Thanks for watching everyone! Just wanted to take a moment to clarify something: VC is actually pretty solid. By my own reasoning, I'm compelled to say that paying 18$ for a mod seems absurd when we get so many on a similar level of quality for free. I also tended to be more critical of VC precisely because I paid for it and expect more as a result. But the truth is, if modders were fairly compensated for all of their work, most mods would retail at a similar price. In essence, VC as a DLC is actually pretty decent, it's all of the FREE mods we must be grateful for. Huge thanks to the modding community for all of your work. Also, join the discord: discord.gg/YzGBHxx77A
Does Bretwalda have the same sailing system outside of combat? I want to port some kind of sailing into a mod I'm making but idk what system to choose.
I never played Brytenwalda before buying Viking Conquest. I basically went straight from base to Viking Conquest. Struggled at first and started winning tournaments, it started to get easier. For me, I appreciated as it really benefits to know how to command troops and really use strategy.
I bought Viking Conquest way before I even knew about mods for the game. It impressed me how they upgraded the battle ai etc, and as a history nerd, I adored the historical setting. But yeah, now that I have discovered the immense amount of high quality mods for the game, I must agree that, in all honesty, while Viking Conquest is awesome, it is not necessarily better than any of the high quality mods.
@@avichanda4641 Aut Caeser aut nihil, 457 A.D are best Roman mods. Light and darkness for story driven mods. The Red wars if you want a WW2 Calradia experience. Gekkujo daimyo edition, phantasy calradia, perisno, pendor all are good mods. Also Brytenwelda which is viking conquest based on.
Quick thing about sea battles in Viking Conquest. Your Looting skill determines the chance of gaining ships after battle. If you rock 8+ looting, you're almost guaranteed to capture a ship after every fight. Late game, its one of the best ways to actually amass funds relatively quickly (other than wool trading, but that takes you usually to far from your kingdom.) The areas of the map that spawn alot of sea bandits are great farm areas for money making. Also, there are subtle tactics you can use to make Sea combat a lot more tactical. Holding your ships to and having them board 1 enemy ship, maximizing your numbers advantage on a single ship-on-ship action, or attacking 1 enemy ship from 2 sides, staying behind a friendly ship so the enemy agro onto them and you flank. Using troops with high damage javelins to cause casualties from your ship helps too, since troops have 4x javs stack amount on ships. I admit the ship AI isn't great, and you still take more casualties than on land, but if you use T2-T3 units to minimize economic losses, you're making a lot of money selling raider warships this way. Also you can keep the Oak ships that you find. So thats around 3.5-5k~ average per battle on ship selling alone. Larger bandit parties will give you larger, more expensive ships.
I bought DLC long time ago just because I loved original M&B. And I fell in love with Viking Conquest ever since. I also bought with Fire and Sword just because I was intrigued. I feel it was worth every penny I spent on it!
I bought viking conquest 2 years ago, and i decided to re-play it with some submod. Like VC balance 13 mod. It becomes very insteresting ! You can even keep morrigan. Which is very good .
Recruiting can be done easily by just configuring it in the options. It can be made to work just like Native, but I do prefer how Viking Conquest does it.
as someone fairly new to modding and someone that isn't the best with computers or the smartest.. 1 thing you overlooked is the ease of access VC has over the mods.. as well as the trust factor. direct from the developers. no discord, no 3rd party website, no outdated steam workshop mods, its guaranteed to work. ( at least in theory ) .. I know some mods that are free are easy to install ( Especially if they are on the steam workshop and are up to date ) but some mods are really hard to install.. like warsword conquest ( at least for some of us ) .. not saying it justifies the price tag or anything ...
I love Viking Conquest above all. Buy it during discount period and recruit travelling Vikings, they are badass. Also once you get into it sea battles they are pretty goood money maker. LESS TALKING, MORE RAIDING!!!
