Battle Brothers - The Black Company - Deserters Origin - - Legends / PTR Mods - VVMI - Ep 05

all right welcome back gonna give it a second for [Music] the bandwidth to look like it evens out for us to show up which we just did nice so we're back at it this is effectively gonna be episode 5 of a legends and ptr and it's the legends beta uh the most uh actually not the most most recent one there was one that just came out and that i don't want to boss into the mix for possible conflict or bug but near reese's most recent versions of the legends beta and the ptr mods which modifies the perk chains and groupings that are in legends mod and the legends mod does quite a bit of neat stuff layered armors um much more control over a map gen um much more interesting perk trees overall uh so that there's a lot less repetition uh which kind of falls into the way that i like to play um so we uh it gives you just more of an rpg i think style to it they were playing the black company that's an homage to glenn cook's line of brim dark fantasy books uh of the same name and there's several other names but they're all about the black company yeah and one of the little pieces that we're doing to try to track with that is renaming the characters as we go if a character is with the party and makes uh level two we're gonna give him a name from the books which everyone has i believe at this point except for odo who is six experience away from getting uh becoming a named man of the black company and if any of you have read joe abercrombie books which is what i was in on before glenn cook um you might appreciate the reference to name men and if you don't uh you should go pick up the burst law trilogy from glen cook because it's really pretty good stuff as is most everything else he wrote in that world so uh we are on day 34 um we have discovered i think all three of the kingdoms of which we are enemies with house old brick because we are a deserters origin start and um they are still miffed that we decided to leave their service and go play our own trade on the roads what that has let us do is get a bit of benefit by raiding caravans and uh an occasional peasant party to keep the party supplied we have an ambition which is to defeat five packs of roving beasts we haven't seen many so we killed the one that we did run into and we just recently finished a small quest to get down to tab and moose um it was a delivery job so we did a bit of door dash and uh we're in a good financial position at this point from a combination of uh fortunate caravan raids and uh other successful quests and we are likely in a position that we should try to fill out our roster and we also just recently received another renowned bump and one of the things in legends mod is that your renown relates to the size of the party that you can field uh we most recently jumped from a possible of 10 to 12. so we have a crazy poacher a butcher a bee slayer could be fairly skilled yeah it would be about half our cash he's a little expensive we also have a hunter who would join on board with a hunting bow right now we have a balanced amount of backlash line guys to front line guys i don't know that we want to add directly another backliner unless we wanted to go gordon spear or odo which feels like it's almost black i don't believe it is so i'm going to do a try out on shalom troll how gonna um 219. so pragmatic doesn't like to hit the head that's interesting bureau nobles tough he's got bus on fatigue initiative and melee skill sounds all right i don't know if he's worth the price of admission though he has a bore spear which is partially probably why he's expensive as he is and he's level two off the bat i don't like the uh i'm not gonna hit the guys in the head because i prefer to stab them the body that just doesn't feel all that great i don't think he's worth half our cash or two-thirds of our cash nearly so we're gonna pass there were some better characters um up to the north of us in a larger city so i think we may want to go that route and take a quick look at the available armor we're fairly well prepared like leather padded leather isn't going to do us any good we could probably upgrade moto's headgear slightly if we chose to but he's also not a name man of the party so i think he needs to survive his laurels let's have a look at you know the one other thing that we could consider doing about twice as expensive as it needs to be is bumping up our crossbowman to a regular crossbow and getting the damage bump there gonna double check e his perks i don't think he has a damage buff on the crossbow itself he's got the power shot with staggers he's got 20 additional across all in iron sights and then that's different from the short bowmen who have some poacher style perks that are really based around the short bow or the boondock bow or the wonky one if you chose to go that route which is makes i think upgrading them to a hunting bow a little less attractive i think their perks alone even it out for the most part and so let's take a look at the kind of quest that we have they have disappearing villagers i'd assume one of these is going to be a beast hunting quest we step into frontliak the trademaster's room and he shoves a map into your face sellsword time for you to go exploring see this uncharted sp spot southwest of here in the region of the ghost hills that's where i need you to go insert of the forgotten mass grave do you accept or not the right price 480 crowns in the contract is done to accept that offer we're going to take some time to think about it and evaluate the other but nary the elders listening to the talk of a few peasants when you find them when they see you they quickly depart leaving the man with a satchel in hand he holds it up there's crowns in here crowns that those people are giving me to give someone anyone to help us people are disappearing sellsword and when they're found they're not just dead but mangled mutilated everyone is too scared to go anywhere he stares into the sack and then he looks at you i'd hope you're interested in this task let's talk pay puts a hand on your shoulder smiles reaffirmingly i think i know adequate compensation for your services you're gonna receive 190 crowns in advance another 770 when it's done i'm going to try to get paid a bit more besides 210 in advance and 850 when it's done we're going to accept that and we're going to accept that contract off the bat so that we can go get that done [Music] object scavenger those who try to wrestle a weapon but jen's from a dead man's hands somewhere to the southeast but his grip was like a vice like it's possible that's the same location that we need to go search out for the other quest i would guess we want to bring a b slayer on along for a beast hunt not sure apologize i split poker chips and occasionally do so poorly so i don't know two debuffs two thirds of our cash i don't think so so that was interesting i think it that other quest said it was in the region of the ghost hills so the location we need to find is probably like right around here see if we get some beast tracks and do we got 12 web necks now there's another group of mercenaries that could potentially i think