Mount and Blade/Warband

Hey guys! Dunno if any of you have heard of this game but its really fun and quite addicting.

Single player: You create a player and start an epic journey into a new land called Calradia. You can either join a Faction or you can build your own army and overtake a faction. By visiting villages you can recruit peasants to join your cause and eventually earn enough money to upgrade them to better units: soldier, knight, ect. These will be your personal army. If you were to join a faction you will serve as a Vassal under the king you choose. You can choose to leave the faction if you wish but it will turn the faction hostile to you for becoming a traitor. In effect other kingdoms will like you more for becoming enemies with their enemies "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." If your the type for total domination you can try to take over a kingdom by capturing all of their castles and towns. Another cool effect is that if you were to lets say capture the capitol city of an empire and the King was involved in the fray. You have the choice to take the king captive. Thus having the vassals of the realm offering money in return for their king. As a player you can level up and become more powerful placing the different points you earned in archery or whatnot. You buy horses, Armour, weapons, and food for your army at marketplaces in towns and capitol cities. If you were to invest you level points in merchanting you would be able to find out different prices and buy cotton for 56gp in Praven and sell it for 200gp in Suno. There are many other skills that will help you in battle and in survival. Engineering, Tracking, Leadership, Trade ect ect...

Map and Kingdoms: There are 6 different and unique Kingdoms.

Swadia: Swadia resembles a European feudal kingdom, like France or England, although they have also been interpreted as being similar to the Teutonic Order. It is ruled by King Harlaus and the claimant to the throne is Lady Isolla of Suno.


Nords: Nords in essentially military terms is an infantry-based civilization, based on the Viking culture. They boast the most powerful heavy shock infantry whose main tactic is to throw a volley of axes or javelins at their targets before charging in to melee. Being an infantry only faction, they are somewhat vulnerable to armies with shock cavalry as the men on foot cannot keep up with them. On the other hand, they are completely equipped to fight on foot and make for excellent castle attackers, breaking shields with their axes as they go. The monarch of the Kingdom of Nords is King Ragnar and the claimant is Lethwin Far-seeker. According to Nord hero Matheld, Nord people are from the place called Nordland. The Nordland is said to be far north of Calradia, over the sea, and is the home of Sea Raiders too.


Rhodoks: Rhodoks resembles the various Germanic Italian, and possibly Spanish principalities and city states during the Middle Ages and is ruled by King Graveth. In Mount & Blade: Warband, Artimenner provides some insight to the origins of the Kingdom of the Rhodoks when you go near Culmarr Castle. He states that the Rhodoks were originally part of the Kingdom of Swadia. The Rhodoks rebelled and founded their own Kingdom. The claimant to the throne is Lord Kastor of Veluca.


Sarranids: The Sarranid Sultanate is a new faction introduced in Mount&Blade: Warband, and is led by Sultan Hakim. The claimant to the throne is Arwa the Pearled One. Sarranids are an Arabic medieval civilization who live in the harsh deserts of Calradia. Their lords are called Emirs.


Khergits: The Khergits are basically steppe hordes such as the Mongols; they are all mounted. Their lack of armor is compensated by their speed and accuracy at archery. In contrast to the lush heartlands of Calradia, the great steppes to the south are a vast region of dry grassland. With harsh weather, and little resources of wood or ore, the one thing found in abundance are the flocks of horses that live both wild and domestically. It is in this arid waste that one can find the Khergits, a semi-nomadic race of hunters and horsemen, who much like their steppe horses, are lean, hardy, swift and temperamental.
Ruled by Sanjar Khan, the Khergit are a people steeped in complicated principles of family, friendship, and personal honor. To make a Khergit a friend is to receive a lifelong ally, to anger one is the creation of a mortal enemy.
Militarily, one can not think of the Khergits without thinking of the thunder of hooves. Horses are a staple of life for the Khergit, and children learn to ride almost as soon as they learn to walk. Famous too are they for their skill with the bow while mounted, with skilled warriors capable of delivering bow shots at a full gallop that many archers would find difficult at a standstill. All too common are the tales told by would-be raiders of their superior forces whittled down by galloping archers, only to be finally ripped asunder by shining blade and axe as horses flash across their hounded formation like lightning. The claimant to the throne of Khergit Khanate is Dustum Khan


Vaegirs: The Kingdom of Vaegirs is a faction in the game whose culture mainly represents Pre-Muscovite Russia and is ruled by King Yaroglek. The Vaegirs possess arguably the finest foot archers in the game and also include several tiers of reasonably good infantry and heavy cavalry. Vaegir troops prefer using two-handed weapons for an offensive advantage against their foes and live in the mountainous and snowy north-eastern boundaries of the map. The claimant to the throne is Prince Valdym the ********.
The Kingdom of Vaegirs and the Kingdom of Swadia both have very similar troop trees, although Vaegir armies are, in general, cheaper to enlist and maintain, as well as being more numerous.
According to words of Lezalit, Vaegir people are not big fans of organized discipline or command system; resulting in diverse but weak troops.


Some Pics


Character Screen

What battle looks like: Quite good graphics

For a quick run through of some of the features:
Video


There is a multiplayer part to it: Basically create or join a server and play a battle or skirmish. I have yet to find a mod for multiplayer that lets you play the whole singleplayer map with other people.

All in all its a really fun game. I will be thinking about hosting a RsB&B Server soon.
This is just a short explanation of the game so tell me what ya think

i remember seeing this on steam a while ago. it was on sale but i didn't get it, somehow it just didn't feel right. besides i still had total war to beat again. stupid french needed to die