I just wanna hunt down bandits and monsters and fix problems for villagers for gold (while occasionally dipping my feet into morally grey areas to make a living) is that too much to ask for in a videogame????
is Being a Swedish man black man or korean woman working for all sides in a war to make a buck where your mission choices affect the war up your alley?
God, I love Battle Brothers so much. There's not much more satisfying than walking into a necrosavant camp with a bunch of battleforged armor heavy tanks and watching their cleavers bounce off of you. It's so rewarding after having to run like hell from them in the early game
I foolishly accepting a contract to do Immortal Sun/Ring quest as my second contract for the company....to kill 7 Necrosavant. Now there's no more company.
I've played this game few dozen times and i want to share few tips: 1. Shield and spear are extremely strong early game 2. always equip your guys (or brothers as they're called in game) head protection, even a piece of cloth is useful as they will stop one shot decapitation 3. always bring a dagger to each of your brothers, as they have an attack mode where you can stab your enemies without damaging and broke your adversaries's armours and hopefully you can loot the armour after battle as armour cost a fortune to buy 4. quicksave a lot, trust me (edit) 5. High ground is good
Also expect the unexpected sometimes I doing escort merchant of 2 star difficulty got ambush by 3 Necrosavant and pretty much lost the all or again 3 geist is mostly anoyying if you don't have morale or sergeant guy
@@dukeakram9186if there’s a fight I don’t think I can win or one I don’t think I can win without losing half of my guys, I retreat. Discretion is the better part of valor.
I have played this game on and off over the years and can highly recommend it, but I will say that it can be very merciless and it does not give a single shit about your survival. So, through trial and error, you can adapt and overcome the odds and become a legend. Or fail horribly and die a terrible death.
I love how much as of a real mercenary experience it has, you can do everything right, every right decision and still be unlucky and die just like that, a couple of bad roll from the dice and you are gone.
I totally understand your love of the immersive Mercenary experience. I'm the same way with playing as a farmer or hunter living off the land. For some reason in RPGs where you can be anything and everything I like to focus and get really deep into one role. Luckily for me, there are quite a few farming-based games but it's rough out there for quality bounty hunter experiences. I think you've already got it with heavily modding Skyrim to turn it into a bounty hunter experience; other than that red dead online is the only other game that has fun radiant bounty hunting.
I actually just played the legacy mod for the first time yesterday for Battle Brothers and went as a Seer. My character is called Palpatine and I just spam chain lightning. Love to see a video on this game!
I have played more hours of Battle Brothers then any other game in my life. Literally my favorite game of all time. All I want is more DLCs or a sequel.
Shadow of the Horned Rat is one of the first Mercenary Company simulators that I can think of. Being that it's a game released in the early 90's it is limited in graphical fidelity but it does let you roam the warhammer world, take contracts, build up your army and choose to ignore the main story so you can do the whole wandering mercenary band thing.
[0:20] another good mercenary game is Wartales! I think it's similar to battle brothers, but I haven't actually played battle brothers so take that with a grain of salt. It's also a mercenary management sim in a massive open world map with turn based combat and boss fights. You can take up jobs to hunt down outlaws and war refugees or side up with them and fight against the law enforcers
I played both games. Both are great but battlebrother is more hardcore snd unforgiving. In wartales after 3 months your merc are already pretty good. In battlebrother after a year still everything can kill you horribly if you do 1 mistake.
I discovered this game about two years ago and I was instantly addicted. Please make more videos playing this game! There aren't enough entertaining people posting playthroughs of this game!
As someone who’s thinking of buying the game, should I buy now or wait for a discount and get it with all the DLC’s for cheaper? Are the DLC’s a game changer and a must?
