Re: What Is The Best Armor In Mount And Blade Warband
Joanes Badazz
Like Vanilla M&B. You begin as a lone adventurer, gathering wealth, influence, an army, and maybe an empire. It's pretty open ended how you accomplish this (banditry, political intrigue, monopolies on olive oil) but it's guaranteed to be a lot harder and less straightforward than it sounds.
The first thing you'll notice is that character creation is noticeably deeper and way better annotated. You still don't know exactly what a large, young, phlegmatic Pict is to the world until you make him, but you get an idea. You also have more options, personality and religion being the biggest new deals, affecting how many NPCs react to you.It also cannot be stressed enough how different the world map is. It's perceptibly larger, the factions are intentionally (historically) unbalanced, and there's water. And boats. And fights on those boats sometimes. It's honestly not that great, like the sieges but even more cramped. Also, as impressive as the maps are, the towns, villages, and castles don't look distinctive at all. A Welsh city looks no different than a Danish one, and not that different from a castle. Another big thing are the optional rules. You can add realistic bits like fatigue and weapon wear. Being optional, they're only as offensive as you want them to be. I will say that I particularly hate no easy recruitment. Half the game is already currying favor with awful nobles and now you need to curry favor with them just to recruit 0-12 measly peasants? Hell no.Also things are a bit more low tech. A mediocre sword will net you what the best armor in Native does. And Horses? Holy crap. The game pushes you toward a certain play style, but it doesn't force it, and combat is still pretty solid.
This is where we get to the good stuff. For one there's a story mode. For two it's pretty good. It starts with a simple revenge story and radiates outward as you as you interact with (mostly piss off or murder)more and more important people. There are a lot of different ways to interact with them depending on your religion, homeland, persuasion, and personality traits. I won't spoil too much, but it's really cool and only feels cooler the more you know about the era.Also, your companions are just as if not more well written than they are in Native. I find myself keeping NPCs because I like them as opposed to what they can do for me. The Jarl's criminal informant(you'll know when you see him in story mode) is a favorite.
Damn good. The gameplay is beautifully thought out and as hardcore as anyone wants it to be. The map is a pleasure to travel. All the characters keep a great tone of brutality and heart through their all too few lines. This world all but challenges you not to roleplay.That being said...The bugs that plagued it's launch are all but gone(at least I haven't noticed them) and as you could probably tell I like this game a lot. Truth is though I like about twenty of the free mods for Mount and Blade a lot. One of my favorites is from Brytenwalda (who made this) and is called Brytenwalda; It is set centuries before Viking Conquest but has a LOT of similarities... and is free. So the question isn't is it better than M&B vanilla, but is it fifteen dollars better than Brytenwalda?Maybe? I personally like Brytenwalda's setting (after the death of Arthur) better and you have more character interaction options but Brytenwalda has a story mode and a better map. It's kind of a wash honestly.I would recommend Brytenwalda without reservation. I certainly don't regret purchasing Conquest, but your mileage may vary. I hope this helped. Product SummaryName: Mount and Blade: Warband -Viking Conquest
Publisher: TaleWorlds Entertainment
Author: Brytenwalda
Category: Computer Game
Cost: 14.99
Historical, War
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May 6, 2015
Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord has finally graduated from its early access phase. Now, digital larpers and medieval roleplayers can enjoy the game in its full splendor. But regardless of what path the players choose to take, they owe it to themselves to also graduate from the starting peasant rags that the game drapes over their poor caveman characters.
Anyone can remedy this lack of style or protection with the game's armor pieces. And while Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord armor don't really offer that much in the way of protection, even against swarms of angry bandits, every layer of protection can help. Besides, collecting the best and shiniest armor in the game is a more attainable goal than holding an empire by the ripe old age of 30.
If players are looking for the best armor set they can have in Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord without compromising their appearance, then the Sturgian armor set offers a good balance of everything. It's one full set. Just go to Sturgia and rummage through the towns, smithies, and tanneries and look for the armor pieces with the highest values. These are usually Tier 6 armor items.
A good starting point is the Closed Decorated Goggled Helmet, which has a value of 54. It's easy to find the complementing armor pieces that go along with it afterward. Tournaments can also reward players with T6 equipment; as such, joining tourneys in Sturgia offers a good chance of snagging these T6 armor pieces.
