From this point on, you have complete freedom over what to do. You are tasked with recruiting some people and defeating local bandits. Once the threat is dispatched, a local merchant comes to give you shelter and a little serie of quests to get you started. You start the game as a stranger who came to Calradia to seek a better fortune after choosing the gender and background of your character, shaping their face and choosing a capital city to start in, you get attacked by a bandit.
The Kingdom of Swadia, for instance, is largely based on Western Europe, with a mostly balanced force and an emphasis on heavy calvary the Kingdom of Nords is based on Scandinavia and has the best melee infantry but no cavalry, the Khergit Khanate is very obviously inspired by the Mongols and has a force made up almost exclusively of cavalry units, and so on. The purple Khergit Khanate is also visible. The Kingdom of Nords is in light blue, Vaegirs in gray and Swadia in orange. Each faction is loosely based on real-life Medieval countries and has its own types of troops, with strengths and weaknesses. I’m going to talk about the most popular one, Warband.Ĭontrasting with the three expansions, which respectively take place in Dark Age Britain, the Napoleonic Wars and 17th century Eastern Europe, Warband, just like its predecessor/beta/older version, is set in the fictional land of Calradia, which is divided in six factions often at war with each other, each claiming to be the rightful heir to the Old Calradian Empire. The Mount & Blade franchise is made of the titular Mount & Blade, Mount & Blade: Warband, which is pretty much the finished, updated version of the original, its two expansions – Viking Conquest and the multiplayer-only Napoleonic Wars – and a third, stand-alone expansion: With Fire & Sword. This little contest allowed me to redeem myself.
I went and bought the series without a second thought. During last year’s Steam Winter Sale, there was a intriguing game with a mind-boggling proportion of positive reviews, many clocking over a thousand hours of play and telling epic and absurd stories of gameplay.
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