@Bruno Santos game is more than worth it full price, dlcs are as well, but if money is tight wait for a sale. I got this game on sale a few years back not sure if I'd like it, and it ended up being my favorite game ever. If you can only have one DLC take blazing deserts or warriors of the North. Both change the game in big ways but blazing deserts is like an entire expansion. This game has an insane degree of storytelling, random events and replayability. Highly recommend
very comfy battle brothers is such a great game... sometimes very frustrating though but thats kinda the charme also what really helped me is using retreat as an option is not always that bad. keeps me from either loosing too many of my brothers or safescamming
I think you could say that games like Kenshi could be easily played with the mercenary playstyle, due to the fact that it is your own story and character that drives what you do in the game and so bounty hunting could become a big part of your game in Kenshi. Bastard Bonds could also be a game that you can play as a Mercenary. And also in Stellaris I believe you could technically be a mercenary race of aliens basically the way you help defend the galaxy is through mercenary enclaves
In Harebrained Schemes BATTLETECH, you lead a mercenary company during a intersterllar civil war - there is a plot and your characters has stakes in it, but during (or even after!) the main campaign you can take up contracts for whoever pays you to fight their wars.
IMHO I like MW5 better for its first person view, but I always played it in 3rd person for better situation awareness. Never loaded up Battletech once MW5 came out.
I see a lot of similarities between this game and Mount and Blade, of course the 2D and turn-based combat are the biggest differences, but noneless i think i'll give it a try after seeing this video!!!
ayyyy like 30 seconds after I saw this in my notifications feed, before reading the vid's description, I told myself "huh I bet he'd like Battle Brothers"
Heard the intro like yeah i am really into such things with mercs and preparing my chars. Saw the Battle Brothers thingy on the thumbnail before and thought uhh brother thats a dangerous path.
I badly want Battle Brothers. But I seem to never have the spare budget for it. I'd be happy to see more videos of it from you. Your characterization series are some of my faves to sit down and actually watch.
There's one game like this I played recently called war tales where you mostly hunt troublesome parties of warriors, but you can also raid caravans and explore ruins an fight the black plauge
I agree! Battle brothers is an amazing mercenary company game. I also want to mention 'Kenshi'. Man kenshi is also very punishing if you play as intended (no exploit). It does have battle brothers feeling into it.
ive had that game since it first dropped on early access all those years ago, never regretted the purchase. Definitely recommend it to anyone that doesnt have it and likes this genre!
I think the thing I love most about this game is it mixes both medieval and high fantasy in just a nice balanced blind and make it very clear that you are just a group of guys
Great tip to leveling new bros when you are high level: find a big group of barbarian thralls and go in with 1 or 2 frontline with the new guy and either have the noob run away or hang back to handle stragglers while the frontline clean up. Bros placed into reserves do not get any experience, so this increases to percent going to the noob
Mercenary fashion is just amazing. I saw a kettle helmet with a klappvisor which would he used my mercenaries since they wouldn’t want to buy a full helmet. Also they also wear a kettle helmet with a Bevor. So it has basically the same protection as a full helmet, but allowing you to hear and see the battlefield better. Something vital for foot combat. Plus both of these helmet combinations looks so much cooler than a Armet. I always found a brigandine and Gambeson looking so much better then full plate.
Can’t wait for the Starfield mercenary/bounty hunter playthroughs. Besides being a pirate or smuggler being a bounty hunter or mercenary is on top of my list when Starfield finally comes out
Huge fan of BB and glad to see coverage. On the permanent destruction option at the start its most def better to turn it off but turning it on is the only way to access a secretive legendary site: the undead necropolis. Only occurs if a town falls to the undead endgame crisis
It was wild if you were there for the older versions of legends. You could make a berserker that could punch an orc warlord to death. Legends is amazing. Also personally like to use PTR for more build variety, but it makes some late game fights more difficult lol
Speaking of mercenaries and bounty hunters, WHEN ARE WE GETTING THE SKYRIM BOUNTY HUNTER SERIES BACK, the silver hand must be brought down by the GOLDEN FIST
Every youtuber who has attempted to make a series on this game that I watch has quit due to people not watching the series enough. I'm gonna be heavily invested in this if you post more!
Have 1k hours in the game. Some youtuber - "you've never heard of it!". I jest. It's good you shed light on such a good game. It's a lot of fun and it will test your patience, for sure.