draw the web next into battle with both of us take a little a little help from a friend rich we might as well do i don't know how they surprised us when we watched them come in and we did get the support from the mercenaries [Music] look fairly decently equipped a couple of them there's a hedge night got no shots so we're gonna wait broker has a shot on two different web necks he misses darling should have about the same we're going to shoot a game shot out of this guy that's a good hit on him so some of these mercenaries are feet we're gonna just hold the line so we want to move this spearmint up to protect we're going to drop you back finish off that web knife with a javelin throw we need to protect this flank i'm gonna hold let them come [Music] get a feeling we're gonna get somebody coming in from this side so i'm gonna move a spearmint towards that area there we go through a number of them one dead not sure how well our mercenary frontline is gonna fare here and my archers are kind of relying on it which isn't awesome we're gonna hope for his dps once the day one web neck down nice job gents got a glaive okay so hug up i'm gonna send a game shot don't have any clean shots good move here we'll get off a simple shot gonna do that back up the edge tonight out of a bad position all blocked though i'm gonna get our full arm and round to support elmo i need to get elmo a better melee weapon still rocking like a first deer hatchet and that's just not awesome oh smart that guy is proving to be pretty dang deadly try to keep this guy alive i think we're like pretty dominant here yes get basis one off of paga so he could continue to send arrows oh there's a fire that's a dressing drill that up i also missed it somebody threw like a incendiary oh hmm okay so that guy set people on fire an interesting trick everything looks the same about him not going to release the hound as he might run right into that fire not certain as to his uh smoothness this is the remaining spiders may run kind of interesting to think of spiders having morale just doesn't normally seem like that might be a dot that would connect but is what it is you get a clean shot i'm gonna move in gotta get to the eggs call it done spiders really retreat i suppose in a fantasy universe they could have a greater degree of capability that i would think they might have a sense of self-preservation but we're all fighters i have met not seem to have that high on their lists the mercenaries scour the fields hacking and sawing at the spider's stiff remains to take back to benare the elder even in death the web necks are ghastly looking only a moment away from flinching back to life and wrapping themselves around the nearest breathing animal their horrifying features and surreal size does not stop some cell swords from dancing around clicking their tongues and hissing and all around preying upon the phobias of those less inclined to go near the thing thanks ravens i don't think you can fit the spider's corpse into the narrow the elders room so instead you slap it against his window from the outside you hear a horrified scream in the clatter of falling furniture a moment later the adjacent window is thrown open and a townsman bleeds out oh very rich sell sword very rich may the old gods serve you a thousand years of idol time for that one nodding you ask about your pay and he begrudgingly tosses you a satchel 850 crowns is in there now take that awful thing and go gain 850 and tavern booster has disappearing villagers successful hunt we're going to go back in and we need to find a mass grave to the southwest around the ghost hills we're going to accept that because the ghost hills are like right outside the door so it shouldn't be that hard we got a retired children soldier has showed up in town and another deserter howdy gent superstitious short-sighted gluttonous and kind of crappy we're a man after our own hearts but i don't believe we're gonna let you in let's go this is the ghost hills what did it say south west i think the tavern guy said southeast you would think you should locate it rather quickly it could be an easy 500 the prestige and renown of the black company is growing everywhere you go people are looking to join and not just sell swords but followers who may be of other use take a look at our retina we have two spots watchers totem people the woods in the hinterlands swear that the presence of this totem grants good fortune to those around it somehow preventing sickness and accidents as long as it's in the camp sounds like farking nonsense but it keeps them happy reduces movement penalty of bad terrain by 15 prevent sickness and accidents do to terrain have at least one of these backgrounds that's not too bad we can hire we can board it [Music] it might be a thing stolen documents the nobles and merchants are sloppy with the security and their underlings are easily intimidated a well-placed bribe brawl or a set of light fingers can keep you infirmed on who's taking what where makes you see the position of some caravans at all times even outside of your sight radius now that's potentially more interesting let's finish off this quest see where we land hash wise actually really don't like these because i tend to almost never find it on my own without having a secondary event that tells me that i am wandering around aimlessly and i should go in some other direction they didn't say ghost hills i didn't say southwest i would imagine the ghost hills could extend to there but being that the name is right here i think of these as the hills themselves looking to high ground we got a new name down here so that should not be ghost hills just trying to get up on some pill terrain so we can get something yeah we're donkeys a group of world wary explorers they seize up in the middle of the road half covered in mud half and leaves and all in an un intentional camouflage one rubs his forehead eyeing you carefully before a smile wide i know a searcher when i see one you're looking for the forgotten mass brave ain't you well you're unlucky was just coming from there here give me your map and i'll show you just where you where it is you see on the hills not too far to the west to where we are now much appreciate and i was gonna was about to find it so why he needed to tell me i wasn't doing it well it's already time to return to frontliact the trademaster as forgotten mass grave was easier to find the new figure marking it out on your map you pause and chuckle and shake your head what luck ancient auxiliaries donation leaders and legionaries across hey not like the necro savant those web necks counted as another pack of beasts that was nice need to food up though we have a fair amount of equipment that loses wealth or another feature of the legends mod that they track that probably like the trade miles master welcomes you back you hand over your recently illustrated map and he pours over it swatting the spotted mark with the back of his hand of course that's where it is he smirks and pays you what you are owed we gain 480 in 41 experience well deserved that should mean yep odo is now part of the clan he becomes a name man they're gonna well this is the lesser known character