b5d1c8 No.6517
I scrolled through the catalog and there was no other tread so, mount and blade general
what module are you playing? Any multiplayer? If so what servers? Also stories.
I'm really into napoleonic wars right now and im playing on the 15th bots vs humans because i am awful at the game
18bd29 No.6544
I was one of the first actual buyers of m&b during the alpha, picked it up for 7$. Never once regretted the purchase, such a based game. Currently playing the 1257 mod, it's pretty hard compared to something like Pendor.
d88b5a No.6547
Lancer checking in.
I am an angel of death on the battlefield. My horse itself is a weapon and I have killed over 50 men alone.
b5d1c8 No.6549
>>6544I've been switching on and off between floris and Napoleonic wars. What's 1257 like? What's the setting/map?
>>6547 i usually play russian at. Petersburg militia with the pike. Dat reach man. No enemy can get past my wall of thrusts
490c6c No.6916
I just want to have Bannerlords come out already, it's been ages.
I found a Skype convo I had with a guy like, 3 years ago where I was hype that Bannerlords was coming out soon.
9ee135 No.6920
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Here's a game with somewhat M&B-esque combat. Looks more fast paced though and no directional parry.
18bd29 No.6923
>>6920>that lazy swingMy god, I hope they atleast up it to Chivalry-level swordplay
5db820 No.6934
>>65491257 Anno Domini spans all of Europe down to the north coast of Africa and a little past Israel. There are 100s of towns and cities. It's great
9ee135 No.6938
>>6923>Chivalry-level swordplayI hope not, cause Chivalry is fucking awful turn-based combat and has even slower animations than these.
18bd29 No.6941
>>6938Choosing between that and parry spam [the video guy took on 3 guys at once by spamming parry] I'd rather just keep playing M&b and wait for M&b Bannerlord, honestly.
7a514e No.6942
>>6941Huh? At which point? I doubt you can win by just being on the defensive, anyway.
18bd29 No.6945
>>6942It's :45 seconds in and he's spamming parry and able to fight anyone around him.
7a514e No.6946
>>6945What, have you even played M&B or Chivalry? He parries once or twice, and I'm pretty sure there's a chamber too.
You don't deal damage by parrying, anon.
Furthermore if combat was as simple as just parryspamming, then why do those around him die so easily?
18bd29 No.6948
>>6946Dude, watch the fucking video you linked. He fights 4v1 because he parry spams.
7a514e No.6950
>>6948The fuck? I don't even know the exact details of the combat system but it's obvious he is not just parry spamming. Why the fuck would the enemies die from parries anyway? I'll attempt to break it down for you.
:52, afaik this is a clash, same for the next
:55 Feint to parry, same concept as in chivalry
:56 riposte hits the other guy, he falls for feint and dies
:58 He stops comboing and chambers the incoming attack, it hits and kills
1:00 he parries and ripostes, enemy parries too and then theres a few clashes
1:03 his combo hits the black bystander guy
1:05 he dances away and baits the black guy to wind up while doing a 180 stab, standard Chivalry tactic vs noobs
Really, where is the parry spam in this video? Are you just really fucking clueless or baiting?
d88b5a No.6964
>that feel when you besiege and capture a city with 30 huscarls
5d7a1e No.7056
We need a Jeeps & Kalashnikovs mod set in a Yugoslavia War like setting in pic related
18bd29 No.7058
>>6950If you can stand in a group of 4 people and parry spam and kill them all that easily then it's not a skill based game. Thanks.
eaf275 No.7060
Dark Messiah reminded me of M&B a bit in the combat.
I'm looking forward to bannerlord.
66f257 No.7061
>>6934This is just what I needed.
I'm actually really into /tg/ right now and I'm making my own table top game and I'm partially inspired by mount and blade and medieval II total war. The setting is medieval Europe with magic and shit. I was gonna have the players build armies similar to mount and blade but I needed troop trees to get it done. Now I do. Thanks anon. 25ada2 No.7067
>>6920>that stalemate he gets in for 30 seconds don't these morons know that sword fights only last a few seconds
258bcc No.7071
>>6920The gameplay somehow looks worse then Chivalry
3ce8cd No.7123
>>6920>somewhat M&B-esque combat>more fast pased>no directional parryThe correct comparison would have been to use Chivalry as an example – they're both clunky and snorefests. It's pretty much a carbon copy of it.
