How I Build My Rosters for Success (Not A Scam) - Battle Brothers Beginners' Guide

[@scottystcloud7086]

It amazes me how well this game was built and balanced. Its really hard, but yet replayability is limitless. You'll never have the same team.

[@andrewmccoy2547]

This is some really good battle brothers content, I have been looking for a video like this for a while

[@CarveaHole]

Thank you, that means a lot to me :D

[@maurohornus9446]

The best channel!

[@CarveaHole]

@@maurohornus9446 Thank you!

[@MartinTraXAA]

Hell, just the explanation for the name of the video was worth a follow. Actually put thought into it, and made a good point on the way!

[@CarveaHole]

I appreciate that compliment, thank you!

[@James-yb5hm]

Just grabbed this game on sale recently and I'm having so much fun with it, I just have the problem of getting to around day 100 or 150 and my party is still all raider gear and everyone is built the same way... Also I feel like I waste perks on stuff I don't need. This guide helped a lot thanks

[@Baneb1984]

Glad to see another battle brothers video, and its especially relevant to me!

[@CarveaHole]

Glad to hear it my man :D

[@joshwhelan3586]

Cheers for making the videos bro, I appreciate the knowledge required to create these videos, I'm new to the game and this is sure a great help

[@CarveaHole]

Thank you! I'm glad they're helpful. I'm always available to answer any questions you have, so ping me whenever

[@aylictal]

I somewhat follow most of what you said early game. Some things I differ on. I do run double gripped on my higher melee attackers. If I have a bigger backline however, most of my frontline gets a shield especially if they have sub 60 atk starting. Its just kinda pointless not giving them a shield. That said my double gripped guys also have a shield in their backpack for if they get focused they can swap to it and shield wall immediately if they survive to their turn. I too run tanks unlike a lot of people on reddit but my ideal setup would only have 2. I think 3 is a little overboard. Both are on the far extreme sides. Other than that everything else I'm in complete agreeance. Well done :)

[@CarveaHole]

I don't understand why it's "kinda pointless not giving them a shield". It's more damage. Pocket shields makes sense, for sure. Yeah 2-3 tanks is a preference. There are many fights where having the third has helped me and not as many where he was a liability (except for stupid easy fights where it was cause he took longer to kill things).

[@aylictal]

@@CarveaHole Its kind of pointless because someone has to get hit on your team period, early game that is. Theres no magic equation anywhere that the enemy just simply misses you when you're level 1/2 and have 5 melee defense. If you run into them without a shield equipped at that level you're gonna get hit 9 times out of 10, and to avoid that from happening, you strap a shield on him so theres at least a chance that they dont get hit versus virtually no chance at all that they dont get hit.

[@aylictal]

Also more damage is always great, but at level 1/2 we're talking about tier 1 weapons on bros, and I'm sorry but 25% damage on a tier 1 spear is 5 extra damage, versus taking a 50 damage pitchfork or worse to your own. Double gripped makes much more sense once you start getting those better weapons that can benefit much more from the damage scaling. Again this is my opinion, but feel free to disagree with me on this.

[@CarveaHole]

@@aylictal I believe that you can avoid most hits by playing correctly, which may come from being hyper aggressive but not necessary. Then there's the matter that you can survive a hit or two, so the shield only matters if you would've died from those hits. When brigand thugs have 30 mail on, doing an extra 7 damage with a militia spear (25-30 average is 27.5 --> 27.5*1.25= 34.375) on two bros is half the armor gone by not taking the shields. Enemy HP is lower on thugs, their armor is lower, thus the 25% matters just like it does late game.

[@prodoomer3166]

Thanks for this, so much stuff I had no idea about. I'm a noobie and I dont think I've ever even made it to the mid game content prolly cause I do alot things early that you caution against. Subscribed

[@CarveaHole]

You're welcome! You can message me on discord or here if you have any questions :)

[@Narago.]

I really love your guides. Please return soon to YT with your gameplay and guides

[@CarveaHole]

Thank you! Your comment means a lot to me

[@chrisb6664]

Rly agree with @Narago ... love your Videos! :)

[@alfarabi73]

I use four tanks, so they can cover every damage dealer and take pressure off of them when needed. It works fine.

[@mrfreeman2911]

Later you have two handed guys with battle forged, high mdef and the best armour. Tanks lack dps and that's a reason people can use 0 tanks in the end.

[@petresko1041]

"Who.. needs.. shields?" Goblins would like to have a word.

