Mount & Blade: Warband Retrospective

You gotta commend their bravery, though...

More enemies, more honor.

@@ragalyiakos You gotta give it to AI they are some brave mother fuckers.

LMAO

That's a nice hair you have on your shoulders

And then King Harlaus decides to give Senuzgda castle to King Harlaus.

Tonight we shall feast on all the butter in the land! For tomorrow we will conquered by all our neighbors. Unless the player joins us and fights off all invaders..

*King Harlaus is now addicted to condensed cow juice...* Legends say butterlord once passed out during a butter bingefest, slathered with the stuff in the nude. Some may describe that he was gleeful that day. But others... thought he was *gheeful*

Harlaus spamming feasts almost makes it not worth it getting Swadian Knights lol

Has he not heard about Corona?!

He needs more towns to hold feasts in.

It was a tough decision for him.

King Harlus: *Doesn't show up to said feast*

While playing Bannerlord, i do believe the western Empire's King Garios is Harlus' great great grandfather 😂

Oh gee look at that, king Harlaus being a piece of shit. There's a site you don't see literally anytime you boot up the game. It's almost as rare as King Harlaus getting his ass kicked and being a sexist. So much for protecting Swadia Eh Harlaus? Has that guy ever won without the player character? Does anybody know?

"Fewer" - Stannis Baratheon.

Only make honorable decisions. And only recruit honorable lords. Release everyone you best on the field of battle, and soon, based on everyone's opinion of you, you will see which lords prize honor above all else. These are the ones you can rely on, and the ones who will never defect. They will always have a perfect opinion of you, because you will always act honorably. And they'll never defect; that would be dishonorable! Really, in the long run, being a nice guy pays off in Warband.

Shaikoten Nah. Only release good personality lords(martial, upstanding, or good-natured) and capture bad personality lords(quarrelsome, calculating, debauched, or pitiless).

@@austincantswim3383 I could absolutely be wrong but I thought even releasing the bad personality lords still improved the good personality lords' opinion of you. Still, I take the late game tact of throwing the bad personality lords in jail to rot so they're less of an impact. But I mostly play mods so I'm never sure who is what personality.

Shaikoten Use the wiki and write down their personality upon first meeting them. mountandblade.fandom.com/wiki/Vassals

Zenturio Then you eventually climb the ladder and rush the archers at the bottom and 30+ archers pepper you with arrows or javelins until you die or hide.

The only way of salvation is to spec 10 in shield and carry 3 reinforced steel shield and use the force/magnetic field to attract all missiles into it.

Yeah gaylord Go chad with double-handed sword and leave no man alive.

@@Lexaine that's me whenever I play warband tbh.

@@2008davidkang Steel? I prefer mountain bandits shields. Less health but more coverage.

"You have 200 troops ready to battle against the enemy's 5"

Swadian knights I guess

This is some funny shit.. We got a guy named bill hicks replying to a guy who has Alex Jones as a profile pic... I think i've found the edge of the universe.

hundreds .. ? *thousands* ..

I was playing this and sacking cities when you were learning to tie your shoes. its crazy that after all these years new people are still getting into it.

@@danielrobertson2154 lmfao

@@ocirontariocryptidinvestig8010 Yes, I bought the game a few months ago and have 200 + hrs on it. Saw MATN play it and was hooked.

Usual Butterlord moment

@@MrHat. Harlaus' greed is kinda legendary at this point. Dert the Vlandian isn't nearly as greedy as his grand-grand-grand-son.

@@BIGESTblade isn't his direct descendent Lady Isolla and not Harlus, was the cousin to Isolla's father

@@MrHat. It's kinda hard to tell now. Harlaus is a cousin of the previous Swadian king, meaning he still can be a direct descendant, it's just that his own grandfather was Dert's younger son or something.

Considering it's harlaus, I'm not even surprised

this is the entire reason why people even like dwarf fortress. the game is text-based but also has Rimworld-style maps, making the graphics essentially 0.

