It's currently $6 on Steam on sale, so curious if anyone here can recommend it. I've heard the MP is pretty good, and mod support is strong and varied.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/7999/

Any comments on it?

Ive been playing since it first came out and its improved a heck of a lot. MP is good but some people are very good at it :-) . The new addon is out in a couple of days too which brings in boom sticks :-)

This is an RTS? I thought it was a FPS type game?

(just wondering)

Feel free to move, I kind of floundered on where to ask

no, i don't know...thats why I asked.

Thanks for that Mace.

Hmm, tempted, even just as a close combat amputation simulator. Starting to do the 'it's a just the price of a fancy coffee' justification already. I kind of like the idea of rushing down a hill on a horse waving an axe, vanquishing foes etc.

Is the MP a stats grind, or is it playable even if just a peasant with a stick that has to work his way up?

It's definately worth the price, snap it up if I were you. MP is not persistent as far as I know, you can buy armour and weapons in the session at the time.

I've never ventured to MP but I've had a lot of fun with the single player, there's a demo to try.

Here's where I saw it first.
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3219403/Mount_and_Blade_Warband_The_Si.html#Post3219403

S!

Definitely in the wrong forum, it is much more FPS/tactical than RTS, although it is possible to command reasonably large bodies of troops. There is a large real time (accelerated) strategic map, although for the this, one controls only one's party, and possibly a few cows.

I tried the game out some time ago and, while I sensed that I should like it, I sucked somethin' fierce, and as a consequence, I shelved it. Then, after a rather cheerily quarrelsome thread with someone or other on the CH forum about the film Kingdom of Heaven, I got the urge to give it a whirl again. This time, I tried a couple of mods; the Hundred Years War mod, and the Anno Domini 1257 mod. The former is about the well-known war of the same name, the latter takes place across Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor, and into the Levant in 1257. Well, I finally figured out how to do the combat, and I can say that both of these mods offer great role playing experiences. In the former, I am little more than an obscure bandit with vaguely English sympathies, not that they care what I do. In the latter, I am a Cypriot knight with huuuuuge...tracts of land and a reputation for appalling violence in the name of the god du jour, and mine enemies (may God confound them) love me rather more than mine dearest brothers (Blessings be upon them). I need to marry some hot chick there, but they all reject me, even though I know a few epic poems, the stuck up cows.

Highly recommended, especially with good, historical mods.

Good feedback - thanks. Bought!

James - which forum would be best? Armor Simulations?

I've been using the Floris mod but I like the look of the HYW mod may give it a try.

S!

The general umbrella forum at the top of this section, "General - Tactical sims" would be a good choice.

I have Fire and Blade on pre-order and it's out today which should make for interesting battles with muskets and flintlocks involved now

Come on...no one giving fearlessfrog props for the Armor Sim pun??

Cheers mate!

Anyone on this forum able to finish the single player (vanilla, no mods) Warband game/campaign?

I was able to finish the original M&B (by keeping the enemy faction leaders and not ransoming them), but with Warband, because the enemy faction leaders in your jail are automatically released when their faction makes "peace" with you, it's now impossible to finish the game.

I have 3 enemy factions left in the game but most of the time, it's them all at once against me - so they would be besieging one castle on one side of the map to another. My ally "Lords" are useless when they're under siege so it would be up to me to be rushing from one side of the map and on to the next side.

Then there's all the wages and other financial losses that I'm incurring... I'm finding that there's just no sense of accomplishment with this game.