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Battle Brothers – Blazing Deserts DLC
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Battle Brothers<\/em> made a rather quiet splash within the gaming community when it debuted three-and-a-half years ago. As an independent developer, Overhype Studios didn\u2019t have the budget to compete with larger game studios so they instead focused on gameplay. Battle Brothers<\/em> proved, once again, that you don\u2019t have to have tons of funds behind a project to make it successful if you believe in it enough (and of course, it\u2019s a great game, to begin with).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Battle Brothers,<\/em> you manage a mercenary company and have to navigate through a low-power, medieval setting in order to take on various contracts. You start with your base mercenaries (dependent on which origin you choose) and can hire more men throughout your travels. Along the way, you\u2019ll have to contend with all sorts of dangerous denizens, including bloodthirsty bandits, as well as a wide variety of monsters and aggressive wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Overhype Studios recently released their new DLC, Battle Brothers – Blazing Deserts,<\/em> to its ever-growing fan base and newbies alike. Whereas their previous DLC, Warriors of the North,<\/em> focused on frigid Scandinavian-like environs\u2014complete with fierce barbarians\u2014this time you\u2019ll travel to a massive southern area with sprawling, scorching deserts, and lush oases. Battle Brothers – Blazing Deserts<\/em> is obviously inspired by Middle-Eastern cultures, such as some medieval Persian and Arabian ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What sets Battle Brothers<\/em> apart from many of the similar turn-based tactical games is that it has a really gritty feel to it. Blazing Deserts<\/em> continues this trend and you\u2019ll find that the new mercenary origins fit right in with the base game. In other words, you get the feeling that your band of mercenaries is composed of desperate men who are merely trying to eke out a living as a scurrilous sword-for-hire. Therefore, you won\u2019t find any mages casting fireballs or paladins wielding magical swords\u2014just down-and-out dudes trying to survive in a dangerous, procedurally-generated world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Battle Brothers – Blazing Deserts<\/em>, your band of mercenaries can travel to independent city-states, fight in an arena for fame and fortune (or go down in torrents of arterial blood spray), and face the new enemies, such as desert raiders and deadly southern beasts, in battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new war gear has a really cool Middle-Eastern aesthetic and you can now employ alchemical contraptions and primitive firearms. And you\u2019ll need them to forge your own path when the fires of religious turmoil threaten to engulf the world in a new late-game crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But the new content of Blazing Deserts does not limit to the south, noooo. Other new features such as the new environments for fights will also be found in the north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some of the DLC\u2019s key features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n