Can someone give me a rundown on what the best single player mods are these days? been awhile since I played. I used to love pendor, looks like it is never being updated again though.
Gekokujo is a pretty neat Japan Warring States-era mod. Oda Nobunaga, Masamune Date, all those dudes, plus the rebellious non-samurai warrior monks. There's also a few references to foreign-types sorta-including the Ainu from Hokkaido. Lotsa foreign companions, for one - Koreans, a couple Westerners, stuff like that. Guns, of the matchlock variety.
The previous version and current version have different music, both of which are pretty good, and the newer version consolidated gunners and bowmen into just 'skirmishers' or so, with each faction presumably having different rate/chances of gunners to bowmen.
Being Japan, there really aren't any shields.
I've mostly been playing Warsword Conquest recently, though. It's a Warhammer Fantasy mod - has a lot of factions that are pretty kitted out, though the finer points of mod enjoyability like 'balance' and 'bandit populations' and 'actually equipping you so that you don't have to start by AFKing in a Lord's army for 300 days' and shit are a little iffy, I believe. Still, though - Renaissance-as-fuck Empire troops, with their muskets and halberds and greatswords and stuff, versus nekkid axe-barbarians and their advanced HUGE AS FUCK Chaos Knight upgrades versus teenytiny Skaven and Goblins versus Elves versus Tomb Kings versus hngh. Fun times. Also OGRES. CANNON-ARMED LEADBELLY MERC OGRES. ANGRY HUGE-CLAWED RAT OGRES. BIG GREATAXE-WIELDING CHAOS DEMON
BLOODTHIRSTERS.Not found a Bright Wizard yet, sadly.