Battle Brothers News

Switch Presentation

The release of Battle Brothers on the Nintendo Switch is almost upon us! Before Battle Brothers releases on Thursday, March 11th, Jan takes you on a quick tour through the Switch version to show how the controls work and that the game plays as well as ever, if not better!

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You can already preorder the Switch version of Battle Brothers with 15% off here.

Switch Release Date

Finally, it’s time to reveal the release date for the Nintendo Switch version of Battle Brothers:

[h3]Battle Brothers will release on the Switch on March 11th 2021

Pre-orders are available now with 15% off

Available here: Nintendo Store[/h3]

For a long time now you guys have written to us how you’d love to play Battle Brothers on your Switch and take your campaign on the road. Both the game and the community have grown a lot over the past couple of years, and lots of people have been patiently waiting for the Switch port to complete. Being able to play a hardcore tactical turn-based game with lots of replayability wherever you are? It’s finally possible!

That’s right! Now you are able to lead your own mercenary company through the perils of a gritty, low-power, medieval fantasy world even while traveling. You get to decide where to go, whom to hire or to fight from the comfort of a relaxing couch. And it is your choice what contracts to take and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign whether you’re commuting or flying ten thousand feet in the air. You get to play with all the content and features of the PC version, and you’ll have access to all the DLC!

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To bring Battle Brothers to the Switch in the best way possible, we’ve partnered with Ukiyo Publishing. With over a decade in industry experience, they’ve made sure that it is just as enjoyable an experience on the Switch as it is on the PC. We’re happy to say that they really outdid themselves with creating an intuitive, fast and effective control scheme for the Switch version that just works and is effortless to use.

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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The best Battle Brothers mods

The Battle Brothers mod scene is modest, but has some wonderful gems worth exploring. The game itself was a shining light in terms of indie releases back in 2017. If you haven't encountered it yet, it's a turn-based strategy game where you are in charge of a mercenary company in a fictionalised setting loosely based on medieval Europe.

From humble origins, you have to travel the procedurally generated world taking job after job, gaining fame, money and growing your troop's abilities. The campaign layer is dynamic and progresses around you. It's also hard as nails at times, with one mishandled skirmish wiping out most of your best soldiers all in one go and forcing you to start all over again (or fail). Save scumming is common.

But like all good strategy games, eventually you feel the desire for new things to do. Battle Brother's DLC output isn't so prolific that you can bank on new official content, so we must turn to the modders to find those fresh angles to bring the game to life.

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Update 1.4.0.47

A couple of balance changes and fixes to start the year for Battle Brothers.

A recent driver update from Nvidia introduced performance issues for some players. Disabling the 'Hardware Cursor' option in the game's options menu apparently solves this problem for now.

If you have a modded game and you encounter issues, update or remove your mods. Seriously.

If you still encounter issues, please report them here following the instructions in the sticky post.

[h3]Changelog for 1.4.0.47[/h3]

Changed 'Lindwurm Scale Cloak' attachment to add 60 durability at a penalty of -3 to Maximum Fatigue.
Changed 'Horn Plate' attachment to also add 30 durability.
Changed 'Bone Plating' attachment to have a penalty of -2 to Maximum Fatigue.
Changed 'Additional Fur Padding' attachment to have a penalty of -2 to Maximum Fatigue.
Changed 'Unhold Fur Cloak' attachment to also add 10 durability.
Changed fatigue cost of 'Disarm' skill to 30, up from 25, and penalty to hit chance to -20%, down from -15%. Mastery now cuts in half the penalty to hit chance to -10%.
Changed orcs to have particularly powerful hand-to-hand attacks to make them less useless (but still significantly weakened) while temporarily disarmed using whips.
Changed amount of medical supplies dropped as loot in the later parts of campaigns to be a bit lower.
Changed main menu background to get randomly picked from different artworks of the game.
Changed default configuration (used when first starting the game or resetting your configuration) to disable the hardware cursor option, as a recent Nvidia driver update introduced performance issues for some players. Not using a hardware cursor will add some mouse lag, but the hardware cursor option can easily be activated in the game's options menu if it runs fine for you or Nvidia fixes the issue in the future.
Fixed 'Lunge' skill not properly taking into account the effect of the 'Relentless' perk.
Fixed players being unable to retreat from battle in 'Rebuilding Effort' contract without being sucked right into combat again.
Fixed 'Hunting Lindwurms' contract not being offered at steppe settlements like it should.
Fixed human opponents that have been taunted sometimes unnecessarily attacking single targets with area of effect attacks.
Fixed some other minor issues and typos.