Discovered this game by chance a few weeks ago. A hidden gem indeed. Already sunk plentiful hours in it. When you think you are, say hello to mods. They make the game even better, with greater replayability
Well I'll highlight Wartales. I like it more than Battle Brothers and the more and more I learn about your channel, It sounds like it's right up your alley.
My first thought went to BB when I saw the title. Such a great game. I currently have 500 hours in it. Also after installing the Legends mod about 2 years ago, I've never gone back.
This is the only game I have 1000 hrs in. A masterpiece. Do yourself a favor and by all dlc and get the legends mod. You will get a playthrough that will 100% blow up.
I just wanna hunt down bandits and monsters and fix problems for villagers for gold (while occasionally dipping my feet into morally grey areas to make a living) is that too much to ask for in a videogame????
is Being a Swedish man black man or korean woman working for all sides in a war to make a buck where your mission choices affect the war up your alley?
im literaly playing battle brothers rn looking for yt to play in the background haha, thx for the upload Simo
We all do Simo
Sounds fairly close to the Witcher 3 lol. I know that's not really what you mean tho
I thought of the witcher 3 while writing the comment as well lol
God, I love Battle Brothers so much. There's not much more satisfying than walking into a necrosavant camp with a bunch of battleforged armor heavy tanks and watching their cleavers bounce off of you. It's so rewarding after having to run like hell from them in the early game
It's amazing how much this game rewards setting your dudes in proper formation.
John, been eying this game. How long does it take to get the flow of the game?
@Yore History it definitely has a learning curve but if you don't mind restarting/save scumming a lot in the early days, you will learn fast
@@jonathansherer5873 Thanks appreciated :)
I foolishly accepting a contract to do Immortal Sun/Ring quest as my second contract for the company....to kill 7 Necrosavant.
Now there's no more company.
I've played this game few dozen times and i want to share few tips:
1. Shield and spear are extremely strong early game
2. always equip your guys (or brothers as they're called in game) head protection, even a piece of cloth is useful as they will stop one shot decapitation
3. always bring a dagger to each of your brothers, as they have an attack mode where you can stab your enemies without damaging and broke your adversaries's armours and hopefully you can loot the armour after battle as armour cost a fortune to buy
4. quicksave a lot, trust me
(edit)
5. High ground is good
Great tips started playing yesterday thanks to our boy Simo
4 is an heresy, full iron mode 😅
Also expect the unexpected sometimes I doing escort merchant of 2 star difficulty got ambush by 3 Necrosavant and pretty much lost the all or again 3 geist is mostly anoyying if you don't have morale or sergeant guy
@@dukeakram9186 i undesrtand, i had the same crushing defeat 😅
@@dukeakram9186if there’s a fight I don’t think I can win or one I don’t think I can win without losing half of my guys, I retreat. Discretion is the better part of valor.
I saw the title and said to myself that can only be battle brothers 😂 , truly an under rated game.
Same
Also u can try wartales if u played battle brothers before
And thumbnail - only BB has that.
I have played this game on and off over the years and can highly recommend it, but I will say that it can be very merciless and it does not give a single shit about your survival.
So, through trial and error, you can adapt and overcome the odds and become a legend.
Or fail horribly and die a terrible death.
Pretty much!
@@NotSimo plz continue the bounty hunter series
I love how much as of a real mercenary experience it has, you can do everything right, every right decision and still be unlucky and die just like that, a couple of bad roll from the dice and you are gone.
Or, you can become a legend AND die a terrible death, being eaten by orcs or something
I love this game so much I highly recommend it for anyone who hasn't played it, it's so much fun
I totally understand your love of the immersive Mercenary experience. I'm the same way with playing as a farmer or hunter living off the land. For some reason in RPGs where you can be anything and everything I like to focus and get really deep into one role. Luckily for me, there are quite a few farming-based games but it's rough out there for quality bounty hunter experiences. I think you've already got it with heavily modding Skyrim to turn it into a bounty hunter experience; other than that red dead online is the only other game that has fun radiant bounty hunting.