at least or seems to be in the book that i'm reading we're gonna call him knuckles from the black company the first book what can we give him so he's got range skill should and we're going to buff his range kill balance bags and belts nine lives ever smashing shields push it take aim pointy end roots are labor it points maximum fatigue and initiative are increased by 10 each hit points would that be you'd get six point seven eight he's gonna get yeah i think that's a no-brainer and i believe that's a ptr perk and i have to continue to kind of say i think the ptr perks might be a little overpowered because that's a that's a big level one buff although it is just fatigue initiative and otherwise we're gonna go ahead and take that yeah i'm gonna take our buff on range attack because i think eventually we're hoping he will be a ranged attacker in the meantime i think we're going to take particularly now that we have a modifier on it we're going to take our high modifiers to both health and initiative which should gain an expert an extra 10 on top for every buff we had there that's pretty strong now we picked up some web valuables for the webmax so tom tom we're gonna do perk wise for tom tom so far he's been mainly a spearman we don't have the option to give him that's kind of resting one line breaker rush of battle whenever you're attacked hit or miss stacking five percent reduction of t of skills during your next turn petite cost of skills during your next they're up to a maximum of 20. x mastery so he is the lumberjack we need to get him i think we have yeah we do gonna be stabbing anybody with a dagger time soon i see a lot of the guys that run speed runs down people with daggers to try to like maximize the value of the armor that we might pull but doesn't seem necessary extra it's a little bit better of a backup melee weapon all right so where are we at we're figuring out what to do with tom tom so you've taken an axe buff already we can do axe mastery polar mastery i think this russia battle work to seem strong that if you're under attack you get up to a 20 reduction of t cost it seems pretty solid and it doesn't sound like it departs that's just during the next turn okay but still i think that is potentially useful for one of the guys that are doing somewhat defensively so [Music] we're gonna go fatigue melee defense and ranged attack now that we have him over 50 wouldn't be bad we could get him a set of javelins as well to join his fellows who are a little more skilled but may assist go ahead and have a moose if they'll take these web valuables they will for a pretty good price so not doing great on revisions we're going to camp i think and do a bunch of supplies we're just going to do that overnight and then we'll see what happens so we're going to drop into camp we have a bunch of stuff queued up for salvage add a couple more things to that pretty much everything it's 22 hours of salvaging we have one guy on producing arrows one guy uh patrolling don't really have much to do otherwise we have anybody hanging out we do not we're gonna take that camp overnight it's mostly about cleaning out our inventory getting some tools the dawn breaks and created 11 units of ammo 21 units of tools moving don't have a fair bit of stuff to work through it right seems jumping around so apologies mountain based internet that's never great or at least never to be relied upon we're going to pick up a little food for the trip we're going to grab fish in the grain a decent menu necromancer right i do think we're gonna grab broker a better prospect it should improve his ability to support the his fellows sell off the old one we're gonna head we're gonna head over to finster mark we haven't been there in a while this is generally friendly territory it's the first couple towns that we performed mercenary services for i kind of circled down here and just open it up this corner of the map always found i like to do just that and clear the fog of war essentially when we can i get in a finster mark before nightfall prospering city good group of guys to your boot from fellows i was just in tavern drunk so they have a taxidermist we can get some armor for the dog gonna go ahead and get the dog some armor he's served us well so far can't rename that and yet i have some mercenaries swordmaster for now retired soldier have a wild fletcher ghost pork bait another bag give him a try uh made for green skin good superstitious pragmatic crappy buffs really just looking for a little better skill spread at the beginning here chair footing charming you start mainly one star initiative i think roger the axe other guy might be interesting guntrum determined he's a pessimist wait a second he's determined there's always going to be at confident mod if permitted fades away fast he's a determined pessimist and his resolve and he's disloyal could have done could have just played along a little better could have been a team player i could have worked out if you had to you had to get it yeah take it that way so i think just for numbers and for evenness of the line i'm gonna hire on both of these ones maybe i really just i want more what more men on the line we're gonna have a look so we have boards for both of them we can't do both wielding hatchets and they have crappy headgear so i'm doing full academs that's a little bit better than what they're wearing now because of a basis to build from that's their base gear they're both wearing added circuits so we have a gambeson you have two galveston's to spare well that needs to go through repairs i'm not sure there's not an arbor another 600 we can get that decent better gear yes 86 so we're gonna give the guy with higher fatigue better or heavier outer layer and drop padded armor onto ghosts and lastly we're going to grab them both they get hats those took a pretty good chunk of our cash dude got these guys into the mix but we're up to a line of six and a party of 10. uh all right sorry just thinking out loud not really 100 clear on the reserve mechanic in this mod and how it works it's a learning process what is this live learn bro i think we may since we just spat out all of our cash we have 35 tools that should be enough to clean up for ourselves over the next couple battles kind of let's see what kind of quest it is we enter finster mark and a man immediately approaches trembling through the mud to get you to you he announces himself as someone in the employ of adrian the elder a man of some power in this town and he along with the thoughts and monies of others have decided to seek yourself while open all ears therefore you wait for adrian the elder and he says he will be right with so you wait and wait and wait and finally as you're about to leave for the second time adrian the elder throws open the doors and rushes towards you who's this again the mercenary his assistant as an adrian the elder sets on a smile though most fortuitous to have you in finstrom are good captain it is imperative that some precious commodities of mine reach calc as safely and as quickly as possible you're precisely who i need for no common brigand would dare attack you and your men yes i'd like to hire you for an escort make sure