Wartales (2023)

The troop's camp conversations can respond to injuries, retreats and a companion's death, letting a bad fight affect relationships as well as equipment. Healing, wages and the next recruit give the survivors practical decisions to make. Permanent losses matter, and harsher difficulty rules make escape more punishing, so use a setting that supports the kind of battered company you want to follow. It fits a reader who wants the evening after the disaster to have as much character as the battle itself.