What are these farming-based games? I played only stardew valley and love it a lot xD
Kenshi
@@syressx9098 not a rpg game but good hidden gem, Graveyard keeper
@@kaedeyagami3556 Especially when you get the Cannibal Hunting mod, so you can actually collect cannibal heads and sell them. :D
You gotta turn this into a full-on series. It's way too good not to be.
Simo out here getting me excited for random games I've never heard of.
I actually just played the legacy mod for the first time yesterday for Battle Brothers and went as a Seer. My character is called Palpatine and I just spam chain lightning. Love to see a video on this game!
*Legends
Strong in you Star Wars is, my young Padiwan...
Been on the verge of buying this game for a while now. Think you'll be rhe one to get me to finally download it
If you can afford to get it, absolutely do it! I have hundreds of hours on it and would sink hundreds more happily
if you dont have the money just crack it my g
@@FucaBigGew but if you love the game more after you play the cracked version make sure to actually buy it to support the devs
@@assertingdominance1759 if you can yeah its rare that dev deserve support but they really do
Do it
Thanks for playing this game. It's one of my all time favorites with over 1k hours. More people need to know about it
I have played more hours of Battle Brothers then any other game in my life. Literally my favorite game of all time. All I want is more DLCs or a sequel.
You should try mount and blade if you have not yet
have you tried BB mod "Legends"? it took me another hundreds hour of play time
Found this game thanks to you and I’ve been playing for 6 months. Amazing game and I can’t get enough of it.
To add to the battle brothers praise: The music annd sound design are PHENOMENAL. And yes, I can attest, it's one of the best games I've played.
Shadow of the Horned Rat is one of the first Mercenary Company simulators that I can think of. Being that it's a game released in the early 90's it is limited in graphical fidelity but it does let you roam the warhammer world, take contracts, build up your army and choose to ignore the main story so you can do the whole wandering mercenary band thing.
I love battle brothers and your channel, this is a dream come true
[0:20] another good mercenary game is Wartales! I think it's similar to battle brothers, but I haven't actually played battle brothers so take that with a grain of salt. It's also a mercenary management sim in a massive open world map with turn based combat and boss fights. You can take up jobs to hunt down outlaws and war refugees or side up with them and fight against the law enforcers
I played both games. Both are great but battlebrother is more hardcore snd unforgiving. In wartales after 3 months your merc are already pretty good. In battlebrother after a year still everything can kill you horribly if you do 1 mistake.
I discovered this game about two years ago and I was instantly addicted. Please make more videos playing this game! There aren't enough entertaining people posting playthroughs of this game!
As someone who’s thinking of buying the game, should I buy now or wait for a discount and get it with all the DLC’s for cheaper? Are the DLC’s a game changer and a must?
@Bruno Santos game is more than worth it full price, dlcs are as well, but if money is tight wait for a sale. I got this game on sale a few years back not sure if I'd like it, and it ended up being my favorite game ever. If you can only have one DLC take blazing deserts or warriors of the North. Both change the game in big ways but blazing deserts is like an entire expansion. This game has an insane degree of storytelling, random events and replayability. Highly recommend
very comfy
battle brothers is such a great game... sometimes very frustrating though but thats kinda the charme
also what really helped me is using retreat as an option is not always that bad.
keeps me from either loosing too many of my brothers or safescamming
So glad to see battle brothers getting some recognition
I recently got into Battle brothers in a big way, it'd be great to see more of this on your channel king!
I have just got this game now because of you and I can't wait until I can start my own game.
I bought the game ages ago and never stopped playing. Such a fantastic game and with the Legends mod it becomes even better.
I think you could say that games like Kenshi could be easily played with the mercenary playstyle, due to the fact that it is your own story and character that drives what you do in the game and so bounty hunting could become a big part of your game in Kenshi. Bastard Bonds could also be a game that you can play as a Mercenary. And also in Stellaris I believe you could technically be a mercenary race of aliens basically the way you help defend the galaxy is through mercenary enclaves
I saw the thumbnail and got so excited. My favorite game.
