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[Mephansteras]

Feeling like doing a new LP and I'm in a medieval mood so I'm going to do Battle Brothers

It's a turn based tactical RPG where we are a mercenary company in a low fantasy world. There are undead and orcs and whatnot, but magic is rare and we don't walk around with wizards and clerics casting spells or anything. What we have is a bunch of guys with swords and spears trying to earn a living in a harsh world. And, more often than not, dying in the process. But as long as we have a few warriors left the Company can go on and try to rebuild.

I should note that I am not good at this game yet, and my longest lived company survived about 40 days. So...it's more about the story along the way than the inevitable grave we're going to end up in. But that's ok, losing is fun!

My plan for this LP is to mostly run it myself with some reader input. You can claim soldiers, help with the general direction of the group, and can give input on various decisions the game has us make as we wander around doing missions to make money.

I will be playing on Veteran Combat & Economy, with High starting funds and Ironman mode enabled. I do have the Battle Sisters mod installed so we can have female soldiers (though the game does not recognize them as such) should anyone want one.

To start, you can help me Name the Company and choose a Banner for it.

Spoiler: Banners (click to show/hide)

There is also a Black crow on a gray background that isn't in that list. There may be one or two others that I couldn't find images of, but that's most of the options.



The Last Loyalists Mercenary Company

Day: 24
Renown: Reliable
Honor: Neutral (Acting Honorably)

Spoiler: Claimed Soldiers (click to show/hide)

• Grunt Silmann: NickAragua
• Grunt Breeze: Rince Wind
• Marksman Gernot: Fishbreath
• Grunt Pyrrhus: A Thing
• Corporal Birdvig I: birdy51
• Shieldman Brother Kaos: Darkening Kaos
• Grunt Perses: Persus13

Spoiler: Soldier Requests (click to show/hide)

• Juggler named EuchreJack: EuchreJack

Spoiler: The Fallen (click to show/hide)

[NickAragua]

Name: Bloody Steel
Banner: The one with the flail and dagger on it.

[Rince Wind]

Banner:
the King who cut his head off


Name:
The Last Loyalists

[Fishbreath]

Posting to watch.

[A Thing]

Banner:
the King who cut his head off


Name:
The Last Loyalists

+1

[Mephansteras]

Soldiers

Before we start I figured I'd talk a bit about our soldiers and how I do things.

When we hire people in towns, they'll come with a backround. Different backgrounds have different bonuses or penalties to various stats. Recruits with better backgrounds will be more expensive, and may come with better gear (making them even more expensive). They also cost more per day. But regardless, they all have a random range for their stats at 1st level so some will just flat out be better for one task or another than others. Some just suck at everything.

So to keep all that straight, I use a naming system to categorize each merc into their job. Those with good potential in a given job are labeled as such, and at level 5 I name each soldier based on what they have become.

As troops level up they gain Perks which help them to specialize. I have a few general builds I go by for each Job type.

Tier 0
Grunt: If all else fails, they get labeled a grunt. Grunts are generally used as disposable front-line troops. I don't throw them away if I don't have to, but if someone needs to go to a bad spot, I try to use a grunt for the job. A few will survive long enough and get lucky enough rolls on level ups to reach a Tier 1 job.

Tier 1
Tier 1 troops are solid members of the company. Probably not fit for the end-game, but I've never been there yet so I try to take care of these.
Shieldman: Need good fatigue, resolve, and defensive skills. Nice if they have good melee attack and HP. Their main job is to block incoming attacks and keep the enemies from getting to the back line troops.
Archer: Need good ranged skills and preferably good fatigue and ranged defense. Obviously, these are our primary ranged combatants.
Pikeman: Back line offensive troops who need high melee attack skill. Everything else is mostly a bonus for them. Their job is to do massive single hits against enemies, as well as push/pull people around to create opportunities for us.
Skirmisher: Mixed use troops who have good Melee and Ranged skill. They are have both melee and ranged weapons, and usually have support items as well such as nets and attack dogs. They fill in whatever role I need at the time, and are often used to draw away enemies or chase down enemy archers.

