind of uh drag on the rest of the company i'm gonna armor these guys because they're both on the edges and i think that's important i think that's pretty much fine now which one is better this is 20 this is 20. this is worth a little bit more okay so i think we're pretty much outfitted in as good gear as i care to outfit them in leather wraps won't ever really be useful so let's just get rid of those and then we'll proceed on to what will probably be our deaths i've had a lot of people i have a decent archer in the middle with three stars oh wait a minute wait a minute oh actually that is true that is true but he's between our two other strong guys so he might live he might live he also has decent melee defense actually let's give him we have another shield we don't have another shield i mean these are like later things but at the same time actually are you better actually you are better than our original archer okay fair enough so take him out of there put that on and then no this guy won't be you know he can go bare chested let's leave him with that give him that okay so we're going to kind of betray one of our original brothers just because he's simply not as good now ari do you have any drawbacks -5 melee skill okay actually this guy is i stand corrected thank you help me stay alive to see another day all right now we're gonna go ahead to the bandit camp oh we survived nobody now you can get horribly disfigured in this game okay so we've exchanged one of our main brothers for that um combat what we've all been waiting for and was probably the most iconic thing in battle brothers which does actually take quite a long time oh crap we forgot to swap the ammo hang on a second hmm we'll put that on the ground pay double a three month already okay all right i that up a bit but at least it shows what i can do in combat now this is another reason why i love this game is because you can get so deep under the hood now look these guys are standing here but they have no incentive or we have no incentive to go over to them because we have an archer now i'm gonna move up my line by one because i don't want them to be able to get higher ground on us it could take over some of these spots but i think i'd rather just wait for them to come to us hey ellis one thanks very much for the three months um i don't know if you've ever played hero escape it's like an old board game but high ground is very important in it and this is very similar to that it's one of my favorite games to play as a kid like board games and stuff like that um since we have good initiative i might actually just wait to see if these guys come to us i want to make sure that we can keep that bag but we'll hold our line now i've waited with who is this hilda rich for his turn now we're gonna go ahead because i effed up here um and we'll just pick up these bolts off the ground and put them there and you can actually pick up items in the middle of battle but that does cost ap so now i could shoot a bolt with him it's gonna give me a 32 chance to hit and this is actually rather this does take a while in this game i'm actually going to wait for balder the restless turn uh by pressing down space rather than just ending his turn i'm gonna wait and see what the enemy does um we can actually get some higher ground here trying to judge do i really want to or am i gonna get surrounded um uh yeah let's go for it let's see if we can pin him back we don't really have that much range stuff so i think it's fine all right we'll kind of trap them in here and one great thing is that since we're standing on these two hills we can kind of trap them from getting over to these other ones um there's other things we can do to kind of stand our ground kind of like overwatch in warhammer 40k um yeah but we might we might also get surrounded which would also be horrible too um there's many drawbacks and advantages to taking these grounds um what other things are we going to do could wait for them they're going to get two turns right here from this gentleman and this gentleman so um i think for me though what i really want to do is just kind of trap them in here because we have kind of a thermopylae situation where they can't really get out that many people if we pin them at their uh at their front entrance and high ground is also a really good advantage too [Music] all right not great because they can move in and hit me but there the ai also isn't incredible like see they kind of messed up there a little bit all right but now i am flagging since i'm getting surrounded right now i am a little bit a little bit more trouble than i just was but we have the high ground obi-wan taught us a valuable lesson now the thing is that there are con like there's constantly all these draw everything is this opportunity cost in this game so there's no such thing as a perfect move um where are we we could do this we could walk up further but i really want to trap them in this situation where i can surround them we're trying to create these concaves around their men where we surround more of them than they surround more of us but now they've kind of created a battle line here they did manage to get hit okay that was not great um here we go we've got a chance to send in one of our other brothers but now we do have the high ground great who still has yet to go on their turn one two three so he won't actually be able to get an attack in off on us so we'll just kind of try to trap them at the gates here um god damn it they came in okay uh this guy still needs to finish off his turn so we'll send him over uh it looks like that's going to be the only spot where we have the high ground so we'll just try to keep the battle a little bit more on this side but this guy could also come in and mess us up so let's just head in this way um okay and then we'll move back up balder all right now you kind of need to gauge as you go through all this and i imagine a lot of people will question what i just did would you be better off just standing where you were if i had more archers in my company i probably would have just stood in the back but i think that it was well advised this time because we got this one square of high ground and we kind of kept them pinned back at their gates and we could move in here wasn't perfect but rarely you do get perfect situations in this game it's a little annoying to try to create them um okay so now cory is actually flagging so this means that his stats are fairly reduced i don't actually uh here we go so minus 10 he's wavering minus 10 and pretty much all of his skills and dissolving if if that keeps going lower he could actually retreat which is terrible and we don't want to happen ever um but pretty much we get a better chance to hit the enemy if we're surrounding them uh like for every single brother surrounding an enemy they get another five percent chance to hit which is great um yeah i don't want to fire with balder until i get him right behind our line because otherwise he can friendly fire everybody um but our enemy is not really well armed they don't have any shields i could have looked a little bit more into this because we can chop down their shields but we'll just use our knives for this time we'd also shield wall to kind of prioritize defense but they can't shield wall with bucklers so i don't think i'm gonna try that at all um i could pass turns and wait see if we could surround anybody more but i think on this side this battle is pretty much as it's gonna be um 59 percent chance to adverse 59 chance to hit arguable which one we should hit let's just try to take out does anybody have earlier initiative okay this guy is pretty early initiative so i think we'll try to wound him at least just so we get some okay good we're fine um now we have a knife so this can ignore is it just puncture that ignores armor puncture it has less of a chance to hit 55 chance to hit but it has a better chance to puncture um this guy doesn't really have particularly good armor though so i think i'm just going to take the better chance to hit and it worked great okay so now we've created a new concave uh one two and three we can surround this brigand thug more so we're gonna go move in who is this humber to the wild man put him in a little bit of danger but it's going to cause him deflect sometimes you can get the enemy to just outright retreat which pretty much wins you the combat um until they rally that is um he has two ap left he can't really do anything with it he could move another tile i'm just gonna pass his turn for now uh or rather wait this is the chance that we could do something with it um okay i wanted to get him surrounding him so that's fine i don't really see myself i think i'm actually gonna end his turn all right we took a hit we're gonna lose some guys in this combat and like that's just kind of the reality of it because it's combat you know not everybody's gonna live some people die uh this is about as surrounded as we're gonna be able to get this brigand thug so i'm gonna take that 64 percent chance that's pretty good pass the turn uh you've been hit okay i'm gonna go ahead and say another thing about this game running away in combat is pretty much the worst thing that you can do like he'll die if i try to run him out of here um so we we pretty much just have to either stand and fight or die it's like one or the other ah bring it this brigand thug we could puncture or if we do we have two attacks stab and puncture so i i won't belabor this too much more but i think you get it it's a lot like uh an x-com or any other turn-based thing okay that's not great he's bleeding uh that is balder is that one of our original oh no this is palper okay here we go no i don't want to friendly fire my dudes see if i do this he has a good chance of hitting one of one of his own guys so i think i'm gonna go ahead and just walk him up too uh and who do we want to take out this guy's gonna go in a little bit now this guy's got a shield you have distance of two armed with a shield or kind of drawing back from his chance to hit this guy's just distance of two i think we'll go for this guy and we missed not great he doesn't have enough ap left to reload it so not great uh i really don't like the wood axe which is the weapon that he's using right now because it's just very heavy and requires a lot of ap and it doesn't really get much done but we kind of got stuck with it that's not on one of our original brothers either geezler will probably better leave to death better have him take down an enemy yeah like i said you need a lot of meat shields early on in the game no i think we're going to take out um actually both of these guys are armed with a shield let's even get this guy because he's surrounded and we'll just kind of keep surrounding them as we go that wasn't good now as they kill more of your guys you do lose morale we don't have anybody who's completely getting ready to run yet but that was not a great turn uh and these guys also as brigands are not really armed with great stuff i'm gonna pass his turn oh that was actually a terrible end to that combat 44 chance to hit again thug okay we're getting very unlucky here [Music] all right we did manage to hit him we aren't taking out the shield though uh unfortunately this guy's never shot but also are they going to surrender faster than we do you kind of need to figure in all of these things hey kako's here what's up gekko how are you hmm the spear wall i guess the spear wall is an excellent there's so many different techniques that you can use in this game though it's dizzying we could have approached this combat in so many different ways all right and we just lost another guy now we're still in a 5v4 i'm still pretty optimistic about this [Music] but dammit we might have picked some of the wrong guys to hit um [Music] okay is anyone i don't like this situation here where this guy could come in and get my ranger that's not good at all we might have to switch out weapons uh who is still ready to flag uh crap let's even get man this guy's shield has really done a lot for him but now i think we can uh one of our guys is getting ready to retreat too that's not good all right but he's gravely wounded we came in good came with another hit and we can also get we can pin this guy because we don't want him to get to our crossbowm in the next turn unfortunately we don't have the ap to get more done he's shield walding good okay they missed finally a little bit more luck on our side um that was not good at all that was not good at all okay so nobody's in the line of fire now so we have a better uh shot at hitting the enemy um 35 chance to hit 35 chance to hit not great we could go in with the knife he could drop his crossbow finally we got lucky after all those unlucky shots uh i think i'm going to uh where am i going to run him [Music] keep him behind this line right here move him in and now let's check out this puncture versus i think i'm just gonna go for a stab we could go for the puncture wounds but i think i'm happy with that now we can't really move him around anymore once he's already engaged in combat ah okay now we could go in for the shield if we wanted to now we can just shoot straight for this guy's shield and try to destroy it kind of judging i think 50 chance to hit and just take out this guy's health is pretty valuable but since this is the one axe man i'll go straight for the shield see if i can take that thing out um i don't like what's happening with our farmer over here or the farmer-hatted guy i think we could get a kill on him yep okay we pretty much won this oh and he got his morale back yes because he saw a guy die nearby him an enemy guy he got his moral uh enemy retreats okay we could either let them run away or run them down obviously we're gonna run them down because this guy is no way of getting out of this he's pretty much dead all right good so we got all of their gear a horribly managed combat but you get the point you'll probably spend most of your first combats in this game like this huzzah we have obtained all of this loot but a lot of this loot was from guys that were on our team who died they're gonna go ahead and take all of that um i won't belabor that quite so much in the future installments but really as i meant to say we're gonna go ahead and whoops let's do that we'll equip all the best stuff on all of our people we're gonna go ahead and repair all of this stuff that we got from them just because it's usually pretty profitable to do that do we have any permanent injuries after the combat we have a maimed foot okay this is a permanent injury not amazing uh this is one of our arches minus 20 initiative one actually okay so that's not great we actually didn't want that to happen to this guy because he's oh no this is one of our original brothers but he wasn't as good as one of the other guys that we picked up so we're fine with that okay all right goodbye original brother you're probably going to die uh you weren't good enough you weren't good enough other stuff the wooden flail is not that bad oh what the hey will take it of course we will all right so combat you know it is what it is we lucky got that well we got pretty unlucky uh unlucky shots too ourselves now the most important thing is that we got 420 crowns what an amazingly memey number and really money is more valuable than life in the beginning and a couple of the brothers that you pick up so this guy thankfully we noticed was actually a very good archer so we'll keep him um do we have anybody else with three stars on anything we don't it doesn't appear nope okay so no three stars so there's nobody else who's really valuable this was really the main guy this is gonna be our main brother though that we want to keep it alive our original two brothers are pretty good too um i predict that corey will be kind of like our main fighter tank kind of guy um we've gotten rid of most of the bucklers we'll keep the rest of our gear now we don't want to just be selling gear willy nilly all the time um nor do i want to be paying all of these people when i don't have to so do we have anybody nope this is that one guy [Music] all right i'm gonna keep on going to these first towns unfortunately i went to a different kingdom for this one and are we going to be ambushed by anyone in the wild hopefully not hopefully not memes are more valuable than life who is willy-nilly we'll have to name one of them willy-nilly yeah sorry i tend to be a bit archaic in some of my uh i'm not apologizing for it i'm not apologizing for it i was leaving here are safe on the uh caravan has been ambushed and plundered with successful trade this selection of goods is lower and the price is higher okay so this might be a good place to sell some stuff actually when we when we wake them up in the morning um decent enough food i was happy with that last quest deliveries are usually pretty good because they're pretty peaceful oh what is this this is dangerous the roads [Music] uh again we want to be friendly with john so we're not going to negotiate them uh caravan escort is interesting i'm gonna think about this for a little while because obviously i want to replenish my company let's just go ahead and see what other contracts are um i'm just going to ignore this follow the tracks okay i don't want to take this one uh because this is probably fighting thieves or undead or it could be anything really you want to avoid fighting non-human players from which you're not going to get gear because you're trying to get uh gear for your for your company at the beginning drive off pre-hands because gear is highly overpowered in this game um driving off more against i'm gonna need more time to think about it let's do that um i'm gonna go ahead and plant a camp right here now we're waiting the night is passing we pay our men every day at noon so we have plenty of money we're you know i want to avoid financial ruin anything stupid happening to us i'm not very happy with this crushed windpipe in the main foot you really don't want to keep anyone with horribly debilitating permanent injuries like if a guy loses his nose in combat not only is it like a horror but also too it ruins his fatigue and his sustainability and combat which makes it very difficult for them to wield like heavy gear and stuff like that too everything has kind of an opportunity cost in this game um you are an apprentice maybe i should look more deeply at backgrounds now now the fact that i'm kind of streaming this it's kind of forcing me to play a little bit better i think we're just gonna go with straight up cheap again now this guy has a knife on him which is awesome he takes only four a day i think we're just going to go with cheap guys who might end up being good because we got lucky before um grim all the devoted thank you you're gonna be devoted to us now uh what were you you were a farm okay farhan might be good i think he's accustomed to labor you know i love labor uh now we gotta pick one of those contracts because we do want to you know stay pretty steady with this hey honor jonah what the heck is battle brothers i was thinking that a few days ago it's pretty good give it uh give it a look