
This can, however, be used to your advantage if you decide to serve under King Harlaus or attempt to help Lady Isolla, and the lower-end troops are surprisingly easy to take down. Because of this, the Swadians are perhaps the toughest faction to beat, on a par with the Rhodoks. Their leader is King Harlaus, and their claimant to the throne is Lady Isolla of Suno.īeing more European in nature, the high-end troops are clad usually in the heaviest possible armour with the heaviest possible weapons, and the knights are almost impossible to take down quickly, especially on foot. Their basis is in the medieval German and French states, with an army primarily comprised of heavy, mail-clad knights backed up by peasant crossbowmen and infantrymen. The Swadians occupy the centre of the map, and are signified by the colour orange.

There are five factions in vanilla Mount&Blade

Modding is a major feature of M&B TaleWorlds has released a 'module system' - a set of scripts that allow gamers to edit the game data - and Thorgrim and other modders have created other editing tools including BRFedit and the Map Editor.

The main feature of the game is its unusual and detailed combat system instead of selecting a combat style and sitting back as happens in many RPGs, the player has to control each sword-swing and aim each arrow in a way more commonly seen on console games. It centres around the player fighting and leading troops across the medieval era continent of Calradia, including five factions and a very open-ended gameplay style there is no central plot or aim, just a huge number of quests and things to do. Mount&Blade is a game made by the game company TaleWorlds and published by Paradox games.
