Looks like you can build your own village (that you can move locations if needed, which is awesome), patrol center (I assume you can have patrols around your village) AND a castle in the 16th century mod. Thats pretty advanced compared to what 1257 offers (its manor system of 1257 mod has more stuff, but its kinda rather simple and meaningless).
With that said. Playing as the natives of americas is really hard at first, but rather easy after a while. Unless you play the mayans or incas, as they don't start with as much (especially mayans, only 1 lord and 2 vassals lol). But as aztecs...after I kicked out portugul and spain...its been endless peace lol. I like it that way though
Occasional spanish lord comes to do some raiding and pillaging, but no vast armies dare cross the vast ocean to reclaim the americas. Then once you get peace with the north american natives, they don't tend to declare war again and haven't even had any aggression with the inca empire. And the spanish lord that does come over, we end up chasing back to where he came from...Europe
Or if we catch him, then he gets defeated or becomes a prisoner.
But the americas are very peaceful
Most may not like that in a game about war, but I really do. I can focus on...I'll be honest...teleporting around to do tournaments and stuff. I was traveling, but I kept missing every tournament because the map is rather big. And that is one downside of a huge map, is it takes forever to travel lol. But the only thing I teleport for is tournaments. Otherwise I RP by traveling around on the map. Which I mostly stay in americas.
Besides its not really cheating, I noticed the AI "teleports" to do tournaments too
So fair is fair. I can do one tournament, go to another and the same lord is at that tournament. Even vanilla warband that happens, so if AI does it...I'll do it too lol.