see give it a look-see as they say as they say okay this guy is a very good melee defend defender man uh three-star melee defense we want to keep this on our team so let's start to equip people with you know like this is one of our original brothers which is great there are game modes where it's like a campaign and you want to keep one gentleman alive but uh for us we just have to keep our entire company alive if we lose all of our brothers you know we could change it out every battle but whatever um okay i think i'm going to unequip this stuff from you because you clearly aren't as important as this other guy oops i had a shield in his uh here we go all right grimal the devoted [Music] i might even just change his title you could change his night title to like stay keep alive or something like that just something dumb and informative you know [Music] knives knives aren't as bad as they look i know they don't look great oh he's building a knife get over it get over it i would like to build up more back line but i just haven't found any items for backline units and do we have anybody who's really good in back i could have kept this guy but he's just not as good as the other guy you're quite good well you've got the flail as well so that's good all right um fine by me we're kind of keeping a visual organization to see who we want to keep alive okay now we have either the caravan to defend or we could take out a nearby group of brigands no i'm hoping to find better gear on brigands so i'm gonna take the brigands quest um keep a knife on each character so they can ignore armor for an enemy's last armored character an interesting proposal i think i think i'll do that i may steal your idea except that i don't have any knives left unfortunately do you have he has a knife now it does take him different ap to equip a shield and a knife and we haven't even gotten to leveling up yet is this enough brothers that i trust them to live though or to take out a whole i really don't want this to end in ruin i'll hire all of the just sad looking cheap labor i can 1489 let's hire rudolph two just for the sake of hiring all of the bad people uh we've got 11. okay this is a pretty full roster now um okay that's good and this is literally the maximum number of items that we have we can't even completely fill up our front line anymore was either of these guys any good okay uh rallo was not total garbage so we're gonna go ahead and give him yes a knife rallo not that i really think you're going to live for very long but uh that's part of the fun of this game yeah that's kind of dark it's kind of dark isn't it imagine hiring only clients now there are uh mods for this game that change it significantly and make it better or worse um you can also save scum i'm probably not really gonna this would be really anti-climactic but if you're really struggling you can save scum because it is a very difficult game it is tough [Music] uh i'm hoping that we get better gear on these brigand thugs because we seriously need better armor and i'll go a little bit more into finding or how you can actually acquire loot that you like in this battle now we've been through the main bits of combat uh we can look at what ground is available now i really want to get this high ground again i don't or i don't want to let them have it um we could also trap them in here oh this might be very good for this battle um okay we could kind of puzzle out this combat before we begin but uh let me just go over quickly if you want to get an item from an enemy so i've heard from youtube guides that if you increase the durability of an item when it is taken off of somebody like if you destroy somebody's shield you can't salvage their shield uh but if you kill a guy before he gets a chance to sing swing with his greatsword or his big woodcutter axe there's a good chance that they're going to drop it as lewd at the end of the battle you can also pick things up from enemies when they drop them in battle um did i get the dlc no we're not we're not actually playing with the dlc right now um we could it's a future thing that kind of keeps me excited about the game um they have a lot of stabby sticks so these guys can ignore our armor um so we might want to just put our weak guys up against these this guy can reach over another guy so there is kind of an advanced wars tactic going on here hey uh thunder raja thank you very much for the sub much appreciated um but i think we want to get up our main shield wall guys into the front it looks like we have very good initiative in this fight uh one i know there's a lot of sprites up there but you can always tell who's on what side in combat just by facing they'll literally face whichever way they're fighting for um do i how do i want to fight this out i think i just want to charge into them this time just because if i could pin them back in here that would be a really good thing for surrounding so we'll try to do that i don't know if it's gonna work out but disaster is always fun too isn't it uh and we'll try to take the high ground we'll make like obi-wan here and yes we can take the high ground great i just want to get some men on that uh as for my crossbowman i'm just going to pass his turn i want to wait and see how the cards or how the pieces shake out and i'm gonna try to trap them in here now his zone of control is in these uh how many hex is that in these six hexes around him so pretty much they're stuck here like they can get only maybe two guys out of here this turn which is great uh not really the ideal guy i would have put in the middle but since he's got the alfred had a wooden stick to fight with so i can tell that his life didn't really matter you know it's this way of visually organizing all this information of who you don't care about um hmm other stuff now this is the guy i do care about humbert uh might try to put him here the next turn in combat or i could try coming around with him on the other side am i really going to have an answer we have good guys on the other side i'll just leave him there [Music] good now they might be able to get an attack off on us whatever but we've pretty much pinned them in their base which is what mattered high ground advantages advantage is huge in their early game i mean if we could get our crossbowmen up on the high ground that would be great like in that spot but i just wanted to make sure that we took it since we had so much initiative it's important it's important and i'm probably not going to put any more gentlemen on this side so we'll just unfortunately we can't really get them past there is some inefficiency in it too you know yeah this guy is like nope we can't get in that way so he's probably gonna try to come around so i might even engage like a 1v1 over there uh i'll put this guy over here because i can create a shield wall if i do this right uh oh crap how did you get over there i stand corrected okay they did manage to get past his zone of control that's no good um i'm gonna send you over here just because i need you behind this line good does this guy's hair count as a helmet oh you can go to the barber shop and um like have them get a haircut the thing i you know you can see that there is a lot under the hood this game of course you can see it now does this gentleman really have that much armor i'm not really going to belabor the the differences between puncturing and um stabbing it's it's kind of like advanced wars though in that way or you could think of it as as such now who do i want to get in there i think i'm going to get mr stabby stick [Music] do i want mr stabby sick yeah i want to have these two 1v1 because i value this gentleman's life and i don't value this ones as much so i'm just going to put him in with the rest and probably get him killed [Music] though maybe an early puncture would be worthwhile i haven't really experimented with it that much balder should be bald because he has bald as the first four letters okay fair enough [Music] let's try puncture see if we can get past the armor right this gentleman can't really even get into that combat because there's nobody there i might as well not waste his life trying to do that so let's just try to outnumber this other gentleman over here okay this guy could destroy this other guy's shield but the other guy is ignoring it with his yeah we do want to take out the shield so let's see if we can okay so i just destroyed his shield unfortunately we won't be able to get the buckler at the end of combat and could have thought that through a little bit more but even so did we really care that much about a buckler uh this guy is probably gonna die that was a lucky hit okay but now we seriously are outnumbering them i have more guys than i even know what to do with now one other thing there is an advantage to passing your turn because they don't build up as much fatigue so if i have these guys shield wall and fight and stuff like that they do build up tiredness over time you know tiredness you felt tired before of course you have um oh god so this is the reason why we keep gentlemen in reserve uh we really don't want him to get the high ground here actually i will run him in i don't like this at all um [Music] ah you know what screw it we've got another guy with a shield there it'll be fine yeah i'm not too worried about that but let's keep this guy in reserve i'm literally just going to have him stand here and wait he has no fatigue built up so that's fine not a perfect fight but i'm happier with this than if we got um you know if we had to fight them in the open field that would have been worse 90 chance to hit it that's amazing good okay we've taken out one of their other guys uh i want to get to the high ground here they have 49 percent chance to hit uh they do have cover but we do have a height advantage because this is a better shot tiredness yeah i mean you know i know that our armor doesn't look particularly valorous right here or valor we don't have a lot of valor damn it we lost another man i mean that's gonna happen though it's gonna happen a lot um but we will eventually get like cool knights gear later on in the game moral snowballing is a thing yeah i mean morale morale can really get you easily killed like some of these guys are flagging right now it gets worse and worse so you want to generally make sure that your team has better morale over time now this guy i think i'm just going to send in our spearman next turn uh unfortunately this guy's very good position i was hoping that they wouldn't take this position but they did alas um you know i think i'm just gonna leave you there i think i can do better this turn reload the crossbow and shoot and we got very lucky that was nice excellent work um i think i'm just gonna leave you up there though all right this guy can walk over here and then just poop on this other guy there we go 41 i mean you know in macro 41 adds up you have so many hits ah this is great we have a flail which has a good chance of getting right past the shield biggest step for containers to get spears is they have a nice bonus to hit yeah spears have been pretty successful and we haven't really done a spear wall yet which can be extremely powerful um they're good early game items you also want to get things with reach just so that you can engage more guys in combat i don't think we're going to come in here with the stick we'll send him this way um okay now we can come after this guy one of the worst things that can oh my god that was really good one of the worst things that you can do is have like bad engagement numbers even if you have really good gear if you don't know what you're doing tactically in these situations you can really easily get killed um but it's a lot like chess i suppose you could think of it like that i'll take 41 chance to hit i mean sometimes you can't have one guy who just stays very much alive at the end of combat and ruins your entire team later when your melee skill gets higher you can do real damage weapons like nice two-handed but they're very difficult to use yeah we'll also need more armor i also need more armor i think one of the most difficult things to do later on though is that there's so much more like at risk you get into some really good fights but you can wage huge battles in this game one thing that makes me less interested in streaming this a lot is the fact that some battles tend to take a very long time like clearly right now and one thing that i think would add a lot to this game would just be a quick auto end button like clearly that guy didn't have much of a chance and we got some decent armor padded what is this a surcoat all right i'll take that i'll take that hey irondale thanks very much for the 500 bits much appreciated and decay the canadian catfish thank you very much for the sub as well as raven arcing all right so we did decent here i'm gonna see if we can just get this first renown up see we're pretty much struggling for money at the beginning of the game because nobody has very high level contracts we want to avoid any major ruin to our company horrible things can happen to you like if i get a dire wolf quest run in the opposite direction because dire wolves will kill you uh terrifying enemies another thing that would be good to do here would be to see if and i haven't really gotten into this trade yet but i mean you know i i enjoy economic simulators so this town is ruins it has an orchard so we should check on the price of fruit i don't i thought it was okay but we might be able to get a better price for fruit and then sell it in another town why am i saying fruit like that we have a brewery a wool spinner and we have a wooden watch tower so this is an id and wheat fields pretty well supplied town sometimes you can find two of these things too find really cheap like amber or something like that trade it in another town for pretty much just free arbitrage training uh or trading though you do of course pay for the transportation now i think weed is it seems to be a bit overpriced but i think that's just because we're in the early game i've generally found that everything is a little bit overpriced in the early game when i play like even on beginner difficulty which is a bit misleading however we don't have many options i want to avoid buying these things ooh a bundle of javelins nothing says joy like a bundle of javelins javelin uh i honestly think that we can get a better price for this tried oh we know that's just provisions my bad my bad uh well i mean i guess you could sell provisions but that would be kind of a crazy way to live your life uh how are we on tools we're fine on tools all right let's just equip our men again and see if there's anybody else to hire so we're pretty much just uh breaking even for this entire time we'll hire another cheap guy we're just going for cheap right here again i don't want you to have this though it's like a death sentence to give a guy a um yeah which we call it a wood cutting axe we'll probably just sell those here we go you take a spear are you good at anything oh you are actually very good all right hang on a second we will give you some good items then so that you stay alive are you good at anything ailing poison effects last one additional term we'll just have to try to avoid getting uh poison and he has good experience gain on this guy spirit wall and we can hinder dot handle direwolves easily i have never been able to beat dire wolves in a combat in this game um for a perspective i am not good who else is decent in this company you have good melee defense you were the monk weren't you i'm going to make you less monkey every turn you are also quite good i'm going to give you i'm actually going to give this gentleman a pitchfork and put him in my back line he's got three melee skill i want to keep him alive and keep him from getting horribly maimed uh hopefully so we'll see how that goes [Music] is there anyone else i want to keep alive in here i'm keeping you alive [Music] you're pretty good but i've already got you pretty much kidded up which one is better here at 30 versus 60. okay i think the farmer hat is a little bit better we'll just throw on random items on other people they're also decent but i mean the main the name of the ball game here is shields give them shields and armor so that they just stay alive okay so now we've got our first level up we have tons of perks to choose from everything from new abilities to uh you know better chance to hit to better experience game now there is i think a cap at level 10 on leveling in this game i believe i've never actually gotten anybody up there though um we're gonna focus on his main skills here so this is going to be one of our front liners we're going to try to keep them alive so we've got health is great um we want to keep that resolved snowball from happening but this guy really hasn't been one of our major culprits we want to try to get everybody up to 40 first so i'm going to focus on that's only a plus one this is a plus two i'll give him better melee defense so that he doesn't get killed um but they also do say that a good def that the best defense is a good offense so we'll focus on that there's more melee stuff in general there's a lot of melee in the early game uh and now this guy is one of our backline i don't really know what perk i like for backline does anybody have any real opinions on this otherwise i do have one that i'll go to uh which is i just kind of default to colossus but um i don't know if anybody really has any good perk handling experience at level one with these otherwise i would probably do fast adaptation just so he keeps getting a better chance to hit on guys um yeah cling cling ellis or cling cling-a-ling sword thanks very much for the prime um critical strike on the back line to murder them oh crap ah i hadn't thought of that is it crippling strike crippling trick crippling your enemies lowers the threshold to inflict injuries by 33 for both melee and range decks that could work yep that could work um fast adaptation is strong but you really want to maximize your strength early on in the beginning of the battle um just because you want to give your opponent like no chance to retaliate we'll go ahead and give him obviously the plus four this is going to be an amazing level up streak uh the only other real valuable things for our backliner well this guy has terrible results so we will want to get that up by a bit that's a weirdly low resolve actually so we'll bring that up unfortunately he has a skill in it um beyond this i generally level fatigue here because you just want your back line to be able to keep firing but he does have the three in melee defense so i might do that uh initiative is good but for our backline i mean there's usually a lot of reacting going on we could level melee i'm thinking that we would probably just be better off with the teeth for now later on i'll level this when i think that my back lines in more danger actually you don't know i take that back i am going to do one two and three there we go i feel happy with this evil wrath thanks very much for the three months much appreciated um okay i'm happy with that now do we have any