the items are delivered to adelbad the burgermeister no detours of course can we come to an understand i'm gonna pay us 80. we're going to ask for a little more he says be reasonable we're headed that direction anyways additionally i'm going to clear our inventory interest of being able to just buffer our cash a little bit make some requires and stuff gives us a couple hundred extra we're going to grab one more bag of grain and we're going to head to kelp off which is up here to the north similarly i am going to get over to the edge here try to clear the fog of war as we go knight's gonna fall and make it a little bit more difficult goblin shares tales around the campfire of northern heroics and monsters that can't be much said of the dialogue even given that brute isn't the most eloquent but the story is well conveyed through miming and drawing in the ground one tail speaks to a friendly unhold the company gasp at the very notion of it but the barbarian slaps it wrists and wags a finger this shoe assumes a way of telling you it's all true every word or grunt the idea of a friendly monster unsettles the mercenaries initially but by the end of the story they clap and nod as though they wish were really the truth little camaraderie around the fire we're gonna have trouble clearing all of the map as we go but we're getting some done you can circle back and get that just because i'm ocd like that almost everything at a lad the burgermeister is waiting for you as you enter the town he hardly takes the cargo off your hands oh i did not think you would get here his grubby fingers dance along the chest carrying the cargo he turns around and barks an order to one of his men they step forward and hand you a satchel of friends coffee is key rounds well dessert cotton huff is some small and buildings for the workers in the nearby mines take a look who we have to hire it's brawler's miners messenger apprentice no one that seems terribly interesting to fill out our final two spots have a look at contract nikolas the treasurer is reading one of his many scrolls he angrily tosses it onto a pile of others the people of keltenhofe are rightly furious do you know a brigand possibly in league with other vagabonds managed to steal my demonic statuette from us that artifact is of a measurable value to me and to the people of course you shrug and you want me to get it back for you the man points a finger precisely smart sell sword that is exactly what i want you to do follow the footprints of the thievery and return to me the item which i well the town rightfully owns so worth you best assured what i'm offering is a fine prize for your work you'll be paid 150 in advance another 600 when the job's done need more do not push me too far i'm taking cash so the these are wandering to the north that will support our desire to your map there's 17 of them this is going to be a scuffle and it's freaking thugs which are a little more capable they're going around so we're gonna base them to this side and see if we can catch up to them the uh contract thing is in a pretty inconvenient spot and we're gonna get him in the high ground before knight sets in and messes with our ranged attackers just as your employer thought they look scared presumably understanding that nicholas the treasurer's well-paid wrath is about to descend upon arms lethargic thugs and a few poachers hope we have the high ground we sort of do that's yeah i think it's essentially just going to work out to be a battle of flatland so these big rushing mace guys are probably nearly the most dangerous guys here they don't really have much in the way of range attack they have two slingers there are 17 of them though we're gonna hold fire on the range guys one thing i would like to do is get him [Music] you higher graph i think they're going to advance far enough to worry about spear walls and the like this is just going to be opportunity i think we got it it's got a headshot there shoutouts darling does well as well broker drop them in a sphere wall just in case those guys on the bottom to make it up don't really have any javelin attacks to make there will hold i think we're gonna advance the line just part way got that crossbow built by a shield got support effort uh shut off and obstructed forward keep the line moving these guys are going to be able to hit from two tiles i really need to unfortunate i was a little worried you got through but they didn't cause much damage that's okay broker fired his big crossbow [Music] hopefully he makes it to second level so we can make him a named man spearwork by one eye goblin we only have one javelin left you got back into confidence and got off two shots at us darling breaks the pressure by uh killing one of them cropper hits gonna move up probably should have chopped shield there really have any clean shots gonna move up break the morale of a second for the thugs and the dog does the rest nice i don't know how the slinger is still things are gonna go well they did not i think we should be able to work out the rest of these guys pretty easily foreign nice successful battle very little damage nothing much in ways of loot but the contract reward is pretty decent we'll take it well you found those responsible for stealing the demonic statuette put them to the sword now you just need to put the demonic statuette back into nicholas the treasurer's hands and get your reward we're off to collect our pay there were another arrows the treasurer takes the demonic statue from you hugging it close as though he's retrieved a lost child his eyes get a little teary just looking at his artifact thank you sellsword this means a lot to me i mean the town you have our gratitude he pauses as you stare at him his eyes bounce to a corner of the room our gratitude self sword a large wooden chest is opened by a guard and you count the crowns to go you gain 600 deserve so it's night looks like ago jumped a level as has one of the new guys so that we're going to make him a name man his black company which means he gets a name from the books although this isn't the greatest of those available he shall now for henceforth be named pickles and we're also going to go ahead and recycle all of this equipment that we just picked up for tools recycle just about all the shields and armor and it doesn't flail we'll leave ourselves with shields in case busted let's see hack ups perks probably bow mastery dynamic duo when i live within 2 000 there's no other ally with two archer we're gonna go with bow mastery less fatigue using the range of maximum firing range increased by one there's really a big bonus there i think so we can buff ranged back initiative him and we have pickles pickles made his first level with the company it's the colossus perk for him they're phalanx which gets us five melee defense per adjacent shield wall bellows losses in his case would be a decent bump of hit points he doesn't already have a buff on hitpoint so we're gonna go colossus for nickels gonna take the four buff range attack planning that we're gonna also end up throwing weapons we're gonna take the five initiative we're gonna keep it out just i think we're gonna jump into camp overnight we have six