Mount and Blade: Warband

Mount and Blade: Warband is a PC game that is fun. When you start a new game you have to choose what your father’s job was, what you did as a young child and what you became as a young adult. Some of the jobs you can choose are a smith, a veteran warrior, a craftsman’s apprentice and a hunter. You can also choose your characters starting attributes, weapon skills, looks and what city you start in.

Mount and Blade: Warband offers you a lot of freedom. After you start a new game you can wonder around and kill bandits, hire new troops for your army from taverns and villages and participate in tournaments that are held in cities. You can upgrade your troops by pressing the upgrade button in the party menu. This can only be done if they have gained enough experience in battles. Once you have a bit of renown you can join a kingdom by asking one of the kingdom’s counts for a job. Sometimes they will give you normal jobs such as hunting down a murderer, but sometimes they will ask you if you want to join their kingdom.

There are a lot of weapons in Mount and Blade: Warband. You can get a bow, a one handed sword, a two handed sword, a lance, a crossbow, a mace, a dagger, an axe, a two handed axe and more. The price of these weapons is determined by how good they are. You can also get armour. You can get a helmet, boots, gloves, chest armour and a shield. The most expensive armours are the best.

There are six kingdoms in Mount and Blade: Warband. There are the Swadians, who have the best knights. There are the Rodoks, who have the best crossbowman and good spearmen for countering cavalry. There are the Saranid Sultinate , who have good archers and knights called mamlukes. There are the Nords, who have the best infantry. There are the Khergit Khanate, who have good horse archers and lancers. There are also the Vagers, who have good archers and knights.

Once you have joined a kingdom by asking one of their lords you can battle against their enemies and help capture castles and cities or you can raid enemy villages for their goods you can sell at a friendly town. Once you have done quite a lot for that kingdom you can ask their king if you can become a vassal. Once you are a vassal you immediately get a village and you get weekly tax payments from that village. Your king can decide to give you further fiefs such as villages or you can go and capture castles and cities and ask the king if you can have them.

In Mount and Blade: Warband you can also start a war with another kingdom without joining another kingdom first. You can start this was by attacking farmers or caravans. You can then start raiding villages. If you want to stop the war you can talk to one of the enemy’s counts and you can pay them to make the war end. Once you capture an enemy castle by yourself you can start a new kingdom and you will be the king.

Besides normal troops you can hire heroes. They can be found in different cities across the whole map. They have attributes and skills just like you. Once they level up you can increase their skills by talking to them in your party menu. This can only be done when you are travelling on the world map. These heroes start out with skills that only that hero is good at. For example, some might be good at training, trade, engineering or surgery.

Cheats: To use cheats in this game you have to activate cheats in the Mount and Blade: Warband launcher window. Here are some cheats that might help you playing Mount and Blade: Warband:
Hold Ctrl and press x while in your inventory to add 1000 gold.
Hold Ctrl and press x while in your party menu and you have selected a unit to give it experience.
Hold Ctrl and press x while looking at your character sheet to give yourself experience.
Hold Ctrl and click on the map to go to that location.
Hold Ctrl and press H to increase your health while you are in a fight.