other level ups to do anymore now nope uh our company is in decent spirits this gentleman is not particularly happy because he was pierced in the side a lot of these things will oh no his elbow joint was broken okay well fortunately this is a guy that we didn't really care about he's probably just going to die alfred uh see you later that's his title because he's probably gonna die i mean you can't name things like that because it is very easy to confuse your brothers i have no idea how other people keep it ah very organized i don't want to do this one i want to do the caravan quest how much is this a day to the north that's fine we've accepted a caravan contract let's go on onward all right so now we have a mission of escorting a caravan majestic and uh equine equine alfred the disposable we should re-title him that i would probably say i don't know from like a like keep my wits about me perspective i'm probably just going to name them all things like die now or um something something like that actually i'm recalling the guy who's videos i watch filthy robot he made very good videos about this game i learned a lot from watching my dream we might be attacked by brighams but i would not be dissuaded i would not be dissuaded from life and living um okay other world interactions you can get other mountain blade like events happening we haven't used harbors because i don't understand harbors yet um i think this is supposed to be good for the late game but better travel throwing that's so many other items you can do this it's practically like kenshi in the level of depth in every single item we're fine right now i don't really want to do tons of this okay we have cheap fish i'll take some fish because it's more food three more days when do these spoil eight days so i'll take enough for like eight days of course um actually it's very rare to find cheap food like this food quite this cheap oh actually the ground grains are rather cheap too how long does this list okay those last only seven days do we have seven six seven [Music] oh there's probably enough food that's quite a lot of food anyway i don't really need all of that whatever i'm probably going to sell this woodcutter's axe because like i said it's pretty much just a death sentence i could repair it yeah we'll repair it okay the monks robe i don't think is going to get invaluable we have any better clothing here this costs only 30 and it's better armor so we'll take it um this costs only 30. again we'll keep on ranking up with our items let's see if we can keep our men a little bit alive though uh and we'll buy one of these better shields they're not in great condition but we can just keep repairing them again all right now we're going to try to get rid of these bucklers because bucklers are not really so amazing these things can be shield-walled and just are much better uh now in no particular order i'm just going to try to uh who else was good you're fairly decent okay i'll give you this thing uh we get the auto repair on that and we'll try to get you out of a literal this is like the worst thing in the game a tattered sackcloth only five jesus he could just be running around in the nude might be better off that way in fact i try to keep this side of the line a little bit stronger we'll give you like a hat or something literally just a hood everybody has a one of these things good [Music] and you get a hat and you get a hat and you get a hat there we are and we'll just repair the rest of these whoops now there is a lot of management on the side like this but if this is the type of thing that and this is the reason i'll probably stream this game a couple times with like a full run but if it seems like something that you would enjoy on your own i mean i was loving playing this game on my own during this week i prefer meadowblade um i mean there's a lot more dlc's to this i feel guilty that i really haven't done so much more or just going on the golden golden talisman to strand okay this is probably thieves i'll take this [Music] okay now we need to follow track so i think it's the big tracks that we're following north of strange or strong or something like that when you say like a german like you're coughing something up they have the uvulara in german i was trying to learn it once okay these guys took a weird like nfl running back line into the woods what is this place and we got to make sure we don't get ah an iron vein maybe we could do some trading here okay there are the thieves maybe we'll get help from the village watch if we encounter them right here we have seven thieves you can sometimes see something that you're fighting in a quest and be like nope i'm not gonna fight that turn the other way come on baby okay we have uh humans yes love humans now you can fight zombies and other things like that in this game ooh a lot of elevation on this map all right let's examine the elevation hoping this is the next rim world for me ah i mean it is a game that you could probably sink as many hours into as your world but to me it feels more like a slay the spire and in the fact that it's kind of like a roguelike um all right so one thing is that we don't want to let these guys get the jump on us in combat i really don't think we're going to get a major combat advantage here unless if we really try to take up to the top of the hill but we would need to kind of hold this line over them let's also just examine our initiative we have very good initiative for this fight um i know we have the higher we have a little bit more high ground than them i'm quite optimistic about this but again we don't want to let anything stupid happen now my main goal in this fight again is to try to get good gear they don't really have that much of it uh it's just a wooden flail this is just a fight that we just kind of want to overtake them on the spear would be nice but i mean i'm not going to bend over backwards just for a single spear um this guy is probably going to be better off reacting to whatever they do quite honestly though is there any high ground i can deny them if i go here four ap to do this i mean this guy might walk up three i don't really see us getting the high ground on this guy though maybe if i could trap them into some kind of situation where they're fighting us along this ridge that would be good i know that there's a lot of much higher ground up here but maybe we could send one group of guys over here to fight and one group of guys up here to fight so let's go ahead and just um we don't want to give this guy a chance to swing so we'll walk forward only two and then we'll pass this guy's uh no you know i'm gonna let him get hit here i'm gonna let him get hit because i wanna hold this spot it's a trade-off of course it is but i really don't value anyone's life that much this early on when is the next kenshi animal video oh god i want to do another kenshi it might not be animals but i might do i don't know it's a fabulous game fabulous game um i'll walk you forward here i just want to get them into the spots where anywhere adjacent to it is the height uh is lower to it um okay we can shoot only one guy we do have a height advantage here but he's so far away so very far away let's just pass our rangers turn for a little while uh we obviously don't want to hold that i'd rather end up being here than it's gonna be a tricky one um oh we could actually spear wall here but that's gonna require a lot of fatigue and i think if they walk here anyway they're gonna be screwed so we'll just let it happen [Music] flails and no helmet equals free skull that's that's true i mean there are certain weapon classes in this game that can be very well gamed and i am not really taking advantage of true true true but you're probably better at this game than me um there's going to be a very topographically interesting fight okay we will just stand you there i do want to wait and see if they walk up enough to make this worthwhile kind of an awkward spot for a fight i'll try to keep this gentleman behind them because like in that last fight how this pitchfork was being used against me now i can use this pitchfork against others okay we've got a bunch of people here yes you're right unhelmed [Music] we could make dastardly use of this of this flail but nobody really who has no helmet on us actually this flail guy would be good against this guy so we'll put flail guy down here it's going to require him a lot of fatigue to get down there though oh i forgot to switch this guy out with a knife before this combat oh well let's hold on to this ridge hold on to the ridge and they come up now he will get in a swing but again it hits the buckler maybe we could trap them into see this ridge is slightly higher than this one i think [Music] there we go they're probably just gonna walk up to though oh they oh what a absolute lad walking up there okay okay all right i'm gonna hold this ridge and then just wait there turn see what they do oh ho ho ho ho i i saw that coming completely but see now they're in this situation where they need to use up all of these action points to scale the hill the bastards okay now we want to prevent them from out flanking us though too because they're probably gonna end up going for my archer um you have very low initiative so i'm gonna keep you back here unfortunately he cannot get up that hill uh crap i don't want him to get to my former this guy's going to probably be screwed a little bit right here that's not a great situation but whatever okay and they've avoided this fight for the most part and we've got guys waiting around back here um uh you have five ap left what am i gonna do with you you know i think i'm just gonna throw you in here so that they can't flank us we could probably keep this high ground somehow and that way this guy can't get to my see me underbelly down here okay okay i'm fairly happy with this now unfortunately we did give them a lot of time to do a bunch of stuff so that's not great uh but i can walk him up here and then just shoot this oh no we're not perfectly out of the line of fire generally speaking i don't want to shoot my own guys so that's not great um somehow is a 28 chance to hit this guy okay oh whatever all right what are we on to a new round of comment no they just walked up to us so this is this was the advantage of passing our turn sometimes the ai will do stuff that's stupid it's not perfect the ai is pretty good in this game though um given the nature of the game what's my opinion on backseating here a little bit if i ask for it if you see anything that i'm obviously missing then go ahead and say um but again i i don't like it to just turn into i'd rather play slightly bad and kind of keep my thread going rather than you know uh totally lose oh wait a second i should not have done that uh just move back yeah i want to keep him out of the line of fire if i can at all i love the youtube videos but the first time catching my stream while it's supposed to be work get back to work i won't tell anyone hey thank you very much for coming out to the stream all right stick guy you're just gonna be stuck here because unfortunately you can't get onto that i was hoping that they would just stupidly run into us but they didn't so i'm kind of sitting out here uh this guy's a bit screwed he can't really do anything for this turn um this gentleman uh not my favorite combat but it looks like they avoided this almost entirely but we'll try to flank them from the back if we can at least surround them even if we don't have the high ground that's still pretty much fine with us this guy can't really do anything and then this guy is just kind of stuck all right so we are engaged in combat here we'll see if we can just kill this man ah that's not good we mostly have the initiative though don't we why playing last week did i get to any end game events i didn't get to any end game events but my i got my like company very well outfitted in gear which i was proud of because it took me like 30 playthroughs to get them to anything battle brothers is very hard to pick up on all of these intricacies when you begin um i don't want to not have the high ground here but i could also be surrounding this guy hey it looks like that this gentleman could come in for a dastardly swipe though i think i'm going to stay here and just forgo this gentleman's turn in fact i oh crap i should not have done that at all i wish that there was an undo button in this game because sometimes it's very easy to miss that these two hexes are right next to each other i mistakenly thought that there was one more hex between him and i but there was not in fact very sad day very sad day no don't stab me we'll stay alive we'll avoid ruin but we might lose a guy stupidly here and there that's pretty much my one thing that i can't guarantee will happen in this playthrough unfortunately are archers hard to get or train in this game seems like being able to dictate the location if you're in uh combat would be huge yes archers are in fact huge in this game um it does take a little bit of practice at the beginning because archers aren't super sometimes like if you have good melee you can really just trump the enemy team having one really good archer on your team though is a major advantage um i don't like this situation though we have some extremely tactically advantageous positions like that like that was a great turnout for that gentleman um i don't really pay attention to anyone's names anymore i just kind of pay attention to oh you're the guy who's lived a lot who has the spear that's kind of how i think of my characters in this game i though i do enjoy good characterization and stuff like this okay i think that we can kill this guy this turn can we probably not let's just take this so that this guy stays out of combat a little bit longer [Music] oh we can get over here uh not great well we're starting to surround that guy i don't i regret this situation we should not have gotten into this one at all uh you can at least save him now as we got uh to surround him he started to flag a rather waver waver i like that one hey i won't come get you if you don't have archers that makes the yes so archers are very good for that they do dictate the way that the ai moves in battle like the ai one thing that i could see that gives this game less long-term value and one thing i was thinking to myself when i was kind of testing it out is like does this have all of the potential of a long-term game on the channel like a rim world or like a kenshi or something like that and a little bit of it is like a system you know what i mean like if you've played slay the spire after a while it becomes less interesting and it kind of feels like you're going through the motions although i love it and it's one of my favorite games and probably if i were playing games alone i would play more stuff like slay the spire and less stuff like room world because it's not as interesting to do personal storytelling to me i that's just kind of the way that my head is wired i i enjoy playing through a game that feels like participating in one grand algorithm you know what i mean um i think northern lion said that about slay the spire i like it i i like that a lot um but yeah one that i would find very personally addicting if i were playing on my own which is kind of what i did over the last couple of weeks do i have a lot of the dlcs a lot of repeatability no and that's actually one thing that i'm i'm rather excited about in pursuing and perusing more of the game i think we've won this one by a lot pretty much here we just want to avoid losing anyone stupidly did we lose one guy we might not have even lost a single guy in this combat what a disappointment okay that guy tried to retreat i didn't actually take the turn but when he tried to retreat we did a disengage attack on him uh and he was smackdorfed immediately now this is one of my least favorite parts about the game is that you actually have to finish off the rest of the combat like this like there should just be an auto it would benefit from an auto battle button i know that wouldn't be as much fun but for situations like this i think it would be good um but all that's to say i mean if they ever make a battle brothers two i would i would be in for that um but it also makes me regret stuff that i haven't played like i haven't played darkest dungeon and a lot of people like darkest dungeon too i saw that in some of the reviews is this a sex adjacent to this other one it's so hard to tell all right so many of these guys are just moving just moving i mean oh no why did it you have you're those soul last man standing situations like this i can't possibly understand sometimes though like this one guy is just absolutely dear god he's good i'm actually going to stand this guy here we'll pass his turn okay you get in there stab him oh this is not adjacent [Music] who is getting smackdorf now right well alas alas good you are flagging your wavering you are afraid i might even just take the lower ground just to surround this guy more god damn it it's so hard to get to this guy he's in just such a tricky position take that fiend yeah i can't even get him from up here can we go down a level oh what a ridiculous position see this i couldn't even see from the higher level now that is something look he's just peeking out oh whatever we lost one man that's not that bad a lot of level ups in that battle um terrible gear really but decent armor okay it's a better it's better than what we had to begin with [Music] i know we could have gone through the levels but i thought we didn't think we would encounter something like that all right we'll just let's move in the line a little bit we can just forget about that man and we want to keep the middle of our line strong with shield is this guy becoming less and less valuable to us now i in one of my earlier companies and the reason why i gave up on the campaign was because two guys who had leveled up by quite a lot lost their noses i'm going to take the colossus perk here which just buffs their hp massively okay this guy is terrible morale so we need to buff that uh that is a priority early on um i guess we'll give him both the started things we'll also want to do fatigue but as i see it it's more valuable to win a combat fast than you know um okay we'll also give you colossus colossus also i believe reduces the chance to sustain debilitating injuries when being hit so hopefully no like chopped off head or something like that though you do encounter that quite a lot was that humbert oh no humbert wait a minute cory oh no hildebert hildebird inhuman have we kept our original three our original well this guy's gonna die hilderick corey and hildebert i i really do mix those two up blotched gambeson is this better than this thing in fact it is okay this was not dec uh this is not bad armor okay let's look at who's in our front line that we really want to keep alive um and also just kind of like tanky characters uh that monk guy well he has one of these things oh a blotch gambeson for you sir for some reason i like it that this game makes me think that i'm in a medieval court again this guy is probably going to die