Sorry but this is laughable. Saying that boats are prohibtively expensive means you have not experienced VC at all. There are two strategies available: farm some money and get a fast ship. Load it with SAILORS not soldiers. They are good enough to fend off some pesky vikings if massed, but thats definetely the last option. As someone with a fast ship and sailors your main instinct should be FLIGHT. A skeid with 70 sailors will be flying across the north sea! Now if you really want to battle at sea get either a) several snekkars, skeids, generally thin, long ships and load them with skirmishers, then stay the fuck away from enemy boats and pelt them to shreds with stones javelins and other pointy things, or b) get a beefy broad ship with a mix of beefy vikings and sailors - the latter do the sailing cause broad ships are slow af, the former do the boarding and fighting. Fighting hand to hand on thin racing skeids is inadvisable because half your important shock troops will fall in the water lol. At some point you will fall for sure. There are two awesome features of boats that often get omitted by boat virgins. First, even a cheap ass byrding, around 5k in good condition, is fast enough to evade vikings and since there is no cap on space you can access the best trade routes for free! For early game it is a gift from Woden. 2) boat sieges. Yes. Boat sieges of ports are awesome because SKIRMISHERS have unlimited ammo while on boats. Even the pc will auto replenish so bring your best javelins. Stay within range but dont disembark and you can SHRED the enemy defences. Sure, they have shields, but soon all will be broken with javs and then even sailors en masse can deal with the rest. Boats make the game because they cause light troops to be massively op and justify an all light troop army if your goal is coastal raiding or piracy. Make your camp on an island and you are now [in the voice of Sterling Malory Archer:].... A pirate king!
Dude, you're making my points. Why should the sound move be to be fast enough to flee? Why can't I just easily mass a large fleet of affordable ships and competent soldiers to go on massive sea battles? And most of your strategies sound more like exploiting the bad AI and gameplay loopholes than actually doing what the game intended. Your landing strategy isn't all that different from lining up archers in front of a wall and killing the soldiers standing at the choke point. Except you're doing it on water. I mean if that's your thing, by all means, enjoy! But what makes warband great in my opinion is the freedom we get to do our own thing. But VC brought in a feature that is very limiting in the choices we get to make with it, realistically speaking.
@@TerryDuke The reason why amassing a fleet of affordable ships and competent soldiers in the game would make no sense is because it was historically NOT affordable! Traders relied on speed and evasion because having a massive, armed fleet would cut in both the cost of running the freight AND limit the size of cargo that you could take aboard. The most lucrative option is to use smaller boats with skilled crews that would successfully sail dense cargo (high price, low quantity) across seas swiftly and safely. Having the capacity of fielding a large warband (lol) and fleet, was something within the capacity of a king or a chieftan, not a random dude starting from scratch. If you spend a while learning how to make quick profitable trades you will buy a decent used boat soon enough. And more than one too! Or just pay other people to get shipped across from say Norway and source your soldiers locally in Danelaw :D that would probably work to some extent even in reality. Having to make multiple trips to unload your troops was a thing even in antiquity! Which makes sense here in game because of the troops quartering option. Move part of your overall army, make a beachhead, then go back and get the rest. This. Was. How. It. Was. Done. This is EXACTLY why Britain has remained relatively "unconquered". Very few such landings as you have described have been done historically, and they were usually quite costly. Therefore what you would see around the time when the game is set would be lots of small vessels trying to stay the f out of trouble, or small raiding parties who would ravage the seaside. Also it stands to reason that you would have MORE ammunition available if you can just line the bottom of your boat with it. The very beauty of VC lies in the fact that it forces you to work within the confines of the time period. Back then you'd be a raider, a trader, or a fisherman. Seeing a fleet of the likes of Harald Hardrada or William would be for many a once in a lifetime experience. Hell, the fleet of Hardrada was about 300 ships, carrying 11k troops. Meaning you'd pack around 40 per ships, plus basic provisions. A skeid in game can carry 70... To get a decent size army you need 2-3 ships. Thats for harassment. To conquer you'd need 8-10 with several bands. This is realistic because in reality the islands did not change hands so much specifically because attempting such a landing was prohibitively expensive.
