I think the secret boss you are referring to is only in the Grand Edition. It has new units, knights castle(s), a reworked battle system, and you can also play a new country, and the added multiplayer is a huge improvement over the original Brigandine. In a translated version of Grand Edition, the movies should hold your attention better that japalygook.
I don't consider RTS games as real strategy, they are almost always so choreographed that there's really only one path to victory- spam-build one or two unit types and swarm the enemy. The turn based strategy in Brigandine Grand gives you the opportunity to construct synergistic battle groups specifically designed for the Castle where the battle will take place. Don't bring mer-men to desert war! The number of possible battle fronts, troop arrangements, resource availability, and unit classes means no two games ever play alike - rather like a complex version of Chess. And Brigandine can be really hard so you have to stay on your toes.
Turn based game players have always been a minority -more and more as the need for immediate and thoughtless gratification becomes more entrenched in society with each generation born into the "boob-tube" era of a computerized world saturated with 'gratification without effort'. For instance, there's almost no threat of dying in most FPS games these days. They're more like "god complex" simulators than an actual challenging game. Brigandine has challenging play combined with a fairly well crafted story - which is unusual for a turn based strategy game.
I don't consider RTS games as real strategy, they are almost always so choreographed that there's really only one path to victory- spam-build one or two unit types and swarm the enemy. The turn based strategy in Brigandine Grand gives you the opportunity to construct synergistic battle groups specifically designed for the Castle where the battle will take place. Don't bring mer-men to desert war! The number of possible battle fronts, troop arrangements, resource availability, and unit classes means no two games ever play alike - rather like a complex version of Chess. And Brigandine can be really hard so you have to stay on your toes.
Turn based game players have always been a minority -more and more as the need for immediate and thoughtless gratification becomes more entrenched in society with each generation born into the "boob-tube" era of a computerized world saturated with 'gratification without effort'. For instance, there's almost no threat of dying in most FPS games these days. They're more like "god complex" simulators than an actual challenging game. Brigandine has challenging play combined with a fairly well crafted story - which is unusual for a turn based strategy game.