Thinking about picking up Mount and Blade for the first time, any ideas if I should get all of the DLC as well?
>>342531895
Just wait for Bannerlord at that point.
Warband is a direct upgrade over the original, mind you. I wouldn't bother with DLCs for now.
>>342531895
>unironically buying M&B instead of Warband
is this a new hipster meme like Skyrim being better than Oblivion?
Bump x)
>>342531895
Get Warband. If you like it then get the Napoleonic Wars dlc. It's fun as fuck.
Enjoy your unending wave of SYKA BLYAT
>>342531895
Warband and Napoleon. everything else is only for super fans
Yeah do it, 10$ for the full collection on bundle stars so might as well get everything https://www.bundlestars.com/en/game/mount-and-blade-full-collection
Get Warband and then get Warwolf for it.
Do not pursue Lu Bu.
This might be the best time to ask this.
What's a good mod for a beginner ? Can't bother playing through it multiple times, just want to have fun once and maybe revisit it if i enjoy it
>>342531895
GIVE IT TO ME
GIVE ME BANNERLORD
FUCKING SHIT NIGGERS FAGGOTS I DONT CARE IF NOTHING IS FINNISH JUST GIVE ME IT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>342534854
try diplomacy or floris
>>342534854
I rather wouldn't use a major mod like Floris from the start, never mind total conversions, so a simple mod adding convenience-of-life changes (such as Diplomacy or Freelancer, which also includes Diplomacy) would be my recommendation.
>>342534159
>mfw have almost every thrid party mod, every dlc, every offshoot like caribean and viking conquest.
>spend like 20 hours a week minimum in this fucking game
>Have been playing it for like 3 years now
>Over 2k hours on steam
>Still fucking keep coming back to do raiding and drink from skulls.
I never want off this ride.
>>342534970
Autism
>>342535425
More like ultra hype.
Its my favorite game, been playing videa for 2 decades.
Refer to
>>342535256
>>342535601
>wanting an unfinished game
Just wait, friend. It'll be better for all of us when it's finished.
Don't bother, it's three different types of game shittily done.
Shit rpg mechanics
Shit fighting
Shit strategy
oh, but you can have like 400 people on screen at once, WOOOOOOOOOOOOW
Just play a better game out of one of those.
>>342535893
(you)
>>342535881
If you've seen the video they've released its clear they are done with most of the actual game, their just polishing and creating hype now.
>>342535893
>>342535998
(suck my dick you petulant little faggot)
>>342536087
(you)
>>342535893
Give Warwolf a whirl. It basically converts the game into Total War except you command only one guy personally. There are three starting dates, one of which says "fuck it" to historical accuracy so you have shit like the Crusaders vs the Roman Empire vs Three Kingdoms China vs Sengoku Japan vs Aztecs, etc.
Its only failure is it's translated from Russian. Which means the dialogue is hilarious. But if you can't stand that, one of the anons over in /mbg/ has made good progress fixing it all.
>>342535893
The RPG mechanics are more in depth than almost any other, there like 16+ skills, tons of starting choices and char customization, can be literally emporer of the entire map.
Fighting is pretty hard if your not a pleb and turn the attacking and blocking to auto and the difficulty down.
Strategy is fucking great it actually matter how you place and charge and compose your army.
You have no idea what the fuck you are talking about M+B is the ONLY game I've ever seen with this combination of genres that pulled it off well.
Die in a fire.
>>342536361
Putting aside the obvious response (why wouldn't I just play Total War in this case?), I've tried Warwolf and it doesn't work on a pirated game. I'm not shelling out the money to play a game that I've already deemed to be inferior.
>>342536551
Because Total War stopped being good after Medieval 2. And even then, Med2's just there so you can play the infinitely superior in literally every conceivable way Third Age Total War. Nowadays you add on Divide and Conquer to TATW.
>>342536519
Not him but,
>The RPG mechanics are more in depth than almost any other, there like 16+ skills, tons of starting choices and char customization, can be literally emporer of the entire map.
Vanilla's roleplaying is so bad that there are entire mods like the wildly popular Floris that set out explicitly to fix it.
>Fighting is pretty hard if your not a pleb and turn the attacking and blocking to auto and the difficulty down.
Stay on horseback and don't stop moving.
>Strategy is fucking great it actually matter how you place and charge and compose your army.
There isn't an army in the game that can tackle a group of 30+ Swadian Knights and there isn't a castle or town in the game that can handle a Rhodok Sharpshooter/Nord Huscarl one-two punch.
It's a fun as fuck game but it's not as deep as you think it is.
>>342531895
Do you mean Warband?
>>342536045
The one seige video? I've seen nothing on overworld, diplomacy, empire relations
>>342536551
>I'm not shelling out the money to play a game that I've already deemed to be inferior.
to what
>>342536519
> there like 16+ skills, tons of starting choices and char customization
Most of which are padding and unnecessary given the overall simplicity of the game. Yeah, prisoner management totally couldn't have been merged with leadership, that would be too simple! Etc etc.
>Strategy is fucking great it actually matter how you place and charge and compose your army.