[@lolasdm6959]

goblin spear enjoyer would like a word

[@robcharette1915]

I give them names like Polearm Pete so I know what my goal is with them later game and I only name guys I care about as you suggested

[@xadierz1816]

I REALLY REALLY NEEDED THIS! thank you can't wait for the next vid

[@CarveaHole]

You're welcome :)

[@scottfuscomusic]

What do you think of the early game lumberjack 2h axe? I use it a lot and like it on my middle frontliners but have never compared it vs a 1h double grip weapon.

[@CarveaHole]

You're probably hurting your damage output because you only swing once per turn and have low Matk. I'm not a fan of it myself.

[@JohnSmith-bs9ym]

I honestly thought double grip in the early game is horrible advice. Yeah, it's 25% increase of damage, but your spear does like only 30 damage at most so that's only like a 7.5 damage increase in actuality. Meanwhile, a shield gives you like 15 melee defense, which is huge in the early game where you have only 5 melee defense. That's a whopping 300% increase!!

[@CarveaHole]

No, it really does make a difference. If you wanna watch me take double grip no shields to the max, watch PuggoReborn's most recent tournament where I play. Other great players like Deducter agree on this point. The extra mdef is nice but on your damage dealers you want to minimax by double gripping.

[@JohnSmith-bs9ym]

​@@CarveaHole It just makes no sense statistically. I'll have to experiment on it to see what's going on, but I'm not optimistic about it.

[@zackmafane8200]

Great video. I wanted to ask why do you have arrows, bullets or bolts in all your bros, is it just fpr inventory manegment ?

[@aylictal]

In a big fight if a bro dies they can drop the arrows on the ground sometimes enabling a ranged user who has ran out of ammo to resupply. It's not much but its something. They also do not add fatigue.

[@CarveaHole]

Yes, it's just for inventory management. Not discounting what others say, but I don't do it for any other reason.

[@GanjaMasterBlaster]

Thank you very much for this video It teaches me more of about Battle Brothers (I don't know much and look for any guide) Are you gonna make a video about armor ?

[@CarveaHole]

What about armor do you want to know? I have an old video about weapons and armor.

[@GanjaMasterBlaster]

@@CarveaHole well any armor really, i don't know, also i already now about that video with the weapons and armor

[@ThinkingCap_]

I appreciate this video so much.. I am new and struggling lol

[@CarveaHole]

You're welcome. I'm available to answer any questions :)

[@ASAINsensation]

should I be going to 12 bros by day 30~? I'm consistently fielding 8 bros total around this time and I'm hitting a brick wall; would 12 bros make a big difference? I'm on the base game btw

[@CarveaHole]

Some people say that they like keeping small companies because the enemy parties are smaller. There's merit to that, although I prefer to make my companies larger so they grow quicker. Adren spam early game does better with more people, but reserved play works better with smaller teams I'd wager.

[@ASAINsensation]

@@CarveaHole thank you! I'm watching all your videos to get better at this game!

[@CarveaHole]

@@ASAINsensation You're welcome! Lemme know if you have any more questions. You can find me on discord too.

[@ASAINsensation]

@@CarveaHole awesome! Thank you! I'm on the new players channel on discord all the time =P

[@CarveaHole]

@@ASAINsensation I'm in puggo's server, not the main.

[@witchaponkitthaworn5998]

thanks for video, would love to see your in-depth tactic for Legends mod as well, as I tried it and I think it's a whole new level difficulty. (from what already hard of this game)

[@CarveaHole]

I haven't played legends so that will have to wait for another time. Sorry!

[@ridwanurrahman1967]

I watch your videos to learn and play my own campaigns, could you make a break down of what you do from day 1 to day 100, I just ended up running quests and not accomplishing much; also, when do you consider a campaign successful?

[@CarveaHole]

I consider a campaign successful when I don't have anything more I wanna do with it. Very broad, but after 1000 hours of play time, my goals have shifted and I enjoy different things than I used to - it's a personal point for every player. As for the day 1 to 100 video, that's tough. My day 100 probably looks different from yours if you play slower than I do. Pop into my RPG series and see where I'm at and compare the days with your campaigns.

[@ninthshade7375]

6:34 "There's ways to identify... how good people are and how much you should care about them." Is... is this good advice for IRL too? :^)

[@CarveaHole]

LOL

[@Boondoggle_Mollywop]

Are we really not going to talk about the lore behind that nickname at 1:32?

