Battle Brothers 3 man "solo" test

Games set to veteran Ironman
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1st "tutorial battle"
I cheesed it by putting my crossbowmen up next to the 2 enemies that I first surrounded, then punctured to death with the crossbowmen's knife. Acquired
new rugged surcoat for my x-bowman, and a gambeson for my bro that didnt have one

**Ditched the 2-handed axe for a mace and a shield

1st contract: 6 baby Nachs' in a graveyard. Used hills and lucky spearwall to win with no damage

**Leveled up all 3 Bros and put 9 Lives perk on all of them

**Bought 3 units of furs, and three units of salt and ran it to an economic (large) city for maximum profit.

**Sold all my goods and bought 6 wardogs (3 with leather armor, 3 without), because my men wanted to play with puppies

**Saw three direwolves jump out of a forest in front of me, but they ran past me

2nd contract: 7 Brigand thugs on open fields with some small hills.
Used spearwall, but they all went around in attempt to attack my x-bowman. Locked down the two 2 handed axe thugs with a dog, but they immediately hit and killed dog.
Unleashed the 2 other wardogs, but they mostly suffered the same fate as the first. Missed most of my (60 and 70%) attacks for the remainder of the battle and died. Unlucky...
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Second try:
1st "tutorial battle"
Got less good starting gear than last try. Both brigands only fought with 20 durability armor, so I simply killed them.

**Purchased 3 units of furs and ran it to an economic (large) city for maximum profit.

**Sold furs and purchased a damaged mail hauberk and flat top helmet to put on my highest defense bro

**Took the x-bow away from my starting ranged bro, cause he couldnt hit crap with it anyway. Gave him throwing javelins, a net, and a pitchfork instead.

1st contract: 7 Brigand thugs on open fields with some small hills.
Retreated to hills, placing my tank in the most vulnerable spots. *Note to self, spearwall no longer works on thugs like it used to*
Killed 2 thugs, then got decimated.
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Third try:
1st "tutorial battle"
Got a reinforced wooden flail (tier 2 flail) from the fight. I simply killed the brigands with their 20 and 30 durability armor.
Saw that my shield bro had "Cocky" trait. Restarted.
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Fourth try:
1st "tutorial battle"
Got a nothing remarkable from the fight. I simply killed the brigands crap armor.

**Bought 3 units of lumber

**Equipped x-bowman with a pitchfork in his bag slot. Gave 2-hander axe guy a shield and spear.

1st contract: 6 baby Nachs' in a graveyard. Used a tiny hill and unlucky spearwall to win with no injuries.

**Leveled up all 3 Bros and put 9 Lives perk on all of them

**Bought 3 units of peat and three units of furs.

**Sold Peat, and lumber to an economic (large) city with ambushed trade routes for ideal maximum profit.

**Fought 5 baby Nach on a hills map. Was unlucky with spearwall, and had to retreat after killing only 1.

**Fought same group of 4 baby Nach on forest map. Found out that they have pathfinder perk the hard way. Was lucky with spearwall and killed 1, but other remaining three had surrounded a bro and I was forced to retreat.

**Bought a heater shield and visited a local temple to help heal a concussion

**Ran up to watch some footmen kill 7 thugs, and ended the battle with 0xp, but some food tools and 150 gold

**Attended another footmen slaughter, but the only thing I managed to kill was the footman's wardog, so again, no significant xp, just tools and gold... and a dead puppy.

**Bought 2 damaged leather armor for my melee bros

2nd contract: Drive off brigands (2 raiders, 4 thugs) in forest
I'm just going to write this one off as exceptionally lucky.
Using a 1 wide choke point, and putting a brother at a 2 wide choke point with a spearwall, I managed to kill all enemies, and even filleted the last raider for his 110 durability armor.
Key to my success was using my x-bowman to split-man the enemies in the 1 wide gap, which he did at a 30% chance and then a 40 something chance, wavering enemy morale.
After the battle I found a prisoner that was being held by the brigands (go figure), who I sent home, as that would break this test.

**Leveled up all bros and gave them all the dodge perk.

**Turned in quest and bought 2 units of peat and 1 unit of furs, then set out south to find some puppies of my own.

**Sold all goods at an economic (large) city for ideal maximum profit.

3rd contract: Obtain random religious artifact from a tomb where undead will try to kill you

**Brigand hunter group of 3 poachers and 4 thugs attacked me. Killed 2 thugs, then the 2-hander thug cornered my x-bowman, and forced a retreat.

3rd contract cont.: Obtained artifact, but undead tried to kill me, and I was lucky enough to start in a swamp with 6 Aux. (Who have pathfinder) so another retreat... then turned in contract

**Finished off the Brigand hunter group of 3 poachers and 2 thugs with the aid of a passing caravan.

**Bought 6 puppies, 3 with armor, 3 without

**Unsuccessfully defended my ground against 4 raiders and 2 poachers, with the aid of a passing caravan (two raiders and a poacher were about to die, but so was a brother).

**Exited game in frustration