Mount & Blade: Warband

🏗 TaleWorlds Entertainment 📅 31 Mar 2010 🖥 Mac, Linux, Windows ⭐ Metacritic score 78

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In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!
Mount & Blade: Warband is a stand alone expansion pack for the game that brought medieval battlefields to life with its realistic mounted combat and detailed fighting system.

Graphical overhaul: Support added for HDR, FSAA, depth of field, soft particles, tone mapping, and many other effects
New models with greater detail and high-quality textures
Multiplayer battles with up to 64 players. Multiplayer modes include Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Conquest, Battle, and Siege
A campaign allowing you to become the ruler of a faction and convince lords to become your vassals
The ability to upgrade your companions to vassals by granting them lands

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The ability to marry a lady of the realm for romance or cold political gain. Try to win a lady’s heart through poetry or bravery

Improved mechanics for soldier morale: Soldiers will break and run away if their morale gets too low

Pick any projectile off the battlefield for use as additional munitions

New motion-captured combat animations

Numerous improvements to the combat system: Your shield will still stop arrows even if you are not actively defending

The ability to play multiplayer matches on random maps as well as hand-designed ones

Multiplayer equipment system: Earn money by fighting opponents or accomplishing goals

The ability to use most throwing weapons in close combat: Switch to using a javelin as a short spear when the enemy gets close

Spend gold on more powerful equipment, using a carefully balanced system that will make combat more exciting without giving too much of an advantage to the leading team