[@CarveaHole]

It's an event in game lol

[@Sighduf]

What exacly gives that yellow stars on stats ? If you have 100% Mele Atack it is giveing more damage or more accuracy ? Or you get better rolls for this stat or what ?

[@CarveaHole]

Stars are randomly given to bros at their spawning. On average, stars give you +5 in a stat. For melee attack, for instance, 0 stars means you roll 1-3 every level; 1 star is 2-3; 2 stars is all 3; 3 stars is 3-4. Thus your average goes from 20 to 25 to 30 to 35 depending on your stars. In short, it's all about projected stat points.

[@ToejamDcheflok]

Very nice video! But 2 things that I don't understand. How can I repair equipment and how do I heal my team outside of fights? Can anyone help?

[@CarveaHole]

Thanks! You can repair equipment at an armorer by right clicking it. You can heal injuries at a temple (or over time with med supplies), hp heals over time naturally.

[@BuzzKirill3D]

Thanks. What do you mean by "Initiative tank"?

[@CarveaHole]

An initiative tank is a tank with high initiative, and thus they get a lot of mdef from dodge. Ideally, they have good base mdef to back it up.

[@JoaoVictor-rg5ix]

This strategy works for every difficult level? And every enemy army?

[@CarveaHole]

I play on expert so yes to the first. As for the second, no this guide is general and I will make adjustments depending on enemies as needed. Sometimes against more archers I may start with shields, or against ancient undead the spears go away. Don't take this all (or any guide) as inflexible.

[@Letermal19]

are you gonna make a video about perks as well? i could really use some tips

[@CarveaHole]

I have two videos analyzing every perk in the game, but I think they're pre Blazing Deserts. What perks do you wanna know more about? I can answer here.

[@wolfapostle]

Where u get all these nice named gear? I either find shields or helmets mostly....

[@CarveaHole]

In the mid game campaign I guess I've been lucky / aggressive in finding things. The late game campaigns have gone through a lot of time so it's a product of that.

[@jacquesventer3170]

Been helping me a lot, is there anywhere where we can see this most famous company's perks for each position?

[@CarveaHole]

Not all at the same time. My spreadsheet of builds has them but they aren't labeled to each bro.

[@ying2765]

How come you run daggers secondary on everyone?

[@CarveaHole]

No fatigue cost and you can use the puncture ability to nab armors from enemies.

[@Br4Ker]

this game in 3d and not roundbased.... oh man I would love it.

[@CarveaHole]

Wartales is hyped up to be a 3d battlebrothers. Reminds me more of dnd but to each their own. Urtuk does not have rounds (and is 2d), that game is a lot of fun.

[@CloningIsTooGoodForSheep]

Great video.

[@frankfiore3886]

do you have a video for players just getting into battle bros ? or can you make one please ?

[@frankfiore3886]

also this vid made me realize how bad i am at this game lol :*(

[@CarveaHole]

I suggest looking around my channel because I have dozens of videos and several playlists. I have a BB intro guide, and "Battlefield Nuances" is another video I recommend for new players.

[@frankfiore3886]

@@CarveaHole ty

[@itskai3522]

any tips for fighting lindwurms? I cant fight 2 or 3 at the same time. My bros are lvl 10 and I only have 10 bros. This is my first time playing BB. 100 days in game time.

[@CarveaHole]

Well you're adventurous for taking them on so props for that. Taunt the head with a tank and give everyone else reach weapons to hit the tail, so they stay out of ZoC. I've done a lindwurm video recently, it's a stream highlight.

[@itskai3522]

And I just saw a trade caraven with 10 southern conscripts maybe 9 if you count donkey, they had a fight with 4 lindwrums. Not only they won the fight but also all of them are alive. I feel shitty now. Also thank you brother.

[@Oryxification]

I managed to kill a lindwirm in the early game by helping out another merc company fighting it. Holy shit theyd have died fighting it without is. That thing is tough.

[@okbrah4186]

I learned nothing

[@efkandemireren568]

how on earth did you get that many named items

[@graceevigael8583]

How do u decide to build nimble or battle forged on brother?

[@simonmuller7461]

It depends on fatigue mostly. A high fatigue character usually goes battleforged, and low stam usually goes nimble. Basically, early and bad brothers go nimble, but once you got some decent armor and bros, you should go battleforged.

