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Mentally steel yourself to spend 3 to 4 times as long being a no-name bandit slayer (which there is also no money in), or allowing yourself to take the low road and start attacking peaceful caravans for money and goods. This combination makes the early stages of the game excruciatingly slow. The only way to solve quests, however, is to have a large army. This removes the game’s most lucrative mechanic, and means that the only way to make money now is through quests. Which means, it’s also not possible to capture any prisoners, since any enemy defeated with an edged weapon or bullet is killed. Some of the most fun I’ve had with Mount & Blade has been running enemies down with a blunted lance (though since they removed lance couching, that isn’t as much fun anyway), but now it’s not possible. Perhaps I was just extremely unlucky, but in the many hours of play I put into this game, the only blunt weapon I ever found were basic clubs. Thankfully, they added some ‘mercenary camps’ at which new soldiers are always for sale, but that doesn’t make them any cheaper. This means that every soldier you add to your army must be purchased, which isn’t cheap.
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There are no more free soldiers willing to join your cause. Once in the game, I traveled far and wide, but found no villages anywhere in which I could recruit some soldiers. Unfortunately, players are required to play through the tutorial, like it or not, which got a bit annoying after I started my eighth game.
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I thought it was nice that a tutorial was tacked on to this edition, though I’m not sure who it’s for, since very few people would be playing this expansion who didn’t already know how to play, but I’m sure it’s nice for first-timers. I also noticed some minor Lords with smaller forces, which means that you don’t have to keep bandit hunting to fight small groups of enemies. There are scouting parties which seem to be 10-30 men on horseback, and similar foraging parties. Rather than just little groups of bandits, and gigantic companies of Lords’ armies which were the only fare of the previous iteration, Fire and Sword introduces some middling parties. This version of the game has a much wider variety of foes, which might be the only new feature I don’t see a downside to. “Oh, I can make $60k in less than 40 hours,” you say? Keep reading. Also, if you want to use bombs in the single-player campaign, be prepared to wait about 40-60 hours into the story because the cheapest (and thus crappiest) of the bombs is over $60k. They come in very small packages however, with the most damaging bombs only having an ammo of one per battle. They introduce the first AoE damage in the game. The bombs, on the other hand, are actually a pretty neat addition.
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Imagine a battlefield full of crossbows in Warband. In fact, the only real difference between the muskets and the crossbows is a small load-time-to-damage ratio change and the fact that nearly everyone on the battlefield now at least has a side-arm. The guns work much like crossbows-they have to be loaded after each shot, and they punch through armor easier than arrows. The enemies get them also, of course, and it makes a lot of changes to the battlefield. Players will now be equipped with rifles and muskets in battle (you get a simple musket right from the get-go). The muzzle-loading boom-stick has apparently been invented in the Mount & Blade world, along with the hand-grenade. The big thing this time is the addition of gunpowder. If you’re not familiar with the game as it stands, first check out my review of the base game, and then the Warband expansion.
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With Fire and Sword is the newest expansion for Mount & Blade.