Mount & Blade v1.011 full install
Dec 03, 2008 Full Version 17 commentsTaleworlds are offering Mount&Blade through a try before you buy model. You can download the game and start playing right away. What you download is not...
Mount&Blade is a 3D, open-ended, single-player, third- or first-person, computer role-playing game in beta stage of development, created and distributed by the Turkish development house TaleWorlds. Mount&Blade has a medieval setting, without any fantasy elements. Mount&Blade is notable for its emphasis on realistic cavalry combat, which was common in the era, but is largely absent in most RPG titles.
The player can directly control only one player character, which is created when a new game starts. A character class only serves as a template for future character development. Each "class" differs only in its starting attributes, skill points and equipment. There are no in-game restrictions on equipment or skill use based on class and gender. The maximum level of a skill and the use of certain equipment is linked to a related attribute. The player character's facial features are customizable. The face and hair can be changed at any time, should the player wish to do so. The player character may take sides with any one or none of the factions present in Calradia: The Swadian, Rhodok, Vaegir, Khergit, and Nord armies, or hunt down the various bandits and rogues that plague the region.
The gameplay is open, similar to games such as Elite or Darklands. The game currently has a skeleton plot and the player is free to do as he wishes. While combat is the main draw of the game, it is for the most part optional.
Characters can make money and gain experience by trading goods between towns. The game features a basic dynamic economy based on supply and demand.
The player's party can be formed by recruiting unique non-player characters (NPC), known as a hero or companion, or more generic soldiers. The player can increase his maximum party size by either investing in certain skills, or earning renown by winning battles.
The player can develop the skills of his character and companions over the course of the game. Certain skills affect the party as a whole, so companions can be used to complement the skills of the player character. Skills can be improved by gaining levels or reading and holding books.
The player can also own a fief, a faction-related village given to the player by the faction leader. Mercenaries can also be obtained at a tavern, and prisoners can be rescued from enemy parties. Prisoners that the player character captures during battle can also be forced to join the player's party, though they will often desert the player. As these generic soldiers fight, they will gain experience and can be upgraded into stronger, more specialized soldiers. Soldiers will often have multiple upgrade paths.
The player can siege enemy castles, towns, and villages. If the player wins the siege, his faction takes control of the territory. Occasionally, the faction leader will reward a captured territory to the player. The player also has the option of declaring seccesion from his liege and owning an independent state. This option comes after being refused control of a fief that the player captured.
No multi-player option exists, nor is one planned.
Every kingdom also has a rival claimant to the throne. Should the player choose to back this claimant, then a civil war occurs between the rebels of that faction and the loyalists of that faction. The tournament system has been revised, the graphics overhauled, and the game rebalanced.
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I love Mount and Blade and so do the staff of ModDB, we love it so much it took away the Editors Choice award for Best Indie at last years MOTY's. So here is a shameless plug for our friends over at Taleworlds, all about their upcoming expansion called Warband which if you have been living under a rock and know nothing about is a multiplayer expansion for the highly acclaimed Indie game. Anyway here is a qoute from the M&B forums.
We are getting closer to starting M&B Warband multiplayer beta tests and this is an invitation to all our community to apply as beta testers and join in the fun. All you need to do is fill out the application form at:
Since server capacity will be limited, we'll be able to accept a limited number of applicants to the beta tests. Our choice criteria will be as follows:
Thank you in advance to all those who will apply. Looking forward to duke it out with you guys on the beta servers...
Exciting stuff is it not? I'm super keen for something like this as the original game had me hooked for hours on end, bring on the multiplayer carnage!

Taleworlds are offering Mount&Blade through a try before you buy model. You can download the game and start playing right away. What you download is not...
This will upgrade M&B verrsion 1.003 to 1.010. Version 1.010 should be savegame compatible with version 1.003 although we haven't tested that throughly...
This patch will upgrade any 0.950+ M&B to M&B 0.960
Complete installer for 0.953 of Mount&Blade. Please note that saved games are NOT COMPATIBLE. Use the character export function.
Use this patch if you already have 0.95x installed.
The latest version of 0.952. Full installation. Please note that previous save games are not compatible with this new version.
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dont have time to read all the text, but is this game sandbox? or linear?
hope it will be worth the wait
Downloading demo! :D
It better be worth an hour wait of downloading the installer... lol
i love this game so much even wen mp comes out i will rate it 14/10 love it
they should update this page, m&b doesnt look as good as it does in full version
I just got this from Direct2Drive. I didn't really think it was worth $30 when I played the trial, but now I feel like I'm ripping the devs off by getting it for $5. Ah well, it's a good deal and I'm sure they had to agree to it.
So anyone who wants this for cheap, then head to Direct2Drive and get it for five bucks until Monday! Also there are a ton of other great games for $5 as well. Check 'em out!
2 months ago
I feel the same. Fortunately for us there's only one faction that uses the 'Knight' motif - The Swadians. Then there's the Vaegirs, who seem to be a mix of different medieval Eastern European and Mediterranean cultures, The Nords, are based off of vikings, the Rhodoks, which are allegedly based off of Italian militias, and Khergits, who are Mongolian. There's some speculation that a Turkic faction will be added in the Warband expansion.
theres a mod for that called the eagle and the radiant cross. they even have janissaries since the game's timeline is fastforwarded to 1500. and regarding knights, there are pike militia which will prove that chivalry is DEAD :P
Yes, there is! You have also loads of mods, featuring other factions.