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There are a great many weapons to choose from, both melee and ranged and each weapon has a different weight, feel, speed, range, and set of behaviours and damage stats.

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord will utilise a similar directional melee combat system to previous Mount & Blade titles (as well as games like Chivalry and Mordhau).

These ancestors of the Swadians from Warband start with the most territory but also the most internal strife. The Sturgians' lands are rich in resources for use in trade. Controlling the eastern border of Calradia, they unsurprisingly specialize in horse archery.ДЄ forest-dwelling, warmongering northern faction. Hailing from the Nahasa desert to the south, they specialize in spears and fast-moving cavalry.ДЄ forest-oriented folk, the Battanians are experts with the longbow and prefer to utilize guerrilla tactics.ДЄn expansionist faction, akin to the Mongols. All three factions specialize in archery and cataphracts (heavy cavalry).ДЄncestors of the Sarranids from Warband. One of the three splinter states of the Calradic Empire.

The below table details each of the eight factions in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord.

The above map contains a helpful key in the top-left indicating which territories are controlled by which factions.

There are a total of eight factions in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord, although three of them (the Northern, Southern, and Western Empires) are technically a single faction (the Calradic Empire) split into three due to civil war.

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TaleWorlds forum-dweller 'Vesper' has created an impressive mockup of the Bannerlord map, detailing all known factions, towns, castles, villages, and more.

The general lay of the land will be familiar to players of the previous games, but in Bannerlord Calradia covers a larger area and allegedly features more mountain ranges and geographical features to create chokepoints.

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is set two centuries before the original Mount & Blade, on the same continent as the previous games - a sprawling land called Calradia.

Let's go over the major aspects of the upcoming medieval RPG one by one. Mount & Blade veterans will no doubt be instantly familiar with many of the various Bannerlord features on offer, but there have still been more than a few developments and new ideas with this new installment. If you're itching for some juicy Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord gameplay, be sure to check out the below previews, where videomancer Matthew will take you through what you can expect to see when Bannerlord drops at the end of the month. Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord gameplay preview TaleWorlds have not yet provided a release date for Bannerlord's full release, but they expect the game to remain in Early Access for 'around a year'. Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord will release on Tuesday 31st March as a Steam Early Access title.

Developer TaleWorlds have confirmed that Bannerlord will have multiplayer as well as singleplayer modes, along with extensive modding support.

If you haven't played the original Mount & Blade, think of it as a land-based Sid Meier's Pirates! crossed with a Paradox grand strategy game, and every battle takes you into a round of Mordhau.

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord features an expansive open world, numerous factions, and an intricate medieval combat system.

It certainly looks better than the original!

We've seen various clips and previews of Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord by now.

Bannerlord will be released into Early Access on Steam on 31st March 2020, and the full release is expected sometime in 2021.

It is the long-awaited prequel to the venerable Mount & Blade and its two expansions, Warband and With Fire & Sword.

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is an upcoming open-world RPG with a heavy emphasis on medieval combat and army management.

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord details (click links to find out more!):

Below we've outlined everything you need to know about the game, from Bannerlord release date details to gameplay previews, combat details, multiplayer and modding tools, and much more.

This prequel to the much-beloved, much-modded open-world RPG Mount & Blade looks to expand greatly upon almost every aspect of the original. After nearly a decade of development, it looks like Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord might be finally upon us.

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