Battle brothers finally get's the much needed attention it deserves
In Harebrained Schemes BATTLETECH, you lead a mercenary company during a intersterllar civil war - there is a plot and your characters has stakes in it, but during (or even after!) the main campaign you can take up contracts for whoever pays you to fight their wars.
in Mechwarriors 5: Mercenaries, you get to do the same thing in the same universe, but in FPS form!
IMHO I like MW5 better for its first person view, but I always played it in 3rd person for better situation awareness. Never loaded up Battletech once MW5 came out.
absolutely keep rolling with this one Simo. gonna have to pick this game up
Battle Brothers is like life, through pain can you only find greatness
I see a lot of similarities between this game and Mount and Blade, of course the 2D and turn-based combat are the biggest differences, but noneless i think i'll give it a try after seeing this video!!!
Plz i need more of this, you made me discover one of my favorites videogames currently. Luv u man ❤️
You should totally play this. It’s really fun to watch
ayyyy like 30 seconds after I saw this in my notifications feed, before reading the vid's description, I told myself "huh I bet he'd like Battle Brothers"
Heard the intro like yeah i am really into such things with mercs and preparing my chars. Saw the Battle Brothers thingy on the thumbnail before and thought uhh brother thats a dangerous path.
I badly want Battle Brothers. But I seem to never have the spare budget for it. I'd be happy to see more videos of it from you. Your characterization series are some of my faves to sit down and actually watch.
just dl it illegally bro
Just crack it
i got this game years ago, ive always died horribly but im currently giving it another go! great video, well played!
There's one game like this I played recently called war tales where you mostly hunt troublesome parties of warriors, but you can also raid caravans and explore ruins an fight the black plauge
About time this game got its recognition!
I wish you a midnight Necrosavants encounter for this late move!
I agree! Battle brothers is an amazing mercenary company game. I also want to mention 'Kenshi'. Man kenshi is also very punishing if you play as intended (no exploit). It does have battle brothers feeling into it.
ive had that game since it first dropped on early access all those years ago, never regretted the purchase. Definitely recommend it to anyone that doesnt have it and likes this genre!
Hey simo, i would love to see you play more of this
More of that company would be great didn't know about the mods till this video
Hey Simo, please play Mercenaries 2! It's such an awesome and nostalgic game to me that I used to play all the time when I was young.
Great job as always Simo Supremo. Looking forward to more for sure
Need more videos of this, I actually enjoy watching this content even with the odd graphics.
Please play this game again Simo, love that game
Thanks for playing Battle Brothers! This game truly deserves more attention.
Also hello from Legends mod discord server👋
Man do a series on it! I definitely would not be the only one who would want to watch it!!
I say do a holy crusade, but that's just my go to
please do more!!! i have been playing this since the alpha!!! its soooooo good!
Thank you for a great recommendation. I've played for few hours and I love this game.
I think the thing I love most about this game is it mixes both medieval and high fantasy in just a nice balanced blind and make it very clear that you are just a group of guys
Will look into this game. Thanks for showing it to us.
Been playing battle brothers for a few years now, I’m real bad at the game, but I cannot stop playing it, the amount of variety is just incredible
Maybe it's time to cheat. Give yourself any amount of gold. Write a script to make yourself invincible or one hit.
Great tip to leveling new bros when you are high level: find a big group of barbarian thralls and go in with 1 or 2 frontline with the new guy and either have the noob run away or hang back to handle stragglers while the frontline clean up. Bros placed into reserves do not get any experience, so this increases to percent going to the noob
Mercenary fashion is just amazing. I saw a kettle helmet with a klappvisor which would he used my mercenaries since they wouldn’t want to buy a full helmet. Also they also wear a kettle helmet with a Bevor. So it has basically the same protection as a full helmet, but allowing you to hear and see the battlefield better. Something vital for foot combat. Plus both of these helmet combinations looks so much cooler than a Armet.