guys on salvaging we also have two new guys definitely need arrows we're going to take our top three does it help if he's on here so we got 2.2 in our 0.5 an hour like 2.5 we have five guys doing salvage got still two guys chilling out so repairs will take care of himself good craft i guess we're gonna do grab the two potions take one of our guys and drop in there try to do both probably get one of those two crafts done but let's decide which one it is i think i want the poison oil [Music] foreign so we picked up 12 units of ammos pickles healed a point created 14 units of tools and used three just double check that our pictures are fully equipped which they are out of 81 food three days let's take a quick look back count off sure nothing else popped up for us to do i think we're gonna grab the extra 50 ammo i'm going to grab some goat cheese these are good prices on copper ingots i'm gonna pick those up too we're gonna head for instead probably range up into the north a little bit you see what we can discover perhaps get another beast or our record mission you're at the very top of the map this is a little interesting there's not room for much we have camps out here we got some what looks like a large undead party down to the south of us on the road it's like we're catching up to it 17 undead what are they fighting are they fighting a hammerstead company looks like they're going to take care of that really get much vision beyond the mountains a little more map clearing drop down to town see if there's anything doing i wish that is a large city sheltering travelers and raiders from the snow in the cold they recently had a warehouse burned down let's survive the fire is now sold at high prices they're not going to give us anything for our copper they have their own copper everything's like way overpriced nothing really interesting in the way of gear they had a large contingent of hireable men here last time we got a b slayer we have another sell sword but they're out of our price range holds the hunter take a look at the contracts see what you can do for them it's also an armorer there's no real decent armor marketplace the armorer is also pretty poorly stocked that's there the first contract held gay of hammerstead wants us to take a package back to keltenhoff he's going to pay us 70 crowns for we'll take more that's 80. uh we're gonna accept it but we're gonna think about it because it doesn't really give us much cash to go in the other direction one day cost us about 130 the golden goose 37 so we waste a day backtracking i'm not sure it's worth the time so a man fleecing a sheep looks over to you in a run wiggling around i should just eat this little bastard look at her go quit it would you he elbows the beast and it bleeds cursing back with as much sapience as a sheep can muster the man looks up at you again say you're the cell sword everyone's been talking about i should probably tell you and i guess i will huh that uh boson of hammersted's been looking for you the sheep jumps in an attempted escape the man slams her down you little get imma milk you tits dry if you try that again of all ears boson of hamerson grabs a chest off his shelf and puts it on his desk when he opens it a bevy of papers pop out almost scurrying to get free he grabs one and lays it out on one side there's a contract on the other a small drafting of a map it's simple sell sword i've been contracted to deliver some particular cargo to elk bolts i have the goods but i don't have the guards if you're interested in being caravan guards for a time maybe three days or so let me know and we can hash out some numbers does it pay he gesticulates with his hands pointing at his fingers as if counting something but it means nothing to you judging from experience this is a good payment for the task you'll receive 170 in advance and another 660 when the job is done you need to be paid more 180 and 740 with the jobs done we're going to accept that but i also need some time to think about it because i cool i think hates us so yeah that wouldn't work out too good and i don't think i'm interested in wandering back to countenance for 80 crowns because we basically just made this circuit so instead and we're getting low on cash so what we're gonna do is say second thought and we're gonna go into the marketplace and pick up a bit more food it's four days i think that's going to crash out on us it's not okay everything else seems sufficient so we're gonna take a run through enemy territory and we're gonna pick off a caravan two and see if we can find a kid wearing a rather opulent chain around his necks it's so heavy his head has bent forward but that minor struggle doesn't wipe the mile wide grin off his face goblin pushes the kid down and takes the necklace where'd you get this the kid cries out and tries to grab his treasure back but he's about three feet in a good jump too short hey that's mine give it back another kid comes over flashing a large ring it's pinching his fingers at once alright that's enough the company fans out and eventually finds a dead merchant and some tall grass besides the treeline his face is purple and jagged with broken bones it appears he's been stoned to death a group of about 40 or 50 youngsters appear from the tree line each juggling a stone in their hand their leader a little rut with red hair and sleeves of tattoos asks what you want you tell them that you'll be taking the merchant's good the leaders laughs boy is that so i'll give you 10 seconds to rethink that choice oh i will mister we don't need the goods bad enough to take an injury when we're about to go hunting caravans this is the i think the necrophage i know that was the necrophage oh let's cut down here and see if we can get any scouting on this figure out what's in there imagine it's the source of the undead that are wandering around we're after more guaranteed profit got some tracks on the road probably peasants that are friendly never know they're coming up on heimstad something that came off what looks like maybe bandit tracks there's a larger party here we've got a trading caravan but it's an allied one i'm gonna swing around so we don't get the hopefully get the local militia up on us not that same caravan got somebody out in the woods here it's probably briggins maybe one trading caravan got a pack of barbarians barbarian thralls sometimes they spit out good equipment or good loot very least we're gonna take them down some more how we could use the payday wait for them to close so i'm gonna advance this part of the line just a bit oh a lot of war dogs one two three five war dogs like the uh barbarian aspca all right bye fancy footwork one dog down oh another and another so [Music] now we mostly have the thralls the left contend with that's a big [Music] off apparently didn't through everything perfect did [Music] [Music] her shield stops range attacks down who has been known to have shaky rizal being a bit of a chicken oh silly i was gonna take that background x-men going at it walkway around down through the ranks sometimes don't have enough gas i think they're gonna retreat i don't think they're gonna make it [Music] [Music] you get top top applicator there's