Pasted from another board - I bought this game and enjoyed it a lot:
I've recently come across a game called Mount & Blade. Sure, the name sounds cheesy, but I can assure you, It's not. It has realistic elements, many weapons and armor, and NO MAGIC! Finally, a game without Mages shooting magical elephant turds at you. There is a demo which I included at the bottom of the post. The demo only lets you go up to level 6, and once you reach it, you can no longer play the character anymore. If you want to continue to play, go to the website, and pay them 10 dollars. I did it, and I don't regret it.
The basics
Ok, so you downloaded the demo. Once you start up the game, you should click on Start new game. Select a sex, then comes the first of many chalanges.
What class should I be?
There are only 4 classes: Squire, Hunter, Merchant, Priest.
Squire: Your basic knight-type guy. He starts off with the most strength and the best melee weapon.
Hunter: Wilderness survival man. He gets a good bow and arrow, and high Agility. He starts off with tracking and horse taming skills, which is pretty good for the newbies. Tracking shows where people are by tracing their footsteps with arrows.
Merchant: Basically the jack of all trades. He starts off with a crappy bow, A decent dagger, and some sort of club. What seperates this class from the others is that he starts off with some materials that you could sell. In my opinion he is the best class to start off with.
Priest: He is the group leader, if you will. He starts off with some crappy stick, and has the least armor. But dispite his weaknesses, he has the highest intelligence and can use the most group members, which is always good.
Ok, I chose a class, now I am in a town, what now?
Ok, first things first. Complete the training. You should see a trainer near the food stand. This is very important because you need to get a feel for the combat system. After you finish the training, and hopefully get enough exp to get to level two, Click on the character button, or hit 'C' to get it. You will then be introduced to the It really doesn't matter what you choose, but I think it's best to get to the strength up first.
After you finish leveling up your charachter, go to the merchant and sell all the crap in your inventory besides your weapons, food and armor, go try a tournament. Just note, The Tournaments are TEAMS. I Think one team is wearing a red pinnie and the other is wearing silver. Just remeber that.
Ok, so how do I make money?
You could either bet on yourself in the tournaments, or, you could start trading. To start trading you need to have a bit of cash( about 500), then head to the merchant. Ask him " What do caravans sell and buy here? " and he will tell you that some object is sold cheap here, and bought for more money some town elsewhere. The profit will start off small, but eventually grow much bigger once you are able to buy many things at once. I was able to get to about 5000 gold after playing for a bit over 10 minutes.
Thanks to Xarthor for this list.
TOWN NAME-- WHAT THEY WILL GIVE YOU THE MOST MONEY FOR
Tihr-- Wool
Ryvadin-- Velvet
Tulga-- Wheat
Uxkahal-- Smoked Fish
Velvca-- Dried Meat
Rivachg-- Oil
Zendar-- Salt
Suno-- Furs
Kudan-- Ale
Praven-- Spice
Sargoth-- Iron
Curaw-- Dried Meat
Halmar- Linen [/B]
After you get some gold, buy some new weapons and armor. After you buy some armor and weaponry, go to the tavern and talk to the barkeep. Ask him if you can recruit people, and if you can afford it, buy as many people as you can. They will aide you in combat, and help you scare off small groups of bandits.
When you are looking for people, if you find two people already in a battle, try and attack the people with less people. When you are asked to attack, click on the option stating something like " Attack using allies's soldiers". clicking on that option will do exactly what it says; Use the allies soldiers with your attack. It's very helpful. Once you win the battle, take what you looted and sell it wherever you can.
The final way to make some money is by slave trade. When you fight in a battle, there will be message along the lines of " Man1 Knocked Man2 Unconsious" Knocking someone out can be done by using a blunt weapon, such as a mace, club etc. But, in order to enslave someone, you must have the skill for slavetrade. I think the name of the skill is " Leadership". I'm not completely sure though.
Combat in a nutshell
Combat in M&B is all about offence and numbers. The more you have, and the faster you use it, the more overwhelmed the enemy is. You will soon learn this in the tournaments.
While in the tournaments, just pray you don't have the bow and arrow while on a horse. It's useless when you don't have many skills on horseback archery. It's ok though, when you did spawn on a horse, just look to the horse and hit the use button to dismount it. It should help a bit with the accuracy.
