💬 Review Mount & Blade: Warband

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Edgaras904

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Name of the app you are reviewing: Mount & Blade: Warband



Mount & Blade: Warband is a sandbox, Medieval Simulator type of game. Where you start off from nothing, a simple adventurer, and eventually become the King

Review:
The Review:
The game starts you off, on the "Native" module(Vanilla, in basic game sense) which is pretty much the base game from ten years ago. You are able to decide your gender, and then pick a few "choices of life" that happened to your character. Who their father was, who they were as a child, what type of life they had later on, and what ultimately forced them to decide to go on an adventure in Calradia.

Yes. Calradia. It is the setting on where the game takes place. There are Six factions in the game as well. The Nords in the North, The Vaegirs in the North-East and East, The Khergits somewhat in the South, The Sarranids in the farthest South, The Rhodoks in the West and the Swadians in the North. Each faction is taken from real life cultures and history. For example, the Sarranids closely match the Sassanids or the Arabs. The Rhodoks closely resemble Italians, The Swadians for the Holy Roman Empire, The Nords - well they are self explanatory: Scandinavian Vikings and such. The Vaegirs closely resemble Slavic cultures, though it's debatable. The Khergits are essentially the Mongols, being a literal horse faction.

The game itself allows you to start off as either a commoner or a noble. Commoner males have naturally an easier time still than commoner females. If you play as a female commoner, you will more than likely face a really hard time dealing with the injustices of the world.

There are many key features and 'stats' in the game. The one you'll find the most is Renown, which is basically your reputation and prestige in Calradia, how well you would be known. The second one is Honor, which is basically self explanatory. Doing things such as letting lords go, protecting a Village from bandits and letting them keep the reward they'd issue you would constitute to the honor gain. The last one, is Right to Rule - which is basically how legitimate your claim to become King is. Doing things like sending your companions to spread the word about you, making peace with your enemy if you are already King, marrying a noble lady/lord, can increase the general amount of right to rule that you might have. If you recruit Lords into your Kingdom, you will also gain more right to rule as a result!

There are also multiple ways one could play the game. You could effectively play as a merchant, going from town to town - buying goods at cheap prices and selling them at a higher cost in other parts of the region. Or you could play as an adventurer/mercenary, doing simple repeatable quests for the Lords and Town Mayors for money and renown, gaining more money and possibly loot from any enemies that you kill. Lastly, if you have a company of soldiers that are of significant tier and quantity, as well as sufficient renown, you can pretty much sell your sword to one of the Kings and fight for gold and glory - being paid by the Kingdom weekly as a result.

As it is a medieval game, there are a few choices of weaponry that you can choose from. Sword, Lance, Spear, Bow, Crossbow, Javelin, One handed weapon and a two handed weapon. All to your own preference.

The game itself functions as an RPG Sandbox game. While the native game has pretty outdated graphics and textures, there are many mods out there that offer alternatives to changing it and making it better. In fact, the game's modding community is so MASSIVE, that there are dozens of mods that change the game entirely, so you can experience and play at a different setting.

For example, there is The Last Days mod, which is literally Lord of the Rings but armies and no Hobbits. Based on the War for the Ring.
Another example is A Clash of Kings, which is a Game of Thrones mod - set in the War of the Five Kings, starting at the time when Jaime Lannister gets captured
Floris Evolved: It upgrades the game into a proper Medieval simulator. Better animations, graphics, more troop tree variants, armors, swords, companions.

Would you recommend this to other users? I would recommend this to every fan who enjoys a Medieval simulator with a strong touch of RPG elements!

Rating (1-5): ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
 

mark matiu

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What's remarkable about mount and blade war band. Is that it is an old adventure game
And it still manages to beat the s**t out of the games we play today.

Till this day I still play mount and blade war band.
 

Rairaven45

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It is pretty much the only simulator-is game that I have played and enjoyed to the full.
Especially, the fact that the various mods from mod.db are detailed and immersive.
Would recommend everyone to at least try it once as it is in itself a great trendsetter game.
 
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