Tier 2
The best units will be Tier 2. Most people we get early on in the game won't even be flagged as having potential for this, but our starting 3 and the occasional lucky rolled recruit will. We want to keep these people alive as long as possible since at high levels they can carry a fight.
Soldier/[Weapon]man: Tier 2 Front line troops. They have excellent defenses, resolve, and fatigue and at higher levels may specialize in specific weapon types.
Marksman: Tier 2 Ranged troops. With exceptional Ranged attack skill Marksmen should be able to hit just about any target reliably.
Lancer: Tier 2 Polearm/Greatweapon troops. Very high Melee attack skill makes them one of the primary damage dealers of our Company.
Ranger: Tier 2 Hybrid troops, should be effective at any range and nearly any role. Probably the most diverse role as far as builds go, since there are many combinations they can go in depending on what gear we pick up as we go.

The game uses a Name & Title system, but since it just shows Name on the battlefield I do Job and then Name. I don't generally care which person it is, I just care about what Job they have so I know what to expect from them.

As far as customization goes, we're a bit limited. You can pick a basic look (Face, Hair color & cut, beard, body type), but most of that won't matter as soon as we start wearing heavier armor.

Since I have the Battle Sisters mod in place there is 1 Female head (out of 20) and one Female body (out of 4). If a merc has either that is Female I make them Female, otherwise they are Male. This is easily changed at a barber shop, though, so it's no big deal if we want to swap things around later. Fortunately, barber shops are free to use.

If you want to claim a soldier, feel free. Just let me know what Name you want to use, how you want them to look (in general), and you can plot out a Perk progression for them if you like. You can also let me know what Role you'd like them to be in, though I may overrule that if their stats suck for the role (or if they have great stats for some other role).




Timewise, I'll get this started tomorrow. So anyone who wants to vote on the Company Name/Banner has about 12 hours or so to do so. I'll go through the first tutorialish part of the game in the first posting, and then we can go from there.

[Madman198237]

Well, it's probably too late anyway, but this is basically just a PTW anyway, right?

Banner:
Three Axes
Company:
Northmen Guard

[Mephansteras]

Very well, we are The Last Loyalists Mercenary Company.

Spoiler: Setup (click to show/hide)

Oh, and a house rule I am playing with: I don't get to use the 'retreat' button unless we are all going to be able to run without issue or if everyone who can get to the map edge is there. I find it a bit cheaty to use that button to retreat from a fight we're losing while in melee with enemies, since by the game mechanics that should almost certainly get us killed but with the button it automatically succeeds with some minor injuries.

Spoiler: The End and the Beginning (click to show/hide)

We were part of another mercenary company, led by a different captain. Our 'character', the new captain, never actually fights and can't die unless we lose the campaign. It's a little odd. But for our purposes, I'm the Captain and the things you guys suggest are basically the will of the soldiers in the company.


Here we have our starting situation. Our guys all face Right, the enemy always faces Left. Allies of ours will also face Left, but we don't have any of those here.

Around us lie our fallen comrades, victims of the ambush. The Enemy Archer is their leader, Hoggart, who is running away. I don't *think* it is possible to kill him at this point. In any case, we can ignore him and focus on the two remaining bandits.


Both sides move around a bit, with me maneuvering to try and keep that Axe from doing too much damage to us.


Not much exciting really happens. We trade blows a bit, with our own Axe man taking the brunt of the damage. But we manage to take them out in short order and with no serious injuries on our side.


Our archer missed a lot, actually, so we took more damage than we really would have liked. But our front line troops did solidly, and those wounds will heal in a day, so we're in decent shape. And the XP is good.


Loot! The beginning is basically the same every time, with some variation on the enemy loadouts. In our case, we got pretty lucky. That dagger is actually a very nice pickup, and the axe is solid.


And so our adventure starts.

Spoiler: The World (click to show/hide)

The world map is always randomly generated. Well...continent map, I suppose. It's not a huge area, but it's big enough given that we're on foot the whole time.

We started in the south. There are three noble families who control the various cities and settlements on the map. You can see who owns what by the banners over each town.


These guys seem like jerks, but we're starting in their area and will likely end up doing a lot of missions in their cities. Such is life.


Midlands


These guys seem all right, and the have the most to do with what seems to be our Company's history, so we may want to try to work for them when we get enough Renown to actually get the attention of the Nobles. Though they only have a few holdings in the middle region, so if war breaks out between the houses that could get rough.


North


They don't seem bad, but are pretty far north so we may not get to their towns for a bit. We'll eventually go everywhere, though, so we'll see their lands in time.

Spoiler: The Survivors (click to show/hide)

Our starting soldiers. These mercs are all pretty good, usually good enough to have the potential to reach Tier 2. That depends a lot on our luck with level ups, and on them surviving long enough of course.


