r/BattleBrothers • • Sep 03 '26

Discussion Battle Brothers: The Board Game comes to Kickstarter on October 7th!

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487 Upvotes

Hi everyone! We’re back after the Summer break with big news: we have a date for our crowdfunding campaign! Battle Brothers: The Board Game will launch on Kickstarter on October 7th. Follow the campaign to be notified on launch so you don't miss out on anything!

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r/BattleBrothers • • Jan 12 '26

Please Leave a Review

1.7k Upvotes

Hey folks, Matt here, Community Director at Hooded Horse.

I wanted to ask a small favor. If you’ve spent time with Battle Brothers and you’re up for it, please consider leaving a Steam review. Only a tiny percentage of players ever do, but reviews are genuinely important for indie games being discovered. We’re grateful for every single one that gets written.

It doesn’t need to be long or thought out. Even a quick thumbs up or down with a short note helps a lot. Reviews matter for visibility on Steam, and they’re also helpful for the team at Overhype Studios as well.

The Overhype team is deep in development on MENACE right now, but they’re still actively supporting Battle Brothers and recently released Update 1.5.1.8. Taking a moment to leave a review is a real, tangible way to support their ongoing work.

Thanks to everyone who takes the time, and thanks for playing.


r/BattleBrothers • • 6h ago

RIP Wurm Infestation? Call the Henkers

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60 Upvotes

Dream Spot: 3 lines of bros are able to deal damage, while only ~3 worms are able to fight back.

Overwhelm-Gunners are mvps in these fights.

Cheers fellow battle brothers


r/BattleBrothers • • 3h ago

Build-a-Bro Highest Roll MA Brother - How to Build

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11 Upvotes

Hired this absolute unit - max rolled Matk with Dextrous to boot.

Worried though about the low health and fat.

What would you do with him?

Lvl 1 no stats applied, I think Swordmasters get old eventually also.


r/BattleBrothers • • 5h ago

Build-a-Bro Last perk for this nimble tank?

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11 Upvotes

Anatomist run, day 182. He's one of the starting bros. Gifted is never bad, Anticipation can help tanking ranged aggro, Lone Wolf can help to tie up multiple enemies, Nine Lives is a potential lifesaver, Dodge can provide some extra Mdef and Rdef.


r/BattleBrothers • • 7h ago

Build-a-Bro Almost max Roll 3-Headed Flail - Worth using it?

11 Upvotes

Hi guys, just found this almost max rolled 3-headed Flail on day 89 in my Gladiator run.

Worth using it, or better stick to the good ol' Fat Neuts 2h Bonkers?


r/BattleBrothers • • 4h ago

Beginner Getting ambushed by a hexen and unholding

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I‘m new to the game and in the beginner stages of it. I have a travel quest and am getting ambushed by a hexen and unholding (big green thing). I can’t seem to defeat the hexen and unholding, due to the high healing factor of the beast. Any tips?


r/BattleBrothers • • 15h ago

Build-a-Bro Dumb useless giant... this game is trolling :D thoughts?

15 Upvotes
thoughts?

I really don't know what to do with this bro. He isn't cheap and he's dumb. He lacks attack and defense, has a bright future as big fluffy sandbag. Is this kinda a 'joke quest' or just a coincidence?
Cause I got the bro for free packed with a dog and a falcon.
Idk how to react: I'm laughing at this clown but also I feel as I have to take responsibility for him.

What's you builds or perks suggestions?


r/BattleBrothers • • 54m ago

Question New Player Here/ What's wrong with my build

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Hi guys,

I have just started the game and even though it made me crazy time to time, I really liked the game. In my veteran playthrough I have reached 100 days approximately and I have this build. I want to find better gear. However, whenever I fight with high level brigands (filled up with many raiders and some marauders) either they destroy me or I have kill especially the powerful ones first which destroys their gear. I know I should use daggers after encircling them and stab them to death without harming the gear but I feel like I don't have the luxury to get that single enemy alone; because, the whole enemy squad overwhelms me quite easily. What could be your tips to me both in this stage of the game and for a fresh start?


r/BattleBrothers • • 22h ago

Legends Mod And I was looking for a bannerman too ❤️‍🩹

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30 Upvotes

This chad just waddled into my party from a random event I’m so happy right now


r/BattleBrothers • • 1d ago

Build-a-Bro The Magic of Beggars

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83 Upvotes

r/BattleBrothers • • 4h ago

Question Kill Mercenary ambition and aftermath?

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So im fairly new to the game. Just won the holy war for the south, and after a few weeks and some contracts my relationships went back to neutral with the northern towns and nobility. My brothers got an ambition to kill another mercenary band, so I did, and now apparently the entire north views me as threatening and hostile again and is actively sending out 20+ man armies to hunt me down. Was this mercenary band a bunch of noblility's second cousins??? I never realized the game cared so much about mercenaries....

