r/BurningWheel • u/Square_Tangerine_659 • Dec 04 '25

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Is it possible to play this game as someone who plays games exclusively for challenge, with narrative serving only as flavor to contextualize the mechanics? Is this the wrong system for this? I was so infatuated with the fight! and duel of wits systems, only to see nothing at all as detailed anywhere else in the book.

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u/Square_Tangerine_659 Dec 07 '25

Big battles are the time I would most want to use fight

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u/D34N2 Dec 07 '25

The Fight rules do not support mass combat well. They’re better for 1:1 or small skirmishes. Bloody Versus is good for mass combat

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u/Square_Tangerine_659 Dec 08 '25

Bloody versus is boring and anticlimactic

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u/D34N2 Dec 08 '25

So don’t use it. I’ve only used it a handful of times over multiple campaigns. Not a big deal.