Our starting Archer is quite good, even if he did miss a few shots in that fight. Definitely Marksman potential here. He also had Deathwish (no morale loss from taking hits) and Iron Lung (recovers more fatigue each round). Those are amazing traits, and a bit wasted on a Crossbowman. But, eh, at least if things get rough he probably won't break. We may want to switch him to bow, though, as bow users tend to need fatigue more than crossbows.

By the way, the stars on stats show what they are likely to get the best growth in as we level up. So having stars on relevant stats is important. The more stars, the better.


Our Axe man is good Lancer material. 60 Melee skill with 2 stars means he's going to be a killing machine if he gets high enough level. Eagle Eye gives him +1 vision, which is...basically wasted on him. Really wish he and the marksman had switched traits. Ah, well. We give him the nice dagger we picked up so he has an option to attack people without needing to wreck the armor in the process if we want to salvage some.


Turns out Wilhelm is really Wilhelmina. No matter, she's solid Soldier material. Her shield is buffing her defense stats, but she does start with high values in each. That, combined with her excellent starting Melee skill and stars in Health, Fatigue, and Resolve mean she should develop into quite the force on the front line. She will be the rock that we anchor our team on.

Spoiler: Back to the Matter at Hand (click to show/hide)

A costly victory, but a victory nonetheless. We should go get paid for our work!




We're 400 crowns richer and we've been given the starter contract to go do. We don't have to do this, but I see no reason not to. It's an easy enough mission with good rewards.


This is Seefeld. Not much of a town, with the only special building being the Harbor, but it's not a bad place to start. Fishing towns have some decent recruit options.

Up at the top you can see our supplies. Money, Food, Tools (to repair damaged equipment), Ammo (to resupply our quivers), and Medicine (to heal wounds). You can also see we have 3 our of the maximum 20 soldiers. We start with a lot of money with how I set things up and decent amounts of everything else. But we'll burn through that money quickly.


First order of business is hiring some new meat. Fishermen are solid choices, since they usually have good Fatigue and no bad stats. Since I consider Fatigue the single most important stat in the game...it bumps them up on the list. Not the cheapest recruits, but worth the extra few coins.

Flagellents are also pretty good, with high Fatigue and Resolve. Lower HP, but that's less of an issue. Good armor and defenses will do more for you than a large HP pool. He's rather expensive, but that's because he has a decent weapon in that fail he's holding. I consider passing on him, but with Wilhelmina's excellent Melee skill I really want her to have that flail.

So we hire all three. Hopefully we can get at least one Tier 1 troop out of the set.


Next up is the market. Not much here, but we pick up some extra supplies and a bit of gear. We'll head to a city next to see about more equipment in a bigger market.


We finally check out our new soldiers. The flagellant turns out to be an excellent pick up! He has both Sure-footed (+5 Melee Defense) and Brave (+5 Resolve). Those, combined with some solid starting stats and stars in both Melee skill and Health make him a solid Shieldman candidate.


One of the Fishermen has 3 stars in Melee Defense, making him an obvious Shieldman candidate. With some decent starting stats to go along with it, he's got great potential if he can live through our first few fights.


Our final recruit is a bit of a disappointment. He's almost archer or even skirmisher material, but has a bad Ranged skill to start with. His melee is good, but no star in it. If he had those rolls swapped or had stars in different areas he'd be good. But as it is, he's a Grunt. We'll just have to see how it shakes out. He has good Ranged Defense potential, so we may want to make him an Archer Hunter. It's a risky Role, but useful.


Off to Tiefenburg to do some shopping!


There are a few of these little 'Tips' at the start of the game. They're a nice flavor way of introducing game concepts.


Bigger city, more options. Armorer and Weaponsmith are too expensive for us now, but nice for later. Kennel is super nice, as war dogs can be incredibly handy, but I doubt we'll have the coin to spare on a dog quite yet.

The market should have more available, as should the pool of recruits.


Speaking of...

Farmers are good options, with high HP and Fatigue without being overly costly. Often come with Pitchforks as well (the low level polearm).

The sellsword is great, of course, but way too expensive to even think about early game. That Deserter on the bottom has potential, as he's already equipped as an archer and they tend to have decent stats except for Resolve. But that'd eat up a bit more coin than I'd like, as we want to get more gear for the troops we already hired.