soon i know he was decent we'll just regret that he's waiting for that lawsuit all right all right um most of these guys are just meat for now regrettably much so i could probably go deeper into like weaponization but i don't really want to be here all day here we go uh let's kind of just redistribute our line a little bit uh oh a flail love a flail give that to you good for taking down shielded enemies keep them in the back line regular fighters in front then pole arm guy gets two attacks axes to break armor javelins do damage and injuries i mean like anything in the back we want to keep as reach weapons like i have my back line i generally reserve for arches i generally want to put a melee guy here and here too just because having the same number of ranged guys as melee guys is probably going to get all of your ranged guys killed um unless if you're extremely guy uh wily and full of guile uh this guy is decent resolve again we don't want that to kill our whole team but if we avoid taking attacks in the first place then that's great 103 fatigue is pretty good actually maybe we'll get him up to 50. yeah i don't mind that i don't mind that i mean who was flagging so quickly in our team with the resolve oh this gentleman's fatigue is not particularly good at all well he's also sustained massive injuries uh who is our resolve 43 result keep your eye on that number 39 45 33 okay you are a major liability to work company this guy just runs at the first sight of danger now you have the potential to be strong and good you also have uh have little potential but we'll we'll get you there okay we have a few problems to deal with but let's just keep on building up our relationships with these cities i've really not gotten through anywhere near as much of this game as i would have wanted to in this amount of time uh can only have one contract active at a time but come on oh wait a minute i haven't cashed in my other one all right we're coming back for the cash coming back for the cash a gambeson you a gambeson for you sir any game that gets you to talk like a knight is just ten out of ten ten out of ten okay now we are running out of money i was expecting more guys to die apparently i've gotten better at the game um we'll go to el ellerstarf now one other thing is that the game does not have a static map there's well i should say that it's not always the same map that you spawn on it would be very ooh actually only three brigands might be a very good fight for us okay to the brigands if they have any good uh items normally i would not take this fight but these guys actually have fairly decent flails and a bow of all things hmm i still don't want to give them an opportunity to just rush in and kill us so i'll go you know i'm going to go ahead and say this uh actually the ai is pretty good it does kind of optimize stuff let's like tempt them with fighting us over here yeah attempt to tempt them i unfortunately cannot hit them from there i don't want them to just like rush up and engage my crossbowmen that is the greatest way to just derp the entire battle uh but we do want to get on this higher ground right here unfortunately they will get a swipe in on me but uh you know you can't always get what you want uh we'll wait on that guy because he's in our back line i don't want to give them two that was regrettable so i'll just move you up two [Music] you dude kind of need to game the action but no you do kind of need to game the action point system here though all right they might even hang back these guys because they have the bowman now that i think of it um uh you are one of the good guys i want to keep alive now i'm not going to throw my tank in there right away simply because i want my tank to scale up and oh wait a minute i didn't need to do that like i said i wish there was an okay so they aren't even going to rush us at all okay good to know good to know they didn't see any tactically advantageous positions so they didn't go for it this is do i like setsu i love south actually one of the reasons i checked out battle brothers was because i saw it during one of the vods of seth's live stream that he had in his library and he always just has outstandingly good taste in games so i said why not give it a try if if it keeps his attention usually a lot of other people enjoy it so that's why one of the one of the reasons i'm playing battle brother they also saw a lot of good guides on it and stuff like that who else was it my other friend mark.exe seems to be enjoying it quite a lot so that was good too any game that is recommended by a friend who also plays videos i always find is good but it's stuff that i could get into okay i don't want to get this guy too deep into [Music] actually could he get engaged he could get engaged by the other guy unfortunately i'm going to have to hang this gentleman back i'll put him somewhere like there uh he could be shot though i know there are drawbacks i'm not playing perfectly but it's fine all right you just walk up a bit what are you going to do now they also seem to have passed some of their own turns uh you have very low initiative so i think i'm just going to leave you where you're at when michael commander would claire gladly sell his life for two hats and a thick coat yeah pretty much like a gear is more valuable than people early on in the game regrettably but it's probably true oh you know who else seemed to be enjoying this was tomato game he has good he has good taste too so that was another reason that was another thing that led me to uh battle brothers i saw he had a vod on it i said could be behind this door all right now we're just going to attempt to i know that this looks crazy i might lose a guy but we're going to attempt to surround them and just weaken them there are enemies that you can just surround and confuse in this game and i i quite frankly i love that like see we've taken their bowman immediate regret yeah it's i am not perfect by any means yeah but you see sometimes death can just be so instantaneous and filled with rng that it's not even worth it trying to puzzle out and have an existential crisis over every move i don't want to do that either at least it'll be an entertaining existential crisis there we are okay stay back you good farmer man but yeah you can pretty much just lose your entire team in like one turn which is quite sad all right take him down take him down man it glances off innocuously [Music] uh whoops nothing to do here now this gentleman is completely surrounded and he's like i don't give up which is just what makes this game a meme oh wait a minute no i mistakenly did that now it would be nice if there were a better way of showing you who is your unit and who is the enemy unit oops i'm on lower ground i didn't mean to do that at all do as i say not as i do you know and all of that hey jim jace four thanks very much for the sub as well as hot sausages and columnist thanks for the host much appreciated uh since i have one range in the ai as one range they won't push as soon as they have yeah i mean i don't really i don't really care to know everything about every last intricacy of the ai because i know that'll make it less fun for me i don't even think that it's worth it to put this guy in though there are abilities that you can get later on where you can just swap places with other people now this general okay we've pretty much won this now because this guy's fleeing and surrounded he can't possibly get out there is no escape all right we did all of that for a thick tunic well we did also get two flails so that was quite good we could resell those normally i wouldn't just do a fight in the wilderness but you see this iron brotherhood over here so this is another group of mercenaries uh and they could also fight along us alongside us okay we have an event an old old man the game seems fun i think it would get too impatient you probably will be impatient but you'll enjoy it um all your troops face to the right and enemies face to the left indeed come across an old man hobbling on the road he settles himself against his walking stick and awaits your approach his uh eyes are great will this be safe for work um eyes are gray but he tilts his head to see you with his ears is he a blind man chinking armor heavy footsteps steady breaths more warriors for a land of war the man straightens up so yes i'm all right i wouldn't be too much of a bother to run me through my hearing's going okay so this is an old man we could we could mug this old man so you couldn't be evil in the game or he could be good so since i'm trying to get my reputation i don't know if this actually affects your reputation with the local factions i'm gonna let him go because we're trying to get to a friendly relation with ship with the old uh other factions which is ultimately going to make us more money i don't know if this old man is like maybe someone's son so i don't want to risk doing that otherwise you can get some very lucrative steals on on your journey um so it's a thought it's a thought ah another contract available uh we really aren't particularly good at making money yet though uh do we have anywhere with cheap tools this is not cheap tools yet by any means ah but this is cheap medicine and medicine doesn't really spoil so let's go ahead and buy like two medicine while we're here uh pete bricks okay these are at their market value which i insist is actually rather a low price as i have experienced in the game so i will take those we have plenty of food because we bought all of those fish uh is there anything we want to sell i'm not gonna use wooden sticks anymore i think we're past wooden sticks and just generally arming ourselves with anything that we can find uh tattered sack loft literally worthless but i just don't want it in my inventory you can have it uh anything else bucklers we might start to sell okay these wooden shields are at a fair price usually fair price is a decent place to buy things so i'm gonna go ahead and now they also aren't buying gear for particularly high prices here so what is this shield uh yeah we'll take the shields i'll take two shields but i think that's the end of my buying i've been a real spendthrift for the first couple of days hmm i'll do all of this to repair this though someone needs to wear this thing do you think i'm made of money here we go that's fine now what is this 20 out of 20 28 of 20 this is worth 45 okay so this is exactly the same piece of gear uh why won't this gent man die basically if somebody gets injured in this company they have to die i'm not a good person i'm not a good person we have to kill jester i mean we could dismiss somebody too if we wanted to okay your resolve is kind of a liability to us still uh initiative don't really care we had some bad initiative on this [Music] you have good fatigue i'm just going to keep upping your attack in defense because you have good uh good hit points also up your hit points and stash uh level up uh pretty much our front line the leveling up i know it looks like it could be interesting but it it's pretty two-dimensional it's just like uh or rather one-dimensional you're either just leveling up your front line with hp or you're leveling up your back line with better to hit with their ranged weapons as best you can ah you are a splendid ninja and you actually have decent um wait a second what was the available oh plus four i might take that and we'll yeah we'll up the fatigue i'm gonna go with what i went with as the first point now this guy could be an elusive ninja we'll keep him as he is okay flails are we're getting to get better weapons here flails are quite good i believe that a flail is much better than this thing yeah we'll take this flail over that um what else spears are quite good is this thing worse than a flail or better than a fl a flail is better than this so we'll take it unless we have the hatchet haven't really gotten too much in the intricacies of these things a lot of the time i'll admit i'm just going off of item price which is really not a great way to play the game but i am who i am there we go okay we've managed to unequip everyone from bucklers i'm gonna go ahead and just sell a lot of these bucklers at the next town let's see what the contract is uh a delivery i accept your offer because i want to be friends with you uh day west by the road there we go okay uh where is it which way is west you always for yo i always mix up west and east and nobody understands does anybody else mix up west and east now i just needed to memorize that west is left we need a medieval walmart exactly well here's the issue with guys getting injured by a little bit and i'm not trying to like you know say that you can't join my company just because you have a bad foot or something like that but when you think about it these guys are starting to wear heavier and heavier armor as time goes on and if you don't have a nose through which to breathe and you oh wait a minute ah crap oh no these brigands are significantly further off than i gave them credit for that you do need to watch the map as you're going along i'm going a little bit recklessly at two point two times feet but it is what it is okay we gain the 300 crowns pretty much free money here we just have to pay for our own provisions uh i don't really want to hire anyone else i think our actually what are you you're a brawler how is that your job you just fight people in town and no one said anything about it don't they have a prison scare well you're hired you're hired by us oh crap he gets 15 pay a day that's actually quite high um and i don't actually even like him that much unfortunately plus 100 damage went oh is that one unarmed all right i i'll admit throughout this entire stream i'm learning everything about the traits system um not good not good he has good range defense i mean this is a guy who punches people and can take an arrow to the knee i respect that though i just kind of wasted all that money and he's very expensive to keep up but i mean if he gets disarmed somehow he can do whatever he does ah amber they have amber we don't really need it though okay so now we bought these for 99 we're going to sell them for 137. i don't really know where it's better to do it but i mean it's free gold pretty much if we're already making the trip we're gonna start to sell some of these bucklers too just i could take them to a city but i'm lazy and they're for look at how many of them i have uh i know these are worth 400 i honestly haven't found wood axes priced better anywhere else i'll keep one to see if i can learn more if i can do better but i think i'm just kind of screwed there um okay but we're back up over a thousand gold i'm going to sell the stick who cares about the stick the wooden flail also i'm not particularly impressed by i don't need that many knives i don't need a sack a lot i think we're beyond these types of armor now too we have enough food we have enough of everything else just try to see if you can find anything else for cheap tools are ridiculously expensive in this town we do need a place where we can find tools um now you do need to be careful with some of these quests because some of them are like literal death contracts drive off the big brigands uh the camp that's a great name welcome to the camp aha we've fueled our ambition i mean fulfilled it okay so now we have renown frappuccino's day prep to stay indeed i have to say never eat soggy waffles a smashing frabjous day indeed never eat so they told me sour watermelons as a child uh if you're playing on your own and if it's your first if it's your first time playing i would recommend that you save a bit unless if you enjoy immersion uh oh this is actually could be a rather difficult fight and one in which the stakes are very high very high indeed pickaxes i find very weird i don't like them uh i don't wanna fight here i think i'd rather just take this spot and then fight them at it i'm going to stand this guy since i i don't really care about this guy this guy i just hired he's a mad man i'm just gonna march him into danger uh we'll pass his turn until someone walks up to him um we'll wait we'll wait on this guy's turn until people start walking up um what am i going to do with you i don't want to get walked up to so i'm going to just pass your turn you don't want to go with your range guys first right away otherwise you get killed immersion is for the masochists who are also bad at tactics like me no i enjoyed losing this game a lot i'm telling you i played this game and now we don't want to get this guy surrounded so we'll try to march up our line i think this is just going to be a line combat i mean it's going to be very difficult for them to get to my bowman i don't think that's going to happen but see there we go be a responsible man good this is exactly what we want a good fair fight where we all line up and hit each other a lot of fights in this game are sort of more or less like that like this is a plains battle oh crap though you know what we've done though is we've given this guy an opportunity to get onto this hill unfortunately can i get you against anyone with a chill they have no shields so this is a very high risk high reward combat all right i'm going to demonstrate the shield wall is it even going to be worth it to shield wall in this combat now these guys are going to be very high risk so i might i think i will shield well um it's very expensive but if you think you can win a combat by a good bit although no no i will not shield ball right now you can shield wall to just give yourself massive defense in this which i do recommend it but you need to manage it very well and also it can raise your fatigue by a lot because think about how difficult it is to shield wall um i think i'm gonna go ahead and just hit this guy because i really would like his sword can we also yes we can get a concave going in on this guy even if we get hit this guy has a stick it's a stupid weapon uh unfortunately we can't get that going now we've created a concave right here see how this is concave um i think i saw who was it that i learned i like that terminology but that was in another filthy robot video i thought it was a very good good phrase to use for this so we've kind of surrounded them here we are engulfing them and although we've made it more costly for my other guys to get here we're probably going to be surrounding more guys in this fight um it's not great by any means but i think our guys are all outfitted with enough defensive items that this should go swimmingly for us or not someone will probably die but i mean think about it if we kill like seven men and only one guy dies i think that's a victory okay this is not good that's not good why does this guy stink at walking oh no he's not batted he just has such poor initiative that he's always so far back in combat alas alas fortunately the pitchforkmen uh did not get a chance to do the things that they were going to do you dodgeroo you dodgeroo all right um who am i afraid of i really don't want this guy to waste his sword i'd like to harvest that from him when he dies so i think i'll just leave that as is i don't want these pitchforkmen to