Battle Brothers 2017

About

Battle Brothers is a turn based strategy RPG mix which has you leading a mercenary company in a gritty, low-power, medieval fantasy world. You decide where to go, whom to hire or to fight, what contracts to take and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign. Do you have what it takes to lead them through bloody battles and to victory? The game consists of a strategic worldmap and a tactical combat layer. On the worldmap you can freely travel in order to take contracts that earn you good coin, find places worth looting, enemies worth pursuing or towns to resupply and hire men at. This is also where you manage, level up and equip your Battle Brothers. Once you engage a hostile party the game will switch to a tactical map where the actual fighting takes place as detailed turn based combat.

Story

Battle Brothers is a turn based strategy RPG mix which has you leading a mercenary company in a gritty, low-power, medieval fantasy world. You decide where to go, whom to hire or to fight, what contracts to take and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign. Do you have what it takes to lead them through bloody battles and to victory? The game consists of a strategic worldmap and a tactical combat layer. On the worldmap you can freely travel in order to take contracts that earn you good coin, find places worth looting, enemies worth pursuing or towns to resupply and hire men at. This is also where you manage, level up and equip your Battle Brothers. Once you engage a hostile party the game will switch to a tactical map where the actual fighting takes place as detailed turn based combat.

What is happening now

Battle Brothers is a tactical RPG where players recruit and command a mercenary warband, navigating a procedurally generated medieval world filled with combat encounters and moral choices. The game demands careful resource management and strategic positioning, with permadeath consequences that make every decision weighty. The franchise is expanding beyond its original 2017 video game release with an upcoming board game adaptation. The tabletop version translates the core experience into a card-drafting skirmish wargame, maintaining the strategic depth of the original while introducing new mechanics around warband composition and tactical planning. Early previews suggest the board game aims to capture the same unforgiving difficulty that defined the video game's reputation.