@@aeu569 Your argument of VC being good because of realism is very arbitrary and subjective. If I need a history lesson to appreciate the drastic limitations that a game offers, then limitations aren't fun. May I remind you, we're talking about the only mod ever to receive FULL technical support from the developers with the sole purpose of making the best product possible. And the biggest selling point of VC is greatly restricted because... the Norse were restricted in resources and logistics historically? And that matters for the game how? I'm going on killing sprees, cutting heads off from armored opponents while at the same time having a javelin stuck in my shoulder, yet I must bow down to reality when it comes to sea battles? This is a broader argument that I would make for any game and I say this as a history buff: gameplay should never be compromised for the sake of realism (looking at your RDR2). I mean, what if you could just have a huge fleet as easily as you can build a land army? And what if you could sail it everywhere you go, without limitations? Wouldn't that be fun? What would be so wrong with that? Warband at its core is a game that allows for that kind of freedom. Brytenwalda introduced realism as a means to make the game challenging, but it was still an option that can be disabled if that's not your thing. You're not gonna convince me that my review is wrong because I "played VC wrong". I'm playing VC like I'm playing Warband, and expecting the same freedom is not unreasonable.
@@aeu569 really? I heard it was still in development. Did you see that announced in their discord? Also, what do you mean by them doing their own stuff? Do you mean own completely different game or a mod that isn’t sponsored by taleworlds ?
I played Brytenwalda many years ago, I didn't play it much tho, the map was so big and you had so many things that it was way too complicated for my own taste. Then I played Viking Conquest around 2018 and I really enjoyed it, as far as I know it's the only game/DLC of the Mount and Blade series with a story. The story itself isn't that great, since there is no voiceover, just some texts and events (some looking like mini cinematics) but I would say it's worth it if you buy it on a sale. Even without the story I would say is a great "mod", I enjoyed the trading, raiding, battles and the atmosphere in general. If you have Bannerlord I don't know what to tell you, if you started on Warband then get it, if you started on Bannerlord directly this will probably be kinda outdated for you. Something I forgot to say is that this "mod" actually made the spears relevant in Warband, before this "mod" the spears had so low damage and were so easily blockaded that it was kinda pointless to use them, either you or your troops. Here, on the other hand, the spears are really efficient on troops with a shieldwall and using one yourself is actually enjoyable and useful (other mods based on viking conquest have taken advantage over this, like A World of Ice and Fire). Overall I would say give it a try, always buying the DLC on sale.
I personally enjoyed the need for more money in this honestly it obviously doesn't work for every mod but for what it is here it works very well especially in the late game and if you play as a raiding Viking
One thing to say about ships. Sea battles can be very good or bad for you depending on your army composition. If you have only infranty sea is where you want to fight, but if you have mostly archers thats not going to go well. Just like lords have different units taking them to rhe sea can make it easier or harder to beat them
There are other mods but i have not seen one where a shield wall was as fun to use as it was here, maybe a world of ice and fire can compare but i do not know.
Using Hakkon Legionnaries in Perisno is similar, just more over the top. There's no rank or shield wall formation but there are "rows" which" accomplishes the same thing. And the OP legionnaires came with darts and they were good throwers, so it was pretty cool to do as well.
@@TerryDuke I managed to use shield wall and other formations in perisno, i did something with the files, i googled how to enable formations, i believe there Is also an option to crouch, the experience was awesome. I had an awesome campaign on that mod, by betraying the Valahir and rebelling against them, i managed to have a lot of territory, changed my culture to Valahir and then have Valahir units available to crush enemies with my shield wall.
I liked sea battles, but i don't think they are meant for beginners, i know i had to play a lot to save money for a ship. Also smaller armies have the advantage there due to ships being hard to manouver, eg. 10 elite vikings can easily kill 50 3rd tier soldiers.
Its worth there are many contents you dont know and will discover I have played game for long and I still see unknown content like finding shipwreck chance of this is high while walking near coast having big army and scouts sent and many like this
Not currently in my plans, but hey, it's on my steam wishlist, my steam is in the video description. If someone buys it for me, I promise I'll do a video on it ;)
You should review gloria sinica, han xionghu wars, its a warband mod thats they made into a standalone game set in ancient china, its basically a payed mod.