[@graceevigael8583]

@@simonmuller7461 how high the fatigue is that? All i do the bro with 2 or 3 star on fatigue i just build battle forged 😂

[@simonmuller7461]

@@graceevigael8583 that is up to you. You can even build low stam battleforged 2Handers, i personnally like having around 70 fatigue for a 2Hander and around 80 for a duelist.

[@aylictal]

Yeah that question "how high fatigue" is kind of loaded. 2h users, especially polearms, need very little fatigue at all to function, but duelists with an orc axe can never have enough fatigue. Tanks too need a lot of fatigue as they spam fat hungry abilities like indom shield wall taunt rotate. Its kind of funny though, my 2h axe users are running battleforged with 35 fatigue in 320/320 with no issues at all unless they get injured.

[@CarveaHole]

I think 125 is a baseline minimum for myself to make a bro BF. I've been using a lot of nimble lately.

[@HenryBuyssie]

no sound?

[@bonnard666]

how do you get so much famed items at 95 days, i have 0 to 2...

[@CarveaHole]

Bust a lot of camps

[@josegustavocoelho3243]

Bold to double grip with only 110 body armor on your dudes

[@CarveaHole]

I've found that it's worth it, if you play well the damage taken shouldn't get too high. More prone to bad RNG and punishment from mistakes, obviously.

[@apollokun2192]

Why the daggers?

[@CarveaHole]

To get armor from human enemies by puncturing them at the end of battles. It preserves armor durability which increases drop chance.

[@Ratt611]

This game is hard.

[@Brocuzgodlocdunfamdogson]

So, what’s the story with Gebhard?😂😂

[@samiam4788]

I name mine bros "meat" "front line" "big bro" and "berserker" i only care if the last two die

[@sullyvanbastien4526]

I'm not sure that two or three tanks is enough at all. I use tanks to hold major threats on the field. But, when you can't hold all threats, your damage bro's will take hits and can get killed. I think that 1/3 of the bro's need to be tanks. With that, you can hold way more threats, and concentrate your hits where your company is the squishier. In this video, we see Harun, with 37 melee defense, 145/120 armor 90 hp nimble, that's very, very low for a lategame. And he is in frontline. You must be very lucky, or have a broken battle plan to make this work. He just get shotted by 4 arbalesters in one or two turns and he's dead. And your tanks aren't that amazing. No one is above 80MDEF. At least they have great stats on resolve. With only 3 OK tanks and squishy and exposed damage bros, i really want to know how can you beat all kind of enemies. If we could chose enemies in this game, i would chose to fight only nobles, and build a company full of daggers, and it will work. How can you beat shrats ? the only bros that can damage their shield are in frontline, and can take mid life after they destroy the shield of one shrat. You are playing a lot with adrenaline. Ok, that seems good at early game, fights won't last so long. But for nobles or orcs, you can't have enough damage to deal in two turn to kill them all or make them flee. And after this, your men will be tired. You won't press adrenaline a second time, it will be completely useless. It's usefull to launch a fullscale attack at the end of a turn, and the beggining of the next one. There's no doubt that your company deal a lot of damages, but with this strat, you can easily lose a bro in a battle. You send one of your damage to an enemy sergeant. 95%, you miss. Adrenaline. Next turn, 95%, you miss again. The sergeant do not miss. One arbalester hits you, with two billmen. And it's a RIP.

[@meixo9083]

ok nice vid, but why the fuck do you show the stash instead of the perks?????

[@yeeet3898]

ffs can u show the perk path

[@hommhommhomm]

Step 1: have 1000 hours

[@skinnahxx]

I smell fart.

[@AlesZvolanek]

you can easily skip first 90 secs of the video, its just useless introduction nobody cares about.

[@CarveaHole]

There's a big conception of a "single right way" in the BB community, so I think that introduction is quite useful to guard newer players from it. Glad you didn't need it!

[@guunarlarsensmith7148]

Filthy robot is out dated

[@range78]

I'm just here because I've been scammed too many damn times. Carvaea straight up says this isn't a scam. I wish the other scammers had given me the same courtesy: just let me know if it's a scam. EZPZ. If you're a scammer, just say 'hey, im a scammer', that way I know. thanks.

[@CarveaHole]

I literally never lie, and that's no lie ;)

[@sdfPZXC]

how can u not attacked when using double grip? cause when u go melee enermy will likely focus no shield guy

[@CarveaHole]

I use shields on some bros, and with good positioning I try to only get hit enough to not cause serious injuries or death. Positioning with the shield bros is key