Battle Brothers

Tactical RPG. Good concept. Bad game. It's missing some basic features that were common in tactical RPGs for a couple decades. For example, no deployment phase in battles. A lot of encounters especially encounters added by DLC are incredibly unbalanced and have no counter other than getting lucky via RNG. Slow gameplay in battle. There is only one option in the settings to speed up the gameplay and it really doesn't help much especially given how many large battles there are. It just turns a lot of battle into a drag. That coupled with the existence of RNG means battles are way longer than they should be. Power creep in DLC. Recruitment is terrible because most of the time you get terrible recruits who will never be good which isn't too much of a problem in the first few days in game. But it's a terrible thing when you get into the later game because you can spend a lot of money on a piece of garbage just because you aren't given enough information in recruitment. At most you can pay 1/10th of a characters cost to find out they're a midget or they're fat. Something that shouldn't cost anything at all. Upkeep costs for mercs is really expensive when the jobs, even after negotiation, and loot don't really pay enough most of the time.

Want to feel like my purchases of DLC of Base Game wasn't really a waste so I've been playing but it's not a very fun game and pretty minimum in the strategy department. It's one of those "Strategy" types where there's one clear cookie cutter way for dealing with opponents that also is pretty much the only way that'll work. ... That not strategy, that's one solution (& all Others will devastatingly fail, for the most part) & It's "Difficulty" Is just making you miss 90% of the time and them hitting 99% of the time. I'd point anyone that likes this to and Mount and Blade honestly. This feels like a bad rip of those.

The game is a turn based game, where you are a mercenary company. It's easy to learn the basics, but hard to master. Unless you plan on seriously devoting a lot of time and effort, into learning nuances of the fight mechanics and EVEN THEN, you ARE going to lose characters you have spent time and money growing. One of the game creators "tips" is you ARE going to have characters die. This isn't a fantasy game with a resurrection or some such. Once they die, they die and are gone. So...you just lost a 7th level mercenary or two, in a tough fight, that you won, but they can get a lucky hit in and kill him. Now, you are replacing that fighter with a level 1 or 2, fighter. Now, you are trying to do the same fights, only with a clear weak point, in your line....which will lead to more deaths, a new replacement and on and on. Save your money and just go smash your face into a tree in your yard, if you enjoy pain.

Game can't have 5 stars because so simple things like quicksave(load), repair button in armory, and auto-change in game speed settings is absent! It's annoing very much!!! So, game is like UFO, if you want to watch 2-3 times misses with 70%hit chance so you can try to play.))) If in game will add so simple things like quicksave(load) and repair button in armory I give a 4 STARS, but without only 3, because always need to go menu and lose many time. P.S. I reccomend play it for 3 weeks without dlc, if you like it then you mayne want to buy some dlc.

Night missions have the map colors darkened and washed out. Including healthbars and status icons! I have to strain my eyes just to be able to see if my char has any armor left. Maybe it is playable on a pro-graphical-designer monitor, but I will never know...