Meanwhile, the Sturgian tier-six Bringandine body armor offers a value of 49/25/20 which is more important for players who prefer to fight on horseback due to the better leg and arm protection compared to the best overall armor in the game. Speaking of which...
Players needn't go far in search of the best body armor in the game. They can easily obtain it in the Calradic Empire territories (what's left of it anyway). The Heavy Scale Armor over Mail Hauberk by far provides the best armor value in the game. Such has been the case since the game's early access days, and the armor seems to still be at the top.
It apparently, doesn't offer the best leg or arm protection though those values are still decent. But the body protection is staggeringly high compared to other armor pieces. That's usually the part that gets hit the most anyway, so this armor protects the stuff that matters the most. Also, it's somewhat easy to obtain given the size of the Empire.
A trip north is very much worth it if players want to grab themselves the best protection from stray arrows to the head. The best candidate here is the aforementioned Closed Decorated Goggled Helmet with a value that's nearly as high as the torso part protection for Heavy Scale Armor over Mail Hauberk.
The weight isn't too bad either though it's starting to wander off to the heavy side. If players want a lighter alternative, then a Battanian Heavy Warlord Helmet has 53 armor and a weight of 2.6. It's only one point, which is negligible. So it's mostly up to the players' sense of style and preference.
Sadly, the best gauntlets or gloves typically go only up to tier four in Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord (at the time of writing). The best among them would be the Scale Warlord Bacers which players can find in Battanian territories. The good news is that players don't have to struggle through tournaments if they want a sure way of obtaining this.
It's only tier-four, so players have a good chance of seeing it in rich towns, castles, or smithies in the game. In terms of looks, it goes well with the Heavy Scale Armor over Mail Hauberk due to the scales. It's also quite light despite the impressive amounts of protection, so players will be pleased with this gauntlet pair overall.
While they're at it in their search for the Scale Warlord Bracers, players can also include the Scaled Boots in their itinerary. It's by far the best pair of boots that players can obtain in the game; the best part is that it pairs well with the Battanian Scale Warlord Boots and the best body armor in the game.
Players won't have to worry too much about uniformity and ruining their style though the helmet might fit in better with the whole Sturgian set instead of these. Regardless, the boots have more than a decent value since the weight is a bit light. Like the Scale Warlord Gloves, this one is also only tier-four.
As one of the latest armor pieces added when the game was nearing its full version release, the best Vlandian pauldrons aren't yet well-known. However, they hold the highest value and have dethroned the previous pauldrons, which would be the Heavy Warlord Pauldrons in Battania; that one has a value of 20/10.
Meanwhile, the Vlandian Pauldron armor (tier-five) has a value of 22 for the shoulders and 12 for the arms. It's nice to see the developers throw a bond to the Vlandia faction, given how some of the best armor pieces or items in the game belong to the other factions. In any case, this gives players a good reason to venture to Vlandia.
Of course, a lord is only as high and as fast as his horse will take him; with a dead horse, he's nothing but a vulnerable foot soldier. So it's best to keep the horse's safety in mind with the Celtic Frost Barding. Players will need to venture south somewhere in the southern portion of the Calradic Empire.
It's heavy, sure enough, but nevertheless great for keeping one's horse alive. There might be lighter alternatives that offer a bit less armor such as the Saddle of Aeneas or the Cataphract Scale Barding, those are also viable or nearly identical in protection.
Hello and welcome to the American Civil War Mod: Revived! Some of you who have been following modding in Mount and Blade for a while might remember an old American Civil War mod called, "A House Divided", and I did a bit of work for the team under the same name I am using here, King85. My computer crashed a few years ago, and I lost everything, so for a while I had forgotten about the mod. But recently, I found a working copy of the mod on the internet, and from there, I began working to completely revamp the mod as best as I could, to make it look and feel a bit more in line with the civil war time period, and fix a lot of the old problems the mod had. Not everything is completely perfect, but it really is a significant difference from before. I am not exactly a very skilled or experienced modder, I actually learned a lot through this process of making this new and revived version of the mod. I welcome and encourage the community to provide their experience and help in building a better mod. You can read the old changelogs to see all the changes that have come so far, and the one attached to the latest version of the mod to keep up with what is new.
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