The Minstrel and Miller aren't bad early recruits, but no better than the ones we already have potential-wise.

We grab the Farmer to round out our troops and head to the market where we pick up some more armor as well as some additional tools since our gear got rather beat up in that first fight. Plus, I tend to buy damaged gear since it is cheaper and then just repair it.


We quickly discover that our Farmer is actually a woman wearing a fake beard. Well, whatever, she turns out to be a very solid Shieldman pick up. She's Loyal, and so will not leave us if things get bad, which is always good. Great fatigue and stars in it will make her very solid on the front line, and she has good overall stats. Except Ranged attack, which she has two stars in. *sigh*

Probably won't bother to do anything with that, but we could consider eventually giving her some thrown weapons or something later on.

Spoiler: For Vengeance and Gold! (click to show/hide)

Back to Seefeld to start the mission. Most don't have this sort of lag between starting the mission and then doing stuff, but it's still basically the Tutorial. Except we can totally get slaughtered on this next mission if things go poorly.


Once back we're given the location of Hoggart and his troops, and we set off to take them out.


I'd rather not attack at night, as I'm pretty sure our archer is better than theirs. Besides we have some more repairs to make on our gear. So we camp for the night.



We attack at dawn!


The terrain favors us. I'd love to be able to lure them all up to that high ground, but I doubt they'll be that dumb. Still, it's a great spot for our Marksman and will give us the edge over their archer.

High ground is awesome in this game, it raises all your attacks and defenses by 10 and reduces any attacks coming in by 10.

Also, note that Haggart is the only one with a shield or wearing any armor of import. He's also not wearing a helm, which means I have a chance to get that armor! You see, Flails have an ability called Lash which has a 100% chance to hit the head if the shot lands. Head hits are basically guaranteed criticals and also mean we do no damage to the armor on the body.


As expected, they move in on our right flank away from the high ground. I move to make a better defensive position while our Marksman take his spot on the hill.


The initial contact goes quite well. We slaughter one of the thugs and take very minor hits in return. The wavering Morale of our opponents (the little white flags) mean that they'll be even less effective in combat. If we an get them to Break (full white flag) they will stop attacking and simply try to run, taking attacks of opportunity from everyone around them in the process. And in this game, a melee hit that lands stops the person from moving, meaning that fleeing is generally a death sentence unless you have a shield and are quite lucky.


Their hatchet wielding thug moves up and gets pretty much immediately taken down. Hoggart also moves in, while their archer moves up behind him to try and take cover from our Marksman. Who has, by the way, already gotten a solid hit on him.


The last of the thugs goes down. It's just Hoggart and his archer left.


A brutal turn follows. Our soldier gets in a very solid head hit on Hoggart with her flail, which causes him to waver. As we move in around him for the kill his morale breaks. We try to dagger him to death (using a special armor piercing attack) before he can run, but it is too late. He tries to flee and is brutalized in the process. Sadly, his armor was brutalized with him.

The Archer tried to flee, I was prepared and had Thora run him down. 

He is no match for proper melee troops and is quickly cut down at the start of the next turn.


Almost no injuries! Good XP on our new recruits, as well. No level ups, sadly, but most of the company should get enough XP next battle.


Sadly, we did not get the Mail armor from Hoggart. Not great, that. But the rest of the loot is decent and we pulled it off flawlessly otherwise, so I can't complain too much.


Vengeance for the fallen.



Back to town for our well deserved reward.


We picked up a very nice sword off of Haggart, which we give to Erland.

Spears have the best attack bonus at +20% on a normal attack. Swords have the next, at +10%. So it makes sense to give it to someone who doesn't have the best starting attack skill

From here we're free to do as we like. We'll probably go to one of the cities nearby to look for more contracts, as we'll need more money for better gear and maybe another recruit or two. We still have people wearing sack cloth and using straw hats as helms! We've done well so far, but things could go downhill very quickly without better gear.

That's it for a start. If anyone wants to claim a soldier to customize, let me know. Otherwise, I'll just do as I have been. Once we get to a town with a Barber shop we can do actual customizations, and Thora will probably lose her fake beard.


Oh, yes, one other thing we should decide now. Are we an Honorable or Dishonorable mercenary company? This will effect what choices I make in the various events that pop up in the game, which in turn eventually makes a difference in the types of missions we are offered.