get to my guy so i'm going to move him over a little bit unfortunately i will not be able to use my pitchforks but alas but alas um oh we are not done yet ah so close to killing him all right well whatever that's unfortunate we'll probably still get the sword though but maybe not his armor all right keep on uh keep on fighting men oh unfortunately this gentleman has been stunned oh and you can't even go in with your thing i regret that turn little bits and pieces here and there with ap that you mess up but [Music] why does raising your shield make you tired oh so oh there's a lot of things in the game so that you can't just spam moves to like if someone has a very heroic turn you know and they do a lot of stuff they're probably going to build up a lot of fatigue like think about it walking forward three steps is probably not as tiring as cutting a man's head off um of course i haven't done any of that [Music] i'd like to take out this guy so that we could get in the maximum number of engagements but but but i really want this guy's sword and i don't think we're going to have too much trouble with this combat so all right let's just uh it's an advantage for us to get right next to this guy even though that he's on high ground so let's just do that i mean we'll let them take a little bit you gotta give them some ground otherwise you know you're never gonna get anything done at least that's how i look at it uh what have you got all right we'll take out this guy yeah good pitchforkman pitchforkman is a strange name yes but that's what his mother named him when he was born uh i don't want you to get hit with a pitchfork i'm just gonna move you back i i know this might not be totally smart i just i really this guy is the main guy i have hope in for this company because he's a ranged man an amazing man all right i'm getting myself surrounded by walking in here but see i've already i've now routed this guy so that's worth it carnage companions yes battle brothers or uh uh so what it was this destructive word that starts with s [Music] spilling sisters yeah spilling is kind of a bit savage sisters slaughter sisters that's even better not spilling that was a bad word hmm i want to take out this guy yeah this guy is still unhit that's not good we want him to get hit yes good okay now everyone on the other team is routed this is frabjous completely frabjous don't you love it but now we've pretty much tried it now they can there is a possibility that they could you know run away manage to escape and then come back and kill us all it's a very slim chance though but it is possible that they could you know run away and then be like oh wait a minute i shouldn't have been running turn around and then fight but it's very doubtful from here do you know i'll say all of this i've done pretty well in the first few combats but probably at the beginning you didn't think i was doing very well because i was losing guys um i could have done better but if you play this game on a higher difficulty it is may is it nigh impossible it is not very well balanced in my opinion um or i mean it's one of those games it's like a true roguelike you know where it's difficult at the beginning and it's supposed to be difficult but you get better at it and you're not it's not a rogue light where the game is giving you permanent advantages but it's just gratifying because you're getting better at it and you're improving oh so good to improve now do we have any contracts in the city all right i'm not seeing any contracts in the city i'm just trying to judge whether we stay here overnight we have the ruins of a dock an amber collector though i saw the amber prices they didn't look that good in the day so we're just going to go ahead and continue on um we'll stay in the local area i think it's been the getting has been pretty good over here uh did oh we did level up a character thank you hilderich has not died yet [Music] though it's really only like once hilderich gets into combat hilderich is not the initiative loss is not that bad [Music] did you get a permanent injury no pierced leg muscles some of the things in this game appear extremely grotesque a lot of these guys just have a tendency to kind of remove themselves from your company though to be honest like if they get that badly hurt but this guy has a permanent injury now we called alfred c later so that to me says that we didn't really care whether he was going to you learn despair revel in it my brother take care i'm just going to name hilderich take care just as a sign that i don't really care what happens to him hey ether renegade thank you very much for the sub i know it's a very difficult game i was despairing a lot that's true when i was first learning it there's a lot of fun though it's one of those games that's very fun to just bash your head up against a wall with oh you have only 40 resolve can we get hilderich killed i mean i wasn't planning on him staying alive this long maybe i'll just give him a bow or something like that okay we want to keep that resolve up okay you know maybe hilderich let's plan on hilderich being around for a while well regardless of whether he ends up being melee fodder or not fatigue would always be good and i don't think we're going to get him so much better with this let's go ahead and just give him ranged skill maybe he'll learn to be good and we'll buff that initiative which was lacking but other than that i hope that he dies if he manages to stay alive long enough to become useful to us then we'll put them into the back line uh have i checked out war tales actually war tales is one of the reasons i'm playing this is because the devs were very nice at war tales and i wanted to give it a try um okay this gentleman is our backline but he's also like he's a fighter um we could give him crippling strikes i figure since he's gonna be such a fighter but colossus is just such a good perk why why not you know let's take it let's take it we'll keep upping his melee skill and his uh resolve we needed to do that and probably oh that fatigue is not looking that good [Music] although you know i do stupid stuff i think i'm just gonna up his melee defense i don't want him to die there we go okay good job eagle ah we need a title for him can we get a good title for eagle he's gonna stay alive he has a pitchfork uh he's gonna be like a hash slinging slasher type of guy forkman forkman was the first one very good uh carnage mantis i like that forkman all right uh balder the restless i don't uh can we get a good play on words for restless uh something that he's going to be hitting people with a stabby stick from afar uh eagle there we go eagle bowser the penetrator there we go uh because his arrows of course uh are very piercing hildebert uh uh i think i'm just gonna name him this the slow uh question mark because we don't know if he'll stay slow for a long time alfred see you later uh grimald um uh i'm just gonna name him uh thick a boy uh thick yeah there we go okay good um uh ike uh i it's one c thick like a like the french version of thick um i regret uh getting you crap i i'll whatever it gets the point across um corey has absolutely no characterization randolph has absolutely no characterization and they haven't done anything very interesting yet [Music] so uh we'll just keep on waiting until they either get their heads cut off or do something interesting [Music] see i mean for me i enjoy a game where you can add in a bit of story like that see that's kind of nice in that you can uh i know this is a very generic looking banner for our battle brothers as well but you can get like a standard later on in the game and you can have one of the sprites of one of your guys have it uh so you know there is enough characterization which you can add into the game which i i personally think is compelling narrative wise uh this is an escort mission not really great pay i'm gonna go ahead and ah you know what i forgot to do in this i forgot to negotiate the contract we're just uh how many days is it it is only a day it's fine we'll do it just to pay our men now what i'm gonna start doing after this is negotiating higher prices for contracts um okay and we have now a new ambition randolph the bland uh yes roleplay makes it way more fun we could set out into the wilderness and destroy something we could get our company into a dozen men we're pretty much gonna get that in a few minutes so we'll take that probably um or we could earn 2 000 crowns and i think we have to pay something for a standard i believe the standard is good but it's a very risky item because you don't get to wield a shield when you get it so i think i'm just going to say a dozen men so our next ambition is to get a dozen men in our company it gives us better prices better contracts um can we raid caravans i don't i don't think you can i may be completely wrong about that because i have not done it yet nor have i figured out how to i've been told that you can hold down the uh you can really the more you know the more you know what do you do control click when you're not on a quest oh this makes battle royale is much more interesting i feel i i pity the fool i pity the fool damn i did not know that you could do that cool okay we're going to start exploring more about this game okay we will keep buying these peat bricks because they're getting even cheaper now medicine is also getting very cheap and we're going to get hit a lot um these are a little overpriced a little overpriced is often okay though javelins can be very cool um short bows can be okay but there's much better bows in the game i may switch out that guy with the foot to the back line now [Music] now what the hey what the hey yeah of course i'm going to switch them to the back line uh mead we've been drinking it i don't think we're really using bucklers anymore at all okay this axe is getting even lower i just want to get rid of this thing i need the money i don't really think that we need to hire anybody new i actually you know let's get there let's get our ambition let's get the company to 120 we have two sad looking men in town one of them is some kind of fisherman uh we've gotta okay now we need to be paid more for everything we can usually negotiate if we keep trying to negotiate more than they'll just not even give us the question these are decent contracts just quick quick money uh hildebert this hello is in good spirit i did not mean to do that ah crap i did not mean to leave town either [Music] what it makes people hate me oh it makes people hate me if i raid the caravans yes so we probably won't be raiding the caravans and being like you know slobs like that but very well now this guy i still i i don't want to have major injuries in my company just because it it tends to hold back the entire ordeal uh another major complaint that i've seen in reviews about the game is the fact that um max out company size that oh wait a minute no you won't be the ranger i'm just going to keep waiting for you to die because this guy is much better at it you keep your flail i have a new best friend new best friend get behind me um [Music] here we go new best friend new best friend look at all of his skill unfortunately the health isn't that important but oh this is also good too um not great but i mean really range skill is just so important uh i will give you this hack anybody else we want to put in the back line that we really care about most of these guys are i mean there's far better brothers out there even this guy he's he's okay he's not bad but i think i can do better later on all right um are we gonna give this guy the net just for the memes yeah i'll give him the net just for the memes i'll show you how nets work nets are that's actually quite good but um costly somewhat i don't think that you get them back at the end of a battle but i also just want to show you more of the stuff in the game even if i don't play so well you know what i mean um more fun to try out more stuff can we get you any better shirt all right we'll just repair the rest as i'm alt clicking and right clicking to repair things in my i believe that you know if you get the tools cheaply enough it makes you some money when you hold it when you sell it good music in this game too yeah why am i hiring beggars because i want to get cheap bodies for right now i haven't really encountered anyone that i that i think is really worthwhile um though i don't know maybe i'm totally wrong again i have only like 17 hours in the game so i'm not that smart feel free to uh i mean i guess stuff like that if i if i ask you or if you see someone really good you can backseat i know the cells of your feet are itchy on their wieners [Music] okay i did this one we have to visit every single city in the world it does take a while i think since we're already trying to acquire funds we'll just make our goal to make money [Music] arguably not great but i mean at least we've kept our pay for our men pretty cheap because we've taken cheap people um no offense to the people but okay now we need to negotiate everything okay unfortunately we didn't get it again uh cargo day to the south by road these roads are very safe i like this we've had very easy contracts sometimes you're schlepping all over the world to get wherever you're schlepping schlepping all over the world i certainly am back in new york when i start to use that hey philakites how are you my friend now what were you guys playing hang on a second let me just send you a quick shout out just got a raid by philip hey it's filipe heights gentlemen and a scholar thank you very much um oh my god let me give you a little shout out oh you guys were playing war tales a natural transition a natural transition a a perfectly exquisite one yeah boar tales i'm actually going to be playing i think later on in the week hope you enjoyed it hope you enjoyed it a good game you know i figured i had to kind of come back to battle brothers before i examined it but i hope it was hope it was good hope it was good reminds of ck2 love this game but the amount of rng held it to me i feel like the is the rng killed it for me when i first started playing it but then i felt like i got more i don't know i want to say like decisive in my decision making i know i just used decide what's a better word judicious judicious i was you can rename your unit war tales i my one thing about war tales is i feel like it doesn't have quite as much underneath the hood but i'm preparing to be corrected on that because i really haven't given it that much time yet um so again i'm an idiot um but it has a lot of things that this game does not have so i like that um a lot of these things are a little bit overpriced we have two more days of food do we have any cheap food here you don't want to wind up having to pay a lot of money for food nothing great but uh you kind of got to go proportionally for what is the most uh nutrition for your men okay i think we're just gonna buy [Music] uh certainly not that all right we'll get some grains but we'll just diversify we'll get a mix of all three not my favorite thing to do okay we are gonna start to sell stuff i'm not a big fan of the pitchfork later on in the game i think that there are better poll arms so i'm not gonna do that we are pretty much past this i'll keep the knives for ranged people oh i also forgot one thing i forgot one thing this gentleman needs a knife now you really need ah this isn't a better knife uh you need something for ranged guys to defend themselves with i'll even give this guy a knife too but when i equip this knife does it this one does not decrease his fatigue but if i give him something big like a buckler his fatigue goes down so there is an opportunity cost to holding um an item like that in the inventory again pitchfork we generally won't that's with uh butcher's cleaver we don't really a lot of this stuff i mean i'm not gonna get such a better price for it in the city so i'm fine with that uh though i can sell these i forgot about that okay so we're back up to 1200 let's take a contract see what we've got money need to be paid more for this 1280 crowns that is very good okay this is a three-day cargo thing so the reason we're getting paid more for this is because we need to pay our men as we do this and we're also going all the way up into the northern section of the world so this is going to be our biggest journey i hope that we're ready we'll spend a lot of money trying to get up there but i hope it'll be worthwhile um is there much difference between war tales and mountain blade war tales and i mean they're similar in their overmap but i mean one is real-time combat and the other one is turn-based combat wartails is not a hex-based system it's sort of grid based whereas um i mean i think one reason for me why battle brothers is very nostalgic is because when i was a kid i was really into hero escape which is this uh board game that was made by hasbro but then taken over by wizards of the coast uh who makes magic the gathering and it's a hex based battle game and it it kind of got me more into like uh you know like tabletop war gaming in general which is a pretty fun pursuit if you can find a good casual group for it um i did recently do a lot of it in real life it was fun we found a bandit camp or actually rather a crypt no we would not have wanted to go to that you want to avoid fighting non-human enemies until you're really strong because you just aren't gonna get very good items from a lot of them i should save no i'm i'm i'm gonna quit if i if i die i i'm going for the even if i do the act of saving it'll probably kill the game for me i'm sorry knives have no fatigue oh actually they don't have any fatigue i did not know that actually so then it is valuable to wait a minute does this have a big penalty does a dagger have a fatigue penalty knives don't this is true that's crazy yes it does somewhat makes sense to give everyone a knife well i mean they're cheap items and you can always switch out to one if you have somebody who has a lot of armor and you just have to pierce past the armor awesome hands only five of them i could have fought those guys i just generally don't like to fight those fights battle brothers uh [Music] i mean like the thing that's annoying about the rng is that you can have a company that's doing really well and then you fight one wrong battle and just everyone dies which is quite entertaining in my opinion um but you know not everyone's cup of tea and i have seen forum post where people will like rage uh what is this 910 that's uh this looks like an escort is this i don't read these things anymore i can just recognize a few of the mission types okay this is a caravan square the one thing that would be nice would be if there were more mission types but i guess i haven't gotten all the way to the end game yet provisions are provided to our men on the way there um i'm gonna need a little while we have the required stuff for renown but this could be or what i really want to do is just wait outside of the city i'm going to camp i know camping looks a little bit pointless we spend a thousand crowns for um i just want to make sure we had enough oh what is this um