Prophecy of Pendor

[Munaus]

The master mod, created by Saxondragon and his team, for the games Mount & Blade and Warband.

For those of you who already know about M&B, let me fill in the amazing content this mod gives you:

5 new factions, who resemble the factions from the vanilla but have been heavily balanced out.

Whereas the sixth, Sarranids, has been mixed with another faction.

There is a sixth, Pendor, which is the players own choice whether he/she chooses that faction when she/he takes the king/queenship route.

New troop trees, many of these troops are absolutly vicious, like Gladiators from Fierdsvain who wields a huge twohanded battleaxe. Or Scorpion Assassins from the D'shar Principalities who are deadly one-handed or twohanded swordsman. These are just a few of my high-tier favourites.

There are many neutral faction's troops I also adore, like; Heretic Magnus, Cobra Warriors and Maiden Nobles.

Background Story, how the mod dev. found the time to flesh out not only the history of the game, but also individual stories for all heroes, claimants, neutral factions and the knighthood orders is just astonishing!

Just pick any person in a tavern and ask him for rumours and you will be filled with blood-filled stories or dramatic tales of heroes and their armies.

New Heroes. Some are plain "meh", while others are "DAUYM!". Pick anyone with a "Sir" and you have a powerful knight in your disposal!

If you pick the kingship/queenship routes and promote one of your companions to lords/ladies, they may have a army of their own troops, regardless of which factions they belong to. Boadice, for instance, comes with an army of Veccavia troops. A female-dominant army. Alyssa comes with her loyal Snake Cult followers.... those Heroes are just a few I know of.

The Music. He added new and soothing music? When will this guy stop amazing us?

On top of that, he added some cool themes for some evil troops aswell, like Heretics, Snake Cults and the Noldor.

The Noldor, an elvish and neutral faction. They have an infuriating army of archers which wont stop until your troops look like pin cushions.

They hate the human race, but alas their numbers are small and their magic dwindling, they dont have the strenght to be counted as a kingdom. They hide somewhere in a invicible castle. But if you manage to befriend them you might get access to some cool gear. Maybe even their troops!

Events. This could be a army of Heretics with demonic troops spawning or Gods warning you or blessing you with some fantastic shit!

Death and miserable dishonour by fleeing can happen to you, depending little or a lot on your choice of action...

New troop AI, or VI (virtual intelligence) aka "Vicky". This adorable thing puts your troops in tactical positions and battle formations without your intervention in the beginning of a battle!

Battle formation will only occur if your facing a kingdom faction, though. Not bandits or riff-raff.

Secrets. The mod has many, if you talk to a slaver and ask for rumours, he might point out a treasure in a town. Or some secret hideout with loot.

There is a rare item called "Qualis Gems" which you can use for valuable options. A few being a potion elixir that will strenghten you. Or founding a unique knighthood order.

and finally the best:

Knighthood orders. Every faction has been heavily balanced, but to avoid the vanilla games "Khergits owning all 'cuz they has only mounted troops", the mod dev has reduce all factions to foot soldiers with only a few top tier mounted troops.

The knights can only be hired if you meet the standards.

1. you need honour, be a good boy/girl!

2. you need to be a lord of a castle or town.

3. the nobles will start gathering to your standar. Build churches and shrines in your fiefs and/or gather honour and be patient.

4. build a training ground in your castle/town

5. hire noble recruits for 500 denars each

6. train the troops and upgrade them twice

7. return to your training ground and upgrade those troops to Knights with your honour points

BUT! yes there is an annoying but...

You can't upgrade a knight from a faction that is not yours, unless you own that particular factions town.

For example: if you have a sarleon noble recruit but your a lord to Fierdsvain, capture and own the Sarleon town to be able to upgrade that troop to Sarleons top knight: Order of the Lion

Confused? don't worry, it is quite easy once you start playing the game...

Now you are all thinking: but Munaus, this shit is complicated! Y shud I go thru all of this to get sum shitty knights who might die after a few lucky arrow shots!11!

Well, lets dismiss those shitty lucky shots by those pesky archers and see the big picture:

The knights have the highest hit points

They have, not all but most of them, the best and most unique armour set

They have the best weapons, and a few of them might even be archers

Those who are mounted knights are mostly heavy cavalry shock troops, and have the fastest or heaviest armoured horses

Those who are infantry knights are heavy armoured and fast.

They have the best weapon proficiencies, which means they are quick with their weapons and aim well with crossbows or bows.

