Warband expands on the original game by introducing a sixth faction (the Sarranid Sultanate), increasing political options, adding the ability for the player to start their own faction, and incorporating multiplayer modes. Reviews of the game were generally favorable, with the addition of multiplayer.[7] The game places a focus on horse-mounted combat and giving orders to one's warband in the field, such as telling archers to hold a position or infantry to use blunt weapons.

Additional Tropes found in Mount and Blade: Warband  American Kirby Is Hardcore: An inverted example. The American and European boxarts depict roughly the same scene, but the American boxart has a bunch of bright light added and has a clear sky, with expressions indicating it is set during preparation for battle and is drawn slightly more "realistically". The European art is much darker and stylized, set during battle and has an overcast sky. Rating differences are likely behind this (The ESRB rating is Teen, while the PEGI rating is 16+). Artificial Difficulty: Whereas the original M&B was fairly sensible in this respect, WB has situations where you're arbitrarily denied reinforcements or the use of some of your weapons. Cartography Sidequest: Downplayed. Warband Steam version has an achievement for visiting each of the towns, but only the towns (not the castles and villages). It still requires to travel across the whole continent. Cosmetic Award: The Steam version of WB now has 74 achievements. Cycle of Hurting: An especially outrageous case of this occurs when the player finds himself in a besieged city that has no hope of defending itself. It is impossible to leave the city by stealth or to surrender, the only options available on the city screen are to join the battle or send the troops in on their own. And due to the fact that the developers though it was a good idea to not allow the player to access the main menu during battle, the only thing you can do is throw all your troops in vain at the enemy and then let the enemy knock you out as well. Only after being defeated and captured are you allowed to load a prior saved game. Or you can simply Ctrl+Alt+Delete, and end the game process, and then reload. Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Arrows fired from horseback while moving now actually pick up momentum in the direction of the horse's movement, forcing veteran horse archer players to unlearn what they have learned. Diminishing Returns for Balance: It can seem that gaining renown at higher levels/troop sizes can be difficult. However, if you fight a much larger army with a smaller one, and win, you can still gain a lot of renown, and the bigger the difference in size the better. This works even if you're by yourself or with a very small party, and get attacked by a group of say, 40 bandits. However, keep in mind that unless you're using high level units and utilizing them where they work best, such as cavalry in an open field battle without hills or a river, it can be difficult to fight off a larger force. Hence why winning with a smaller group earns you bigger renown. Game-Favored Gender: While the starting stats still favor females, the politics system favors males and upfront tells you at character creation that non-noble non-males are the equivalent of a Self-Imposed Challenge. You can claw your way up as a peasant woman, but it'll be a slog to convince anyone to make you a lord, let alone give you even a village to rule. This extends into the plot, with the two female Claimants both having sexism as a major part of denying their claim to their thrones. Hakim in particular has little more excuse for why Arwa is unfit to rule than "Women are evil seducers who are too incompetent to run the Sultanate, and the previous ruler either had more kindness than sense to name Arwa his successor, was seduced and deceived by her, or possibly both." Game Hunting Mechanic: Seems to have had one planned at some point: The game allows feudal lords to host feasts at their towns or castles, and wandering poets tell you about the benefits of performing well in the tournaments held during town feasts, as well as on the hunts held in castle feasts. Tournaments are an essential part of a feast, giving the player something to do besides talk, as feasts themselves are rather plain. They also provide the means to impress a potential spouse and/or lord in town. Castle feasts however, are the exact same, rather plain feast, but sadly devoid of any entertainment, despite the poets' claims. Hitbox Dissonance: The shield bug is gone, but is replaced with a forcefield that blocks projectiles as if the shield was up even when it's not. Left-Justified Fantasy Map : Since the Warband expansion retconned the geography, the game now plays this trope straight to some extent : The sea covers both the north and the west (though the cold area is still to the east). Mook Maker: Bandit parties are now spawned by bandit hideouts, which can be assaulted to temporarily clear an area of banditry. Leaving hideouts alone is a singularly terrible idea, as bandits spawn from the hideout based on your party size, and at regular intervals. If you leave an affected area alone for too long, you'll have a dozen groups of 40+ bandits that, when they see you, will gang up on you, resulting in 400+ bandits attacking you! Moveset Clone: The Sarranids have the same troop tree layout as the original 2 factions, with Vaegir-style archers, elite light infantry, and heavily-armored Mamluke Cavalry who are a direct answer to the Swadian Knight. Their unique tactics make for a Sakura-type. Obvious Beta: Played completely straight with the expansion, down to debugging info and messages in the vein of "this feature is not yet implemented" being shown in the 'final' version. To their credit, though, TW started cranking out patches at an impressive rate to avert this. Perpetual Beta: Two years and a standalone expansion pack later, the developers were still fighting critical issues in the singleplayer campaign. Purely Aesthetic Gender: Averted. Women have pretty much the same stats and gain experience at the same rate as men, but the new political system is heavily geared towards males and women have a pretty hard time climbing the social ladder. When they manage to start climbing said ladder, women actually get Renown faster, though, so building a continent-conquering army as a woman is actually easier. Males have better chances when they join a faction instead of making their own. Retcon: Calradian geography went through yet another complete overhaul, and all the NPCs act as if the new faction had always been there. Right in Front of Me: If you start your own faction, you can ask various town Guild Masters about your own foreign relation policies, and they will give criticism about their king, evidently without realizing you are the king. Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Enemy forces that have low morale will attempt to escape from the battlefield. They will also no longer put up any resistance, so if you're quick enough you can kill a few of them before they can all escape. Shout-Out: Several achievement names are references to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The jumping animation of the player character seems pulled straight from the Camelot scene. If you happen to get into a bar brawl, drawing a bow in the tavern will result in the tavern keeper shouting "No shooting, no shooting!" One of the Sarranid villages is Rushdigh, named after this guy. Spoonerism: Some of the location names, especially in the Sarranid Sultanate. For instance, Durquba (Qurduba) and Sekhtem (Sekhmet). The Starscream: in Warband, you can ditch the pretender (to whom you are normally Dragon-in-Chief) at any point of the rebellion quest and take over whatever you conquered under them. You can even take over the entire kingdom, if you give the pretender the boot right before the last battle with the remaining loyalists of the old king. The downside to that is that you don't automatically get all the loyalist lords back if you take over (they accept the pretender as their legitimate liege lord on defeat, but not you). Suicidal Overconfidence: Enemies can now actually flee the battle, but they'll still try to fight against impossible odds first until they get their noses bloodied. Updated Re-release: Despite being initially marketed as a stand-alone expansion (and lately even as a full sequel), the game is more of a further development of M&B, albeit with significant improvements in many areas. Voluntary Vassal: This is an alternative (faster, but more risky) way to become a landed vassal. Normally, you sign up to one of the kingdoms as a mercenary, then swear fealty as a landless vassal, then get a burned-down village, and generally wait a LONG time until you can receive a castle or a city on some conquered territory. With this method, you conquer a castle or a city as an unaligned warlord, proclaim your own kingdom and immediately ask one of the kings to accept you as their new subject. You will be accepted and keep the castle or city you conquered. Walking the Earth: You'll probably spend most of your time in the field, looking for enemy warbands to defeat and territories to conquer. Wholesome Crossdresser: There is a wide array of feminine clothing that, yes, males can wear. They grow breasts while doing so.

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