this is a gamble i don't really want to gamble i haven't done any of that stuff yet i'm gonna play it safe oh we have a three skull contract okay very exciting very dangerous now we did get a battle a battle stand a battle standard uh what do we have here okay these are way too expensive i don't think we're very friendly with this kingdom though [Music] um i'm not sure if we even have access to that other mission i think the day changed that's not great well let's at least see what the mission is then we'll gauge what we might buy from there [Music] yeah hey hit point in a thank you very much for the uh for the very sizeable rate thank you very much hang on a second let me send you a shout out what did you guys uh what do you guys just play thank you very much hit point in um battle brother is going pretty well one moment oh what were you playing were you playing why didn't it go it didn't go through i spell your name right damn it hang on a thing at least oh there we go oh you guys were playing bannerlord a frabjous game indeed a frabjous game indeed we could have played battle okay i'm going to try to get hilderick who's i nicknamed take care because he's probably gonna die not after the drake album but uh actually i don't want this guy having it now i do i am starting to care more about this company um i'll give you the this thing i want you to die anyway and what other game would you say that about your people oh no um i mean we have a similarity with the overmap we basically have what is this drive off the brigands okay this is a big brigand camp but i think we're ready for this everything has led up to this yes if i am to die it should be through this one contract into the wild maybe it'll kill off some of the guys that i want it to get killed off uh now i'm gonna go ahead and say that if you get into a combat and you don't like it you can just leave assuming that they don't have a bunch of amazing archers but this could be a big break for us you know get a lot of experience on the guys who matter get the guys who don't matter killed and my god look at how good their gear is oh what do i do okay this is a little bit analysis paralysis here i don't like the positioning here that much this is actually a terrible fight the more i look at it yeah we might just want to straight up retreat okay the temptation i will go over first temptation now these guys have excellent gear um this guy is a nasal helmet which could protect people's noses keep us alive um fantastic gear i'd really like all of it i'd like to arrange i want everything that's on these guys however most of my company will die if i fight this fight i mean look at us it's not it's not so difficult to see and also too the positioning is horrible because if we want the high ground we need to rush forward into their archers um i know everyone i the thing is i am getting a little bit more attached to these guys i'm just gonna straight-up retreat at least you'll get to see how the retreat mechanic works which is quite funny to watch um yeah these guys are just kind of staying put they might take a pot shot at us i mean my other major thing is look these guys have barricades so firing into them is extremely difficult and we'd be yeah we would be screwed we would lose like 10 of our guys if we bought this fight we might get some decent gear but it would be more of a financial liability than anything else i generally tend to find that whenever i stream these things there's people in chat who keep me from making the world's worst decisions too is going to get your helmets yeah i mean the thing is that it'll be such a long worn out fight that we might get a couple pieces of gear it's just not it would be a pyrrhic victory a pyrrhic victory do you know what that means it's it's the type of victory where so we just get out with absolutely nothing having happened uh this is one of those contracts we just have to kind of give up i don't know of any other way to do this this kind of makes uh our renown or whatever it is our reputation with the faction worse we simply can't do it though we simply can't do it so it's not worth it to try um i'm gonna go ahead down to a different faction so these uh what is this these deer people with the horns won't get what they want but you know we're doing it all for the grim reaper which is of course our banner now if we hold down control ah so that's how we get the attack i think obviously i don't want to attack a bunch of random supply caravans or they won't like us at all [Music] um is this a walled town we can't get contracts with wall yeah this is a walled town see the wall around it there's also cities let's just see if we can redeem ourselves with this faction um knacks errors okay good they're slow these things are they can either snowball and do really well or they can be really weak i've seen it both ways if they have an opportunity to transform in combat you're not you're not in for a good time but at least we have that out in the wild we can see a camp but i'd rather find another camp to attack all right um i don't mean to be boring but the fact of the matter is that certain okay this is another one brigands driving off brigands [Music] set aside skirmishes now and defeat a group of at least a dozen opponents okay we have more renown or uh yeah renowned things to do organize things that i should get a sergeant to rally okay this is not a bad one but it'll take a little while to do skirmishes for now and defeat a group of at least a dozen keep fighting a dozen is gonna be hard though right now i'm gonna go ahead and say let's just take the visit every settlement it's not my favorite one because it does take a while but i think that the other ones are a little bit more infeasible at this point in time um i don't want to attack a random outlying base or settlement because it's we're going to get our asses kicked if we do it uh puppet evf thanks very much for the 10 months 10 months my friend thank you very much try to find a town with a kennel ah yes like releasing dogs on the enemy which can just be mayhem and fun okay these guys have some good stuff now okay this could be a major opportunity for our company because these guys have good gear but not as good as the last guys the last guys would have killed us these guys have nothing ranged so they're going to be trying to come to us we can probably just kind of shield wall around our ranged guys and stick on this high ground they'll have a few spaces of high ground to fight us but they'll be limited to three tiles and we can also shield wall i think i'm going to put hilderich in the back line actually i forgot about this but he can reach past enemies um all right let's just do this let's move everybody up a bit i'm gonna look a little weird but i'm gonna pass this guy's turn um i do want to show you what the net does so let's go over here yeah this one looks dude i mean it's it's decent if they had ranged guys it would be a little bit more complicated but they don't one two three four okay they could oh i should not have done that well if he if they do walk up to me i could just hit him with the ned and i do regret getting ika so we'll just let him die or something uh unfortunately can't fire right now we'll just pass the wait what i'm doing when i pass some of these turns is i'm just opting to wait because like you want to see what the enemy does you know what i mean um we'll walk you up one and pass and wait ah that's exactly what i wanted them to do dogs are basically good as our men early yeah that's fair dogs are very good early we have one two three we have four spaces back here so we can keep our four guys with reach or range in the back and engage them along this front excellent excellent indeed okay now he can hit over a guy i forgot about this the banner will need to move him back and my god as you can see being able to take out a few guys very early on in combat is quite overpowered [Music] and we'll just wait on you um as for you i'm going to walk you down here i don't want him to be underneath this ridge because i think he'll get killed [Music] i'd rather just have these guys shield wall pretty much in this fight i'm going to pick my best fighters and just kind of go on go at it with them i will take this bit of ground and i will uh spear wall here so now if they try to get into any spaces adjacent to him they will be smackledorf um quite honestly you just stay where you are you can even spear wall i have probably nothing for you to do this combat have i seen the zomboid news about multiplayer i i have indeed it looks good oh wait a minute is there more new news it's it's quite far along in testing i believe right [Music] as for you as for you okay we won't i will avoid the temptation to engage them i'm gonna go ahead and see if i can open up a new front for combat actually no they'll just fight us down here if we don't do this let's just stay on these hills refuse to fight them anywhere else [Music] wait there we go [Music] okay folk i'm gonna move you up i'm gonna shoot two now we wanna try to get them to come to us you know what i mean we can take this guy out completely i think falk has nothing left to do this turn he's just a sad man okay good we've denied them any place where they can possibly get high ground over us by waiting all of our turns and passing like sad strange men uh we're gonna go ahead and we'll just take the good chance to hit there is gear that i want among these men but alas i cannot okay now i am going to shield wall these guys because i don't see anything else that's worth doing they're going to try to avoid getting into combat with us we'll shield wall again i might be using up too much fatigue here but let's just find out shall we no i'm just gonna keep this guy here that's fine can we get a a rundown of how combat works so yeah i'll do a little bit more narration as we go i think i'm going to go more into like the uh how we can really get an advantage in combat now though we've gone over a lot of the basics um but i guess we'll go into deeper combat maneuvers now so oh crap well i didn't care about that guy either hmm that's the closed beta very nice hmm okay so let's see if we go in with this ah this guy's just so well armed with these pikes sometimes they will do this they'll take out like an item to throw at you and that makes me very upset but as long as they just keep sending in one man to die after another it's it's worthwhile okay let's net this brigand raider because i want his stuff so now he's been smackledorf and he can't do anything to us i mean he could do some things i'm going to send in ike because i kind of want him to die uh i want him dead i i want that man dead now we could do an accurate chart i think i'll take two inaccurate shots because double 25 percent chance is pretty good [Music] should we just rush them now let's shield wall i i don't want them to kill our other guys ah here we go since we have so many ranged guys now we're kind of controlling the flow of the battle can you feel the flow being controlled by us hmm strategically place the unit for every strategy in the day i know but i want that guy to die too i don't care if he dies okay now we'll shield wall you so we're trying to here's what we're basically doing is like do you remember that scene in the lord of the rings where they would have the big battle for uh or they battled sauron that's kind of how i think of the main strategy here like you keep one wall of shield guys right in the front very strong impenetrable wall um and then in the back line you see i keep putting them up with shield walls and then the back line i just keep shooting other people these are the guys who i expect to live the longest kind of like the nobles everybody else i'm just trying to keep i'm trying to keep the enemy from flanking me but they'll have to come up and fight me otherwise they're just going to get shot to death here see like they just don't have that many options so that's more or less how i think that's how a lot of the combat works though in this game and can you really get much more depth with medieval combat the one thing that would be nice would be if they could uh if they could add in magic for players to use i don't know if that already exists in one of the dlc's but it's not in the base game but you do sometimes encounter things like necromancers yeah basically as long as you keep your arranged units out of combat that's a good way to put it or like have a backup in case if they do okay i know we have a better shot to hit this guy but i wanna i wanna get this guy's armor after the battle so i'm gonna see if we can get that done uh i do want ike to die so let's see if we can just have him take a few reckless swings good oh no why didn't you hit ike or is it just ike whatever it is whatever your name is whatever your name is there are guns in the game are there guns really in a mod i believe that there are some mods oh no i didn't mean for you to die crap we've reached an impasse um okay we could destroy this guy's shield did not expect that did not expect that are they gonna out initiative us here no um uh i don't care about let's just destroy his buckler good you've killed ike i appreciate that i wanted him dead uh whoops he got stuck in the wrong spot okay we'll just shield wall him so that he can't get through not great but he shield wall is pretty powerful he should be fun we'll shield wall this guy too shield wall hit it's pretty much the thing you know we want to keep alive these main fighters we did this one guy unfortunately but it's whatever uh this guy is just stuck in a net probably my favorite thing about this combat um we'll walk him over here we want to make sure that net guy doesn't get away because we do like net guys gear better than anyone else's and we'll walk you over and what do we call this spear wall yeah i like that he's trying to get out he can't he can't this if we get only this guy's gear then this entire battle will have been worthwhile da good 65 69 chance to hit great [Music] um this guy's spear would also be nice to get but i doubt that we'll get it let's just surround him so that we could take him out in one fell swoop you know what i mean i'll hit him i am going to shield wall again because i don't want to lose that guy he's in a very bad spot 27 chance now this is the point where i think battle brothers does have a tendency to just kind of like drag on a bit is when it's just this kind of line man by man combat and probably the reason why i won't do too much more of this but this is the type of thing where when you play it as a single player game it's very engaging uh i do enjoy playing this on my own a lot but i imagine it's not quite as interesting to watch at this point admittedly sadly no he's escaped from his net oh oops i i messed up zone of control there that wasn't good yeah we got to kill this guy [Music] not my best combat but we avoided any major disasters just that one guy lost we get him one shot no ah shield wall doing work no you destroyed his hat upsetting be flailed be speared yes there we are good good good hey beanbag mike thanks for coming out um give my units oh we're uh we're doing um what was it gonna say whenever people do some kind of major accomplishment in the game then we name then we name i love the names that that folks come up with though those are good i just find sometimes though that if you do viewer names out of context like if we had a like if we were doing a special stream or something like that then i would but i feel like just kind of getting to know it just kind of getting to know it and we will but i don't know i always find that if if you name something like uh uh randomly after viewer unless if it's a very thematic name i don't feel like it fits as much you know nothing wrong with that but no one really has like a medieval um [Music] like a medieval cannon fodder name in chat right now unless if your name is like serf who will probably die 15 then i'll name somebody in the company after that does that does that seem fair enough yes no uh ike didn't die ralph didn't die either but now they have these permanent injuries traumatized injured shoulder uh well that's not a permanent injury but it's something oh god triple g you do make you do make me laugh thank you very much for the uh thank you very much for the 300 bits jug jugs thick stick how that is that actually that is quite funny i and now i am tempted to name one after you streamer is on shut it then take my sub uh property baron i thought it was property bacon but that this will also do thank you very much thank you very much for the sub much appreciated [Music] all right we finally have a nasal helmet so who's nose no we have our first missing nose ah isn't that ironic right when we got a nasal helmet which probably defends their noses right unless if it were like an upstroke um need a wet named weapon and fall out for him with your name oh dear god hmm ike i gave everyone titles though what was what was the what was the one thick boy cory where was he ah the penetrator this was this was the viewer and the forkman the forkman oh we could name him like the spork so many options um balder okay now what do we take for level two i usually just go for gifted because it allows you to up their stats more i don't think i'm gonna question it here unless if anyone has any really good perks i think i'm just going to be going for this because it gives you two you know rounds of ranged skill you also have to get up his resolve and what else is there to get up my friends call me property bacon i'll allow it joey henson thanks very much for the prime much appreciated my friend you know this is just very tempting since this is such a high skill but i think fatigue is much more important for archers so i'm just going to level that up occasionally we'll take this there we go we just want to get that to at least 40. there we go okay i mean it could help him save him from certain doom but the whole idea is to just kind of tactically save them from that anyway to begin with i'll just keep doing the double level up this guy is not all that valuable but we'll just kind of do the basic stats of a front line fatigue is pretty important because when they start to wear heavier armor later on [Music] it's it's important otherwise your guys just can't really do any i mean some guys will just spend turns where they're stuck standing there uh you can get this and this and this yeah get you up to an even 50 that's pretty good we'll also put you in the back line we'll put you with your pointy stick near the edge so that you hopefully don't die and we'll move everybody in i think missing nose man i might uh dismiss because i didn't want this guy and missing nose is pretty regrettable for a cop i'm going to take your actually you know go ahead and take your tattered sacko off ike you are dismissed um [Music] is there an advantage to paying them compensation i don't know about that isn't nose just an extra lack of nose shouldn't be a problem besides visuals well here's the problem with missing nose is that it takes 10 off from their fatigue which i found was really debilitating as i got later on in the game