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

By taking contracts, hunting for treasures and fighting numerous battles band members improve skills, gain experience points and new abilities. In the complex combat mode the strong AI opponents can only be overcome if players make good use of their mercenaries’ individual strengths and the particular terrain of the battle ground.

The game consists of a strategic worldmap and a tactical combat layer. 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. This is also where you manage, level up and equip your Battle Brothers. 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.

Overhype Studios announced 'Blazing Deserts', the third DLC for their turn-based tactical RPG Battle Brothers. 

Blazing Deserts will take players to a new area of the continent: a new land of burning deserts and lush jungles, to the south of the lands their bands of mercenaries are familiar with. The new DLC also introduces a new unique culture, loosely based on medieval Arabian and Persian cultures. With new lore, equipment, contracts, legendary locations and beasts, as well as a new late-game crisis, Blazing Deserts will be the biggest DLC ever released for Battle Brothers.

Key Features:

• A realm of independent southern city-states with their own lore, equipment and services, as well as entirely new character backgrounds to recruit
• A new late game crisis that tests the mettle of your company in the fires of religious turmoil
• A gallery of company feats that grant permanent boons with which to customize your company to your playstyle as you progress throughout your campaign
• A variety of new opponents with their own fighting styles - from exotic beasts to desert raiders and southern armies quite unlike those in the north
• New environments both on the world map and in tactical combat
• Several new origins to pick for your company for a different campaign experience
• New banners, weapons, armors and helmets inspired by historic Arabian and Persian cultures of the medieval ages
• New legendary locations and legendary rewards
• New contracts and events
• New crafting recipes for owners of the ‘Beasts & Exploration’ DLC
• Several new music tracks by Breakdown Epiphanies to accompany you on your travels south

Blazing Deserts is expected to be released in Q2 2020

Key Features:

• Manage a medieval mercenary company in a procedurally generated open world.
• Fight complex turn-based tactical battles with historical equipment and brutal injuries.
• Permadeath. All characters that die in combat will stay dead – unless they return as the undead.
• All characters come with their own background stories and traits. Want a stuttering ratcatcher, a greedy witch hunter or a drunkard disowned noble?
• Character development without a restrictive class-system. Each character gains experience through combat, can level up and acquire powerful perks.
• Equipment that matters. Different weapons grant unique skills – split shields with axes, stun enemies with maces, form a spearwall with spears or crush armor with a warhammer.
• Diverse enemy roster. All enemies have unique equipment, skills and AI behavior.
• A dynamic event system with atmospheric encounters and tough decisions outside of combat.
• Three late game crises – a war between noble houses, a greenskin invasion and an undead scourge – add a looming threat.
• Two full hours of orchestral soundtrack.
• 70 Steam Achievements and Steam Trading Cards.

Battle Brothers was inspired by groundbreaking strategy classics such as XCOM: Ufo Defense, Jagged Alliance, Warhammer: Shadow Of The Horned Rat or Mount & Blade. 

Battle Brothers is available as digital download through Steam for $29.99.