Situational awareness is also as important as importance in numbers. You need to keep track of all your friendly units and enemy units. Nothing is worse then waiting for the infantry to attack, then have calvary flank you and nail you from the behind.
When in a real fight, There are two styles of fighting. Offensivley and defensivley. To do both of these effectivly, you will most likely need a horse, and a bow and arrow.
Offensive: Basically, you send all of the AI units to charge, and you just go running around, looking for people who are already occupied with your friendly units. Once you find them, shoot them or stab them. Either one. I prefer Shooting them with a bow and arrow from horsetop, because it offers the most firepower, with the most mobility.
Defensive: This tactic is my favorite. First you tell everyone to dismount ( hit the number 5 on your keyboard) then 1, to tell them to hold posistion. This tactic works best when there is a river seperating you from the enemy. When the enemy gets close, the AI should pull out their Bows and Crossbows ( If they have them) and will start firing at the enemies. When the enemies get into the river, they will walk even slower, which will lead to their demise.
After you finish your first large scale battle, sell the loot and start trading. It 's not boring because most of the time you get ambushed by rebels or headhunters.
As for the loadouts. I prefer to use a quick, weak horse, 2 slots full of quivers for my arrows, 1 Lance, and 1 Bow. With 48 arrows, you can't go wrong! When I run out of arrows, I do hit and run on the infantry, and it works well most of the time. The lance just doesn't do that well when the infantry has big sheilds, because they will constantly block me as I am running by.
If you didn't feel like reading what I wrote above, read this quick little KevNotes(tm) that I made.
Starting off
-Sell almost everything, Level up, Complete training.
-Get a feel for the combat in tournaments. When you feel confident, place bets on yourself.
-Once you get ~500 gold, buy the things the Merchant tells you to buy, and sell them where he tells you to sell them. Do that until you get enough money, and buy weapons/armor/other warriors.
- Find some people battleing, and fight the side with less people. Use the other team's infantry as help. Win the battle and Sell the loot.
-Repeat.
Download to the demo is here : http://www.taleworlds.com/mb_download.html
Note that: The game is not finished, but is constantly being updated. Some areas serve no real purpose. Mainly Dher Kahn or whatever.
I've recently come across a game called Mount & Blade. Sure, the name sounds cheesy, but I can assure you, It's not. It has realistic elements, many weapons and armor, and NO MAGIC! Finally, a game without Mages shooting magical elephant turds at you. There is a demo which I included at the bottom of the post. The demo only lets you go up to level 6, and once you reach it, you can no longer play the character anymore. If you want to continue to play, go to the website, and pay them 10 dollars. I did it, and I don't regret it.
The basics
Ok, so you downloaded the demo. Once you start up the game, you should click on Start new game. Select a sex, then comes the first of many chalanges.
What class should I be?
There are only 4 classes: Squire, Hunter, Merchant, Priest.
Squire: Your basic knight-type guy. He starts off with the most strength and the best melee weapon.
Hunter: Wilderness survival man. He gets a good bow and arrow, and high Agility. He starts off with tracking and horse taming skills, which is pretty good for the newbies. Tracking shows where people are by tracing their footsteps with arrows.
Merchant: Basically the jack of all trades. He starts off with a crappy bow, A decent dagger, and some sort of club. What seperates this class from the others is that he starts off with some materials that you could sell. In my opinion he is the best class to start off with.
Priest: He is the group leader, if you will. He starts off with some crappy stick, and has the least armor. But dispite his weaknesses, he has the highest intelligence and can use the most group members, which is always good.
Ok, I chose a class, now I am in a town, what now?
Ok, first things first. Complete the training. You should see a trainer near the food stand. This is very important because you need to get a feel for the combat system. After you finish the training, and hopefully get enough exp to get to level two, Click on the character button, or hit 'C' to get it. You will then be introduced to the It really doesn't matter what you choose, but I think it's best to get to the strength up first.
After you finish leveling up your charachter, go to the merchant and sell all the crap in your inventory besides your weapons, food and armor, go try a tournament. Just note, The Tournaments are TEAMS. I Think one team is wearing a red pinnie and the other is wearing silver. Just remeber that.
Ok, so how do I make money?
