Warbanners

Warbanners

Warbanners is a turn-based, tactical strategy game with role-playing elements. Managing a squad of mercenaries, the player will experience the story campaign’s 42 missions, battle through a meticulously crafted fantasy world, and achieve the ultimate goal: become a true legend!

Key features:
• Create and modify your unique, well-prepared army; hire and equip soldiers, develop their fighting qualities, and learn new exotic skills.
• Hire assistants! They will not participate in battles themselves, they never engage in dangerous activities, but they will provide you with several bonuses and options. Expect a catapult, poisoned enemies, increased morale, and much, much more.
• Immerse yourself in a multi-faceted battle system that takes into account a variety of factors, including landscape morphology and lighting, each unit’s field of view, morale, and even fatigue.
• Manipulate the battlefield environment to gain tactical advantages! Freeze rivers, chop down and burn trees, dig trenches, construct bridges and barricades, and so on.
• Choose the optimal level of difficulty for your tactical fantasy RPG experience; from easy for beginners, to nightmarish for sophisticated tacticians.

With every step you take in Warbanners –each and everyone marked by blood and iron– an invisible but deadly threat will become more tangible. Darkness itself, brooding in the corners of your soul, shall become ever more palpable. Who said earning your place among ancient legends would be easy?

Warbanners Review

Warbanners is a deep, turn-based tactical game with light rpg elements. Set piece battles take place on a hex grid, with interactive environments. Build your mercenary company to suit your play style. Recruit ranged, melee, healers, and magic users from several fantasy races. Hire heroes that give you access to new units and buffs. Outfit your troops with potions and magic items. Your units will gain experience as you progress, leveling up and learning new abilities.

The scope of the game is focused on squad level tactics, like battle brothers. It’s not an open world sandbox like BB, but the storyline for the campaign is serviceable enough. ( Saving orphans from an evil necromancer should be universally satisfying. ) The ruleset and mechanics are just deep enough to be meaningful, but not overwhelming. You’ll be considering health, morale, fatigue, lines of sight, and terrain. You’ll form shield walls, prepare defensive positions, and use the environment to your advantage.

Keep in mind that it’s an old school tbs, not an rpg. The rpg elements are light, and only serve to make it a deeper strategy game. I like battle brothers, but I feel like the rpg elements are wrapped around a mediocre combat system. I spend most of my time tinkering with weapons and equipment. In Warbanners, you can’t mess with weapons or armor. You get a couple slots for generic potions and items, and most troops get a couple abilities that scale up with exp. The combat though, is deep and visceral. I was really surprised at how exciting the battles were. The rules and mechanics are easy to grasp, so from the start your tangling with the enemy and not the ruleset. Wargamers will absolutely approve.

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Summary
A pleasant single player game full of surprises, especially for a one-man-army project. The solid core mechanics are well exploited in a variety of missions, resulting in much more content that you may expect.
Good
  • Old school turn based tactics game
  • Writing is solid and interesting
  • The addition of assistants is quite cool
Bad
  • Voice acting could be a bit better
7.7
Good
Gameplay - 7.6
Graphics - 7.7
Audio - 7.6
Longevity - 7.8

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