Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Personal Warband Mod ranking:

PoP
A Clash of Kings
Warsword Conquest (This is my next one I'm going to play through completely when they do a new release)
Gekokujo

Warband is one of my favorite games of all time. The gameplay is so satisfying I can enjoy repeating playthroughs in multiple different mods.


I'm kind of excited for Bannerlord, but am afraid that they won't get the combat/gameplay right, and the modability won't work as well. But then again the modding system in Warband is retarded anyway, and only works because the community worked so hard on it.

Im hopeful but i guess how i feel is tbat warband, strictly speaking, isnt that great of a game and the developers probably arent that talented. But they got real kucky with warband and ill be impressed if they dont botch the sequel.

After thinking about it some, my previous statements might have been a little harsh and judgemental. I'm hopeful and look forward to playing Bannerlord.

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calhoonjugganaut said:

OMG...I hope they do a Game of Thrones mod for this. Mount & Blade is the shit.

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A Clash of Kings (Game of Thrones) mod for Mount & Blade: Warband

Great mod, a lot of fun running around Westeros and Essos taking areas and meeting characters from the show/books.

I've got my eye on TLD.

Cozur (ACOK lead mod) is a turd nugget but it's kind of funny to see him be a dick. I mean, he releases content and the mod is generally bug free, so it's all you can ask of someone really.

BrotherWu said:

So, when you guys say you do a playthrough, do you play until complete world domination? What is the end? I revolted against my king a few game weeks ago and now have two cities, about 4 castles, about half a dozen vassals. I have an experienced cavalry and I'm rolling through every thing I come up against, usually with no or very few losses. But it seems that owning the whole world would be a massive grind.

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I don't think I've ever world-dominated a given mod or vanilla more than once, but I've done multiple 'play throughs' of a mod where I basically terminate it after I've pretty much reached God-Tier status.



I don't know how other people play M&B but I pretty much play all the mods the same way and ditch half the mechanics I don't care about. The mechanics are perfectly fine, but not for me.

My playthroughs look like this:
1. Sometimes I'll start totally fresh, other times I'll cheat and give me some fraction of what my previous character was. Ex: high archery skills, high non-combat skills etc.

2. I always run without fog of war, and teleport around the map. Everytime I've tried playing legit I get annoyed running around looking enemies.

3. I collect my companions ASAP, and generally don't have non-companion troops. The warhammer mod has like 60 companions which is ridiculous.

4. Once I've got my companions, I'm pretty much in the meat of the game. I spend minimal time outside combat, and enjoy leading cavalry charges to the enemy.

This means I ditch all the army building, travel mechanics etc, which is half the game, but again, I don't care.

In some cases at the end of a campaign I'll lengthen the power curve by adding new enemy types with new weapons. It really becomes interesting when you're fighting a horde of enemies on extremely fast horses who attack very fast and you have to manoeuvre in different ways to win.

the combat in M&B is so satisfying that sometimes it's fun to destroy army after army, castle after castle.

I think marriage is more for flavor than anything. I always get married because it's interesting convincing whatever the top family in the game to giving you their daughter. It's super easy when you have a lot of renown, and my playstyle of building up a team of immortal monsters and smashing several armies at once generates massive renown.

Your wife is your entry-way to kingdom management, but you can have another NPC replace her I believe. And I don't think there's any loss of functionality. Again, I'm always married before I try to become a king.



Archery is a lot of fun on horseback with high skill, and it's stupid strong in sieges, especially defending. Even with low skill levels you can pretty much just roll into a siege defense with a bow and slaughter the enemy with it while getting arrows from your fallen archer comrades. Especially funny is when you run out of arrows and your own archers aren't being attacked enough for them to die, so you have to kill them.

On a typical siege defense you should expect to do 50% of the kills during a siege with arrows.


Re: lancing, it's a good way to insta-kill specific targets with relatively low risk, but the kill rate is generally too slow and I can snipe specific targets with a bow so I never use it. On one playthrough of ACoK where enemy archers weren't that dangerous I switched to 2H just so I could have a spare weapon slot for more arrows.