The best Warhammer game isn't actually a Warhammer game, so we tried to make it one
Who needs Total War: Warhammer 3 when you have Battle Brothers, the real best Warhammer game? It's a tactical strategy game where you must lead a succession of miserable mercenary warbands across a pseudo-Germanic kingdom, each one doomed to become crow food as they pursue the foolish errands of petty nobles.
Civilisation is a fragile web of villages and cities separated by frozen mountains and dense forests. Bandits, goblins, zombies, cultists, orcs, and wild northmen constantly gnaw at the fringes, raiding caravans and slaughtering peasants while nobles squabble and war. Few other games manage to capture the gothic, medieval grimness of Games Workshop's Old World, but there's a catch: Overhype Studios don't have a Warhammer license, so it's not actually a Warhammer game.
For any other game I'd cram in a juicy mod to ramp up the Warhammer content and get my fix of Skaven and Trollslayers. Long before Total War: Warhammer there were Warhammer conversion mods for both Rome: Total War and Medieval 2. Mount and Blade has Warsword Conquest. You can add Warhammer civilisation packs to Civilization V. There's probably a Warhammer mod for graphing calculators. But Battle Brothers? There's nothing even close.
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After almost two years on Steam Early Access, Battle Brothers finally launches March 24