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Ok, so I took on a Siege contract during a Noble Crisis, and aren't you supposed to have allies during these? Game threw me against two groups of 15+ Noble troops on my own with no chance to switch out dudes in the meantime, cost me two of my best dudes during the second battle.
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Broken Cog posted:Ok, so I took on a Siege contract during a Noble Crisis, and aren't you supposed to have allies during these? Game threw me against two groups of 15+ Noble troops on my own with no chance to switch out dudes in the meantime, cost me two of my best dudes during the second battle. nope, no allies for the siege event from i've seen. narratively they're supposed to be fighting on the walls/sleeping while your sent to the gates/found a hidden entrance.
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Jun 9, 2019 03:53
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Roobanguy posted:nope, no allies for the siege event from i've seen. narratively they're supposed to be fighting on the walls/sleeping while your sent to the gates/found a hidden entrance. That's pretty rough for a 2-skull contract, I have to say. To top it off, I got a sacrifice event right after that cost me another 3 dudes, haha Man, playing cultists is rough during a crisis.
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Jun 9, 2019 04:00
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Mazz posted:I’m not 100% on that but 1. It felt off and repeating the same events a lot and 2. It edits events.cnut and hasn’t been updated in a couple months. That later thing is a big red flag to me, at least from my TW2 modding. That file could cover a whole lot so without opening it I’d rather be safe. Anecdotal, but the event fired as my next event after removing this mod. It was a little redundant as it looks like a patch increased events anyway. Thank you for the heads up!
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Jun 9, 2019 05:08
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I wasn't expecting it but apparently 20 honor guard will kill 9 unholds very easily.
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Jun 9, 2019 05:34
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Yeah regular unholds take HP damage right away so anything that can land hits consistently on them can beat them up. Most AI groups lose because they miss too much, whereas like honor guard or chosen it kind of gets reversed. The snow ones are a bit more durable and can beat up some tough parties and the armored snow ones can beat up a whole bunch of poo poo since they regen all the HP damage they take before you strip off the ~400 armor.
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Jun 9, 2019 09:28
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*chases a band of 7 brigands into a swamp* "This'll be easy!" *band of 20 brigands materializes* OH NO.
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Jun 9, 2019 09:35
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Hey I just started and read the excellent goon made guide. I have a question tho. I am about 20 days in, I have 12 guys armed with spears or flails/ shields, two hammer brothers, a couple of bow men and a dude with my team flag. I need to start upgrading my arms and armor. But I can't seem to get ahead money wise. Taking 700 g missions then having to move to another town to look for more work eats up any profits. Is there anything I am missing?
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Jun 9, 2019 12:16
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Look at your costs. Are the guys with high pay really worth it? Look at running trade goods if you can afford any. Enemy camps usually have loot.
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ScottyJSno posted:Hey I just started and read the excellent goon made guide. I have a question tho. Besides that, don't worry too much at that point. You barely break even in BB until you don't and money starts coming in by the thousands. At day 20 you're not at that point yet. You most likely haven't unlocked noble contracts yet, 2 skull contracts are probably mostly so dangerous that you need to think twice before taking them on, and the only enemy camps you can safely take on are lovely huts - that you should attack, though; free trade or loot item in addition to the regular battle loot. If you're still in this position by day 40 then you worry.
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Jun 9, 2019 13:07
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Roobanguy posted:nope, no allies for the siege event from i've seen. narratively they're supposed to be fighting on the walls/sleeping while your sent to the gates/found a hidden entrance. I've definitely had allies for sieges before, but they're additional stacks placed on the map that need to be in just the right spot to actually join in fights. It's weird. Settlement size and contract difficulty might play a role in whether you get some other stacks to drag into fights, I dunno.
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Jun 9, 2019 13:17
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Okay I barely survived that ambush. Oh god there's two more stacks of a dozen brigands each. oh god we're hosed.
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Ah yes, game, I see you've gone for Thirty loving Goblins on a Hill, a timeless classic. e: Turns out that thirty goblins on a hill? Actually completely harmless. But twelve Honor Guards in a swamp with a terrain setup that favored my bros to an obscene degree?  I think there was a turn where these idiots missed literally every attack. (Except for Bernfried; Bernfried the Ratcatcher is the best.) It was an impressive display of  Also, let this screenshot serve as a reminder that Nimble bros are like mayflies. Wizard Styles fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Jun 9, 2019 |
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Jun 9, 2019 13:59
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Getting an expert/expert Ironman peasant militia game off the ground Also getting the feeling that “lose 10 Ironman games” achievement is in the bag
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So after having bounced around between various starts, I think I probably like Beasthunters the most. Not necessarily in a mechanical way, because the selling cost cut does hurt, but thematically. It's fun to go out specifically looking for beast contracts, and picking up any rando nobody in towns that have a hatred of beasts or greenskins or undead. Anyway, what are some fun/interesting seeds for a bunch of beasthunters?
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Jun 9, 2019 18:57
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Is there a way of extracting the stat values of every potential hireling in the game? Wanna make some graphs
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Jun 9, 2019 20:08
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Just took on a 3-skull contract to clear out a Barbarian camp and it gave me the event where I could choose to fight their champion instead. Turns out it was an actual champion instead of some random Chosen this time around, and he dropped a famed barbarian helmet when he died, so that's a thing that can happen.
