A troop is defeated by having its leader reduced to 0 hit points, or when the leader retreats. Once a battle starts, the attacking side has 13 turns to gain victory, by defeating all troops of the opposing side. A unit's action usually consists in a movement followed by a physical attack, or by a magic spell/special attack.Įach side may bring only up to 3 troops to a single battle, regardless of the number of troops that are attacking or defending the castle. Each unit, with rare exceptions, may act once on each turn, and the units belonging to the same troop must act in sequence. Battles take place in hexagonal grids each unit (rune knight or monster) occupies one hexagon. In this mode, each turn is a combat round. When battles are marked to occur, the game switches to the battle mode in the end of the organize phase. If the defending castle is occupied, a battle is marked to occur between the two groups of troops, unless the castle originating the troops is attacked first (the order of attack depends on the level of the rune knights). In the attack phase, each nation may allocate its own troops to adjacent enemy castles, which is treated as an attack. During this time, the character is involved in events (mostly random), which may benefit or impair the player. Quest is not quite a gameplay mode, since they are not playable they make the rune knight (and its troop) unavailable for a variable amount of turns. Because of this, there is an option of deleting monsters. Monsters also have an upkeep cost they consume an amount of mana every turn. The amount of mana depends on the number of the castles belonging to the nation. Each nations acquires an income of mana on the beginning of each turn. To summon additional monsters, a certain amount of mana must be spent. The player may also send rune knights to quests. In the organize phase, the player may re-allocate troops between castles, re-allocate monsters between troops, summon new monsters, equip and use items, change rune knights' classes and promote monsters. Each month has an organize phase and an attack phase. The player may navigate and view statistics of all castles of the continent (although only the castles of the player's nation may be managed). In this mode, each turn is represented by a in-game 'month'. The entire nation has a leader, called ruler, which is a rune knight with a unique class, but otherwise similar to other rune knights. The number of monsters which may join a troop is limited by the rune knight's rune power statistic. Monsters don't have classes, but may be upgraded to more powerful forms, called promotions, when they have a minimum level or some special items are used. Rune knights also have character classes, and may switch between classes if some conditions are met. Rune knights and monsters have statistics typical of console role-playing game, such as experience points, hit points, attack, defense, magic points, and like. Brigandine features two gameplay modes, both turn-based: a preparation mode and a battle mode. Likewise, troops are also used to protect the controlled nation's castles from enemy troops' attacks. The goal of the player is to conquer the entire continent by attacking the enemy castles with the controlled nation's troops (or troops from allied nations). Each troop is composed by a human leader, called rune knight, and fictional creatures such as dragons, ghouls and fairies, which are called 'monsters'. Each nation possess a number of troops and castles. In Brigandine, the player controls one of the six playable nations.

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