..but gameplay isn't well-designed and therefore it's not good gameplay per se. Players started to like it, that doesn't make it good. It's very unique and riddled of bugs, which the playerbase made use of to further strengthen their gameplay.

IzeDeco Blank we talking about m&b or dwarf fortress? I’m sorry, but the gameplay of this game is great. Combat is pretty decent, battle tactics are fairly unique and work decently well and the sandbox elements are excellent.

Agree completely, also the fact that it's the only game out there that can make you feel like you're living the life of a medieval warrior/commander. And the fact that it has mod support and the best modding community out there is the cherry on the cake(the cherry might be as big as the cake in this case :D)

@@PandemoniumGameDev I agree, the mod community Is One of the largest and they have created a lot of very good mods, to historical, fantasy and even sci fi

This comment has no right to so hilarious but it is. Bravo!

I love sword sisters

Hilariously enough there is no recorded female victory shout, so if you only have female soldiers after all the dust has settled after combat the shouting is replaced with an eerie total silence as your soldiers stare blankly ahead and silently pump their fists in the air.

@@TheShadow7771 LOL Never quite had a complete female army so did not know that! I did once have a 50 strong sword sister cavalry force that was a lot of fun. Not quite Swadian levels but cheaper and eaisier to replace. From memory they were good units!

"Mostly behaving NPCs" is more accurate

@@JarthenGreenmeadow Let's just settle for "Mostly NPC's"

Zquirrelthing How about “Mostly Retarded”

@@Zquirrelthing Or "Mostly"

This comment thread is what i imagine Trump's speech writer's brainstorm sessions look like.

Justice only exists at the tip of a lowered lance. - random Swadian Knight

"And if a peasent acts like a bitch... he's gonna die like a butch"

@@JoeMartinez18 hey hey people

@@Madtroll1209 Seeth here

Remember when sea raiders were scary threats? The early days.

I remember when I got my first castle. It started calradias first world war. I was the only axie

Don't forget to establish your RtR!

Take the castle. Choose a faction that is not making war to the one you stole the castle from, go to its king and join said faction. Find (very kickly) some 150-200 levies. You're good. Even if the faction that used to hold that castle declares war to your new faction, they will probably go to castles defended by fewer troops, since the game don't consider the quality of the troops, only the numbers.

Salty Shrimp Pasta Hold that god damn line.

Shout and yell: warcry

AHHHHHH

RAAAAAUGH

Ahhhhhh!

*LESS YELLING! MORE RAIDING!*

Seriously though, I have spent half of my gameplay raiding towns more than anything else. xD

Hey, I just realized something. HE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT TRADE ONCE!

@@tomhill3248 No, he mentioned it Very briefly as the start of his discussion on progression.

I raided villages a few times in my first game and haven't done it since throughout dozens of games and many mods. Always just hunt bandits for loot and prisoners. Usually just solo for a couple of in game weeks because that's how you get the most and best loot. As soon as you hire someone it gets split.

@@raifthemad My man! That's the way to do it! Though I still find it wise to hire Klethi, you can bump up her looting to make up for the share you lose, and with her, half the sea raiders go towards her instead of you. Very helpful in kill the bowmen before they start shooting at you. That way you don't have to ride around in a circle forever to waste all their ammo. If you get her on a horse she can even help out in the fight sometimes. You gotta get her armor though before she can do much good.

Y O U ' L L P A Y W I T H Y O U R L I V E S

What’s all this then?

*LESS* *TALKING* *MORE* *RAIDING*

Out for a stroll are we?

YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Take notes

Unlike bannerlord

@@abointedtoyblingofmats indeed. 8 years and early access.

@@8Delian8 b b b but uhhhhh the devs work so hard man you have to lick that boot b or you're not a true gamer okay

@@abointedtoyblingofmats Just got access to the multiplayer yesterday. The movement is wankier, and so is the combat. Nevermind the bad balance and performance. If singleplayer is in the same state as multiplayer....

Yeah u can kenshi

That is hilarious and amazing. While it could be construed as unbelievable, it's just another great example of the freeform storytelling.

I wiped out the nords and was still somehow at war with them 4 game years later.

