Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword Expansion!

Frosty wrote:

Wonderful, thanks Frosty, I loved the original one

I don't really like the time period, military-wise. I like either medieval/fantasy settings or modern settings as far as warfare goes. Renaissance, ancient rome/greece/egypt, asian settings and sci fi settings are not all bad, but I don't really like warefare in those. Too bad we can't have the formations and all that jazz in a medieval or at least late medieval setting where firearms may exist, but would not totally have replaced interesting combat.

'cause if you do it realistic, player skill will hardly matter if you're just shooting muskets from formations. If it's sword and spear fighting, player skill does matter, and if it's squad-level tactics with suppressive fire and flanking maneuvers, player skill too matters. But a realistic 17th century setting would, like a realistic WW1 setting, just be boring to play I imagine. Unless I forget about history and just use modern tactics anyway (like what is seen almost every time a town map is selected in a Warband battle server; the game turns into counter strike).

Edit: Given, the 17th isn't quite as bad as what follows, but still less interesting than the 9th-15th.

Has anyone found any actual gameplay footage of this "standalone expansion"? There's something fishy about it. This expansion was made by some Ukrainian game studio, and has already been released in several countries quite some time ago. There are two versions lying around - one using the original M&B engine and one using Warband engine. I've seen mostly negative comments so far from those who have already played it, though most of them were made because the game seemed to be too bugged to be playable. I've also heard they made modding harder (to prevent using its features in normal Warband mods) in this one. However, it seems that TW is working on this new release of it too, so maybe there will be some changes.

Apart from these two expansions, there is also a free Warband mod in the making that carries the very same name. It's an impressive looking mod and has a whole bunch of new features in it. You can see a lot of gameplay videos of it from Ensis1410 youtube channel. It's in beta test phase (the server you see for WF&S in serverlist is for this mod, not for the expansion). Here's a video about some of the new features they added: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1c_IRxWRmM

Wow Calling horse? Thats like uber puper awesome sauce feature!
Edit: Love those Polish Winged Hussars

WOHA!!!!!!!!! im gonna finish the game for Ukrain!!!!!!! hahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COSSACKS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BD_Baby_Wolf wrote:WOHA!!!!!!!!! im gonna finish the game for Ukrain!!!!!!! hahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COSSACKS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cossacks pown!

Okay I got abit confused...
There is actually a mod that is being build since 2006 and this expantion that was announced..
Mod author quoted(Page 4 on Source link):
Slawomir of Aaarrghh:Yes, there are - historical settings and the title. We have been using "With Fire and Sword" title since 2006. Guys form CD-Projekt (distributor of the game so far) knew that exactly. Even better - somewhere in 2009, few months before the first version of the game was annouced in Poland they contacted team members of WFaS mod and asked them about various things. They were especially interested when the mod will be ready. We thought that they're planning to release a special edition of Mount&Blade with additional CD containing biggest mods. Well, we were wrong. Few months later CD-Projekt annouced a game called "M&B: Ogniem i Mieczem" which means exactly "With Fire and Sword". The first version was just pure shit, buggy as hell and totally unplayable, but thanks to the catchy title and Winged Hussars theme they sold many copies in Poland. Two months ago they released second version with subtitle "Dzikie Pola" (Wild Fields) - less buggy, with some new graphics and using Warband engine. This is the game that soon will be sold worldwide.

Funny thing is that they cannot force us to change the mod name, no matter how hard they want us to. There's no way that they can trademark the "With Fire and Sword" title

Im still confused and what is what (at least which one is the best)

Source

Edit: The video that Spec send is from the mod, not expansion

Doble fail, facepalm edit: Lawl Spec did say its from mod, note to self: read carefully.