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[My Name is Immaterial]

So I picked Mount and Blade, Warband, Fire and Sword, and Neopolitan Wars up on the Steam sale a few weeks back, and have already dropped 20 hours onto M&B: Warband, on a guess that it was the one that people here really liked. Was I right, or should I be playing on of the others?

[joemoben]

So I picked Mount and Blade, Warband, Fire and Sword, and Neopolitan Wars up on the Steam sale a few weeks back, and have already dropped 20 hours onto M&B: Warband, on a guess that it was the one that people here really liked. Was I right, or should I be playing on of the others?

Warband is the preferred one yes. Neopolitan is just a multiplayer gametype, and most people dislike fire and sword for a multitude of reasons.

[Farce]

Warband is the best, yes.  It's the upgraded version of M&B, and more or less the base for most mods and stuff.  WFaS and Napoleonic Wars are both mods - WFaS is more or less panned, as I understand, and NW is multiplayer only.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Thanks for the responses.

Napoleonic

Blame it on spell check and sleepiness.

[Mech#4]

I did rather enjoy "With Fire and Sword", though I didn't get deep into ruling a faction. I had fun roaming around with a small band of gunmen hunting down bandits. The addition of grenades was what I found to be really fun, though I changed the base settings for them. On base settings you buy a pack of 3 grenades for about 1500 and they run out after throwing those three so I changed them to restock after a battle like arrows.

It does kind of lack in really new features, but the focus on muskets did make combat quite different.

[serephe]

What does With Fire and Sword do that a mod for Warband couldn't?

[Mech#4]

Well, I think that's kind of it. I believe it started as a mod for Warband but was released as a proper game.

I think it's based off a series of books but not having read them I'll summarise as best as I can.

It's set around the 1700s. There isn't that much that I remember that's really different from base Warband. Cities and castles function the same, the maps not terribly interesting with lots of flat plains with occasional rivers.

So, it doesn't do anything that a good mod couldn't. I think it's more the setting that would be the main draw, as it's set during a period of conflict between Poland and I think Sweden and the Ottoman Empire.

[Funk]

I've played  bit of  Fire and Sword and really it wasn't much better than any of the mods for plan old Mount and Blade.
sure it had grenades but so did a few mods as well, ww2 in china is much better as afar as advancements go.

Try Brytenwalda for combat balance and add on to cities and castles it's one of the best.

Sword of Damocles  is one of the best mods for M&B a long with 1866 and ww2 in china, the first 2 have ports to warband so there no reson not to try them.

[EnigmaticHat]

Wait, WW2 in China is a Mount and Blade mod?

...did they show what, you know, happened in WW2 China?  Cause that could be pretty damn dark mod...

[Blaze]

Like most M&B mods, it's purely about the setting; there's little to no background. The darkest you'll run into is NPCs talking about their past.

[Mech#4]

I can imagine the tanks would handle like horses that handle like tanks.

[Ozyton]

New glob pots.
Talk about factions. Apparently Bannerlord is set 200 years before Warband. Plus, not only are there the main big factions there are minor factions as well, plus 'clans' within factions. Hopefully these sorts of things adds some spice to singleplayer.

EDIT: Hopefully this also means there won't be Plate armor, I found that a bit silly in the originals.

EDIT 2: Not related to Bannerlord itself, but apparenly Warband is available on Linux and Mac... but I thought it was before. Anyways... now it is I suppose?

[scrdest]

New glob pots.
Talk about factions. Apparently Bannerlord is set 200 years before Warband. Plus, not only are there the main big factions there are minor factions as well, plus 'clans' within factions. Hopefully these sorts of things adds some spice to singleplayer.

EDIT: Hopefully this also means there won't be Plate armor, I found that a bit silly in the originals.

EDIT 2: Not related to Bannerlord itself, but apparenly Warband is available on Linux and Mac... but I thought it was before. Anyways... now it is I suppose?

'Expanded NPC and Quest system' too. And god damn, does it look good.

[Robsoie]

For those interested in Warsword Conquest, Birger Jarl has made a minimod fixing and balancing very nicely some broken part of the actual mod :
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,145937.msg7392672.html#msg7392672

he is still working on some stuff so probably his minimod will be updated at some point.

the order of install is :

- the mod itself
- the bugfix
- Birger Jarl minimod

ignore the "submod" contained in the 1st post of the Warsword Conquest thread, from my understanding it was made for a previous version and will break a lot in the current one.

Apparently the devs of the mod should come back in october to release a new version of the mod.

[puke]

For those interested in Warsword Conquest, Birger Jarl has made a minimod fixing and balancing very nicely some broken part of the actual mod :
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,145937.msg7392672.html#msg7392672

Great news!

ignore the "submod" contained in the 1st post of the Warsword Conquest thread, from my understanding it was made for a previous version and will break a lot in the current one.

I can confirm this to be true. Much breaking.

Apparently the devs of the mod should come back in october to release a new version of the mod.

Even greater news!