It was originally developed by a team called Brytenwalda as a mod with the same name. The second official DLC for Warband pretty much followed suit. Now the whole story isn’t clear, but somewhere along the line, TaleWorlds took note of this mod and brought its developers on to make it an official expansion. That team had been working on a mod for the original game called Mount & Musket. It was instead made by a small European developer, Flying Squirrel Entertainment. See, Napoleonic Wars wasn’t developed by the folks at TaleWorlds. “The best part of this sequel isn’t playing what’s available now with the game in Early Access and all, it’s knowing that the best is yet to come.” Warband, however, added a ton of features like political interactions, the ability to form your own faction, and chaotic multiplayer.

Warband, as popular as it is, was actually a stand-alone DLC for the original Mount & Blade, which was released back in 2008. That being said, let’s start off with some history.

But the best part of this sequel isn’t playing what’s available now with the game in Early Access and all, it’s knowing that the best is yet to come.īut in order to know what is and could be coming down the line for Mount & Blade II, it’s important to look at how developer TaleWorlds treated Mount & Blade: Warband. Now with the release of Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord I’ve found a new favorite title, or rather a favorite time sink, to dive deeper into. It fulfills that need for gritty semi-realistic medieval combat while pairing it with a deep, albeit janky, kingdom-building simulator. Mount & Blade: Warband is one of my favorite games of the past decade.

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