Play a game of total war, which has organized formations and archer volleys (not to mention REAL sieges), instead of this mob fight garbage and come back to lick the shit off my shoe, any time.
vanilla m&b has the best mods
star wars conquest, 1866, solid and shade, etc
>>342537480
>Play a game of total war, which has organized formations and archer volleys (not to mention REAL sieges), instead of this mob fight garbage and come back to lick the shit off my shoe, any time.
Nope, you're not getting out of this either, bucko. Slam and retreat with cavalry and take the high ground. That's the only strategy you need in Total War. In sieges you just bottleneck the gate and have swordsmen up on the walls in the event ladders and siege towers make it there. It's so bad that Third Age implemented a garrison script (which spawns an enormous army when you attack an important place like Helm's Deep) just so the game will provide some small modicrum of a challenge, even on VH/VH.
Like Warband, Total War is fun as fuck but it's not as deep as you're making it out to be.
>>342531895
Play Warband. Viking Conquest is great if you like norsemen.
>>342537958
You're missing the entire point, little man. The point is that either game has "gamey" strategies (and probably the gamey strategies in Total War are by nature of being a dedicated strategy game more complex than M&B's), it's that one looks like an organized mass infantry battle simulator, while the other looks like a mob fight.
>>342538223
did you only play native?
>>342537758
you get vanilla for free with warband
>>342537193
>There isn't an army in the game that can tackle a group of 30+ Swadian Knights and there isn't a castle or town in the game that can handle a Rhodok Sharpshooter/Nord Huscarl one-two punch.
Stop playing on baby damages.
I'm thinking of starting in Khergit territory as a female, steppe bandits won't rape me will they?
>>342539368
Khergits only fuck horses.
>>342539480
and Vaegir women
>>342531895
Get warband only. 1,647 hours played, got the others too, this is the only one you should get.
>>342538223
>and probably the gamey strategies in Total War are by nature of being a dedicated strategy game more complex than M&B's
You'd think so, but not really. Cavalry and high ground are bread and butter in both. In sieges, you just stand in the way of their entrypoint and cut them down as they come while archers slaughter anything that slips through, same as in Total War.
In fact, I might be tempted to give Warband's AI the win because unlike in Total War, the entire army doesn't fucking stop just to let your archers duke it out. Are you honestly going to tell me that isn't retarded?
Really the differences are mostly cosmetic. Do you want a shitload of guys who look orderly (but turn into a mob on contact anyway) along with the bird's eye view? Or do you want the smaller battles that also descend into a chaotic mobfight while you're in the fight personally. Otherwise you employ the exact same strategies for the exact same situations.
Pick your poison.
>>342538904
See, you immediately think that, but it's more the Lords never bothered to upgrade their shit. More often than not, I see middle tier troops at best with MAYBE a couple elites, who I make a point to kill on sight anyway BECAUSE I don't want them running around. The Swadian Knights just run roughshod over that.
The only time I ever had any trouble with a nation was when I was sieging the Rhodoks, because they were the only AI kingdom that got the idea to spam elite archers for defense and Sharpshooters are a bitch to deal with. I'm honestly hoping the Nords, who own nearly half the map at this point, can put up a hell of a fight. Because all that's left is the Sarranids, who're getting thrashed by the Nords, and the Kherjits, which
>kherjits ever putting up anything resembling a fight
>>342539785
native is badly balanced
>>342539785
Thank god butterlard is making lords act more like players.
>>342537480
Faggots like you are the reason why we are going to get an elder scrolls with a warrior,thief and mage skill.
>>342539583
Aren't they more or less the same ?
>>342537480
Combining prisoner management and leadership would be OP as fuck. You'd make your army stronger AND open up routes to make retarded amounts of money all with one skill.
Also charisma needs at least 3 skills to balance out the skill tiers.
What is Dhirim worth, Sultan Hakim?
>>342539785
You need to go back where you came from, Redditor.
>>342541092
Nothing
>>342531895
REMOVE SARRANIDS
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Reddit: the faction
>>342541590
>>342541379
>The feeling of DEUS VULT when you play 1257
Another glorious day killing heathens in the name of our Lord, brothers?
>>342542213
>implying I'm an infidel
Get off our lands frankish scum REEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>342543709
Hey fuck you the sandnigger faction is the best faction.
>that aesthetic troop tree
>those mamelukes which rek everything
>that sultan who actually gives you fiefs
>>342545227
They never protect their fucking cities though. In my games shariz always gets conquered by rhodoks.
RELEASE BANNERLORD NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>342545343
In my game they took half the rhodock lands while the butterlords took the other half.
It was a weird game though with khergits and nords partitioning the veagirs.
>>342545518
>Butters taking anything
Must've been one heck of a weird game
>>342545639
Seems pretty normal
>>342545903
>swadia not collapsing in on itself
>actually pushing in ragnars shit
Cmon that cant be real unless you helped him, harlaus would've feasted away those gains by now
>>342545903
H-how?
>>342546848
>>342546547
Swadian Magic, now accept the horsecock you Nord
>>342545492
>no co-op campaign
What's the point?
>>342550618
Maybe thats whats taking them so long
