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 Table of Contents: This post Explaining the game and LP 0 - Character Creation (prologue) 1 - Actual character creation 2 - March 23 1257 to March 25th Mount and Blade: Warband is a medieval combat/ruler simulator. The game is made by Taleworlds that are currently working on Mount and Blade II: Banner lord. Release date: SOON (I hope) The game takes place in the fictional land of Calradia where there are 6 factions all fighting each other for more land and power. The land is filled with lords from the factions, caravans, bandits, manhunters and many more. You are dropped into the middle of it all and are left to make your own way/story. In the game you are tasked with forming a small party and possibly (well most likely) going onto having a huge army or armies. This isn't a one character can take on everything type of game. There is no actual story line anywhere in the game to be found, other than the one you make. In the true sense of a sandbox, you get to shape the world and make your own story as you go. Each time you start a new game, the world is slightly altered, with certain things changing in each world. The kings and a few choice lords stay the same (with the fiefs (towns, castles, villages) they receive plus their personalities), but other lords get different personalities, fiefs and also change which families they are in with each game you load up. I believe the ladies in that faction also move around as to whom they are related. But no lords or ladies move to a different faction, at least not when starting up a new game. This helps mix up the world a bit to make it a bit more interesting each new game. No game is the same with the AI playing differently every game as to whom they are at war with at what time and what they manage to conquer all without your involvement. While the game moves a bit slower* before you start to get involved with factions, it still moves in one direction or another all based on what is going on in the world at the time. * This has either been updated over time via patches or possibly the mod diplomacy I play (I believe it's more game patches than the mod), but I have noticed recently things do seem to happen a bit more faster than the slow rate it was at say in a game I would have played a year or two ago. As you move along, you have many options; You can become a bandit, preying on caravans and villages. A slaver, defeating bandits (or other lords??) keeping and rounding up any that are not dead to sell for coin. You can be a mercenary for a faction joining their war against whom ever they are waging it at the time. Eventually you can join one of the factions more permanently, becoming a lord or make your own one if you wish. The way to “win” or “finish” the game is to take over the entire map and unit the world under a faction banner or your own. There is also an option for you to stop and finish your adventure any time in the game, which gives you a small blurb as to what happened in your life afterwards. Choosing this early, usually leads to you just fading out of existence leading a normal quiet life. But the “real” 2 ways to "finish" the game; one is to become ruler over Calradia yourself. The other is to help someone else become ruler over all the lands. The second option actually consists of 3 different ways of doing so:
 Mount and blade, Mount and blade: Warband, With Fire and Sword, Napoleonic wars, Viking Conquest; a quick rundown Mount and Blade was the original game. It was abandoned at some point and a standalone "expansion" of Warband was made. Warband is pretty much a finished Mount and Blade with more features and options, such as becoming king. Also added was an extra faction and there was some changes with textures, animations, sounds etc. There is no buy or reason to play the original other than for modules (mods) which have not been ported to Warband. With fire and sword was a standalone Fan made paid for "DLC" module that added guns, changed the world map and troops, but took out a lot of good stuff or changed the way a few things work. Over all the guns are cool, but a lot of other changes were bad. Napoleonic wars is a multiplayer only module that takes place during 19th century, with guns. Viking Conquest is another Fan made paid for DLC Module that I have not played yet. It takes place during the historical Dark Age Britain. Spoilers There really aren’t things that you can spoil, as each game is unique with each world being changed by the way everything plays out. You're also pretty much building your own world as you play in it. Diplomacy Module https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=285119009 I will be playing this game with the Diplomacy module installed. This mod doesn’t really change any of the core game play, but adds a lot more options that you can have when running your own kingdom or just your own town as well as a few other bits and pieces that are in the core game, but vanilla didn't let you change/access them. A few examples as follows:
