Posted on: August 3, 2017

phara0h

Gry: 71 Opinie: 1

Fabulous mercenary game

I've played this game since early access on Steam and loved it from the beginning. It is brutally hard, unforgiving, and loads of fun. You are the newly appointed commander of an almost-destroyed mercenary company. With only three brothers left, you must recruit, feed, pay, and equip a new company. You'll run across ordinary bandits, goblins, orcs (shudder), the undead, and get wrapped up in the dirty business of war between noble houses. Unlike most games of this ilk, you aren't guaranteed to win every battle, keep every last brother alive, or even earn enough money through performing contracts. You'll have to restart many times before you get into the swing of it, even then, the challenge will always be there. Combat is turn based and you'll always have time to carefully plan out each move. The characters are each like a chess piece that can get decapitated if things go wrong. Your mercenaries level up, gaining new perks and abilities. You'll buy or scavenge the best gear you can for them, but there's always danger present. You'll become attached to some of your little men and mourn their loss. You can keep playing any particular game for as long as you want; there's never really an ending until you're satisfied with your success and retire or (more likely) you run out of food or money and your men desert one by one and/or get slaughtered to a man. Highly recommended for those who love good turn based tactics and management but aren't afraid to accept some ghastly defeats as you play through the game.

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Posted on: November 12, 2021

SchurkeMitGurke

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Gry: 258 Opinie: 2

RNG ruins a great idea. Min-maxers dream

I tried multiple times to like this game, but in the end the encounters all play out in the same frustrating way for me: Miss a bunch of high percentage strikes while the opponent keeps hitting his low chance strikes and ends important characters (which is basically anyone of your party in the early to mid game). Sure there are certain ways to mitigate those outcomes and some tested strategies. But it is one of those games where you don't get far if you refuse to read up some gid-gud guides beforehand. In a game with the premise of adventure and exploration, having to read a guide before engaging every new enemy is just a nogo. Without any kind of comeback mechanic or permanent gain from lost runs (as some rogue-likes offer it these days) and quite a high time investment per run, there is no fun in learning by failing. Only frustration. Everything snowballs pretty fast since there are barely any low-level or non combative tasks, and while you try to get back up after a defeat (or even a costly win), the world around you evolves and spawns harder enemies and events. Save-scumming is also highy encouraged since the same battle can go many different ways depending on rng (the fights themselves, but also the battle map's general layout, weather conditions and enemy composition and gear). The art is great and as a medieval enthusiast I especially love the attention to detail given to the armor and weapon types. Equipping your brothers is a joy and finding good loot feels rewarding. The party system overall feels great and offers a lot of role-playing potential. Or it would, if min-maxing the shit out of every brother and naming them something like "2H Heavy Armor Dude #3" wouldn't be the meta. The "overworld" map is travelled in real-time (mount and blade style). You watch your party hover from city-node to city-node and sometimes adjust the path to do scouting or engage a group or dungeon location. Not much strategy to be found here and quite a boring affair tbh.

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Posted on: February 12, 2023

Mygaffer

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Gry: 442 Opinie: 25

Masterfully designed low fantasy tacits

Look past the paper doll characters and the 2d graphics, the basic animations. Because the game here is very meaty with a lot to offer. RNG to give variety in game play and outcomes, character progression and party progression, with all the DLC there is a lot of content (the base game itself has a lot of content). I've sunk hundreds of hours into this game, if it's in your wheelhouse you'll end up loving it. If you are an action oriented gamer who does not prefer turn based games, games with a little bit of reading (and really you don't have to read the flavor text if you don't want to), and prefer specific characters and specific narrative structures that get wrapped up in 10 to 20 hours of gameplay then don't buy this game. But if you are the kind of person who is into tactics games, turn based game, rogue-lites, look past the graphics and really give this game a shot. There is a learning curve so don't be put off if you suck early.

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Posted on: May 1, 2018

dri6115

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Gry: Opinie: 5

No depth and simply not interesting

I simply dont see the point in this game. Apparently you are supposed to reach some kind of "end game". This end game consist of three different events. To do this you gather up mercenaries. These characters has absolutely no depth and the only thing that seperates the them from each other are randomized icons, names and some minor stat variation. There is a reason for this of course. You have will have two choices in this game. Reload often or keep hiring new mercenaries. You mercenaries will die all the time. This removes any chance of creating an interesting party (unless you like to reload often) The towns are rudementary, the map is boring and the quests variations of: "Carry/Escort x to city y" or "Kill x creatures" and so on. The levelling up is done by placing pre defined points in a given stat. The level perks are the same for everyone. The combat is at best a mildy advanced HOMM. There's a potential somewhere, but the game is to simple.

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Posted on: September 5, 2021

galuskaistvan

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Gry: 219 Opinie: 30

Quality indie tactics game

Turn based, rougelite tactical game with some RPG elements (levelups, stats, personal gear, random events), in a Warhammer fantasy-inspired, randomly generated world. Company management is JA/Disciples style: hire losers, level them up, pay their wages. Turn based tactical battles are similar to Panzer General/Heroes 3. Campaign gameplay is a general buildup towards a big crisis, with additional merc contracts, looting as time permits. Similar to an XCOM campaign in many ways. UNDECIDED * permadeath. I like it, but it is not for everyone * DLCs add width, but not depth. (ie. more crisis-related events are not added, but it would be important) PRO * graphic style is unique * music is brilliant * writing (random events) is captivating * world is alive without player involvement (ie. some towns solve their problems on their own) * player not forced into a good guy role * AI acts smart in battles * different behaviour per enemy type, one cannot use the same tactics in every encounter * all weapons and armor are useful in different ways * nice tabletop RPG references (ie. pub rumours, obituary) CONTRA * economy/difficulty brakes in longer (120 days+) games * crafting is useless * gets repetitive after the initial honeymoon period * all DLCs add nice gameplay tweaks, but also new enemies. Tweaks without new enemies are not available * player feedback is minimal (ie. rules of looting are never explained) This game is a rough diamond. The devs found a working formula, but even DLCs don't add elements which support a longer game. (ie. more unique, crisis-buildup contracts like XCOM) Still, well done tactical games are very rare, and this title is good enough.

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