a lot he's gone a a couple scratches but nothing significant almost all of it put on armor too nothing special in the ways of armor we did get some javelins and we got 20 ammunition we could got time time of 50 range with the possibility of maybe adding both of those the axes and the downwards to the mix let's see what we have we got quite a few level ups first off our lowest level guys roger axe has made level two i mean he also becomes the main named man of the party taking names from glenn cook's book black company name's see what we have is base parts how's it going sinus um yeah i i think the desert one added some interesting stuff to it and like decent equipment there's uh generally three um southern cities every time and they have a different variety of gear and stuff and the southern mercenary start is pretty good there's a couple beasts that are you know like the hyenas i think everybody says is basically like a reskin of the dire wolves um there's a snake down there that uh it's kind of can be difficult because they can pull your guys but there's also an arena where you can make some decent cash um i like it and i think with this legends lot mod that i'm running here um the equipment is extended even further so you can get some nice like armor combinations down south i'm not you know i i've been playing this game for years and uh i tend to pick up the dlcs when they release them just because i think they built a good game and whatever developer support um but uh i'm not 100 sure if everything that i ran through there isn't in the game if you don't buy the dlc like i don't know if you don't get say this other mercenary start but yeah it's probably i think it's probably worth it particularly in combination some of the mods can extend it i don't think the mods require it but they uh they may just add some like extra dashes and benefit to it so that is my basic opinion i'm going to grab colossus for jojo so it's kind of interesting you're the first person that actually pinged me from like both youtube and twitch it tends to seem like folks are one or the other then both so well welcome to uh to a unique club it seems we're gonna bump his melee his range and [Music] i don't know if that's where else we just gave ourselves a nice buff to health then we're gonna go range just because he's underwhelming in that regard yeah it always has been um and they're coming out they announced like a free dlc just recently like they're coming out with one i i think if i saw it right maybe march or so i just like the rep playability you know it's kind of a with the procedural gen to a degree um and with the variety of things that you can choose to the the starts and the origins and just the way things can go it's like a procedural storyteller i've i think i have something like silly like 1200 hours in this game because it's been out so long yeah and uh i just find myself i i keep coming back to it this legends mod adds some cool stuff like and i think that that has gotten interested in it again like this layered armor system thing here that it has you know just more more options i i think i i'm at it from like a role playing kind of mindset so the more options the barrier for having each guy potentially have distinct armor sets and distinct skills kind of alley that is a ton of hours but i i mean the game's been out but i think came out 2015 so seven years that makes me feel less obsessive i think it's probably the game of all my steam library that i probably have the most hours in if i were to go back and look i put it down for a while every now and then and just come back but so this is goblin goblin is like a badass spear guy two for one practice and spear handling when using a spear the action point cost of thrust prong and glaive slash are reduced by one that could be useful we need to pick him up a better spear though be stealing bigger i think berserk is just too powerful in this sense that like refresh on kill as i always work that strong drunk [Music] bird what about how we gonna buff goblin we're gonna bump his fatigue his range attack if attacks and hopefully kills got darling in the back line [Music] are we gonna do perks wise first after landing a hit the next attack this turn does 20 overall damage it's gonna barely attack heavy rocks rain down arrows upon your enemies from a higher angle when using bows every attack hit or miss applies a stacking debuff on the target reducing their melee skill and range skill all right take it and buffer range skill further initiative solve knuckles we're gonna bump his range skill initiative we get anything pull arm worthy this thing does count as a sphere so endless training holding the line at spear wall that was 50 less 25 action points it does 25 damage could be a good thing i think we have a lot of initiative be a pretty good defensive perk for him being he's in the back line and he has crappy defense as is let's give it a shot all right repair is underway everybody's leveled up we're an hour 42 in probably go for about another hour the options to distribute these throwing weapons so we have this one guy tom tom probably worthy of adding sun throwing weapons to the mix we're off so kind of in the as far as enemy territory so we're gonna cut down it through see if we can find a caravan need to go around lorsted it's still enemy territory down we have enough food that's a caravan but it's a friendly one from the southern states i don't really want to get caught at night in a swamp there's a watchtower probably also don't want to run into skirt the edges swap weekend now we need to kind of get around that watchtower so i'm going to go through the business here see how it goes this could be the end of this episode if we do the wrong thing at the end of this playthrough there's a militia barracks too it's going to send folks at us good and we got a tasty trading caravan any caravan hands we're in good enough shape i think we should be repaired from that last battle [Music] nobody's coming out to help him laura's dead they have no these guys are a little better equipped than we're used to running into [Music] some fancy outfits all right we're gonna let them come i don't think we need to go in the spear wall or anything special just yet see if they they have to charge nobody with any real dangerous looking weapons so [Music] we're probably just going to concentrate on the better armored of them first nice shot if we're gonna take the higher percentage shot darling 53 54. if we can get by this guy's shield dude hit him in the head pierce his cheek and do a follow-up shot roughed him up good there shots see we can get one on this guy in the lamellar that took out his head in getting a lot of head shots nice now we're gonna go spear wall shield wall we're gonna hold button figure they're not really gonna be able to get there back send a bit of javelins into the mix really nice ranged damage to weaken these guys up tom tom hits his first throne attack of his mercenary career this is like their dashing leader i think that's gonna work out well for me these guys are injured so we're gonna go after armor get a good hit on him from knuckles i think we're gonna bats start wrapping around