I've just done that to Yaroglek :)

Lukas Cairns I think Graveth is canadian

@@ostronost1841 I hated graveth, I took so many castles for them and all I got was king graveth gave haringoth to king graveth

I read it. Honestly I never really figured out how to trigger prison rescues... either way, good to know. (I never actually could bring myself to raid random villages/caravans unless I was seriously desperate anyways. I know they're not real, or even fleshed out in any way, but the thought of marauding through random peasant houses when they're just trying to survive in such a hellscape almost always stopped me, regardless of the rewards.) Still sold enemy soldiers into slavery though. There's absolutely no moral conundrums there!

Raiding isn't that great any way. Its much easier to just get businesses in most towns and play slowly, passively making more money than you can use without the risk, tedium, and honor loss from raiding. Using this strategy I would only raid once or twice to pay for initial businesses but it's not really nessecary. The fact that you get "locked" into raiding and can't move until you're done while the AI can run away on the world map really tilts me too.

Tournaments. Bet on yourself in every round and if you win(which any halfway decent player should) you'll get roughly 40k per. Easiest way to become the richest man in Calradia

@@aarynminyard5325 4k, you'll get around 4k per tournament, not 40k. (3980 from bets and 200 from the tournament itself and the bet money will go down if you win too many tournaments, since you're the crowd favorite at that point.)

@@Daredhnu nah, I've regularly gotten 39,800 from betting 1k on myself every round of the tournament. It's how I made all my money before I could start taking fiefs. Though for the past couple months I've been using the Fires of Calradia mod so maybe that changes it.

Lorenzo Von Matterhorn I took the same path, Rome total war, then mount and blade

Duuuuude me too!!!!!

Lorenzo Von Matterhorn I started out watching gameplay from both TW and M&B I still go back to some of the glory day videos and relive it, those were damn good times

@@genericname7502 just decided last week to buy Bannerlord as my first MnB over buying 3 kingdoms Total war. The grit of being a solider is what I wanted to play. Playing as a non mounted infantry is very tense in pitch battles.

mat d How are you liking it?

I don't love it when I take an arrow to the knee during a siege, knocking me unconscious, and my army decides to withdraw instead of killing the last ten defenders

@@RoamingAdhocrat Mods.

The only other game that people react to in the same way is with osrs (Old School Runescape). Yet it's one of the most active MMORPGs today. It's hard to explain, but both games allow you to immerse and invest into the character that you created and progress exactly how you see fit. It's much much deeper than that but words can't really pin point it when it's truly an experience to be had.

Sounds like S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

@@LegacyProduction2013 Ah yes, osrs, I /still/ years later, find myself returning to runescape, mostly for nostalgia reason.. My character has most of the quests done, millions in the bank, A huge mansion and most of the skills I care about at 99, and yet.. I still get on lol. I think one of my favorite interactions that I still remember, to this day, in like 07, I was a low level noob, in the desert mine, with shit gear, shit everything.. and some uber high levels (to my thinking, though they where like maybe 10-20 levels higher) came in, had a chat.. gave me a bunch of gear and basically set me up. When asked later (I still have them in my friends list, and I've ran into them on rs a few times over the years) They said "hey, we where bored, figured we'd help out a noob. But man, It felt awesome. I think because of those two, there is a reason when I log in, I smith up some iron or steel armor, sit in lumby, and hand out full sets.. literally just to pay it forward, (I get it, most players are vets by now, and are just redoing a character, but if there is even one there that is brand new, I hope even a small leg up, is appreciated) Anyway, I have about 4000 hours into Mount and blade over 11 ish years. (If you include one, as well, pre-steam) so I'd say it's good.

@Magne M Your profile picture is really cool.