I will admit that the half-swording is a neat gimmick 98b690 No.7210
>>7058So i take you are retarded or baiting. I thought this board was supposed to have quality posters to compensate for the crawling speed?
b5d1c8 No.7345
>>7210I think he means that parry is similar to a shield in things like elder scrolls or others. Since there is no parry direction. You could tap or hold the parry button and not have worry that the attack is a stab or a vertical slash. Essentially it's cheap and no longer relys on the player's strategy and timing to guess attack directions
9ee135 No.7348
>>7345If so he articulated it incredibly poorly, but either way it's clear from the video and even specified elsewhere that it's a timed parry and you have to aim it pretty carefully.
Even the idea that you would be able to win by just spamming parry is fucking absurd. It doesn't deal damage, it's a defensive move. And if it was so easy, then why are the enemies not parrying constantly?
b5d1c8 No.7356
>>7348>defensive move, deals no damageAgain probably articulation on his part. You can't win through parries but you can't lose through parry spam either. Ive only watched this video and know nothing of this game, but he was constantly parrying and only striking when he was behind or to the side of his enemies. Then again I could be wrong about that
4068fe No.9083
Just started my my own kingdom. Got me 5 vassals right now, two of which are total bros. I'm just trying to pump out higher tier units for when war comes.
On aside note, whats some good mods to get? I hear diplomacy is really good.
ae4b21 No.9095
>>9083floris
expanded gameplay
battle size changer
4068fe No.9101
4068fe No.9108
>>9095Oh god, it adds so much.
I dont know if Im ready yet.
ae4b21 No.9116
>>9108If you've made your own kingdom, you should know enough about the game to be able to get by.
4068fe No.9127
>>9116Yeah I guess you are right. I should give it a shot. I'm going to download Floris.
e76892 No.9343
I dunno why whenever I see an MB thread the focus is always SP and the mods.
I prefer multiplayer myself and I mostly play vanilla siege. I love the siege mode
>>6920I dunno why every M&B inspired MP game focuses only on the foot soldiers. I want horses. I want to stand my ground and watch that bloody horsefag coming straight at me, biding my time for the perfect moment to strike.
b5d1c8 No.9635
>>9127Floris, and most mods in general, has the diplomacy mod.
d7ec7e No.9819
So, stupid question.
Is there a proper term for the 'genre' Mount & Blade is?
The best approximation I can come up with is "Grand Strategy / RTT played from a cRPG perspective."
d88b5a No.9821
>>9819Action rpg IMO. That incorporates some strategy gameplay.
d88b5a No.9822
>>9343Because the game was originally made for SP and is primarily SP, people have thousands of hours in it for a reason.
0313d2 No.10992
>>7123I think that's actually mordhau not half-swording.
fa3535 No.11006
God fucking damn. Playing Perisno as Tolrania, we are at war with 4 different factions, we've already lost one major town and two others are being besieged at the exact same time by two different nations. Same thing happens with Swadia in native. Who would design one faction that shares borders with five different other factions?
0313d2 No.11007
>>11006Kebabs (people who hate white people)
a06104 No.14112
How did Swadian Knights become the best knights in the land despite Swadia being a complete shithole of a kingdom?
fec2d3 No.14853
how do i git gud at the early game
I downloaded Floris and am getting my ass handed to me by a lot of things even on 29% difficulty, mainly archers and getting ganged up on when in the native game I could one man army 30 sea raiders on foot.
Also what's the word on Kingdom Come Deliverance? I'm pretty sure Bannerlord will just be a graphics touchup or a complete screw up considering how paradox is handling their most recent games.
d88b5a No.14886
>>14853
1) Stay on horseback at all times, a mounted man is worth ten unmounted men. Kite everything when you suck.
2) Hire people and go to training grounds for a bit to put them up a few levels.
3) This isn't a game of morality, prey on those weaker than you exclusively.
fec2d3 No.14889
Alright I got gud at the early game.
I was running missions for Praven's guild master when I got a mission to persuade two lords to stop a war. Problem is I don't have the huge amounts of money they are asking, my persuasion skill is 0, and I didn't dedicate my tournament wins to any ladies so I can't ask them for favors.
How useful is 1 persuasion, or would I need something like 5 persuasion for them to budge?
d88b5a No.14891
>>14889
Don't do the mission to stop a war at an early game state. That one sucks.
Persuasion is nice to make recruiting prisoners easier, but I don't really bother with it.
54a76c No.14908
f95774 No.14947
Is Viking Conquest worth buying?
