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There's a lot of info included in those torsos! by Mischief Maker 03/16/2019, 6:27am PDT I would compare the aesthetic of Battle Brothers to Jerry's fantasy of owning an enchanted board game. It's not just floating torsos, they're sitting on nice circular figurine stands that you would move around a hex board with a satisfying "thunk" as you complete an encirclement. The gigantic lindwurm monster is so large its body has to be distributed among two stands: What makes this board game magical is the figurines change in response to the dice rolls. At a glance you can see on every figurine the soldier's helmet, body armor, weapon, shield, relative health, and morale status. As the dice are rolled, the figurines magically display bleeding wounds, broken armor pieces disappear, while ghoul figurines who manage to devour corpses sprout horns and grow larger and more demonic. Compare this to, say, Age of Wonders III where dead troopers are purely cosmetic, units are at full strength or dead. A squad of spearmen whittled down to two guys by arrow fire can still do a Braveheart against a full-sized cavalry charge. Or worse, the King's Bounty games with their unlimited stack size per hex. Is that stack of lowly tier-1 skeletons gonna be easy pickings for my much smaller squad of high-tier paladins? Let's get out the calculator and find out. But in Battle Brothers all the unit info you need is right there, clear and at a glance, thanks to these magical figurines. So you can instead concentrate on formation and terrain. Personally I like my fantasy games more bright and colorful, but there's a mod for that. The graphics in Battle Brothers are all about the gameplay, and if you can get into the mindset that you're playing the world's greatest fantasy miniatures game at Gen Con, you'll learn to love the look of Battle Brothers, too.

Battle Brothers by Mischief Maker 09/23/2018, 7:35pm PDT     It's official, I like this better than Divinity Original Sin. by Mischief Maker 10/02/2018, 11:39pm PDT     Expansion just dropped. by Mischief Maker 11/29/2018, 6:48pm PST         Waitasec. Do the guys in the game not have legs and feet? NT by Ichabod 11/29/2018, 7:26pm PST             Where we're going, we don't need feet to walk! NT by Demonic Sam Neil 11/29/2018, 10:50pm PST                 Re-eee-eeeally? NT by Rob Liefeld 11/30/2018, 10:25am PST     This game is the shit by Mysterio 02/19/2019, 8:26pm PST     How affected are you by the character art style? by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/15/2019, 10:12pm PDT         There's a lot of info included in those torsos! by Mischief Maker 03/16/2019, 6:27am PDT             *blank bump* NT by Mysterio 03/16/2019, 11:02am PDT     2nd expansion just dropped. NT by Mischief Maker 05/09/2019, 3:31pm PDT     ...and a third expansion. This game is getting huge. NT by Mischief Maker 08/15/2020, 5:16pm PDT