I actually think multiplayer in this game is, in a sense, a more accurate representation of medieval combat than the base game. Not in regards of the base mechanics, but the skill of the players involved. The skill of the players on the server usually follows a normal distribution curve. You can run into anyone from a guy who barely just started and has no idea what he is doing, to someone who at least understands the mechanics and maybe some of the easier tricks, to people who will massacre anyone in seconds without any chance of retaliation. Kinda like actual medieval combat, the person you run into on the battlefield may be a peasant who was handed a spear and told to go in the general direction of the enemy, or an armoured knight who was trained for this his whole life, but you need all of them to actually succeed (this is also the reason why I almost exclusively play Siege in multiplayer. The others just aren't that fun to me if you aren't a master at multiplayer combat).

Napoleonic Wars was a fond moment in my life. Hanging out with a bunch of guys. In lines. Shooting muskets. This game is amazing.

I never liked multiplayer much tbh. Island paradise was okay but otherwise wasn’t a fan. Seemed cool just not for me

Jackson S cuz you suck ass. Git gut nub.

The countless hours I spent on mount and blade’s multiplayer will be some of my fondest memories

That's a nice harvesting you have on your season

If bannerlors is as moddable as warband, we will see a warband mod the moment the modding tools come out

Oh yeah the Butterlord

@@rush4in lol fax

Hey nobody says you can never go back lol shit i just reinstalled the original Turok Dinosaur Hunter and had a ball beating it again..

My favourite follower was Artimener

Damage to self: 1/4 (Easiest)

@@fat6776 Combat AI: poor

I see a fellow man of PoP culture...

Being in a big battle against a large Noldor force is quite a thing. Arrows wizzing by like machinegun bullets. The horrors.

@@mothermaidencrone noldor battle: Infantry here! Spearmen here! Knights he- 30 seconds in: ....... well....... fuck

I'd love that! It's my favorite mod!

Pendor is basically the sequel to warband. So good, so complete. It really destroys almost every complaint made in this video like battle continuation, always outgearing everything, poor late game challenges, and so forth, while adding so much content.

Perisno is also spectacular

@@AWanderingSwordsman Completely agree, hell I just started a new Pendor playthrough to get me through COVID-19.

@@jidk6565 I like Persino as well but I think it has the opposite problems. Too many High armor High skill units, the army sizes are too big and you can't outgear enemies at all. It is fun to run around in but way too hard to conquer the world. I will say the Zann invasion is the single coolest thing in a Warband game.

This comment made me happy

its pretty much Northern Italy/Swiss (and Southern Germans) with of-course heavy use of pike/spear infantry, mountains galore, a heavy emphasis on its factions trade and cross bows.

Their units also focus on pike-and-shot tatic, which is the tatic born in sweden, since they don't have horse unit but instead pikemen and the best crossbowmen unit of the game

Pike & Shot wasn't born in Sweden, it was widely used by the Spanish Tercios and the German Landsknechtes over 100 years before Gustavus Adolphus was crowned. Maximilian I developed these tactics based upon how the Swiss mercenaries conducted warfare, and without it Italy nowadays would be speaking french, since post 100 years war France was a literal blob of mounted murder that swallowed anything in their border if allowed to.

@@TheBayzent yeah mb

I've been playing it more or less since launch, and I've never bothered to 'finish' a campaign. I love the mid game too much.

zEEp **********mostly**********

Thanks for this. I was going to replay and was looking for a new mod.

@@kylekopac5685 If you are a seasoned player, and you did not play Pendor yet, you should play Pendor!

This! fantastic mod in most aspects.

the rhodoks get a 'swiss guardsman' as an elite unit, the fuck's a swiss? the huntress troop tree has them wearing chainmail bikini crotch cloth armour It's got tons of stupid shit in it while simultaneously touts itself as 'the definitive experience'. And the author's apparently a dick, though I can't confirm that myself. Just play diplomacy or something.

Perisno is fun lads. Check it out.

IT'S ALMOST HARVESTING SEASON!!!!

Camilo Etcheverry Ríos didn’t the papacy ban them or something bc they killed too many nobles or something

You are right though, The attacker is always at a disadvantage and the strength of ranged firepower reflects that.

@@fanaticpharaoh6689 And this is why it is problematic that a shooting match to start the siege is the best tactic for the attacker. The attacker should be wanting to get up the walls as soon as possible.

