Company Captain: Westashes

Lead a Mercenary Company. Survive a World That Remembers.

Company Captain: Westashes is a tactical RPG where you command a Free Company of mercenaries in a brutal, dynamic medieval world.

Travel the open world directly, manage your company's survival, and engage in unforgiving hex-grid tactical battles. Your soldiers are shaped by their experiences, scarred by war, and forever changed by the choices they make. The factions you encounter remember your actions, your victories, your betrayals—and they act accordingly.

You Are Not the Hero

You are not the chosen one.

The world does not revolve around you.

The lands of Westashes continue to live, fight, and change whether you are there to witness it or not. Noble houses wage war, outlaw bands raid for survival, merchants risk dangerous roads, and rival mercenary companies compete for influence and contracts.

Every faction, army, patrol, and warband pursues its own goals, driven by its own personality, needs, and ambitions.

Your story is only one among many.

Key Features

🧠 Salience-Based AI Memory System

Factions don't operate on a simple reputation bar.

Enemy and allied leaders remember specific interactions and develop opinions based on their own personalities.

A vengeful lord may never forgive a betrayal. A pragmatic captain may overlook an insult if enough coin changes hands. Memories fade naturally over time, influenced by personality traits and political circumstances, but some wounds—and humiliations—last forever.

Every relationship becomes a story.

🩸 Fate Traits Progression

Mercenaries are shaped by trauma, hardship, and survival.

Instead of generic skill trees, soldiers develop Fate Traits: unique scars, psychological quirks, combat techniques, and battlefield adaptations earned through their personal experiences.

Those who survive enough battles do not simply become stronger.

They become different.

🌍 A Living, Breathing World

The world acts independently.

Warbands patrol, hunt, retreat, raid, and wage war according to their own needs for food, power, territory, and purpose.

Events occur whether you witness them or not.

Battles are fought. Settlements prosper or decline. Armies move across the landscape.

The world creates its own stories.

🛡️ Deterministic Backgrounds & Combat Affinities

Every recruit carries a past.

A mercenary is not a blank slate. Their former profession influences their strengths, weaknesses, and battlefield role.

• A Lumberjack consumes more food but possesses a natural affinity for axes.

• A Monk requires little upkeep and excels with polearms.

• A Deserter brings valuable military experience but struggles with broken resolve.

Build a company where every soldier's history matters.

🧠 The 4-Layer Motivation Hierarchy

The AI does not cheat.

It thinks.

Every NPC group—from starving wolves to disciplined knightly orders—operates through a layered decision-making system.

A leader's personality and motivations determine how they behave:

• Will they ambush you?

• Stand and fight?

• Retreat?

• Accept a bribe?

• Hunt weaker prey?

A starving wolf pack evaluates danger differently than a noble patrol.

You are not fighting statistics.

You are fighting psychologies.

🤝 Dynamic Combat Intervention

See two factions fighting in the open world?

You can intervene.

The game evaluates how much your assistance mattered, how much damage your company inflicted, and how much risk your mercenaries endured.

The outcome determines the rescued faction's exact level of gratitude.

Save them from certain destruction and you may gain a powerful ally.

Arrive too late, and history may remember your absence.

🗺️ Direct WASD Overworld Navigation

Forget passive point-and-click movement.

Take direct control of your company using WASD navigation.

Track enemy caravans through fog-covered roads, outmaneuver knightly patrols through dense forests, and execute real-time interception maneuvers before seamlessly transitioning into tactical combat.

Movement itself becomes gameplay.

📖 Deep Company Management

Recruit wanderers, deserters, peasants, and veterans.

Equip your soldiers, organize formations, monitor morale, manage supplies, and guide your company from a handful of inexperienced recruits into a feared mercenary force.

If they survive long enough.

🎨 Hand-Painted Portraits Meets Brutal Pixel Art

Immerse yourself in a dark and atmospheric world.

Detailed hand-painted character portraits and richly textured interfaces contrast beautifully with classic pixel-art combat on a tactical hex grid.

A world both beautiful and unforgiving.

🗡️ Unforgiving Hex-Grid Combat

When battle begins, positioning is everything.

Utilize six-directional flanking, manage fatigue and morale, exploit terrain, and execute precise tactical maneuvers.

Every decision matters.

Every casualty is permanent.

When a mercenary dies, they are gone forever.

🏘️ Settlements & Economy

Visit towns and villages to trade, recruit, resupply, and accept contracts.

A dynamic economy drives merchant caravans across the world.

They are vulnerable.

They are valuable.

And they are the lifeblood of every faction's wealth.

👑 Noble Houses & Feudal Politics

Three great noble houses compete for power.

Their knightly orders patrol the roads. Their lords command armies. Their rivalries shape the future of the realm.

Choose a side.

Remain independent.

Or manipulate them all for profit.

💀 The Blacklord Threat

A unique procedurally generated criminal overlord rules the outlaw underworld.

His identity, personality, ambitions, and history change every playthrough.

As your company grows in influence and wealth, his attention turns toward you.

Destroy his network.

Challenge his power.

Or become another forgotten victim.

🐺 A World of Emergent Stories

No two campaigns unfold the same way.

• The Blacklord changes.

• Alliances shift.

• Mercenary companies rise and fall.

• Noble wars reshape the map.

• Deserters abandon armies and form new warbands.

Your story is not scripted.

It emerges naturally from the systems that govern the world.

And Much More...

Hidden mechanics.

Unexpected encounters.

Unpredictable consequences.

Stories no designer could have written by hand.

A World That Fights Back

Company Captain: Westashes is a game for players who want more than a static sandbox.

It is a world that remembers.

A world that reacts.

A world that fights back.