with my guys um this is a pretty crippling injury just because they can't they can't do anything they're pretty much just bodies standing in the way if they don't have any fatigue men lose morale if i hire someone without compensation okay so pretty much it's gonna kill my company's morale [Music] well let's just not compensate him um i know that's bad i know he gave a lot for our company but at the same time okay whose nose is the most important to us probably grimald the thick boy uh he is pretty important what did this guy get this guy got traumatized because he got hit down but he wasn't really all that important to our company to begin with he's just kind of fodder it sounds cruel but it's true it's true all right we're gonna go ahead and level this up this guy is decent at melee combat okay we'll give him that 50 is fine i'm gonna keep on going up with the fatigue because i found that as i got later into the game my fatigue started building up the last time i played uh we did get a signet ring from that that is nice we also have javelins now that's quite good the banner is pretty good but uh this guy's skilled in melee we'll keep we'll keep him in the back line for now and just try to avoid disaster with him oh no knows in real life well we're playing uh a game right now aren't aren't we playing a game right now [Music] i know i could start to arm people with javelins if wanted like in that last fight i had a bunch of guys just kind of standing around doing nothing gonna be good and oh you're actually quite good with ranged he'll be better off with javelins than this thing in fact i'll give you the banner because that's gonna be better now that's more like it and we do have grim all the thick boy down here okay is anyone worthy of a nickname now if so uh well we'll let's pick one ralph uh get rid of that's gonna be his nickname his company consisting of only injured people well i wanted to do one where i just played as everybody with uh like nothing on them just a bunch of naked guys just swarming the enemy but unfortunately there is i mean like just like surround them with a bunch of nudists and then ruin their morale so that they run away that was my ambition still haven't made this happen yet but i mean we're going to at some point it i mean if the idea is there i think the intention is there and it's it's all worthwhile right angry peasant simulator but the other problem though is that um uh what else is wrong with that though these flails are pretty good maybe i should keep more flails which one do i like more actually this axe or the flail i think the flail is better yeah we're getting better weapons now but we still don't really have very good armor armor takes a while to upgrade can we make their shields match it does matter to me it does see if we can get them all the same shield it is rather cool if you can get them all to the same design okay now we have about three different shields competing for various designs then we'll get kite shields and then it'll be very confusing [Music] corey the bushwasher hmm get rid of rudolph okay rudolph uh what did we say for rudolph christmas is coming up rudolph the red i think rudolph the red yes he the red unimportant on him uh let's make him a red uh that doesn't really make sense the red unimportant there we are um corey can we do like a corey in the house [Music] there we go corey in the house uh hildebra the slow question mark we'll see if he gets uh randolph we still don't know um looks like sequisha uh uh there we are look yeah look like sequesia he has the sequestia mustache we gotta give it to him um uh here we are falk uh what is falk he hasn't really made any major impacts on the company yet has he the wyatt away we that is a hard name to say but thanks very much for the prime and 92 thanks very much for the two months falk the white what like because oh like he's like gandalf okay i'll allow it uh the wait a minute something to comment on his combat abilities though uh okay we'll stick with the white for now i did say it forkman now he's a knife man though knifeman oh yeah there we are all right enough of this let's keep going no no more ambush traitor it's so goo good's dudes are much more plentiful in the city god i can't say anything after after a while how long have we we've actually been streaming for two hours and 42 minutes and i just feel like i'm getting started just feel like i'm getting started it's a very fun game battle brothers i think you'll enjoy it if you try it here we are uh unfortunately nothing there but can we sell some of our stuff signet ring um i don't want that anymore i don't need that anymore i never needed that [Music] uh some of these weapons are just below our class now like the pitchfork isn't really needed 161 a lot of things that are the ambush traders i thought we okay we are gonna need these ground grains might consider buying these caps now though it always helps to have a little bit more armor you don't want your guys getting killed in combat and we just so far i haven't really picked up anything very interesting i don't think they're very cheap here but that's not that much money to be honest don't see us going back to uh actually that's fine now i'm overthinking things no contracts let's go ahead all right so now we're entering on the majestic quest to go all the way around the world and visit all of the cities sometimes it's good to leave ambush trade routes on large cities and make selling prices better ah that's fair oh wait a minute there's some next errors all right we're fine phew yeah you can seriously game the economy in this game you could probably get be very interesting to see a campaign where you didn't even do any fighting probably take longer but it could happen girl kisser four thousand that's a funny name thank you very much for the uh for the sub much appreciated hiring more i mean i'd like to hire more people but here's the problem with it now is that upkeep is gonna start to cost more 116 crowns of days i mean that's money and the other other problem though is that we can max out at 12 people in our company um which i don't love we might want to start to spring for better troops now too we've got most of the fodder down i think we could spring for better guys by a little bit some guys are very expensive like hank hanky it costs uh 500 just to hire harvard i mean havard the snake well we could probably make some inferences based on their backgrounds we should probably do try out more now though honestly haven't really done that stuff much hey tiskr86 thank you very much for the five gift subs you get five five golf claps for that thank you very much i appreciate that that's very generous thank you i appreciate that tyska if you're getting a gift sub please be sure to say thanks thank you tysker much appreciated my friend hope you enjoy ah modern totem my friend thank you very much for the sub hope you're doing well hope you had a good thanksgiving my friend happy to see you and good to see your uh good to see your room world happening i'm still waiting on that factory well you take your time you take your time now while resting the men start a convention a conversation about how far away the sun is what a dumbass conversation alfred c you later uh oh that's his title i forgot he's nine finally he looks back down [Music] wager is about 10 to 15 miles away he knows [Music] grim old thick boy knows that you know the uh son neither close yes he's a monk so he would certainly know about that all right so everyone is as a result contented it's those random events though that i love about this game [Music] uh you know who i whose videos i did actually start watching uh totem was uh maxor maxor is very underrated he had very good reviews i don't know if you guys have checked out max or he just does like random game reviews but just they're insanely insanely fun to watch i was watching some of those over the holidays hey girl kiss your 4 000 thanks very much for gifting this up you gentlemen and a scholar thank you so good so good ah carl a squire okay this is actually fairly good um he has good gear i'm all about that really the gear is probably more valuable than carl um we want to start upgrading our company to this type of gear so i'm going to hire him i know he's expensive but hey you know we want to be able to start fighting those bigger fights winning those bigger wins uh smackledorfing those bigger ah he's not good at anything well like i said it's his gear that i really care about i'm actually going to take off his gear and put on a guy who matters more because i think grimald thick boy is uh what a great name um i should just keep congratulating myself here on uh uh here we go okay this is better take the flail grim i'll think about the point is this is that we're starting to get one really well equipped guy and that's pretty important for combat and we also forgot this uh thing who else is good in combat [Music] he probably has better base stats than everybody else though you know i really am not going to get too nitty gritty with that but i think that some guys just have better base stats i've not really examined it super closely but it's 40 this is worth 60 is this better 60 this thing is kind of valueless now okay we'll give you this hat [Music] somewhat badass somewhat badass good we already visited here whoops okay now i i will do some backtracking over towns but that's because we're trying to visit everywhere on the map [Music] factory thing is on the back burner while i figure out what i want to do the truth uh well it's always good streaming is just a relaxing uh past time i would say yeah it's a pastime it's like baseball uh actually i should not be visiting all these cities hopefully i'll get a contract here is this the place where i wolf hayden do you think they're hayden any wolf wolves in there no jesus as you can see though i i certainly don't think we're going to get to the end of a campaign of this i didn't die climactically at any point so that uh prevented us from experiencing that jubilation uh we'll sell this signet ring because they don't think that we're gonna get a much better price for it anywhere uh how are these copper ingots here looking for trade goods all the time it's always a good idea to keep an eye out for that you can pretty much always stow something away i know these are far under their trade value but the fact of the matter is that i've just never seen them at a trade value so now there are much better weapons in the game arming swords a lot of these things will start to get as as the days go on and we encounter higher level enemies start to get better contracts um but it's simply simply put it's very inefficient to just try to buy them right now i mean um yeah like i said battle brothers is one of those games that kind of will start to go on you know um if you find yourself doing really well in a campaign you'll probably put it down for a while uh or at least i found that i did i went back to games that are just kind of comfortable for me after playing a lot of one campaign my god we can't get a single contract in these places i know we shouldn't be going to all these walled towns and everything like that but well at least we've taken out most of the towns from the northern section of the world do we need to go back to dunkeld hall what about steinberg we need to go to neither of those we need to go to wholeshlog and grundland so we have a lot of wilderness to cross through here actually that is not good um there is a chance that we could get ambushed here so i want to keep my wits about me have we been to lighter's guard we're just trying to cover these last six towns because then we'll get a little bit more renown a little bit more pay a little bit more of everything um yeah that would be good are we playing with any mods right now no but isn't there a i believe it's called the legends mod oh don't go in there there are several mods that are very popular for this i think some that give like layered armor which is kind of cool um is it going to hurt to lose a guy but you know i i kind of like how unforgiving the game is at times can you do the trading caravans from what can you destroy them yes but we don't want to like kill the towns all right what is what is this job well there begins at the forgotten homestead northeast of grundland um i want to see what the other contracts are because it's probably going to be very difficult for us uh how many days journey is this is only a two-day journey i would like to do another brigand quest but i don't think we're quite ready for it yet ah we also need to buy food before [Music] we might be stuck with buying very expensive food here because i have no food left for all of my men uh it does help to have a little bit of uh judiciousness foresight in planning but we did not have it that time uh whoops we so we have one day's worth of food that's not good we might have to waste some money here all right well let's see what we can do with this contract i don't think i need three spears let's sell away two of them and i just kind of need fast money right here [Music] um i don't really want to do a big long contract with delivery i'd rather get like a small brigand quest let's see what it is escort caravan three days to the south provisions are provided for our men and we are trying to explode the world uh although i really like the brigands i don't think that we're quite quite ready for it yet and the provisions are provided here this gets us further south in the world we can explore more of the world and get our renown up pretty valuable so i'll take it now i know that we have only 25 food but one advantage of some of these caravan missions is that like you saw before they do provide food for us so if you're in a pinch in a place in the world where there's no harbors especially up in the north where it's hard to come by food or if there's no hunting cabbage rig ends there they are it looks like we're gonna be nope they just did not fight us brigands are very good you want small groups of them in non-fortified areas to fight and you that's how you get your gear but until we really have more armor if until we start getting more guys looking like grimald the thick boy ah i'm not risking it the very good game in which to lose everything really fast professional soldier for hire will work for food you know it's a pretty brutal world in in this game on the march you come across a lone cow standing okay we can either tip the cow or not tip the cow um grimald is i value his life so i don't want him to get any permanent injuries i've had guys get eyes gouged out for this i really don't know what could be positive about this i think like there's nothing on the line so let's just leave the cow alone there is one mission though where you send a guy in to like tame a crazy guy in a cage or something like that and he gouges out one of your men's eyes so it's that's not quite good um you want a tip what a pun damn [Music] all right well we got 690 crowns 690 crowns nothing to scoff at nothing to scoff at at all i'll take these tools they're a little overpriced but not that badly overpriced all right uh let's go back out see what this town has there's a workshop there's a militia barracks fishing huts and wooden watch tower oh as well as an amber collector and a harbor which does not seem to be destroyed so let's see if there's any cheap fish here what i would think of the amber shards are at a decent price not amazing these fish are a decent price a little over market value but we're not that friendly with this kingdom so i'll take them uh how many days of food do we have we don't have that many if at least two days where the food will take more it does start to become expensive just to feed your men there's one reason why i value good items more than good men at the beginning um [Music] am i gonna buy some padded leather if we have a good enough quest i will in order to prepare us for it let's see if we can do a three star holy cow this is really expensive this quest it's an escort five days to the north but it pays 3 730 crowns and provisions are provided this could really catapult us up we could also get our asses kicked i think this is an obvious accept but i'm going to go ahead and go to i mean i don't i don't read maybe it said that we're going to be ambushed by the loch ness monster on the way up there uh but i'm going to go ahead and say let's buy we need enough to pay our men i'm gonna sell these two i shouldn't have bought those fish now i regret that we will buy at least one thing of padded leather 139 okay now if you don't pay your men it's not the end of the world though they start to be upset and then eventually they will abandon you but this seems really nice i'm gonna go ahead and buy the nasal helmet and one more padded leather now how many days have we have three days in change to pay them not great but whatever it's something get the net to start we did a little bit of netting before i like shields a little bit better just because i like everyone to have enough equipment and i get anxiety when one guy has a net but who is the next most important person in our line grim all thick boy is well armed i really need better fighters [Music] i think the next guy is corey in the house so we'll probably probably get this to corey in the house and we'll give you some actual gear all right i guess i'm happy with that 40 this is worth 60 okay that's a little bit better i think all right well we're gonna get paid a lot for this now we need to be careful though before we begin because three more days let's just sell that fish that we just bought i know i want to well i shouldn't have done that well whatever i've never seen anybody just abandon after one day of not getting paid though uh [Music] oh actually we might i hope we don't get it abandoned well we're gonna find out right now hmm [Music] so how how much uh how many more cities do we have we have five more cities but at least our guys are pretty well kitted now like i trust this company if we got into a fight i think most of them would most of them would live we'd have to be smart but i mean you kind of always have to be smart in this game hey diago hey thank you very much for the sub hey congratulations on the house move is it uh thank you because your play let's help me get through the day and keep me happy oh that means that means a lot hey thank you very much my friend i appreciate that hey congratulations that's a really good piece of news especially in a crazy year for housing i have way too many do i have shields too many shields i suppose we could uh you know have more what would you have in place of shields see in my experience i don't like it that guys are just so easy to are so easily killed in this game so i do like giving them shields but is there a better alternative oh you could do double gripping that's fair so maybe i'm playing it too risk-averse okay we've come across a man uh arguing why do we give him all of it i'm doing it she yells okay so we have met oh god the wannabe pimp asks you've wanted some sense in this okay we gotta fight this guy oh god [Music] uh grimald thick boy is now in good