False. Crossbows and longbows could harm knights back when they used chainmail, NOT plate armour. The french got fucked against the brittish longbowmen in the battle of Agincourt because their horses were shot, plus there was a lot of mud, and the vast majority of knights didn't die, but were captured. And that's the reason that battle became so famous, because it was incredibly rare for knights to lose so decisively. They especially hated crossbows not because of their power (the strongest crossbows are far weaker than average longbows), but because literally everyone with no training could use them. With bows, and especially longbows, you needed years of training to develop the muscles required.

Bannerlord U can buil Walls

Yeah and that's why the common guy Bunduk uses crossbow to spill the "blue blood" of the lords.

@George Corbul This is everything I never knew I needed to know. Thank you.

Pedda ZZ no rough edges only butter

I've played the sequal for almost 100 hours and it ain't even out yet..

500 hours? Did you only get the game last week?

These are newbies I already have 3260 hours in the game and i am still in the procces of playing the game

@@user-fb1ly4eo2i youre in the process of dying as a virgin..

That ban did absolutely nothing

5.500 hours. Planning to hit 10k. No shame.

Yes…at about 2800. But over half of that is attribute to Napoleonic 🙂

A lame reason is that the character has some level of controversy, plus late game kingdoms nobility falls apart, ie, towns go to a few guys, making them weak to kingdoms with strong nobility.

Aaah yes. Afterwards defending it only with your company of men waiting for the decision for it to go either into your own hands or someone else's so you can finally leave knowing there's a garrison. All this while standing behind merlon and spamming overhead swing with bastard sword.

I thought the rodocks where like bohemia

200 ore nel gioco e solo adesso mi sono reso conto che i Rhodok sono semplicemente i mercenari pavesi con balestra di medieval 2

To be fair, all the factions are generalized stereotypes.

@@goodcomrade2949 like most factions in the game, they are usually blends of similar cultures; only the developers can tell all the conscious and unconscious choices who led them to give each one of the kingdoms their arsenal and identity. I see the Genoese crossbowmen in the Rhodocks, but maybe it's just one of the many inspiration for the faction :)

Kinghood of Mousekind- Yeah, I always thought of Rhodoks as being an amalgamation of armies from around the Alps: the Italian city states and the Swiss ex: Milan, Genoa, Florence

You're gonna love bannerlord cos iy has all that and more

Pooch u probably know this but Napoleonic wars started as a mod which makes it even better imo

The advantage of being female is that you earn renown far more quickly. Instead of making yourself a vassal so quickly, you should farm bandits, raiders, deserters and tourneys for renown.

Ah yes historically acurrate

wait... WHAT?

@@ranyag5274 Yep, look it up :)

Chafe I never once played a female. Goddam weirdos lol

I feel like you SHOULD be able to play as a woman but you would be at a disadvantage

@The505Guys Who said it was a first choice? Even if it was, why does it matter? If male was the only option, why would women want to play the game? Your point is very odd here... Playing as a woman provides a different experience, and many would do so for that alone. Also, you seem very adamant about your aversion to playing as a woman. Are you trying to prove something?

@The505Guys I mentioned the whole first choice thing because of your comment, which mentioned it being a first choice. The point I was addressing was that men shouldn't want to play a game as a woman. It doesn't make sense. I don't avoid a bunch of video games for having player characters that are white, not australian, or in some cases not even human. I'm perfectly fine with playing as a character who is unlike me, especially if it will provide a unique experience. My point also stands for george, who you were replying to (he seems to have the same opinion).

A lot of mods add battle continuation including A clash of kings (game of thrones), Last days (Lord of the rings), Floris, Perisno, and many others

Feliciano Suarez loves persiono but it’s too damn hard fighting elves

ProvidedYeti 151 lmao yeah the archers are super OP...that’s why I just joined the elves and made an army of crimson rangers

Soon brother.

I VILL DRINK FROM UR SKULL

that is not a lot

@@Lopata991 shhh. Just let a boi have his joy.

Just take the likes silently, why do people feel the need to taint their comments with "wowww thanks!!!"