Other changes or mods to my game I have put over 1k hours into this game and have yet to ever finish it. Late game gets a bit boring and starting from scratch is a lot more fun. I have found a lot of “issues” or things that just require a bit of tweaking or some mods to make the overall game more fun/better. The mods and tweaks that I have chosen to implement are aimed to fit with in the game world and not be overpowered or something that stands out and changes the game in a stupid way. I will list every mod that I have added and every tweak that I have adjusted the game to. Arena Overhaul mod 1.0 – Every town has an arena where tournaments are held. Every faction and every town has a different style as to what weapons you use and if you get horses or not. What doesn’t change in every arena is the layout of each arena. Besides the outer walls looking different depending on where you are, each arena is basically a boring open field that is somewhat round with nothing in it but the people fighting each other. This mod changes every arena to be unique and to actually have obstacles inside them either helping or hindering you. You can obviously use some obstacles to help you fight the AI. But at the same time I have ran into things before on a horse coming to a full stop and then getting defeated. Or backed into walls that trapped me etc. Same with arenas that add bushes that you can't see through but the AI can. Either way, this ends up feeling and looking 100 times better than just the open fields that every town normally has. http://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?id=1760 El Arte De La Guerra 'Official' Siege Fix 1.5.5 - A lot of the sieges are very boring, bland and make it easy or hard for you either attacking or defending when there's just one ladder going in. This expands a lot of the siege grounds making them much more interesting and in some cases, actually making it harder for you. http://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?id=2694 Cinematic Compilation - Graphic & Sound Enhancement, self explanatory? https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=199149.0 TweakMB- Not a mod, but I have used this tool to tweak certain things of the game as follows: http://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?id=1751
LP Rule Set The game will be played on the attached difficulty: 
LP Style: HYBRID Screenshots, text and some videos. My microphone isn't working properly and I hate talking to myself and the sound of my own voice. So at this time, I will be doing a screenshot play through with accompanying texts of my adventures. I will however release relevant/important videos consisting most likely mainly of battles, unless something else of interest happens to happen. I will also be recording everything,so if someone really wanted the raw files to comment and edit, that can possibly be arranged. That or I may do so myself later on. Reb fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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The results are in: So I will be playing a female, adding 1 vote of my own, starting at the Rhodok faction (because I already said, gently caress Khirgits) and I will start off mainly using said factions troops and eventually branch out as someone stated, "one main faction means showing less content". No one has stated a style they would like to see other than agility, so I will do my usual build to start and try to focus on Agility build more as leveling. I want to try something a little bit different. I usually play a certain style, but I would like for others to create my character and the kind of style I will be playing, as well as suggest courses of action etc. There are differences between Male and Female play throughs, mainly with relations to lords. The difficulty faced as a female can be over come after a bit and I think it would be better if I did a male play through for a few different reasons. But if enough people wish to see the female play through, I will totally roll that character. I also do have 4x achievements left in this game and 2 of them are related to finishing in game as a female...  Below are links to character creation and text as to what each attribute/stat etc does. http://mountandblade.wikia.com/wiki/Character_creation http://mountandblade.wikia.com/wiki/Attributes http://mountandblade.wikia.com/wiki/Skills Feel free to suggest names for this character. I would like to only recruit troops from the faction I start in or join and would like to only allow myself to acquire other troops that I rescue from castles/towns/lords/bandits. However, if people call for it, I can expand out the way the game is played. Either way, having a character that has similar skills as said faction would be good. But again, people can give feed back as to where to go, what to do as I play along in the game. I have just never also done that where I only focus on one faction you be "my faction" and would be interested in that. But I can do that another time so it will depend on what people wish to see. Below is a Strawpoll to choose which faction to start in. Keeping in mind, that RNG will not always allow me to follow directions 100% specifically. To give an example, like if everyone agree's that I should marry this certain person and this certain person gets married to another NPC while I'm playing, then obviously my plans would change as there is no option to steal someone from their SO. And I guess other things like trying to keep a