I have 300 hours in normal M&B (casual as fuck I know, but I actually only played with Native Expansion and Diplomacy)
d88b5a No.14950
>>14947
It's full of bugs. Just play more warband.
f95774 No.14952
>>14950
I haven't played Warband in two years because I thought Bannerlords was coming out soon
e21ad8 No.14956
>>7067
>sword fight last few seconds
Dude, stop looking at shitty anime and acculturate yourself on actual medieval facts
5fd8e6 No.14969
>>14853
>a complete screw up considering how paradox is handling their most recent games.
Pretty sure Paradox has nothing to do with Bannerlord. Last I heard Taleworld were self publishing.
f95774 No.15197
>>6916
There was an update not so long ago.
I remember because I looked it up for the sake of fun and just realized it had been updated on the day I checked, I got hype as fuck.
It does look pretty good.
d88b5a No.16185
I'm probably starting a new game in warband this summer, since I've only played vanilla before. It's going to suck feeling powerless without the weapon proficiencies I had built up. I love how the game makes you genuinely feel inexperienced at the start, more games need to do that the way weapon skills work.
64dff6 No.16302
>>6920
>That thrust battle not even a minute into the video
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Are they playing with auto block or is this just Chivalry copy?
14fd81 No.16868
>>14889
>and I didn't dedicate my tournament wins to any ladies so I can't ask them for favors
i didn't even know you can do this. i've been playing M&B for 3 years and it just keeps getting bigger
e2d55b No.17191
>mfw Warband
And here I was thinking vanilla m&b was the tightest shit.
>built a trade empire over a year ingame, now collect over 3k dener per week as I amass my growing army of rhode sharpshooters, swag knights, and huscarls
>politics and diplo is 100 times better
>go to feasts, make friends with lords as I collect potential allies to join me in the years to come when I establish my own claim to the throne
>talk to Lady Ruwa at a feast
>she likes me
>win tournament in town
>dedicate to her
>drowning in pussy
>says her father is held captive
>break Ghanawa out of a sarranigger prison
>ask to visit daughter
>this nigger gets mad as fuck that I talked to her without his permission
>ungrateful cunt
>visit her anyway
>she has an unwanted suitor, I can tell I'm almost drowning in pussy right about now
>who's this suitor bothering her?
>some babyback bitch named Rothabarch
>he has an army of size 18
>no fiefs
>smack his ass down in a trial of combat
>the rectal rampage is unreal
>four lords were witnessing
>he gives up his courtship of Lady Ruwa
Kek, and I have a stronger friendship with Jarl Kramuk, who is the lord of 3 or 4 major towns, who I expect may propose to wed me his daughter in a year or so's time.
083a6a No.17300
>>6517
A bit burnt out on Warband at the minute, waiting to see what they do with the major patch they announced for Viking Conquest
a18105 No.17310
boss game, I'm currently on day 1046, what day you on bros?
I own Dhirim and work for the kingdom of nords, collecting them sweet rents and training my huscarl army. Found an effective tactic for sieging castles with my 50 man party.
Basically run over to the castle without my men, leave them in the garrison and spy out the castle. If you got a lot of archer nerds, I ride back and bring my huscarls. Then get them to stand far away from the castle with their shields up. They soak up the shots while I sneak in close and start picking off the archers one by one. Retreat when I run out of ammo. Once all or most of the archers are dead, I run back and grab my nord veteran archers.
Sit back, and enjoy as they turn the castle ramparts into pin cushions. Rinse and repeat until done. It works fantastically on ladder castles but not at all on siege tower castles, I let the AI handle those. They just aren't worth the trouble.
a18105 No.17311
I spent the entire early game looting the sarranid towns. It fucking ruins your honor, I had like -100 honor and all the lords hated me. Then just take a mercenary contract or swear vassalage and it'll reset your relation with a faction. I had over 130000 denars from doing this.
I spent about 50,000 maintaining a huge elite army of huscarls and lancers, recruiting and training a 500 strong nord warrior garrison for my town and stockpiling immense quantities of grain and ale. I'm using the diplomacy mod so I had some other expenses also.
a18105 No.17312
My advice is to get a cavalry army early game and loot towns. Then invest your denars in the best armor, horse and weapons you can use.
Here's another tip, you can talk to tavern owners and ask them for jobs. They'll let you know any special quests. The kind that tend to give larger XP rewards, good for levelling.
Tracking down bandits can be difficult and you need a good amount of tracking skill to pull it off usually. But gives good reward XP. Starting and ending wars is a good one. Also try hunting bandit lair quests.