Using double attacks can rapidly end a fight fast against a small force of enemies, but for larger groups it’s sometimes smarter to conserve your energy in anticipation of a longer engagement. To start most battles, your units will have enough stamina to perform two attacks in a turn, but doing so will wear them out quickly. Stamina regenerates a little bit each turn, but not enough to keep pace with the amount of stamina it takes to move and attack. You also have to manage their stamina and resolve. In battle you’re not just trying to preserve your units’ health to keep them alive. Keeping your units grouped and properly in formation to prevent getting surrounded is a key part of any strategy. You get bonuses to hit percentage and (I think) damage for having an enemy surrounded – but be careful, your enemies get the same bonuses. You can also get new abilities with perks earned from gaining levels. Different weapons allow for different abilities for instance, having a sword equipped lets you use a basic slashing attack as well as the riposte ability, which lets you counterattack any time your opponent misses that unit for one turn. Characters have either melee or ranged weapons, which largely determine what actions are available to them.
The combat system seems simple enough at first your troops and your opponents’ units take turns moving and attacking on a hex grid battlefield. The world map is also semi-randomly generated every time you begin a campaign, meaning you’ll really never play the same campaign twice. You can customize each campaign by setting different difficulty levels, reward levels, and the end goal of the scenario. The company’s starting roster and the difficulty of the starting situation are really what change the most. The subsequent campaigns don’t really differ much. That’s what I did, anyway, and I certainly felt better after restarting. My recommendation is to tool around in the tutorial campaign for a few hours to familiarize yourself with the menus and mechanics and then start fresh once you’ve gotten comfortable. Anyone familiar with the basics of traditional turn-based strategy RPGs will pick the game up quickly enough. At no point does Battle Brothers really explain how its systems work, which can be disorienting at first but gets better quickly. The beginner campaign is marked as a tutorial, which I assume is some kind of inside joke I don’t get.
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