So, for example, if we are hired to go retrieve some stolen item from some brigands and are offered more money from someone else to give it to them instead of the person who hired us, would we honor our contract or take the money?

[NickAragua]

I'd vote honorable. Unless somebody screws us over, then no mercy.

I'll take over Kurt with his 0% bandana and apparent love of "axing" people questions. Think I'll keep the name though.

[Rince Wind]

I'd vote honorable. Unless somebody screws us over, then no mercy.

I agree, and I would take Wilhelmina. Her fighting name shall be Storm from now on.

[Fishbreath]

I, too, vote honorable, and will snag Gernot the archer.

[Mephansteras]

Spoiler: Time to find more work (click to show/hide)

We head north just a bit to a big seaside city. Should be a good place to find work and new recruits.


Looks like a pretty good place. And, hey, they have a barber shop. Nice!


First off, though, let's check out that throng of people looking for work.

Sigmund here is a Mason, who tend to have decent stats and have a built in 5% XP boost. Seems like the best bet for now, since I'd rather not spend too much if we can help it. Always good to have a nice nest egg in case things go bad.


Solid Archer material, and we've got a bow lying around, so we hit the market and get him geared up.


We take a trip to the barber shop where Thora is restored to a more feminine appearance.

If anyone has some customization they'd like done to their soldier, let me know.


I check the Tavern just in case it has an interesting Rumor for free. We don't need the morale boost of a round of drinks since everyone is feeling pretty good after smacking Hoggart down. But it's a good place to check in to every once in a while.




Finally we check in with the mission available. It's a one skull, so it should be pretty doable. I could ask for more money, but we'll want to start building up rep with these towns quickly, so I won't. Better reputation with a town gives you better prices and better contracts, and getting an extra 20 crowns or so isn't worth ticking them off. Not now, at least.


A castle ruins in the hills past a bunch of swamps. Yay. Well, no one said being a merc was going to be easy.


On the way we get the option for our first Ambition. These are goals you can pick that give you a Renown bonus and usually some other reward, often a Morale boost for the company. I go with the 12 troops one, since it is easy and a good idea to do early.


I don't know if we're wading through shallows or we borrowed a row boat, but going over water is slooow.


Well, no sense in waiting around. All we can do is hope that whoever is inside isn't more than we can take on.

Spoiler: To Battle! (click to show/hide)

Normally, if you can see who you're fighting, this is the time to choose if you're going to do the fight or fall back and either come back later or ditch the mission. Since we don't know who's here, we'll just have to dive in.


4 Brigand Raiders. That's...not quite the worst thing ever but it's pretty close. These guys are all about level 4/5 and are wearing better equipment than anything we have. They also have a much better position than we do. Our only saving grace is that they don't have any archers.


We fall back to a more defensible position. Unfortunately, Kurt and Wilhelmina aren't able to get to a good spot. (sorry, forgot to rename her to Storm before this).


The raiders move in while we pepper them with projectiles. We don't do a whole lot of damage, though.


The combined efforts of the main force manage to down the raider who rushed in ahead. Unfortunately our new Archer took a nasty throwing axe hit. Even without archers raiders are a threat to our back field.

Meanwhile, Wilhelmina is tanking two of the Raiders. Kurt moves up to support and breaks the shield of one of the raiders using the special ability of his axe. Hopefully that'll let us take them down quick.

Even more hopefully, two of our best troops won't get killed before the rest of the team can move in to help them.


Turn 5 starts off rather poorly, with Kurt taking some nasty hits. We start moving the rest of the troops in to engage and help them out. Thora moves around a bit to try and flank the enemy.


We get in some good hits on the Raiders, but take more hits in return. Our Archer took another throwing axe and is nearly dead, and Kurt can't take much more either. One of the Shieldmen also takes some nasty hits.

Our ranged units are moving around the top of the cliff to try to get shots in without risking hitting our own troops.


My fears have come true. Both Kurt and Wilhelmina are downed in a single round by a series of vicious hits by the Raiders. We at least manage to take down one of them in the process, and Thora gets a good thunk in one the spear raider, stunning him.


We trade blows with the Raiders, but it is not going great. The wavering morale of our troops is hurting our ability to hit them.


Shieldman Erland goes down!


And Shieldman Torleif takes a nasty hatchet hit to the head. Both the remaining raiders have taken some good hits, though, and archers are in position to get in some good shots.