castle with 50 troops when 1000 roll up to take it back. My character may "panic" and gently caress the suggestions of people saying to stay and hold to the last man... So please make me a character based on the kind of role I will play, with what skills to focus on, what kind of weapons to use and how I will be acting. I will take up what ever seems to be the popular choice*. *In the instance that we decide to use one faction only; I would highly recommend that we don't pick the Khergit or be forced to stick with them, but flat out not using them would be a good idea. They really really really suck. I'm not really worried about the difficulty of playing as them, more that I really think they will just be very boring game play wise and that it will also be a much longer journey with them. I would probably cheese a lot of things also, which will compound the boring side of an LP. That and I may also resort to spending a lot of time trying to acquire other troops which again compounds the long/boring part of it.... Just personally, I really feel that they will make for a sub-par play through. Then again, I have never really played with them, but they are so loving easy to take down which is my worry. But if enough people really want them, please also post a convincing argument to why you want them and why we should use them. http://mountandblade.wikia.com/wiki/Factions http://mountandblade.wikia.com/wiki/Kingdom_of_Nords http://mountandblade.wikia.com/wiki/Khergit_Khanate http://mountandblade.wikia.com/wiki/Kingdom_of_Rhodoks http://mountandblade.wikia.com/wiki/Kingdom_of_Swadia http://mountandblade.wikia.com/wiki/Kingdom_of_Vaegirs http://mountandblade.wikia.com/wiki/Sarranid_Sultanate http://mountandblade.wikia.com/wiki/Faction_Specialties I can do my own personal break down/thoughts on the factions if required. Strawpoll To help narrow down the main issues: Male or Female Starting Faction Roleplaying as faction Reb fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Aug 19, 2017 |
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Feel free to make some suggestions on names and type of character... http://mountandblade.wikia.com/wiki/Character_creation http://mountandblade.wikia.com/wiki/Attributes http://mountandblade.wikia.com/wiki/Skills Or else I'll just start the usual. Will wait a few more hours before starting a character.
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Aug 17, 2017 23:41
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I usually go for a CHA/STR-heavy character. Could you show us how to make the most of a DEX build? 
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Reb posted:You really don't do a lot of lancing in this game You're playing it wrong.  More seriously, focusing on one main faction means showing less content, so I'd prefer a "Militaires Sans Frontières" playthrough. Plus I get to see how to actually build armies properly, instead of throwing every peasant I find into the meatgrinder. No preference between man or woman. Also, do ALL THE LANCING.
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Aug 18, 2017 09:00
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Fat Samurai posted:You're playing it wrong. I love it when I spawn with a Lance in the Area. It's almost 50/50 on sticking to a faction, so I may start off mainly sticking to one faction when starting and then later diverge. TBH when you first start the game, you really do have a ragtag bunch of people until you can get a town/castle to be able to store your troops.
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I would absolutely love to see a ronin cataphract type roaming around, BUT it's a lot of points to spend to make that kind of build viable. I think we should go full CHA/INT and just try to focus on having a great army while we provide support from the back lines.
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Calradia: A New Life The Story thus far:   I have picked Female as per stawpoll and we will play the realistic traditional game with sexism!  Lydia's father was a warrior whom used his position to get her a position as a Page in the Noblemen's court. There she learnt manners and revived an education with the high class. And also served them as a butler and what not. She progressed over time to being a Lady in waiting. Where the basic lesson was that women were back stabbing bit.... I mean, the women behind the man...  The cause was Lydia was not interested in becoming a simple "lady" that sat around and knitted and waited on her husband. Girl Power! Am I right!!!  She set out to Calradia to make a new life to the city of Jelkala in the Kingdom of the Rhodoks. (Becuase gently caress the  This is where the story will begin, but first: Introducing (randomly name generated spending half an hour going over names....) Lady Lydia Pedene!   Character Sheet:  Any questions? Reb fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Aug 19, 2017 |
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Aug 19, 2017 07:35
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We'd better get a tattoo of the battle of