this side and do a little spear wall because he has that skill you can still spear while well engaged pickles missed those two shots attacked i got those darling doesn't miss her nice a caravan hand is he bleeding i really need to get elbow like a better mini weapon you should not stomp down they did not do very fine job guarding their care you know what the hell they're breaking it looks like the house has to eat the donkey uh that could be bad for the dog a little tiny bit of damage a little armor all right all right all right yeah take it and we got some of these both reinforced and otherwise thank you kindly so i'm going to grip this separate that separate that pairs going on both of those do this about 15 1600 spices [Music] all right so now we want to kind of get through here without undo militia attention shout out this hey now some mercenaries in a hedge night guarding that supply caravan are we repaired mostly we could try it mercenaries are uh potentially i felt fair a bit better equipped than there's not that many of them because i think that number six includes the donkey think i feel like that might be the greek the choice knight could be a little bit of trouble too are you still out there sir sinus what do you think you think we attacked the supply caravan being that this could be the end of the youtube playthrough if we do i think my greed maybe a bit too overwhelming in this case we're gonna go ahead and attack him we can distribute this better armor first what if he got on his two slide he's got late and boned but it's beat that doesn't have a two slot he doesn't have a one you're gonna be easy or a disaster exactly yeah that's what i'm thinking i don't know it could be a disappointing end of the youtubing too however many hours we are in at this point to die for greed which i suppose is a fairly standard decision that folks make at times i think we're going to upgrade pickles 5 79 since pickles doesn't have a base layer we're gonna give him better reinforced laminar we're gonna throw the leather laminator on top of jojo so we have a decent string he's still the least armored of the bunch we do have game hallways no bad ropes like that's one of those cool pieces of equipment that i was mentioning like uh barely buff low fatigue layer in this mod that comes out of the southern i kingdoms we're gonna take hagops out of robe throw it on pickles get him up to 150. that gives us still a pretty buff front line and we're going to take on the mercenaries and being that we're deserters and get to go first we still have the option of running away so yeah some mercenaries in the hedge night all right my calculation was incorrect there are six of them the bill hook is uh potentially troubling as is that big ass edge knight crossbowman could be tough yeah right like wait a second where is the donkey like where's my stuff was this just bait i i think i i think i might have got like uh bait trapped quick hands battle force he's got a net on him and you know what i think offhand besides their helmets they don't even really have much we need he's got a nice axe um hmm yeah where's your stuff what shall we get if we do this all right so man of steel hmm i think we're gonna oh yeah i just screwed up boom i just left coker behind i think that means we have to fight that was unfortunate haven't practiced running away well damn it all right i'm gonna concentrate fire on that guy we could die for green that was a bad hit and back up into the mix we'll fly them greatest he's on high ground with that bill hook and get around to the crossbowman that was rough barely touches them another barely nicked him [Music] not good just not good just not good i'd take an aim shot at this guy nice good nice oh todd oh no damn damn damn damn working his armor i really have one more and now we have two ah don't kill us don't kill us don't kill us okay okay he's right there brothers does not mix gonna try to get to the high ground through some shots got a nice hit through from knuckles knuckles is in trouble you get some hits on jojo don't really have a clean shot so i'm gonna position myself so i do five percent and all that good we're going to get a little closer and try to improve that i need to hit him in the head sometimes rather well who did we lose then we lost goblin so i want to expose this billman probably should go dagger the armor piercing yeah mistake again office shield nice that one didn't go though nice nice nice fancy footwork through his body armor mostly his body armor there ah so we just lost knuckles i'm just broke ah no no no no we're winning ah dude done really just trying to save jojo's life didn't work nice oh no oh terrible terrible terrible fellas our deserter background is coming back to haunt us need to go help just need to it's the way of sword shot come on uh terrible terrible yeah that was rough that was bad i screwed that up i should have just retreated but that kind of spazzed we survived is it worth it that'll be the question i mean we lost some of our good guys elmo and goblin were probably are two good guys no i think elmo got his head cut off he had 38 kills he was elmo was kind of a badass ah [Music] hey those are the first deaths of this playthrough that was rough that was really rough it was this is a finger sad it's a sad sad day i don't get some good though ah son of a breed that was the problem with chopping through that guy's head gear let me get the bardeech dang that's elmo's armor son's head [Music] so that was uh i think that was two of our og deserters too damn it damn it that's that good turn lead the last yeah items your stat yeah that's because one of our guys down who had bag i don't think that's gonna affect us in case let's make the last three items happy see well i was running out of black company names so we got a couple back 2575 and now guys i'm told i wonder if we'll lose some too we got messed up let's close ranks we need healing we need to fix it up we need shields these two guys got these shields ah man it got some tin iggets and some pete bricks and some cooking spices and a lot of a lot of valuable stuff out of that breed obviously wrong got that tower shield all right guys don't i'm going through that there's a finger ah we need to reshuffle our rats 212 total it's 180 it's 192 total male coiff there are guys i one think it's the only remaining og deserter i know yeah broker too okay so we still have two of the original guys surviving 135 says current stack wanna go 16 t gloss on that between one of them you're just gonna base it on available fatigue man we got messed up i have been looking for a better axe but i died in the process jojo and pickles are still on axe cheerleader 165 stack q12 192. out of 50 180 i think we're just gonna do a little armor rotation 12. 