Advanced Battle Brothers combat mechanics, each explained straight from the game's own script files. For players who want to know exactly how the game decides things.
The tactical AI's turn-by-turn choice to charge your line or hang back and shoot, as a flow chart of yes/no questions you can read straight off the battlefield.
Read itA hidden morale penalty: taking a hit while low on hitpoints makes a brother more likely to break, even though his displayed Resolve never changes.
Read itEvery morale check is adjusted by who stands next to a brother: adjacent allies steady him, adjacent enemies push him toward breaking.
Read itWhich items a slain enemy drops, set by durability and a hidden roll. When you can influence it (armor, helmets, shields) and when you cannot (weapons).
Read itYour standing with each settlement and noble house, how attacking, killing, and broken contracts lower it, and how a loss with one spills over to the other.
Read itWhether a camp holds a famed (named) item is fixed at world generation, from the camp type and its distance to the nearest town. Nothing you do in the fight changes it.
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