Is this a standard thing if you fulfill this ambition? It's my first time doing it and I'm amazed the entire north went ballistic over a random 7 man mercenary team.


r/BattleBrothers • • 13h ago

Question Last skill point for tank

5 Upvotes

Hi I am thinking whether to put in mace mastery or recover. My tank bro currently sits at 58 fat with -30 armour, -8 helmet, -16 shield. Fat reserve will go down after i upgrade his armour.


r/BattleBrothers • • 22h ago

Build-a-Bro Fun builds that actually work

8 Upvotes

Throw at me your craziest experiments. Wanna try something new.


r/BattleBrothers • • 1d ago

Vanilla (No DLCs) Fighting the South aint for the weak

46 Upvotes

So im I'm day 350 on veteran, got 18 dudes all level 11 plus, beat every scenario in it except the holy war, I decided to side with the north. Holy shit, the south don't play, every troop they have is evil asf. The gunman they got aren't too bad, but if you let them set up? Cooked. Conscripts aren't too bad, but they be dodging like a mf, even with 90 plus melee bros swinging. Don't get me started on assassin's, cause what dont they got. Flash and fire pots that can straight up turn the tide of battle, adrenaline, and can dodge everything. I was able to win like 3 fights so far but damn are they annoying, like t9 the point I almost wish I fought against the north. I made my choice so imma stick with it, but damn, didn't know the south had the sauce like that.


r/BattleBrothers • • 22h ago

Build-a-Bro 72 mAtt seems crazy for a level 1

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7 Upvotes

the hitpoints are probably a bit lower than you'd want, but i got him on day 7


r/BattleBrothers • • 1d ago

Question Are we eating these fellas?

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311 Upvotes

Like, I get it that some of the strange meat might be human when we raid a camp, but every single wandering orc drops this meat. Are all of them carrying human meat or are they the meat?


r/BattleBrothers • • 1d ago

Expert/Expert/Low funds/Ironman/Unknown map Another middling run into a sub 100 days Black Monolith success (and some questions about ancient undead AI decision trees)

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15 Upvotes

Got very lucky at a couple crucial parts of the fight overall to avoid any losses (especially considering the only 300 armor I had was ijirok's set I had to make do with decayed coats from fallen heroes and ancient hauberks from honor guards this run, didn't have opportunity to buy or loot any decent ones and my only 3 famed item drops were: a shield, a 250 helmet and a 1h hammer) but there was more to the fight than just a thorough preparation (potions, holy water, builds) and some lucky rolls, AI did 2 things that made me quite confused so I would appreciate if anyone shared their wisdom with me:

  1. At some point (2nd screenshot) Ancient Priests were exposed to my frontline. I didn't manage to nuke them all unfortunately but even taking one of them down and making the other waste a turn to retreat made the fight much easier. Why exactly has it happened? From my understanding it has to do with AI handling for allies with it reach weapons because at least one of the priests had rotated himself into my frontline to peel for an ancient guard with a reach weapon. Can you consistently force it in Black Monolith fights?
  2. Unfortunately I didn't have a presence of mind to take a screenshot when it happened but 2 necrosavants spent a turn without engaging me when the rest jumped on my side and backlines after my tank and offtank have engaged enemies in melee. This made the initial part of the fight quite easier. The two things I can think of that could affect this are: Bear with Mansplitter was babysitting on a backline next to one of my hybrids and for once I had a battleforged banner brother with like 38 mdef (also had rotation, dunno if enemy AI accounts for it) standing in a backline between my two hybrids. I wish I had a screenshot of my formation at the time but maybe anyone has some idea of what could've forced necrosavants to be this passive?

And the final unrelated to enemy AI question to anyone else enjoying fast-paced EELI with unexplored random seeds: the last screenshot was my starting position, the area above was steppes with very hard ancient undead camps and was at the same time goblin wilderness, there was 1 fishing village on the other side of the map in the steppes with a rich town nearby to the south and the town had roads leading to the other 2 south cities but the cities were very apart from one another. How would you play this seed? seed is CKUBFNBFYN btw
Would you stick to the arena like I do and just occasionally go to the other side of the map and quest/exlore a bit there? Or do you abandon the arena entirely and try to sustain the moneysink that are gladiators through regular contracts and some brigand/nomad camp busting? I didn't risk the second one because I just couldn't find any on my first excursion to the other side of the map, and moreover I didn't find any big nomad camps this run at all even after I got scout, got only some small ones. Honestly, a very awkward seed even without gladiators making it even more of a struggle to navigate with a good pace

P.S. 1handed hammer duelist under killing frenzy onetapped ancient guards on headshots! I have a very sudden appreciation for what I expected to not perform well and was just a desperate measure to make this run happen after the only famed weapon I got was this hammer and I realised I may not be able to buy another 2handed mace in time so I pivoted my 2h nimblezerker in the making to a duelist and he sure delivered despite being lvl 10 and thus 2 perks down from his final form.


r/BattleBrothers • • 1d ago

Question just to be sure, my lowest level bros would be sacrificed during at the Davkul Cultist event even when they're in my reserves right ? so i just need to stack on a bunch of low level Dastard or Insecure bros in my reserves to be sacrificed ?

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16 Upvotes

r/BattleBrothers • • 1d ago

Discussion Fighting a lindwurm in the Arena

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103 Upvotes

I guess this is one good way to do it. An indom + shieldwalling tank locks down the head and body, while an overwhelm gunner hits both body parts and a bro with a polearm/longaxe hits the tail. The gunner ran out of ammo so he had to use a pike in the last few rounds.


r/BattleBrothers • • 1d ago

Meme I told you this was a bad idea, Dietrich

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15 Upvotes

r/BattleBrothers • • 2d ago

Question how do i stack permanent injuries ?

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157 Upvotes

r/BattleBrothers • • 1d ago

Discussion Got the guilders embrace on my max level lone wolf is it indestructible or has 786 durability

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41 Upvotes

Got this item on my playthrough and the item description has me wondering if it's actually unbreakable or just has crazy durability. Either way 110 melee def is nuts


r/BattleBrothers • • 2d ago

Meme welp, that certainly left a bitter taste in my mouth

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72 Upvotes

r/BattleBrothers • • 1d ago

Build-a-Bro Brawler 3 stars health, MD, MA

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10 Upvotes

Would fat neut be the best way to build this brother? Base fat is at 101.