92 80 165 make that 170. after we're repaired we'll have that was a mess damn 50. put a repair on that is it better on that because we can use it [Music] sure repair [Music] repaired and then we got uh pickles to you know different level so he's got a colossus he's sort of axe inclined so we can make him a spear waller we need another scheme since we lost a lot that's what we're gonna do and create his fatigue that wasn't ideal rotate over spear start spear and be able to go to axe and get him up blank tom tom on the other we did get some gear so i suppose the supply caravan doesn't need to knock me good to know now that bardich kind of badass but we got nobody that's out there swinging one-handed and throw it on how bad does that hurt it's 75 71 do the same with the bill the same work work so we can find some more guys who fill some of those roles we really just need to lick our woods and prepare for the wise we have 18 tools we probably need more than that i think we're gonna try to get out of dodge and that was rough yeah we're gonna try to get out of dodge back to tapping moose and sell some of our ill-gotten goods because although we are diminished we should not end up fairly wealthy we cross into a small hamlet beside the path it's a rather nondescript place safe for the woman tied atop a soon to be bonfire he's surrounded by a band of peasants as is usual for a woman in this position a monk from the mob breeds from a holy tome apparently letting everyone know the dental logical nature of her crimes another man dutifully stands by with a torch his hands itchy to put it to use seeing you the woman shouts for help they're gonna burn me you must do something we are a mess and just need to heal so we got to deal with our own problems maybe someone has to have a moose as well 52 not 100 sure what that modifier does but hopefully it'll have some cash for some of our goods we are now out of tools so we should probably do a bit of recycling which one of these guys he's an axeman he's making an axe so we're gonna get him and he don't get the secondary doing a target shield took so we're gonna get in here hopefully be a little bit safe it's already done let's just go see if we can do with cash as opposed to camp we're giving good price in our tin good price in our feet good price on cooking spices and our furs and our ignorance so [Music] wealth not bad it seems to have been worse the price of admission tools and supplies we can pick up for near market there a temple here there is not bigger a little messed up all right so not sure if the moral of that story is that greed is bad or good but certainly did end up kind of rich sacrificed three guys in the process yeah hashtag rich boys i think up to the north there were some better at least more interesting characters like a cell sword pricier fellows that we might want to try to go get we can look at these contracts but unless they're like take a package not sure we're in the shape dead man walking around to the southeast to here his rotten hands clutched an extraordinary weapon might be best before so they also have a cultist procession there's a processional cultist going through the city a steady stream of people seemingly manifested themselves out of thin air and now slowly makes their way along the main roads clouded muted colors they ring bells and chant monotonously in the name of dave all right [Music] this beastmaster guy we've had decent luck so far in the party with lumberjacks this beast's master guy could be something he's 300 to try out we are rich but he would come in at level three he looks like more of an archer and we're still we're probably more in need of frontline replacements than we are archers i think honestly am going to purchase a batch of two batches of tools we're going to jump out and jump into camp we're just going to rest like a day because we have 32 hours of salvage to do 28 hours of repairs 20 hours of healing so i move over to best healers our two best healers i also have vo2 best repairs and f3 on salvage that's 19 12 19 and 28. so we're gonna one healer over to salvage it's 24 16 and 19. i think we're just gonna rest it see we get ourselves back a little bit in order food's okay working on our gear doesn't seem like it's advancing in this mod i think those percentages of what get done in the camp are always a little bit wonky it might be that we're also repairing at the same time that we're salvaging we created 53 units of tools we used 62 we healed our guys let's take a look at the condition that we're in now we should still have some injuries we still have a bit of stuff so we have this dirty outer layer i think it's going to end up on egg up and then we can drop some flame over on top got some leveler on top of broker added a basic nail shirt you drop guys are both running the nomad they're all running no bad we're gonna give broker a better base layer so you nearly recycled everything i think we're going to [Music] distribute a bit or ranged weapon stash of arrows is good insta mark has a temple just see what this contract is over giggles [Music] brittary the burgermeister's men standing around their employer shoes them away when he sees you and says welcome welcome good seeing you i'm in need of an armed guard to have this package delivered by a man to a man oh oh sorry running out of reading juice it's 2 30 and this is about usually where i can't cut it off i reckon it's about two days of travel for a company azure how many crowns 300 rounds to go two days for you nothing worth it so i'm going to run them up to finster mark because there's a temple there let's just see if we can get the guys healed day 43 probably not be that reckless just buzzing up the road we can always run into some mercenaries punting us for our misdoings you're gonna heal everybody this is a larger town hopefully find maybe somebody to add to the party to replace our losses or three down time nobody's super impressive we could do lando just for the star wars rap dude [Music] i think we're gonna take any of those options gonna be able to armor up uh another frontline guy pretty easy here this kettle helm could be decent probably better than some of the stuff we are running pretty much across the board not a separate armor basic male shirt just gonna pick up the kettlehelm tomtom deserves that one for losing a finger now we could grab one of these lumberjacks another two i have some of them and just give them a part each and tell them to go to town try to get them all axe buffs i think we're going to make that decision next for 2 36 in that's about what i like to try to keep these two and we'll check out that contract next time we'll find out that kelton half's been raided any good great goods here we've been raided we might be able to sell them some wood but we're going to leave that to figuring out the next time we come back so if you're watching now if you're still out there sir sinus appreciate it um thanks for taking the time to chat and to watch the stream if you're watching these later on dod or youtube i always appreciate the followers or the subscriptions or even just a comment to let me know that it's interesting and it's worthwhile i mostly do it just because i enjoy playing the game and kind of enjoy sharing it with other folks so have it going to man i'm sure i'll see you around have a happy night

Channel: koofka

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Keywords: Battle Brothers, Turn Based Strategy, RPG, Strategy Gaming, Overhaul Mod

Id: QNtiBjCDUmE

Length: 158min 3sec (9483 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 26 2022