#Mod db mount and blade warband mod
#Mod db mount and blade warband upgrade

About 20 new factions have been added on the world map, each of which spawns its own parties and fights most other factions.

Troop trees can be viewed in game or in the screenshots section.

Kings always get a special retinue of royal guards and the lord of certain towns will get a special retinue.

Some AI lords get their own retinue of special troops.

Minor factions have got their own troop tree, albeit much smaller.

#Mod db mount and blade warband upgrade

However, there are a lot of mercenaries that can't be acquired through an upgrade and must instead be recruited in taverns or from prisoner stacks. Mercenaries have got their own troop tree, which isn't much bigger than the native one.Dedicated anti-cavalry troops such as pikemen or hybrids (infantry / archer) now exist. Each faction still has its own specialty (nords use almost no cavalry while khergits have very little infantry) but can choose between several roles - defensive (shield) and offensive (2 handed weapon) infantry for example. Major factions specialize in 4 different types of troops which go up to T7 (only one of them reaches T8) and 6 types for T4 and T5.Leadership and charisma now grant a higher increase in party size.

Instead, the player should choose between a small army of high quality troops, a medium size army of decent quality soldiers or a horde of chaff. The price and training time of these troops have been balanced in such a way that fielding a big army of elite troops is almost impossible economically wise, as top tier soldiers cost several hundreds of denars a week.

Each major faction has now got 8 tiers of troops.

Low and middle tier troops tend to spawn with varied gear in order to reduce uniformity, while elite troops usually use have uniformized equipment.

Troops have now got 3000 new high quality items to choose from.

New orders (like skirmishing) are also available. This leaves much more space for deployment and should hopefully make strategy more important as more tactics become viable.

The size of the battlefields has been increased significantly for large battles (more than 100 soldiers involved).

Possible formations include wedge, square and shield wall.

Formations can be used by both the player and the AI.

Troops are now more likely to flee when the battle is about to be lost.

The charge damage of armored horses has been significantly increased.

This makes bots using them much more effective in groups, especially cavalry.

Pike weapons have lost the overhead attack.

The penetration rate against shields has also been increased and repeating crossbows (which deal lower damage) have been added.

Crossbows take more time to reload but also deal more damage, in order to differentiate them a bit more from bows.

This makes heavy troops much more resilient than before, but also much slower, especially compared to lighter soldiers. In addition to that, troops that use light armor get high agility and athletics values while heavily armored troops usually get very low values.

Armor protection and weight values have been increased.

Ironflesh gives 3 extra hp per skill level during battle for both the player and his companions.

Hit points have been increased for all troops (the player and his companions get increased hit points during battle, which aren't visible on their character sheet).

There can thus be up to 17 factions at the same time (although such a high number is very unlikely). If they succeed, a new faction will be formed and behave like the regular ones. All of them can form armies and attempt to take a castle.

11 new minor factions that roam the world.

Each faction has several types of troops which all fill a specific role.

500 new troops and a much wider troop tree.

Armor is now much more protective, but also weighs more.

Bigger parties and armies, which also makes the game harder, especially at the beggining.

A much more active world, with dozens of new parties and factions fighting each other on the map.

#Mod db mount and blade warband mod

The goal of this mod is to considerably improve the Native game, through the use of Floris Mod Pack as a base, which is already a great improvement. Note : As this is the first released version of this mod, there might still be bugs or balance issues.