We're taking a nasty beating, but the axe raider is almost dead. Honestly, I think our pitchfork wielding Grunt might be MVP this fight. Having the attack bonus from height during all of this has let him do a lot of damage.


And he skewers the axe Raider to death, finally. Thora takes a nasty hit from the Raider and her morale breaks. Which is really bad, because if she tries to flee while he's next to her he'll get in free attacks against her and she'll likely die. Fortunately, he decided to use the fact that a Broken unit no longer has zone of control and stupidly hops down into a pit. Torleif manages to get in a final hit on the Raider and the battle is over.


Well, looks like Erland will survive, though he'll have a permanent injury to show for it. Our best two melee mercs are dead, however, and that's a blow that is going to be hard to recover from.


Well, we got some decent gear from the fight, though we also lost the armor that Kurt and Wilhelmina were wearing. I can't say this fight was worth it, really, but it wasn't so bad we can't recover from it.

Spoiler: Aftermath (click to show/hide)

The only good thing about that fight is that Raiders are worth a lot of XP, so most of the Company levels.

I forgot to capture Thora's stat levels, but they were pretty good Shieldman stuff (Fatigue, Defense, Offense). I give her Recover, which is a critical skill for many troops. Normally you just recover 15 Fatigue a turn, but most combat takes much more than that. You can basically skip a turn to get that 15 back without spending any, but it's not great. Recover lets you take a turn to get back half your fatigue, which is a much better use of a turn. Recover is pretty much mandatory for anyone on the shield line since both Shield Wall and most weapon attacks use up a lot of fatigue.


Here is the Level Up screen. You get to level up 3 of your stats, with the amounts rolled randomly when you level. Stars increase the amounts that the level up bonus can be. For most things the range is 1-4.

So you can see here that his 3 stars in Melee Defense give him a nice +4 to that stat. We take that, along with the +2 to Melee Attack and +3 to Fatigue. Not a bad level. As a front line unit he also takes Recover.


Our Grunt Thilmann seems to want to be a Skirmisher, so we'll oblige him. He gets Ranged Attack and Ranged defense, along with some Resolve.


He gets the Bags and Belts perk, which will let him carry more stuff into combat and get weighed down less by what he is carrying. This is only mildly helpful right now, but next level he can get a perk that'll let him swap 1 item out per turn for free, which is where Skirmishers really start to shine. I'll probably start building him to be an Archer Hunter, so he'll get nets as well as a Weapon and Shield to help him hunt them more safely.

It'll probably go horribly at some point, but Grunts are the expendable ones, after all.


Fishbreath: As the only one with a claimed soldier who leveled, you'll have to let me know what you want me to do with Gernot. We can build him as a Multi-shot Archer (which his Iron Lungs helps with) or we can keep him with the Crossbow and make him more of a sniper. Which would you prefer?

If I get into a fight before you reply I'll probably level him as a Multi-shot archer, but I'm probably done for today so you have a little time to get back to me.


We head back to town and get our pay. 330 crowns wasn't worth it, but at least it's more money to help rebuild.

We've also removed the negative 'Ambushed Caravans' modifier from the town which improves the prices here. They're not great, but at least we're not paying through the nose for new gear now.


I sell off some stuff we don't need, but hold off on buying much until we have some new troops. We need to know how much money we have and what gear they'll need.


Caravan Guards can be pretty good, and he's not too pricey. So we hire this guy.


Thieves are expensive, but have good defenses so they can be good picks. We'll just have to hope this guy is worth it.

They also have some events where they can get us some coin, so he may pay for himself if we're lucky. He also comes with a nice dagger, which is part of why he's expensive. And those daggers are pretty worthwhile.


Well, not great. He's a Drunkard and his only good stat is Health. But he'll be an ok front line Grunt, and we do need those.


Our Caravan Guard is almost great. Except that his starting attack stats suck. So he's a Grunt. He does have Brute, though, which means he's a good Flail candidate.


Oh, and Erland has Brain Damage. He won't level up very quickly, but he's a least brave. We may want to make him our Sergeant and/or Standard Bearer later on.

[Madman198237]

Wow. Sometimes this game just loves to beat you up, doesn't it?

[Rince Wind]

Umm, good thing Storms brother is a caravan guard that wants to revenge her! Our parents preferred girls though, and called him Breeze.

[NickAragua]

After spending some time talking to Grunt Thilmann, it actually turns out that he has a lisp, and his name is "Silmann". How awkward.