Sweet Realistic Medieval Combat (Mount and Blade)

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that#sucks

[rajpoot]

that#sucks

It's actually kind of logical you know. Lords will not support anyone who does not have atleast some claim to a kingdom. The player character starts out independent and has not claim to any kingdom. So the only way to become a king, is to start a new kingdom.
AFAIK, it's always been implied in M&B 'lore' that the player character will unite Calradia and restore the long forgotten empire.

[Hooahguy]

And before you start a kingdom, be sure to a) get married and b) send out as many followers as you can to spread word of your kingship. And have high renown.

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It's actually kind of logical you know. Lords will not support anyone who does not have atleast some claim to a kingdom. The player character starts out independent and has not claim to any kingdom. So the only way to become a king, is to start a new kingdom.
AFAIK, it's always been implied in M&B 'lore' that the player character will unite Calradia and restore the long forgotten empire.

Logic doesn't apply to M&B feudalism. A noble just married his highborn daughter to a man who grew up as a street urchin, a man who would never ever be made a noble here on earth just because he commanded a modest mercenary company and killed some local bandits.

[Zim]

Forgot how much I enjoyed this one until going on a 20 or so hour binge this last week. I'm still learning things about the game. Never had my infantry stand closer to better repel cavalry until working with a Nord army recently (it was extra fun standing behind my infantry line with a two handed weapon taking out any cavalry that made it past the men). Still playing Diplomacy mod after some 148 hours total game time. Guess it's about time I tried Prophecy of Pendor...

Edit: Gah/ Ended up on the page for regular Mount and Blade, followed the link there to the one for Warband, and it turns out I spent an hour or two downloading an older version. Now I'm at the right page (version 3.5). I see two downloads, 3.5 and 3.51, both about the same size. From that would I be right in assuming I only need to download the latter and that it isn't a patch on 3.5?

On the plus side at least it seems to download much faster from the site the current version is on.

Edit 2: Just had a couple hour session of PoP. Really fun so far. Just slowly building up money and looting/buying armor. Most amusing moment happened after rescuing a Jatu raider. He was way ahead of me in level and I had terrible troops and equipment. I attacked a bandit encampment shortly after and he pretty much soloed it, killing everything before I could reach it.

Most frightening moment was running into 4 rogue knights. I was doing ok at that point and had trained up my troops a few levels. I was equating them with troops like Swadian knights. Big mistake. Those four guys pretty well slaughtered my 20 man force for just one of their's. I was able to retreat, hired some mercs, and came back for them but it was too late.

Still hate track down bandit missions.

[Zim]

Half a year or so in and doing ok. I'm a vassal of the Empire. Funny, I seem to get captured more now that I can build a decent party. I think I'm just taking more risks.

Killed my first Elf. Lone unwounded guy from a Noldor force I found, and he took down 4 or so adventurers and knights before a whack to the head took him out.

Rescued an apparently unique unit. "Lady Einherjar". Anyone recognize that? Couldn't find anything with a search of the PoP wiki or forums.

[johnhughthom]

I believe that troop is a special Green guys (forget their name) household unit.

[Major Robert Dump]

I have not laughed this much in a long time. This makes me want to buy the new one. I love friendly fire. Make sure and turn the volume up for this one, too funny, especially when the brits or aussies start talking at 7:30, they are far better than the american kids