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Mount and Blade: Indiscriminately ravage any Khergit
angryferret22
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Got this game yesterday, seems like a combo of Oblivion and Pirates!, seems wicked cool, but there's no thread on it yet that I can find. Discuss, people!
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Suffice to say, Mount and Blade is the best pc game in existence, full stop.
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And to the poster above, I concur.
edit: so it would seem.
It SOUNDS interesting, but you know I just don't know if I really would enjoy it.
Could you elaborate on what you guys find good about it?
Most everything except that you can't conquer stuff well in your own name and you can't execute leaders of other factions.
It really is a great game
The combat is EXTREMELY fun, the political aspect of the game is fun, though lacks of depth. There is a ton of potential in this game.
there are a few mods for the capturing stuff, lets you make a real kingdom rather than being rebels
Better look that up, then, because I couldn't hold more than a few castle and cities because I was at war so often when I tried.
Mostly the Combat. Everything thats not the combat is pretty medicore, but the combat makes it worthwhile. You get such great moments in it. Picture this:
You're covered in blood, knee deep in a river, three arrows in you and surrounded by corpses. You can hear the thunder of hooves and the distant clash of steel on steel and scream over a nearby hill. Your shield is long gone, ruined by many blows and you are armed with a blood splattered Great Axe your tore from the grasp of a dead foeman.
As you drag yourself from the river where you were unhorsed an enemy knight, split off from the main battle spots you and charges. Timing carefully, you wing the Axe in a great arc, cutting his horse from under him before he can bring down his sword. As the horse dies, he goes sprawling. You run after him and bring the axe down in a mighty blow that kills him before he can regain his feet in a great welter of blood.
The game is full of moments like this
I would have bought it earlier but I thought that the combat would have been weak.
A simple mod changes this to as many as you want. Most PCs won't be able to handle more than ~100 or so.
The best part of Mount&Blade is that it's a sandbox game. There are many, MANY worthwhile mods. As soon as The Last Days gets ported to the retail version, I will not be outside my house for a week.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Try this one, I havent used it, but if I remeber right the same guy made a previous one of a differant name that did similar stuff.
http://www.mbrepository.com/modules/PDdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=1&lid=1019
I find that I play it in short bursts. Play it a lot for a few days or a week, then not touch it for a few months because really, there's not much to it beyond viciously butchering people with a variety of sharp (and blunt!) instruments.
Mods.
M&B is so much better with mods. Like the Battle Size Changer, which has an option for rendering up to 700 people at once.
Probably some form of manual and a hard copy of the game, but I'm not sure myself
I go into a village, recruit a soldier, then proceed to try and extort money from the peasants with my army of two. They refuse, and I find myself fighting many more people than my 30 arrows can kill.
i found the "secret" armor & weapons and spent some time riding into battle as a japanese feudal lord. but i like the look of the winged full helmets too much, so i switched back to my heavier armor. ah man, the battles are so much fun. and as others have said, the mods for this definitely fill some of the gaps that the main game should have. i liked the enhanced graphic mod and the one that adds HDR (its a little weird, but i like the brightness).
the main thing i wish i could do is predesign formations for my troops. like be able to assign them into squads and have them rank up accordingly. i think that would add another nice level to the battlefield command. i already think its awesome just lining up my men where i want them and having them hold until the right moment - which is WAY better than the default "run head first and get slaughtered" behavior.
Fucking epic.
Demo ran out, buying now. Really a fun game.
While the Vaegirs attempted to regain strength by invading the Khergit Khanate in the south, the Rhodoks declared war on us, but we had greatly improved in numbers since Isolla had been crowned queen, and not long after, they too were utterly vanquished. The new Swadian kingdom has swallowed up much of what was previously Vaegir land, and all of the Rhodok and Nord territories. The Vaegirs and the Khergits continue their war and give us a wide berth. Many of the Nord and Rhodok lords who escaped imprisonment are pledging allegiance to us. I am Lord Marshall of all Swadia, second only to the queen in terms of rank. At Senuzgda Castle, my main stronghold (despite also being lord of Praven, Reyvadin and several other castles), I now have two deposed kings, Graveth and Ragnar, and around ten lords in the dungeon. My time is spent defending Swadan villages from raiding parties, attending tournaments and nurturing my lands to grow wealthy.
Awesomesauce, but I can't wait for some retail version mods
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
huh...any other mods worth mentioning? Like maybe something to make combat harder. It's just a little too simple.
Asking this again, since I'm wondering whether or not to get it on Steam.
Cant you buy it off the homepage and download it through there as well? I would recommend that if its still possible.
As to differences no there are no gameplay differences that i know of, just the manual/disk/packaging.
yeah renown increases army size, and the renown you get is based on the battle advantage kind of.
If you fight an army of 200 with an army of 20, you will get more renown than if it was 200 vs 200.