Sweet Realistic Medieval Combat (Mount and Blade)

[tibilicus]

Got M & B as part of the paradox pack and have to say, I'm really enjoying it! Does anyone know the best way to go about seizing a castle however? I'm already a vassal so have my own village, it keeps getting looted however and thus I can't raise any taxes. Capturing the enemy castle near by would do much to stop the warbands from looting I imagine..

[Beskar]

Best way to stop people raiding your village is to defend it. Build a messenger post there, so at least you have some warning.

Also CR, are there any character creator mods yet? One of my issues was the game is how ugly everyone is, especially the females.

[edyzmedieval]

I bought Warband before the whole pack was available, and I am loving it! I'm level 9 and have around 40 men under my command and I'm still having problems even on easy.

Can't wait to capture my first castle.

[naut]

Best way to stop people raiding your village is to defend it. Build a messenger post there, so at least you have some warning.

Also CR, are there any character creator mods yet? One of my issues was the game is how ugly everyone is, especially the females.

[Vuk]

And very soon the best mod ever made for Warband will be released. More details on that soon.

[Vuk]

Hey all, here is a quick preview and description on my new mod. More details coming later!

[rajpoot]

Finally, after a long wait....
TLD...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Has still not been released....but I did find this intro video on Youtube...Been uploaded on 23rd Dec last year.



All the awesomeness of M&B wrapped in an even more awesome Tolkien designed package.

[Husar]

Mount and Blade: Fire and Sword has been announced!

It's a standalone "addon" set in the 17th century, the rest can be seen in this trailer.

[Vuk]

If I had the money, this would be an instant buy.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Mount and Blade: Fire and Sword has been announced!

It's a standalone "addon" set in the 17th century, the rest can be seen in this trailer.

In that trailer, it mentions Gustav Adolph. Gustavus Adolphus? Seems very plausible, what with Stockholm being highlighted, though if it included Germany it would make infinitely more sense.

[pevergreen]

Hey CR, I was checking out a mod some fellow players are using right now.

From the download page:

2. 'Oceania Optimized for FPS' by Crazed Rabbit added to map list

Is that you?

[Crazed Rabbit]

Yup. Though I just trimmed the huge number of trees in that Oceania mod, someone else actually made it.

I did make two maps for the 1866 mod - Palouse Town - and Colorado River.

CR

[pevergreen]

Thats awesome.

[Crazed Rabbit]

A video preview of M&B: With Fire & Sword, a spin off game made by some eastern European company set in 1600-1700 (?) Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Will include MP.

Notable: the ability to equip your troops with different arms and armor between battles.

Also, a game reactor interview.

Notable; includes the possibility of large story arcs you can participate in if you want.

Also, captain mode for MP. Every player commands a group of soldiers they purchase. 14v14 players all commanding soldiers.

CR

[Vuk]

A video preview of M&B: With Fire & Sword, a spin off game made by some eastern European company set in 1600-1700 (?) Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Will include MP.

Notable: the ability to equip your troops with different arms and armor between battles.

Also, a game reactor interview.

Notable; includes the possibility of large story arcs you can participate in if you want.

Also, captain mode for MP. Every player commands a group of soldiers they purchase. 14v14 players all commanding soldiers.

CR

Thank you. I have had my eye on this one.

[R'as al Ghul]

Wow, what a great game. I bought Warband for 7.99€ at Gamersgate. that's even less that what I paid for the beta of M&B.
It seems it's one of the most moddable games and the devs did so many things right.....just great.
After playing in the sand box world a while and leveling up two characters to lvl 30+ I jumped into the Multiplayer mode on the weekend.
Do any of you guys play Multiplayer?
Highly recommended. I'm dying all the time and I really suck at blocking but I'm having such a ball, it's amazing.
MP is totally different from SP, people fight differently and there're a lot of features in sieges that you won't see in SP. (Open the gate, push down ladders, open/smash doors, secret tunnels, etc) On the 22nd siege server up to 222 people can play. Over the weekend some 100 players where online which makes for excellent battles.

R'as

[Crazed Rabbit]

This is my 10,001 post.


What better place than the Mount&Blade thread?

A new preview of With Fire and Sword:
http://rpg.incgamers.com/Previews/25...word-preview/1

Enjoy!

CR

[Raz]

it sounds just like a pretty and attractive but woefully inadequate mod. :/

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Hopefully it's either $5 or they're just not showing several huge features in previews.

[econ21]

That's an amusing preview, Crazed Rabbit, I guess I have played too much Mount and Blade in the past, but it brought it all back. Fire and Sword sounds exactly the same game as the original Mount and Blade, except in a different setting. More like a mod than a commerical product, but then M&B always did seem to be about doing one thing very well rather than trying to do many things.

[rajpoot]

I doubt it's going to be drastically different in any manner. The core gameplay will always be the same...all they can add is more window dressing, like more dialogue, larger and more detailed troop trees...some sort of story....better castles and stuff.....so yeah, it does sound like a mod. Still if it's a mod developed by the game's developers....
That aside, till about a year ago, I was under the impression that with Fire and and Sword was a mod for M&B being developed by a Polish game developer....how come it suddenly became a standalone game is beyond me.

[rajpoot]

Before there was an expansion, there was a mod....
I knew I'd seen this somewhere, just couldn't place it.
With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i Mieczem) the mod.

http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.p...c,14261.0.html

Never tried it myself....just wanted to post it here.

[Mailman653]

Mount and Blade: With Fire and Sword
You can pre-order it for $13.45. And India is right, I remember seeing this expansion as a mod too, the name is familiar. I'm guessing if your big on Eastern European lore/history, then this expansion is for you.

I haven't played MB in ages, I bought Warband almost a year ago and I've hardly touched it since.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Before there was an expansion, there was a mod....
I knew I'd seen this somewhere, just couldn't place it.
With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i Mieczem) the mod.

http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.p...c,14261.0.html

Never tried it myself....just wanted to post it here.

But the expansion was made by a professional studio, whilst the mod was just a couple guys basing something off the same book.

CR

[rajpoot]

But the expansion was made by a professional studio, whilst the mod was just a couple guys basing something off the same book.

CR

They were the ones who had the idea first.

[Graphic]

Just got Warband on the Steam sale. Not sure how I feel about it yet. Singleplayer has potential but I fail hard at it.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Mount & Blade Complete Pack - featuring the original M&B, Warband, and With Fire & Sword (releasing May 3) - is on sale at Steam for $19.99.

If you don't yet have any of the M&B games, you should get this pack.

CR

[seireikhaan]

Hmm. I'd put off getting Warband forever. For six bucks, I think I'll bite. Not really feeling this new one, though.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Does M&B need Pixel Shader 3.0? Recently, every game I have bought need it!

[johnhughthom]

I very much doubt it I-K, whatever else M&B is it certainly isn't a system hog.