
All enemies have unique equipment, skills and AI behavior. Different weapons grant unique skills – split shields with axes, stun enemies with maces, form a spearwall with spears or crush armor with a warhammer. Each character gains experience through combat, can level up and acquire powerful perks.

All characters that die in combat will stay dead – unless they return as the undead. Fight complex turn-based tactical battles with historical equipment and brutal injuries.Manage a medieval mercenary company in a procedurally generated open world.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. This is also where you manage, level up and equip your Battle Brothers.

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. The game consists of a strategic worldmap and a tactical combat layer. Do you have what it takes to lead them through bloody battles and to victory? 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. Battle Brothers is a turn based tactical RPG which has you leading a mercenary company in a gritty, low-power, medieval fantasy world.