And you can upgrade the entire order (for a sum of denars) to increase their strenght and agility and weapon proficiency!

That shit makes it all worth it!

Heck, you can Join an order and receive their respect and unique armour set!

This depends if they like you and if you can beat them in the arena.

If you still think "meh, I cud probably fight those knights singlehandedly" then go ahead, make your day!

The first thing I met when I traveled the continent of old Pendor was a group of Knights of Dawn, they were 10 and my poorly-trained troop was 50. I thought I would squash them easily!

2 mins later I fled cowardly, my troops decimated and the Knights of Dawn laughing.

Now you are thinking "the game is too hardcore! I dont have enough cash to hire and train troops!"

Luckily the mod dev foresaw this and increased the arena fights winning price. If you beat the arena you will get the sum of 2000 denars!

Phew, I have spent hours on this, so forgive me if there are specks of sweat, tears and blood here an' there.

This mod is amazing, the fact that the mod dev doesn't even have a donate button on his thread in Taleworlds forum is shameful!

Go to that thread and give him your wholehearted thanks and appreciation!

Give him all your thanks and love and support, for the next Prophecy of Pendor mod is coming on a new continent and with more content...

http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,126952.0.html

[Xylord]

You think the Knights of Dawn are badass? Pfft, my Griffons could wipe themselves with those fellows.

So much badassness in one picture! It's making my eyes moist.

Btw, if you're wondering, yes, I'm using a texturepack.

[Munaus]

Pwetty griffons

That texture pack is pwetty! Look at the flowers!

Link to pack you're using?

I must admit, I haven't gone so far yet to reach kingship. I'm trying to reach all lords by freeing them during wars and therefore get friendships and easy honour raise.

Griffons the best you say? Too bad they are extinct Knights of Eventide are still going strong!(vanilla look)

Edit. The only reason I mentioned the Dawn is 'cuz most people will meet them when spelunking around Valonbray.

[Xylord]

Pretty sure it's the Calradia in Darkness texture pack, it's pretty awesome, and 100% compatible with PoP too!

I mostly chose the Griffons because their heraldry is the coolest and they're supposed to be the Knights who served the ancient Pendor Kings. Since that's the achievement I'm aiming for, they seemed like the best choice for the lore. But they've also got some of the best armor and fighting abilities of the game, being an amazing heavy cavalry/infantry. Honestly, with my well-upgraded Order, everyone of those guys is a one-man army.

[Mooseman9]

Hmmm, I'm thinking about getting Mount and Blade...Any recommendations from you two?

[Xylord]

Hmmm, I'm thinking about getting Mount and Blade...Any recommendations from you two?

Absolutely. Probably one of the best Indie games I've played for eons. Get Warband though, and be sure to be quite experienced with Native before jumping into Prophesy of Pendor, it's quite hardcore compared to the default metagame.

[Mooseman9]

So I've found Mount & Blade, Mount & Blade: Warband, Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword. You're saying that I should get Warband, play it until I am experienced, and then get the mod Prophecy of Pendor?

[Xylord]

So I've found Mount & Blade, Mount & Blade: Warband, Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword. You're saying that I should get Warband, play it until I am experienced, and then get the mod Prophecy of Pendor?

Pretty much, if you jumped right into PoP, you WILL get your ass kicked repeatedly and painfully. Also, With Fire and Sword is a DLC for Warband, not a separate game. Never got it because it happens in a more recent 1700-ish era and I prefer the Middle Age, but I heard it's quite good.

[Mooseman9]

Well, now it's a matter of waiting for my birthday next Sunday. I can probably get that.

[Munaus]

So I've found Mount & Blade, Mount & Blade: Warband, Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword. You're saying that I should get Warband, play it until I am experienced, and then get the mod Prophecy of Pendor?

If you have never played the game before, then this mod will make you ragequit.

In PoP, the first thing you gotta think about is: What do you want out of your character?

Shall he be an archer? A javelin/axe throwing berserker? Or a simple sword/lance wielding knight.

And secondary: what skill is most important to you: looting or fast-traveling? I find these two to be the most important.. while the other skills can be taught to your followers.

Leadership should be your third or second most important skill, as you need to raise a huge army.

You don't want to pick a character background with negative relations to Sarleon, unless you want to play the game hardcore from the beginning!

And finally, don't start in Singal or Valonbray and go lolzing around the area, chances are you might meet the Knights of Dawn or Eventide who will attack you on sight!

You CAN start without any experience on the game, but my advice is: stay mostly indoors training in the arenas. You wont lose anything there when you get knocked out, whereas loosing in the battlefield makes you a war prisoner and get your valuable items and gold stolen.

