Taleworlds claims there will be 'many exciting and highly requested new features' and that it will include 'up-close and personal medieval combat on a huge scale, bigger, bloodier and more intense than ever before'. Newer features include a new party system, a Quick Play function for automatically finding and joining a server, brand new game modes such as Captain and Skirmish, a class system and an armoury which allows the player to see what is each class contains. The game sees the return of its Custom Server List and classic game modes such as Team Deathmatch and Siege. It involves a plethora of both old and new features, some which have caused controversy. Multiplayer is a feature that returns to Mount&Blade II: Bannerlord. The Aserai, led by Sultan Unqid, inhabit the southern desert lands of Calradia and combine footmen and horsemen in battle.The Khuzaits, led by Monchug Khan, are a steppe tribe confederacy and makes heavy use of horse archers.The Sturgians, led by Grand Prince Raganvad, inhabits the northern woodlands and are lethal axe-men and swordsmen.

The Battanians, led by High King Caladog, are famed for their marksmanship as archers throughout Calradia.The Vlandians, led by King Derthert, are a feudal state that specializes in heavy cavalry.He wants Imperial veterans to pick the new emperor. The Western Empire, led by the war hero General Garios.He claims that the Senate should have its ancient right to pick the new emperor restored. The Northern Empire, led by the aristocrat Senator Lucon.She claims that Arenicos' daughter and only child Ira should rule.

The Southern Empire, led by the widowed Empress Rhagaea, Arencios' wife.

The Empire finds itself in civil war after Emperor Arenicos died without an heir.

Additionally, there are lesser, minor factions akin to bandits and clans of mercenaries for the player to interact with during their exploration of Imperial Calradia.

Each kingdom has several noble clans who rule and run their own towns and villages, and have their own castles. The kingdoms present in Bannerlord are ancestral to those of Warband and have some of their descendant kingdoms' traits. There are a number of quests in the game which allow the player to shape the storyline as well.Ĭampaign map of the kingdoms in Bannerlord, on release. You witness the latter years of the Calradic Empire and the rise of the kingdoms from which Swadians, Rhodoks, Nords, Vaegirs, Khergits and Sarranids all claim descent. The events of Bannerlord take place in the in-game year 1084, 173 years before the start of Warband.

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