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My apologies that this first update took oo long. I ran into some issues putting the video together and spent hours on the weekend fixing it. (well a lot of those hours was waiting for encoding to be done but still). I have streamlined the whole process, however, I still feel it will take A LOT of loving work to make a screenshot run of this game. So I have fixed my mic and will continue the game with a video play through after this first update (yes, the first loving update will be a mix because of the ungodly amount of hours that were spent setting this poo poo up) Either way, since the first update is already done this way: March 23 1257 Lydia starts her day at the Inn. After leaving in the morning and starting to explore the town, she is attacked! https://youtu.be/Swe7FsbjNrs Lydia is shocked! she managed to slit the bandits throat so easily. A Merchant arrived right after and invited her to his house.         The Merchants brother has been kidnapped! Is Lydia a bad enough dude to save the  Inspecting ourselves and our surroundings:   It seems we need to acquire some footwear among other things. Lydia rides off north to venture out and explore. Arriving around the point in red marked 1, she encounters a small troop of men. It turns out, perhaps approaching random strangers is not a good idea in this land:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E_vP6Gs9Xc  Lydia soon realizes that she has an advantage over the men and takes them all out using her horse to out pace them and the crossbow to shoot them all dead at a distance. She manages to keep one alive and takes him prisoner. After looting all of these would be looters, she finds some gear that is better than her own and replaces what she can. The takes the other items that she can, packs them up and returns to Jelkala to sell them off. She decides to go recruit some men to help her out, however, starting out on her journey to Buvran to the west, she spots more looters and lays in pursuit. (Purple 2 on the map)  https://youtu.be/1E_vP6Gs9Xc?t=263 After dispatching the next lot, she returns on course. By night fall, she has visited Buvran, Ruldi and Ibdeles and has managed to recruit 11 men.  Noticing more looters near by, it was time to put these men to the test. (Blue 3 on map) https://youtu.be/1E_vP6Gs9Xc?t=397  A disappointing battle, but I am not sure what she expected armed with farmers. A few of the men were able to be upgraded in their gear to crossbowmen. Lydia headed back to Jalkala and did so as well as selling off loot and purchasing more choice selections of foods!  The merchant advised her that she still needed more men, so she set out north to Chaeza since the towns near by were exhausted of recruits for the moment. Upon hiring 5 more men, the small group gave chase to a few more looters. (Teal 4 on Map) https://youtu.be/1E_vP6Gs9Xc?t=490  A bit more of a favorable outcome this time around. Since the party was near Veluca, she maneuvered towards there. As luck would have it, a random broker was in town and offered some coin for her prisoners.    The random broker would try to get coin out of them in other ways before selling them to slavery. These men would be otherwise dead anyway... Lydia did a round of training in the arena before moving off from town and going towards Fedner, follwed by Dumar at evening picking up 4 men total. When moving south to Epeshe, she moved into help some man hunters deal with some looters. (Yellow 5 on Map) https://youtu.be/1E_vP6Gs9Xc?t=598 Afterwards, she picked up 4 more recruits at Epeshe. With enough troops now, she made way to Jelkala to talk to the merchant. The merchant advised her that there was some bandits near by that would be able to tell her the location of the party that kidnapped his brother.     https://youtu.be/1E_vP6Gs9Xc?t=690   With the bandits easily defeated, she gained the information out of the last one standing and set out to free the merchants brother.   https://youtu.be/1E_vP6Gs9Xc?t=767   The ambush on the bandits was a success. With the brother freed and the campsite looted, the party made their way back to Jelkala. Lydia found her way to the merchant whom paid her 200 Denars and thanks her for her help. The merchant asked her for help once more. Apparently, the captain of the guard invested all of his money into a merchant caravan that got raided along the way and lost everything. It seems that he is the one responsible for turning the eye to let bandits in. Lydia Agreed to help the merchant out.    https://youtu.be/1E_vP6Gs9Xc?t=886 The raid was a success. However, the merchant was cast out of the town due to showing up his king.     March 25th 1257 Afternoon:   I await feedback as well as suggestions on what we wish to do proceeding forward!
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I play agi build with bow. You can fire one arrow with aim every two second once you get the best bow and you figure out the physic (aim higher for further distance, aim more right if running right). If we are going crossbow, that would be str build since that's the crossbow requirement and then spend on anything else while keeping pace with weapon mastery. Crossbow are slow as poo poo, you might as well cheat to train with firearm instead. The crosshair will become perfect cross around 250 proficiency depends on the bow's base accuracy.
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