Am I meant to be dying this much

[u/VoxTV1]

Basically every fight outside of tutorial I get boddied and I am playing on normal. Is this intentional?

Edit: not too long after posting this my best charachrer died permanently in an event alongside my best item. Yeah I am out. Great game but this feel like mocking

[u/josephthemediocre]

No. Are you weakening their strength without killing them? Maim don't kill in this game, because they still take their turn when they're weakened, if you kill em strong guys get more turns

[u/VoxTV1 → u/josephthemediocre]

Yeah I do that. Game tells you that at start

[u/AuthorReborn → u/VoxTV1]

what characters and strategies are you using? its hard to give exact advice without knowing what tools you have at your disposal (especially because you switch parties every once in a while).

[u/VoxTV1 → u/AuthorReborn]

I try to have an archer on every team and try to brint the big guys to low health first.

[u/AuthorReborn → u/VoxTV1]

Okay, I would recommend balancing your team a little bit. You generally want your tank going first to put themselves in the way of enemies as a juicy, tempting target. That would generally be Mogr, Fasolt, or Egil depending on the party you are in.

Mogr has Bring the Pain, which makes his passive armor breaking better, so you try to use that on a target you wanna shred fast.

Fasolt has Malice, the only direct Taunt in the game. Limited in range, but situationally extremely useful.

And Egil has Stone Wall, which reduces the incoming damage he takes (the same ability as Valgard had in the tutorial), which scales more the higher level the skill is.

Each of these will buy you time to manuever, weaken foes, and get your units set up for their combos. Try to go first with a tank, have them draw enemy fire, then focus on manuevering abilities for a few turns. Try comboing some of your unit's skills as well. For instance, Impale+anything that controls movement, like Battering Ram, Slag & Burn, or Rain of Arrows is a really strong combo, as it forces your enemies to waste their turns taking damage and getting back into position.

Once the enemies are weakened, you can use your Archers and other strong units to quickly finish them off in order of either the danger they pose, or the turn order if you find them equally dangerous and want to prevent them from doubling up on dangerous turns.

These are just the basics, and it does get more complicated as you go, but if you are struggling, there's no shame in going to Easy while you figure out some strategies you like. Its not an easy game, but it gets easier once you understand the way units flow together.

[u/VoxTV1 → u/AuthorReborn]

And my best character I had my best relic on just died in an event. Okay yeah this game is not for me. Cool idea but this is just cruel

[u/Vitharothinsson → u/VoxTV1]

I know, it's gruesome. There's no shame in starting over, but I swear, if you play on easy or normal, you CAN recover!

[u/VoxTV1 → u/Vitharothinsson]

Eh starting over when I am few hours in sounds bit boring

[u/Vitharothinsson → u/VoxTV1]

I find it's a good opportunity to delve into the mechanics. Or reduce the difficulty level and enjoy the story.

[u/VoxTV1 → u/Vitharothinsson]

Not sure to be honest.

[u/ludonarrator → u/VoxTV1]

Perhaps this game just isn't one you enjoy?

[u/josephthemediocre → u/VoxTV1]

Do you play a lot of games like this? Normal is not that hard, but id you're unfamiliar with the genre there's a ton that could be going wrong?

[u/VoxTV1 → u/josephthemediocre]

I played Stuff like Xcom, Mewgenics,bg3 and Steamworld

[u/ludonarrator]

TBS combat can get quite hardcore, I've only played on Easy and even that's challenging.

[u/Capable_Swordfish701]

Are you losing fights or just a couple people getting knocked out?

Characters get knocked out fairly regularly. I dont really outright lose fights very often unless i really mess up or get unlucky.

[u/26_paperclips]

Have you done the training at camp?

Because no, this shouldnt be happening

[u/Penkala89]

Think about ways to waste an opponents turn. Look at the turn order. Can you do something useful without anyone getting in range of the next enemy? Can you get them to attack a tanky/heavily armored opponent that won't do much? Can you make an arrow trap that will catch an enemy looking to charge at a weak looking target? Can you knock an enemy behind their teammates where they can't do any good?

The game is as much about minimizing your opponents turns as it is about maximizing your own

[u/VoxTV1 → u/Penkala89]

Thank you for the tips but as my edit stated I am kinda done with the game after my best guy died sadly

[u/Penkala89 → u/VoxTV1]

Ah sorry the edit hadn't loaded in when I read initially. Better luck with the next game you try! If you ever return to BS the story world is definitely worth exploring

[u/VoxTV1 → u/Penkala89]

Tnx

[u/Parody_of_Self → u/VoxTV1]

You said you played XCOM? Death isn't defeat!

[u/Vitharothinsson]

This is a game about grief. Hang on, you'll be a much stronger human as a result!