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Currently upgrading to Blazing Sands.



(To fully uninstall, delete the game files and reinstall from Steam.)

Legends Mod

New Origins

25 scenarios to choose from including berserker, assassin, sisterhood, the undead and randomised scenarios

Vanilla scenarios enhanced with new perks, equipment, backgrounds and events

Starts have campaign wide effects and many new mechanics

Company management

Extensive camping system with task assignments and upgrade paths

Up to 27 mercenaries on the field at one time

Save your troops into formations to prepare for different battles

Assign up to 27 people to reserves, but they are forced to fight if you're attacked

Backgrounds that matter

Different backgrounds have unique and dynamic perk trees with entirely different abilities, millions of combinations

340+ perks (vanilla has ~50)

Backgrounds contribute to camp tasks and world resources (apprentices repair, caravan hands carry etc)

Non combat specialists (donkeys, chefs, healer herbalists, taxidermists, nuns )

Backgrounds effects movement speed over different terrains (miners in mountains, hunters in forests etc)

Tryout when hiring now reveals talent stars and perks

Female specific backgrounds that are appropriate to the time with additional faces, bodies, names, events and hairstyles.

Every mercenary can level to 99, with new perk points every 5 levels beyond 11.



New gear

Layered armor system, hundreds of armor pieces with millions of combinations.

Dozens of new weapons, halberds glaives, swordstaves, tools, instruments, orc weapons and more.

Shield rework including tower shields, parrying daggers, aggressive bucklers

Craftable legendary items, potions, armor, weapon

Rare rune stones that add powerful upgrades to your items.

New Enemies

Legendary versions of all enemies in legendary difficulty mode

Powerful new enemies like hulking orc behemoths and Necrosavant Lords

Spawn system overhauled to allow diverse enemy parties.

Scaling extended out for larger parties and longer games

36 new enemies including 8 new Legendary Beast variants that can be hunted through four skull contracts

Dynamic world

Ingame sliders to control world size cities, factions, oceans

New "legendary" difficulty settings

Increased blood and magic effects

increased ambushes, can be ambushed closer to settlements

Increased event frequency





Mod compatibility



Installing

download the zip, and place it in: steamapps/common/Battle Brothers/data There is no need to unzip it, and there should be nothing else in the folder except the dat files. Requires the latest 1.3.0.25 version of Battle brothers, Beasts and Exploration, Warriors of the North and Lindwurm DLCs

Uninstalling



Remove the zip file from the data directory. Your modded saves will not work in vanilla



Bugs



Future plans

In development:

New enemies

Horses

More starts, skills and events

Improved terrain generation algorithms

On roadmap:

More tactical maps

More enemies

More crises

Town management

Tips

Difficulty settings are changed, normal is the closest to vanilla

You can unlock more roster slots through commander perks.

Each background contributes to your resource limits, heal rates and camp tasks.

Noble houses start at war and can now be completely wiped out, consider your allies well.

Try saving formations to protect your wounded soldiers

Contributors:



An overhaul mod that increases replayability and variety. New alternate starts, classes, enemies, weapons and armor, abilities, events, effects, company management and world customisation. Read the article covering where we stand with all the major mods. Short version is, most are either included already or incompatible.Please report any bugs to the Legends team before contacting the devs. The easiest way is to post your log to our Discord Server . If you're not sure how to report a bug, follow the bug reporting guide Legends is under active development, with any project this size there are bugs. We welcome your comments and will continue to iterate based on your feedback. Ironman is not a great idea while we're in beta.This is just the start, we have much more content already in development and plans to touch nearly every aspect of the game.If you want to submit idea, ask questions or try out the latest test builds before they are released here, try our discord server Rule303 - Lead programmer, world generation, formations, perktrees, camping, necromancy and backgroundsPoss - Lead experience designer, art, sound, perks, backgrounds, skills, events, effects, writingVazl - vala, backgrounds, rune system, eventsKarl - Character art, enemies, armor, weapons, itemsVon Krolok - Enemy Art, skills, effects and ItemsPixel Profligate - Armor artWuxiangjinxing - Programming and testingSoSaltySalt - programmingForest Wraith - weapon artMwah - programingFreykin - programmingNive - concept design, writingKidneySwap - audioSpuds of the Apocalypse - programmingTrenas - icons and buildingsHuman - icons and weaponsNikak17 - weapons and armorEpicdemic - perksSnowblaze239458 - Events and backgroundsThePinkPanzer - WritingCoffee_Guy - concept developmentTimboslice - writing and editingAnrio - eventsWhatIsAMan - titlesSpecial thanks toLeVillainJoueur - for the cool balance ideas and letting us incorporate some of them into LegendsBoyksi - for letting us incorporate his modsAdam - for making the mod tools, making bbrusher for us and fixing decompiler bugs for usOverhype - for allowing modding, answering our bugs, and for reviewing our design document and giving us the ok to go ahead with all planned features