Can you survive a mid-game squad wipe?

[irishmafia2020]

I am on my first game, and without save scumming I would have lost most of my squad on several seperate occasions. Even during a recent battle I realized too late that only 3-4 bros were going to survive, but I am on day 60 and losing most of my leveled up guys seemed like an apocolypse. Is it possible to survive these squad wipes? Left to my own devices I would have been down to 3 bros repeatedly, and I wonder if I could have continued in a game where the mid game battles typicaly pitch me against 12-20 enemies.

Separate question - how do you increase the likelyhood of capturing armor?

Separate question - can bros use Orc weapons, or are these only good for loot/sale?

[♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥]

It's really difficult to come back from losing the majority of your brothers especially if they are experienced and your renown is to a point where you are taking on significantly more difficult contracts and enemies, you need to have a good stash of crowns to be able to recover effectively and even then it becomes an issue of grinding them back to where your casualties were originally at, choosing your battles and minimizing your risk of losses is huge.

You obtain enemy armor by not destroying it entirely, so if you want that Bandit Leader's Direwolf Chainmail have your guys surround and Equip Daggers using the Puncture skill to directly attack HP same principle applies to head armor as well.

All bros can equip Orc weapons yes, but that doesn't mean they should, you need a large amount of fatigue to use them, so it really comes down to their individual stats.

[Belial]

It is quite obvious when you are going to lose the battle. Key here is to retreat if you are not sure you're going to win. never try to clutch it out unless you're prepared to start over.

If you retreat after losing 2 or 3 brothers mid-game you have enough gold to rebuild. I once rebuilt after losing 5 brothers. If you lose 8-10 bros its going to be very hard to rebuild on ironman

[WastedTrojan]

You can come back from it. Enemies scale partly to your strength of roster. If you lose a lot of bros just hire some cheap guys to do easy contracts, doesn't matter if they die and then just replace them with better recruits as you get the money.

[irishmafia2020]

Alright - thanks for the info!

[Azov]

Originally posted by irishmafia2020:

Alright - thanks for the info!

Orc weapons are alright for bros who have iron lungs, so the extra fatigue cost kind of balances itself out. Also, I've heard that famed orc cleavers are best in game.

[LancelotTheJust]

Flails 2nd ability are guarantied to hit the head, Have one for Weasel and Some raiders don't wear Head Armor, so it's very useful early game

[WadeStar]

Survive? Yes...

As far as everything beyond that, the others have pretty much covered it.

[the dark wizard]

It is... you might have to farm easy fights, pull nobelhouses or militias into your fights... or simply hunting farmers for easy exp...

If you pretty much wipe you need to know that you can't just trottle on, you need to change the mindset.

Is it hard? yeaaah boii it is... but you can do it.

[kevin_63643221]

Team wipe is great learning experience on what your company is lacking. I got ambushed in the woods by ancient legionnaires on day 80ish once, because I couldn’t deal with shields effectively on chock points, and ran in to fatigue problems, I lost half the squad came out of it. Recovered with this in mind, and built a stronger team with grind.

[BrowneHawk]

You can bounce back. And if you play without permanent destruction on you will be fine even if you wipe with a crises close by. Crises resolve on their own, so if you're too weak to fight it, not a huge deal.

[Gilius Thunderhead]

Weird old me, I see the death of multiple brothers as an opportunity to finally get new (and hopefully better) brothers