[Game] Mount & Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars

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hockeywarrior

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tixhal

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hockeywarrior said:
It's unfortunate that apparently (at 5:40) bayonet fencing is still in the game ... I was hoping they would get rid of that silly gameplay. Oh well.
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i like it, manual blocking is not easy to learn (hardest part of m&b). duels are great fun, and especially against sabers blocking is essential. nothing is better than struggling against an opponent in melee for a while until you're shot in the back ;)
 
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Having a blast with the mod the last few days! Definitely buying this one as soon as it comes out.
 
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i think melee fighting in that era was pretty much like a bar fight with guns. i can't imagine it being like "fix bayonets! charge! stab, stab, stab!", it was much more chaotic, people trying to survive doing anything to increase their chances. including using your gun like a bat or hammer and other techniques.
the 200rpm turning is pretty much the mouse's fault, it's speed can hardly be limited in a game.
 
hockeywarrior

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tixhal said:
i think melee fighting in that era was pretty much like a bar fight with guns. i can't imagine it being like "fix bayonets! charge! stab, stab, stab!", it was much more chaotic, people trying to survive doing anything to increase their chances. including using your gun like a bat or hammer and other techniques.
the 200rpm turning is pretty much the mouse's fault, it's speed can hardly be limited in a game.
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Yes, but they could certainly lower the block speed for bayonets so that you didn't have a constant fencing match going on between two players. Or, you could even make it so that you couldn't block a bayonet strike if you wanted to be extreme about it. IRL it probably would be easier to dodge someone stabbing with a bayonet as opposed to parrying.

Either way, I think a slower block speed (perhaps with a small cool down between each block) would drastically improve things.
 
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to this i can agree, blocking stabs is rather easy and since bayos only have two attack directions a cooldown or something might work nicely.
 
Gervaise Brook-Hampster

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Yep, it certainly will. There's no steam prepurchases though.

Notice; you will need Mount&Blade Warband in order to play it. As far as I know, the copies bought from gamersgate don't work with steam versions of M&B Warband.
 
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PsychoPigeon

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All the history buffs who wanted a good RO2 should try Napoleonic Wars. We hold 200+ player organised line battles.

The Warband mod "Mount&Musket" has a dedicated player base of thousands of players. Most simply don't know it but behind the scenes HUGE line battles take place. I used to play the mod on and off and never really understood why people bothered to join a regiment when there's only 2-3 public servers and it's just conquest style game-play.

Then I got invited into a regiment and thrown into a 200+ player battle on the Waterloo map. Holy jesus, it changed my whole perception of the game. I never thought so many players could be organized to fight coherent 18th century-style line battles. But it's being done!

Here are some videos showcasing the battles;

BAB Line Battle, 18 Feb 2011 - Map 3 - YouTube

Mount and Musket Battalion - Line Battles with Ripper X (Part 1 of 3 - Boot Camp) - YouTube (lol)

Mount & Musket Line Battle 3-11-11 - Part 2 - YouTube

Mount and Musket Battalion - Waterloo Event - 7-31-11 2/4 - YouTube (Waterloo)

This new DLC plans to update the graphics, music, add a new faction (Austria), new units, destructible buildings and bridges, sapper class that lets you build, adds about 22+ new maps, engine tweaks and a lot more.

For
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