spirit okay great well it is very dark game out there very grim dark indeed damn [Music] all right well i mean a lot of the time and one thing that i kind of got a little bit bored with i'll admit is that you do find yourself doing a lot of the same quests over and over again like caravan trade it'd be nice if there were more opportunities to ally with larger factions and getting to larger battles but i think if they made the game so that it can scale up into bigger battles which you can get into a bigger battle with like a town guard or something like that it does make it more interesting oh wait did we just hire that guy accidentally oh damn no i didn't mean to do this ah you get out of here totally didn't mean to do that at least we got grimald thick boy no he wasn't even a better uh i didn't think that that dialogue option would accidentally hire him damn it how much money does he want every day all right eight he's not that expensive to keep up excuse me i'll take his hat damn it that's what i get for not reading good sergeant right there could he be a good sergeant he does have good morale that's true yeah maybe we will use him for that he would probably be a good battle standard carrier though this guy is already a great battle standard eggel is a good battle standard character i suppose that you start to kind of group people into slots when you think of it like that okay now we're actually indebted to our men um not good did i pay to get him oh geez i gotta read these things more that was not particularly good well even if anyone abandons [Music] ooh that's not good well now we can use the pimp uh eggel knife man did eggel knife man did we care about him oh now i am upset look he left his clothes wait no he was the knife man oh i liked him [Music] crap like three seconds before we get paid too [Music] ah all right that was reckless of me admittedly we'll encounter better people like anton horson um oswalt oswald okay we'll make up for this we'll make up for this damn it i do regret that i do regret that completely [Music] all right well let's try him out i haven't tried out any of them yet can we see him oh why are you upset carl loser how do we try him out [Music] tryout just shows you what traits they have ah [Music] did not know that where do we see his traits so it shows you nothing okay so he doesn't have any traits ah i thought that you could actually try him out on the belt okay that makes a little bit more sense um 150 brawler i know but isn't brawler not that good because i mean when are they gonna be unarmed in combat i guess i really need to look more into the um into the professions because i think that is where you get the biggest hints at who's good brawlers are great but what are they ever going to be doing hand-to-hand combat brawler just affects starting ah okay so it's mostly a starting stats matter okay we'll we'll take him and we'll take harold the brawler um okay because he probably has better starting stats that's a good point well i'm probably just going to dismiss this guy this guy was a total fluke should never have gotten him terrible person um oh you are actually very good with bows stuff like that um [Music] i'm not sure if this is really going to be valuable harold the brawler he's good in combat though that's true he's already got [Music] some of these guys yeah see alfred see you later i might just get rid of not that valuable anymore [Music] i feel like i'm making mistakes here maybe i'll just stick with my original crew we'll keep a couple of guys in reserve that's fine i imagine that that'll be fine anyway unfortunately we lost that battle standard gentlemen now are you any good with really this guy is better than this other guy so we'll reallocate these javelins to him we'll leave him in reserve okay now we are starting to get a second line of battle brothers but such a great tidbit of news though you know who would have thought we would have had a whole second line here already that's good and i'm going to give you [Music] who did i just switch you out with ah a lot going on here who had a bow somebody had a bow here [Music] lots of management [Music] oh no he didn't have a bow i extend corrected he had a uh a pitchfork or something like that [Music] damn it you know i just totally messed that thing up okay it's fine let's just keep this guy in reserve uh we'll put this guy out we'll give him this battle standard the guy such a terrible guy to have lead us give you your sword back just because why not he would be better off with a knife but whatever um okay and you need this okay that's better all right let's proceed with our lives as if they were normal and as if we hadn't made any mistakes there um i'm gonna head back down south where we were getting ralph get rid of oh well we wanted to get rid of him but we just had enough money barely to pay him oh no maybe it's because he's so upset we need to buy everyone a round of that's not good [Music] uh who's the next best all right you're not supposed to be here but you're not hang on a second oh you're the squire i'm gonna want to save you okay you're one of the original oh god so much goddamn management here there we are all right keep on heading south head south i know i was bound to make some mistakes though see that's the difference between if i were playing this on my own i'd probably have managed some of that stuff a little bit better but streaming i kind of want to keep it moving i know i make some stupid mistakes but streamer blindness is a real phenomenon it's a real phenomenon but we are starting to level up and at least i mean the good news is that our contracts are improving ooh uh are we actually gonna visit this place okay we've got seven undead i haven't really fought undead i want to get my rest my world quest done this is going quite well this campaign now you can fight undead and sometimes you can get their armor from them but they're they can be kind of a pain to fight too so that was an ongoing battle we could have joined that i believe we would have severely won but there isn't really that much to take ah so a guy has passed along so we could get 200 crowns or maybe this guy will join us i'll take the 200 crowns okay yeah i'll be better off knowing some more events but there have been enough random wild events to keep the whole thing interesting maybe we could fix the morale or did that guy leave for morale i didn't even notice okay everyone's kind of upset let's buy everyone some beer because i don't want them all to leave because they're upset okay and we don't have any beer here that's unfortunate um the one piece of good news is that generally speaking morale tends to get better over time it's like quite naturally they always kind of go back to what they started as um 22 okay i do need more food though as soon as we get to the next place skipping a lot of battles that are helping with gear and xp enemies get stronger yes that's true kind of like in slay the spire if you take elite enemies okay these brigands are engaging us now in slay the spire if you do fight elites for example it does make the late game easier because you have more options from which to choose um good to know that some of the stuff's in there but again i'm not really obsessing over it i think it's just a fun game too i'm quite frankly i'm enjoying making mistakes in it now these guys have good head armor i'd like to replace all of our hats with that so let's see if we can take out a couple of these guys this guy looks uh that's unfortunate um he looked like it would have been a good enemy to attack because he has no shield but unfortunately that happened all right we'll wait for these guys too we'll wait again again we want to move up our front line and see what they do before our back line that's the downside to having a really high initiative back line all right we'll move on to this high ground even if it means i get hit a bit [Music] hmm okay huge advantage here i know i'm probably gonna get hit for this but it's an opportunity to engage in archer and take the high ground pretty decisively so i'm gonna do this it might cost him his life but who is this again alfred see you later so we didn't really care about him yeah so he can just die who are you you're randolph you haven't really made any you haven't even made a name for yourself yet in our company so we don't care what happens to you um seems it sounds like a great nickname we don't care what happens to you all right now this is grimald thick boy so we'll put him in a decent position [Music] there we go oh wow look at that totally broken up the battle line uh we can't get on that high ground yet that's in fact we'll just deny everyone that high ground if we can [Music] try to engage them now you don't have to completely bottle up all of these gaps as long as you keep your zone of control you know so there we go we've got this guy wavering already and hey let's just take over all of this high ground so they can't possibly get onto it now we'll try to stop these guys in this gap we want to get our archers and our ranged boys up um [Music] okay i really want to keep grimald thick boys safe i was surprised that they went after him if we went head armor don't use so many flails they have a higher chance to hit heads that's fair that's fair but the flails have pretty much been the best items available to us and also too i feel like that they have a good way of getting through or getting past shields and so many enemies have shields and everything just glances over those a lot of considerations a lot of considerations okay i wanted to move this guy up a little bit actually it's going to take him too long he won't be able to get that done now we are guarding traders in this battle so the traders are pretty much just going to stand back and do nothing and that's kind of like their their modus operandi so to speak that's their mo all right there we go good good job in the back line traders you can kind of get to fight for you but they're not really gonna do that much and we don't have to worry about this guy getting onto thick uh thick ground thick ground high ground because he's uh he'd have to shift his battle position which is a pain all right we've pretty much denied them this we've taken over most of the high ground so let's do this 70 75 uh i'll take this guy nothing particularly tactical about that but now you see he's got that armor any time that you see um the gray health bar go down that means that they've hit their armor there are some times like if you stab somebody with a knife that you just go right through the armor and you go right to the health bar which is great but every weapon kind of has its own special set of uh you know circumstances under which it's useful okay grimald we want to keep you alive but it seems like they're kind of gunning for you uh not good i'm gonna get him ready to just retaliate on attacks because i want him to stay safe some of these guys you can pretty much just tank it seems like for the whole thing [Music] i don't want them to get through our armor these guys could really wreck our armor [Music] now we're gonna run you oops i didn't see that other spot oh well it's like a 49 ah a lot of that though goes into this game all right i messed up there never too early for the deal it seems like are they still coming out with more i mean they came out with a bunch seemed like it added interesting stuff to the game though so fair enough uh let's see throw you over here and then stab good uh and put you here and then uh stab nah didn't work out man they are really going hard on grimald thick boy i might even have to sh i might have to shield him all in there why he didn't repost hey crypto mantin thanks very much for the eight months [Music] hey what am i going to do with this guy it'll be hard to get him up anywhere they still have so many guys left over here but regrettably i can't really get him to shoot anything all right let's try to save grimald [Music] it's it's unfortunate whenever you lose some guy that you've really built up that's the one thing i'll say about battle brothers it gets me really immersed and attached to it sometimes you just put so much work into a guy and just to see him go down with a little bit of rng can be brutal but i think one of the things that makes this game fun and worth playing it is pretty raging it can be pretty rage inducing anyway uh let's see okay we can't really get him into range still 66 is not bad i'll take it okay cutting down the lines we've got this guy already on the retreat i think they do get more upset like if there are more guys well obviously if there's more guys surrounding them but if more guys die nearby them i've noticed that phenomenon too now one thing you could do is postpone your attack for later on in the round when more guys are surrounding an enemy this is very good because it gives you a better chance to hit um like i could go a little bit past the turn and then wait till he's more surrounded i don't think i'm going to because this one looks fairly one-sided except i'm worried about grimault here because sometimes a fight is so one-sided but okay grimault is he's wheezing good they aren't going after grimald anymore but this guy is a pickaxe which is terrible against or is great against armor but not good in my situation [Music] there's nothing like dodging an attack it's such a great a victory all right now here's the issue is that we took more melee fighters this time i think this has been good because bowman especially low-level bowman in my experience tend not to be as good in combat like i could do more in the early game with a few melee fighters than i could with a bunch of bowmen okay let's see if we can fully surround these guys even if we don't kill them necessarily right now damn it save grimald the thick boy good he is saved maybe we didn't get him to fully waive her waiver i say we can't fully surround but this is the issue with taking a high melee team is that you know obviously we can't fully surround them we spend all of this time wasted on movement no grimmauld shield wall sir okay so now see he has five action points left still it is an ap system but his fatigue is so high because he's just been defending himself that now he can actually attack on his turn which is quite unfortunate because he will be oh they hit the other guy okay we got lucky [Music] yeah we could have shield walled the other guy too that would have been good now if you shield wall together obviously also that makes you harder to hit but you know [Music] lots to consider uh i find that the more i play i just kind of go in for attack attack attack because it's simpler it's it's a little bit more enjoyable you know the best defense is a good offense as they say but there's a lot of situations where none of that is true i could reorder these turns but this this one's pretty much over just gotta try to make sure that this guy doesn't get away uh yeah this is kind of awkward now but i guess this is kind of what's going to happen if we keep raising up this many melee fighters it's just that i didn't really find anybody i wanted for range i was looking for those like three level we get enough of them though oswald is pretty good um what is my spotify wrap what is my spot my spotify playlist i've been used spotify in a while i feel like i've just used youtube more for stuff there we go nobody died but i'll say this too is that when you do start losing a lot of guys it gets absolutely brutal all right are we repairing our stuff and are we fixing our medical up i think we're gonna we'll do this um oh we do have a bow now okay we can good we can get a bowman you are good you are good you're good i think i'll leave you with javelins for a bit actually no i'm gonna give you a bow you deserve one what a good guy okay is there anybody else who was in a the wrong spot though in combat [Music] yeah you really shouldn't have been here you don't you have the maimed foot too so we'll put you in the back line okay now we do want our front line to be outnumbering our back line by a bit but not by quite as much as it was that was just kind of crazy um i'm not gonna give him the shield because i think it's too much uh actually i am because it's it's javelin so they run out fast never mind um what else are we doing though okay this looks pretty good to me we've got a javelin guy and um a banner guy on the sides here in the back so we'll give you crippling strikes and we'll just level up all your range now this is good we've got these three star ranged guys coming up so this is really good for developing our company i don't know what negative one means on melee events it can't be good but that morale is even worse that it makes me question it more um have they fixed the issue where battle brothers simply won't start on some pcs i do not know about that um i have no idea i guess you could you probably check the forums or something like that i'm playing on a pc right now i don't know if it's like steam player what do they call it now uh this thing where you play it on mac or pc i have no idea all right this guy's one of our front liners so we do want to strengthen his resolve because he could very easily break and he's pretty good other stats we just want to raise up his fatigue though soon [Music] we'll do a little bit more on fatigue 43 is good i mean it's start trying to get trying to get everybody at the same spot though you could get to that point where it snowballs again we'll take the extra level up there's various perks that you can choose from you can also backtrack and go to earlier things but i like it the way it is now i do want to actually you could be a a hit point sponge you're skilled at it right see we might as well but not if you're not good at anything [Music] all right everybody's in a terrible mood so whatever next city we go to we need to stop for some drinks take oswald the helmet for melee fighters maybe i need to uh [Music] love this is through this one you walk past a wagon when suddenly something grabs your arm you will oh this is the guy who says that he's in no i've done this one this is the one where you just pass on and do nothing i think we'd have to pay for this guy though i don't need any more men so i'm just gonna say no defense start to scale out like 40 plus don't remember the exact i mean it'd be great if you could just get one guy who just dodges everything marketplace you could sell i think we'll just get rid of all of this low level stuff we don't really need any of this it's not useful to us anymore um but now that we're in the south we're in these kind of lush fertile lands we could go ahead and buy a little bit more food really i've i've taken this company pretty far though here done my level ups i honestly have done a lot more deliberating than i thought i would um i thought we'd go faster but i've learned a lot more about the game i like battle brothers a lot i would gladly come back to this one um i don't know if i do more than like two or three parts to one of these things but i think i am gonna leave a bookmark in it uh right about there seems like a good place to stop

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