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Jun 9, 2019 21:12
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Doing the Northern Raiders start and it's going really well by day 50, I'm allied to the southern-most noble house and the other two are hostile. If there's no Taxidermist in any of my allied cities is there a point to saving all the horns, brains, teeth, etc? Edit: map seed is KidNation Miss Lonelyhearts fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Jun 9, 2019 |
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Jun 9, 2019 21:15
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Wizard Styles posted:Post a screenshot of the map you're on. It might just be poo poo. How/When do Noble contracts unlock? Is it tied to the ambition?
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Jun 10, 2019 00:16
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What's the best lone wolf seed anyone has found?
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Jun 10, 2019 00:27
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Mugsbaloney posted:Is there a way of extracting the stat values of every potential hireling in the game? Wanna make some graphs I know the wiki has a table listing all the backgrounds, maybe there's a downloadable spreadsheet as well. Otherwise it shouldn't be hard to find one somewhere on Reddit or Steam or whatever. ScottyJSno posted:How/When do Noble contracts unlock? Is it tied to the ambition?
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Mugsbaloney posted:Is there a way of extracting the stat values of every potential hireling in the game? Wanna make some graphs Wiki has a table of all the min and max values of each background.
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Battle Brothers Character Attributes
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:What's the best lone wolf seed anyone has found? Try Mazzarella, the lone wolf is 3/2/3 on the big 3 stats with the +5 melee skill trait, and all the towns are more or less one big circle road. The north is especially good, there is an area direct to the east of Vardested that is literally always full of barbarian groups to farm for money in the mid game. Two fletchers on the map, both in foresty towns, and Vardested and Skagaborg in the north have hunting contests weirdly often for ranged recruits. I spent all day looking for another map to play on for the militia game and I ended up back on this one. Mazz fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Jun 10, 2019 |
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Pretty sure the lone wolf has the same stars on every map. I’m on my phone so linking is  but if you google “battle brothers best lone wolf seeds” or something along those lines there’s a steam post with a list of seeds with good traits so you can find one with iron lungs and surefooted or whatever op trait combo you want
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Jun 10, 2019 06:54
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A huge drunkard is also a good combo and fits the character theme.
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Cool, thanks! Do you know where the raw data for this is kept?
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Did they buff the Beast Slayers origin? I seem to remember it being 25% chance for a bonus trophy at some point, and now it's 50%.
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Mugsbaloney posted:Cool, thanks! Do you know where the raw data for this is kept? What are you attempting to achieve with this data? Out of interest
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Mugsbaloney posted:Cool, thanks! Do you know where the raw data for this is kept? http://www.adammil.net/blog/v133_Battle_Brothers_mod_kit.html
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Wafflecopper posted:Pretty sure the lone wolf has the same stars on every map. I’m on my phone so linking is That makes sense actually. Mostly though I really like the map. The road network actually feels like it makes sense and no town is really out of place (a couple in the south but they have harbors). On that note does anyone have a map with harbors in good spots in both the north and south and good roads ? I hate when half the towns on a map feel inaccessible from the rest of the map, which is unfortunately kind of common. Mazz fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Jun 10, 2019 |
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Kinda funny but if you have a background that can convert to cultist with the dumb trait after they convert a priest can still teach them to read and get rid of the dumb trait.
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Ok, the mod that lets you have sixteen party members with lone wolf has made me a convert The first couple levels are a pain but berserking your way through bandit thugs on day 10 is amazing
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Ok, the mod that lets you have sixteen party members with lone wolf has made me a convert The biggest problem with my militia start now is I keep thinking I can attack again after killing someone. It really messes me up. Also my dumb rear end took a 3 star camp mission at day 15 and it’s got 4 marksman in a swamp, sorry town but you ain’t getting that idol back.
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Jun 10, 2019 19:00
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 My favorite enemy in the game, Mercenary That Rolled Really Bad Gear and Also Has That Hairstyle.
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Wizard Styles posted:
I remember reading a Dev comment somewhere where someone called them out on that one and their defense was "it's historically accurate" Thank god for the barber
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Jun 10, 2019 19:24
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Mate that hair is boss I put that on my best killer every time.
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Peasant militia really isn't made for expert/expert ironman, everything seems peachy until you run into trouble and lose 6 people because they all feel like trash garbage. Meanwhile I'm trying to get my numbers up just to have bodies to throw in the way of the few guys who I actually want to survive. It's like one big vicious circle. On the plus side I am absolutely mastering the "kite things into other things" strategy.
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Mazz posted:Peasant militia really isn't made for expert/expert ironman, everything seems peachy until you run into trouble and lose 6 people because they all feel like trash garbage. Meanwhile I'm trying to get my numbers up just to have bodies to throw in the way of the few guys who I actually want to survive. It's like one big vicious circle. The trick is to realize that it's OK to lose some people. Enemies scale based on a few factors, one of which is the total # of levels you are fielding (# of brothers times their level). If you're feeling the squeeze, it's really not worth bankrupting yourself to throw bodies on the field. Getting 7 or 8 decently kitted brothers is the priority. I don't play on expert but I think veteran scales in a very similar (albeit less punishing) fashion.
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