You could either bet on yourself in the tournaments, or, you could start trading. To start trading you need to have a bit of cash( about 500), then head to the merchant. Ask him " What do caravans sell and buy here? " and he will tell you that some object is sold cheap here, and bought for more money some town elsewhere. The profit will start off small, but eventually grow much bigger once you are able to buy many things at once. I was able to get to about 5000 gold after playing for a bit over 10 minutes.
Thanks to Xarthor for this list.
TOWN NAME-- WHAT THEY WILL GIVE YOU THE MOST MONEY FOR
Tihr-- Wool
Ryvadin-- Velvet
Tulga-- Wheat
Uxkahal-- Smoked Fish
Velvca-- Dried Meat
Rivachg-- Oil
Zendar-- Salt
Suno-- Furs
Kudan-- Ale
Praven-- Spice
Sargoth-- Iron
Curaw-- Dried Meat
Halmar- Linen [/B]
After you get some gold, buy some new weapons and armor. After you buy some armor and weaponry, go to the tavern and talk to the barkeep. Ask him if you can recruit people, and if you can afford it, buy as many people as you can. They will aide you in combat, and help you scare off small groups of bandits.
When you are looking for people, if you find two people already in a battle, try and attack the people with less people. When you are asked to attack, click on the option stating something like " Attack using allies's soldiers". clicking on that option will do exactly what it says; Use the allies soldiers with your attack. It's very helpful. Once you win the battle, take what you looted and sell it wherever you can.
The final way to make some money is by slave trade. When you fight in a battle, there will be message along the lines of " Man1 Knocked Man2 Unconsious" Knocking someone out can be done by using a blunt weapon, such as a mace, club etc. But, in order to enslave someone, you must have the skill for slavetrade. I think the name of the skill is " Leadership". I'm not completely sure though.
Combat in a nutshell
Combat in M&B is all about offence and numbers. The more you have, and the faster you use it, the more overwhelmed the enemy is. You will soon learn this in the tournaments.
While in the tournaments, just pray you don't have the bow and arrow while on a horse. It's useless when you don't have many skills on horseback archery. It's ok though, when you did spawn on a horse, just look to the horse and hit the use button to dismount it. It should help a bit with the accuracy.
Situational awareness is also as important as importance in numbers. You need to keep track of all your friendly units and enemy units. Nothing is worse then waiting for the infantry to attack, then have calvary flank you and nail you from the behind.
When in a real fight, There are two styles of fighting. Offensivley and defensivley. To do both of these effectivly, you will most likely need a horse, and a bow and arrow.
Offensive: Basically, you send all of the AI units to charge, and you just go running around, looking for people who are already occupied with your friendly units. Once you find them, shoot them or stab them. Either one. I prefer Shooting them with a bow and arrow from horsetop, because it offers the most firepower, with the most mobility.
Defensive: This tactic is my favorite. First you tell everyone to dismount ( hit the number 5 on your keyboard) then 1, to tell them to hold posistion. This tactic works best when there is a river seperating you from the enemy. When the enemy gets close, the AI should pull out their Bows and Crossbows ( If they have them) and will start firing at the enemies. When the enemies get into the river, they will walk even slower, which will lead to their demise.
After you finish your first large scale battle, sell the loot and start trading. It 's not boring because most of the time you get ambushed by rebels or headhunters.
As for the loadouts. I prefer to use a quick, weak horse, 2 slots full of quivers for my arrows, 1 Lance, and 1 Bow. With 48 arrows, you can't go wrong! When I run out of arrows, I do hit and run on the infantry, and it works well most of the time. The lance just doesn't do that well when the infantry has big sheilds, because they will constantly block me as I am running by.
If you didn't feel like reading what I wrote above, read this quick little KevNotes(tm) that I made.
Starting off
-Sell almost everything, Level up, Complete training.
-Get a feel for the combat in tournaments. When you feel confident, place bets on yourself.
-Once you get ~500 gold, buy the things the Merchant tells you to buy, and sell them where he tells you to sell them. Do that until you get enough money, and buy weapons/armor/other warriors.
- Find some people battleing, and fight the side with less people. Use the other team's infantry as help. Win the battle and Sell the loot.
-Repeat.
Download to the demo is here : http://www.taleworlds.com/mb_download.html
Note that: The game is not finished, but is constantly being updated. Some areas serve no real purpose. Mainly Dher Kahn or whatever.