I always found a brigandine and Gambeson looking so much better then full plate.
Good stuff man, this is a good series man.
Can’t wait for the Starfield mercenary/bounty hunter playthroughs. Besides being a pirate or smuggler being a bounty hunter or mercenary is on top of my list when Starfield finally comes out
Huge fan of BB and glad to see coverage. On the permanent destruction option at the start its most def better to turn it off but turning it on is the only way to access a secretive legendary site: the undead necropolis. Only occurs if a town falls to the undead endgame crisis
It was wild if you were there for the older versions of legends. You could make a berserker that could punch an orc warlord to death. Legends is amazing. Also personally like to use PTR for more build variety, but it makes some late game fights more difficult lol
After watching this vid I played this game for the next 48hrs thank you for the new addiction:)
Glad to see Battle Brothers getting some attention!
Some of those high hit chance misses got me like: "That's XCOM, bay beeeeee!"
Got me to buy this game, please continue playing it
Please continue playing Battle Brothers, it's crazy good and you're crazy good so that'd be perfect
I need a series of this!
damn , that necromancer encounter is just good
I did play it Simo! I must have it installed at all times! Its a damn perfect game.
YOOO IM HYPED ive been playing this for years
14:06 - This is getting out of hand! Now, there are two of them!
Thanks Simo, now I want to buy this game...
I'd heard of battle brothers before but never seen any gameplay. After watching this I'm gonna buy it.
Simo I'm beggin, pleading make more of these
I'm new to the game and i liked your video a lot, please make a series of battle brothers
pls turn it into a series
try War Tales mate - such a good game that needs more mainstream attention
battle brother is such a great game!!! glad you covered it
eeeeeeeeey was looking forward for this! noice simo
Speaking of mercenaries and bounty hunters, WHEN ARE WE GETTING THE SKYRIM BOUNTY HUNTER SERIES BACK, the silver hand must be brought down by the GOLDEN FIST
I've been playing Mechwarrior 5 afeter watching a video about it. What a blast of a game!!!!
Every youtuber who has attempted to make a series on this game that I watch has quit due to people not watching the series enough. I'm gonna be heavily invested in this if you post more!
glad you played this game my friend, I have it and like it
I love Battle Brothers, I really hope to see more.
Finally you're playiing this game
More of this company please!
It took me a while to accept the legless dudes, but once I got over that hurdle, it really is a stone cold classic.
Have 1k hours in the game. Some youtuber - "you've never heard of it!".
I jest. It's good you shed light on such a good game. It's a lot of fun and it will test your patience, for sure.
Battle brothers is one of the best games ever and even better with mods a must-have for any Library
This game looks pretty cool, would love to see you play it more and i may pick it up too.
Discovered this game by chance a few weeks ago. A hidden gem indeed. Already sunk plentiful hours in it. When you think you are, say hello to mods. They make the game even better, with greater replayability
The XCOM rolls made me almost punch the wall when last time I played it x)
Well I'll highlight Wartales. I like it more than Battle Brothers and the more and more I learn about your channel, It sounds like it's right up your alley.
Me listening to the first 30 seconds of the video: "Damn, do I have a game to suggest-"
Me several seconds later: "Oh."
Vid 3 of wishing Simo and everyone a good day!
Very good game in my opinion
Thx for video Simo!
My first thought went to BB when I saw the title. Such a great game. I currently have 500 hours in it. Also after installing the Legends mod about 2 years ago, I've never gone back.
Nice I'm gonna grab this game soon, it looks like a lot of fun !
As always, thanks for your work maboy 🤠
Interesting, liked, yearning for more
Necromunda: Hired Gun, is a fast paced fps where you play exclusively as a bounty hunter in the underbelly of a hive city in warhammer 40k!
This is the only game I have 1000 hrs in. A masterpiece.
Do yourself a favor and by all dlc and get the legends mod.
You will get a playthrough that will 100% blow up.