Five Dynasties & Ten Kingdoms is historical mod for Mount and Blade: Warband, taking place in China in the year of 923.
Supposed the closest comparison for this mod in terms of gameplay would be "Gekokujo" (Warlord era).
It takes place in the second worst period in all of Chinese Historia (10th century).
Fall of the "Great Tang Dynasty", was as miserable affair as the "Byzantine Dark Ages".
Certainly a most unique setting being made by an self proven modder.
Would say that this one is in late Alpha stage, the base game is however there.
Not much variety yet namely in terms of weapons, presently the armour show colour swaps of each other.
Another thing I would like to see reworked is the weather, lack of snow in the North or rain in the South can feel quiet jarring. Restructuring the aimless Geography like Sichuan province should be on the list.
Haven't encounter much of any campaign breaking bugs, although the giant reinforcement wave (forced glitch) was a great pain with no cure in sight, had to set "battle size" to 70 to mediate any 400+ unit lag.
In its current form for with constant updates from the creator,
I'll want to give it a score of 7 with an extra 1 point in keeping-up effort.
This review was written after a complete playthrough of version 1.3,
looking forward to this ambitious project as his previous done-work.