[Mooseman9]

If you have never played the game before, then this mod will make you ragequit.

In PoP, the first thing you gotta think about is: What do you want out of your character?

Shall he be an archer? A javelin/axe throwing berserker? Or a simple sword/lance wielding knight.

And secondary: what skill is most important to you: looting or fast-traveling? I find these two to be the most important.. while the other skills can be taught to your followers.

Leadership should be your third or second most important skill, as you need to raise a huge army.

You don't want to pick a character background with negative relations to Sarleon, unless you want to play the game hardcore from the beginning!

And finally, don't start in Singal or Valonbray and go lolzing around the area, chances are you might meet the Knights of Dawn or Eventide who will attack you on sight!

You CAN start without any experience on the game, but my advice is: stay mostly indoors training in the arenas. You wont lose anything there when you get knocked out, whereas loosing in the battlefield makes you a war prisoner and get your valuable items and gold stolen.

This game sounds better and better the more I hear about it. I seriously want to get it now. The agonizing wait though... Oh well, that can't be helped.

[Munaus]

Here is a bit of help on choosing your character. It wont spoil the game for you. It's a bit like role-play, you choose your characters background and that will determine the skills, outfit and money you start off with.

You can choose to play as a female warrior if you wish, but it will take a longer time for the Lords to accept you as an equal and reward you with fiefs.

[Mooseman9]

Here is a bit of help on choosing your character. It wont spoil the game for you. It's a bit like role-play, you choose your characters background and that will determine the skills, outfit and money you start off with.

You can choose to play as a female warrior if you wish, but it will take a longer time for the Lords to accept you as an equal and reward you with fiefs.

Thanks for the link and info, I'll read that at a later time.

[Xylord]

Here is a bit of help on choosing your character. It wont spoil the game for you. It's a bit like role-play, you choose your characters background and that will determine the skills, outfit and money you start off with.

You can choose to play as a female warrior if you wish, but it will take a longer time for the Lords to accept you as an equal and reward you with fiefs.

That's true for Native, but I thought reading somewhere that in PoP specifically, females are given as much respect as men.

[Munaus]

I forgot one more thing to add to the list: Achievements and victory conditions.

I have never "beaten" the Native, nor have I been close to dominate this mod. But it says there are end game achievements you need to meet to "officially" beat the mod.

First, there can only be One. One kingdom shall stand, if this is an claimant's cause you chose or the existing kings or yourself as king doesn't matter. One faction must stand to rule Old Pendor.

Second, be buddy-buddy with the Noldor. You start with negative relations (-20?) and need to raise it to favorable (+20?). Challenging, as Noldor are very few and hard to find when they spawn on the map.

Third, there must be no opposing armies from the neutral factions. Impossible to face a demonic army or Snake cult army alone. But if your faction chose you as marshall then the fight could be won with the Lords following you into the heat.

Oh and there are achievements in this mod that are WAY more useful then the shitty Steam has.

Have you wounded or killed 5000 enemies? You get achievement and +20 renown for it (unless I remember that one wrong, Xy?)

Beated a Jatu army? You get seal of approval and gain +1 or 2 in riding skill.

There are more, but I don't want to spoil any more of this fantastic mod.

What are you still reading this? Download it!

Gosh...

[Mooseman9]

What are you still reading this? Download it!

Gosh...

I don't even have Mount and Blade yet. Gosh...

[Xylord]

Have you wounded or killed 5000 enemies? You get achievement and +20 renown for it (unless I remember that one wrong, Xy?)

Beated a Jatu army? You get seal of approval and gain +1 or 2 in riding skill.

There are more, but I don't want to spoil any more of this fantastic mod.

What are you still reading this? Download it!

Gosh...

Pretty sure you got the achievement right. As for beating armies, impossible is not Pendorian.

Around 70 strong knights, a few Noldor archers and good companions can make mincemeat out of a 500 heads army, I did that much with an heretic army with winged demons and all.

[Munaus]

If there are still people who don't know yet if the mod is superawesomespecial, Gosh it's quite obvious it is, then perhaps a video could tell more than me furiously tapping deh buuttons on this keyboarad!111!!!

This was the video I found when I first wanted to see if there was any mod out there to enhance my Warband gameplay.

Made by abadgaem (silly name)

You can easily tell that I was "sold" on this mod.

[elmarko98]

Wow this sounds so much better than all the other mods I've played, getting it now!