If u sell normal gear to long ports shirts hats helmets armor is worth way more than if u sell to market and same thing with prisoners sell them to the Vikings at the farm it sells you will have plenty of money every time i alway come back to vc it is my favorite and it’s more realistic sombody not just gonna let a nobody come it and start recruiting men when there are bigger names and your not known who is gonna follow u it’s is a lil time consuming but it’s easy and soon you will be disbanding units all the time you will have armada of ships and once u get good troops u can sea raid entire city’s and becomes very easy to stream roll fast if do your setup if you don’t get your village/city loyalty up you will not be recruiting enuff men to keep your castles and they will be low lvl if you get city’s up high you will be getting 20 teir 3 units every go around and if you don’t get your passive income up you will be crushed bye own weight early late game vc is hard to start when u play on realistic no quitting without saving with gear affect stats wounds stamina blood loss etc if not it’s to easy and not as it’s really involving but when u challenge your self it’s feels good to have a warlord and it really feels like you worked your way up in native and other mods you get money and become a god really fast without much effort it’s very rewarding and you feel strong but with a heathy respect for the world and bye having to take your time going a lot of plasces it’s fun cause vc encourages exploration exploration iv been playing vc since it came out and every time I play I find /learn something new and there is so much so refined content and hidden stuff it’s crazy I’ve gotten 1000 hours easy out of it and the last thing is they did the time period extremely well very true to the time it’s the best Viking simulator I’ve ever played hands down if you don’t like history your gonna over look alot of thing that make this dlc amazing and the are a lot of Unique npcs that do special unique things all over the map hands down fave dlc without mount and blade war would not be the same for me
The game is 15dolars, ofc its Worth it, why punish a team That went from modding to a professional product? Good for them, obvisoly TW Saw talent in them. And they are to this day still working on the DLC and updating it. Its not expensive in anyway, Video games are an art form and take alot of time and dedication to make.
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Thanks for watching everyone! Just wanted to take a moment to clarify something: VC is actually pretty solid. By my own reasoning, I'm compelled to say that paying 18$ for a mod seems absurd when we get so many on a similar level of quality for free. I also tended to be more critical of VC precisely because I paid for it and expect more as a result.
But the truth is, if modders were fairly compensated for all of their work, most mods would retail at a similar price.
In essence, VC as a DLC is actually pretty decent, it's all of the FREE mods we must be grateful for. Huge thanks to the modding community for all of your work.
Also, join the discord: discord.gg/YzGBHxx77A
Does Bretwalda have the same sailing system outside of combat? I want to port some kind of sailing into a mod I'm making but idk what system to choose.
@@Pentagathusosaurus I think Age of arthur has sailing battle too, you should try it, it's a very interesting mod.
@@m.baqibillah1226 it does, I played it a year or so ago. Twas very good, I loved the questlines though I don't think I foujd all of them
I never played Brytenwalda before buying Viking Conquest. I basically went straight from base to Viking Conquest. Struggled at first and started winning tournaments, it started to get easier. For me, I appreciated as it really benefits to know how to command troops and really use strategy.
Man the things I would do for a Viking Conquest expansion for Mount and Blade Bannerlord
I bought Viking Conquest way before I even knew about mods for the game. It impressed me how they upgraded the battle ai etc, and as a history nerd, I adored the historical setting. But yeah, now that I have discovered the immense amount of high quality mods for the game, I must agree that, in all honesty, while Viking Conquest is awesome, it is not necessarily better than any of the high quality mods.
Recommand me some of the warband mods bro
@@avichanda4641 Aut Caeser aut nihil, 457 A.D are best Roman mods. Light and darkness for story driven mods. The Red wars if you want a WW2 Calradia experience. Gekkujo daimyo edition, phantasy calradia, perisno, pendor all are good mods. Also Brytenwelda which is viking conquest based on.
Thanks i will try these@@BlazingFlame69
Less talking, more raiding!
But if we have to talk, I'll do so while drinking from your skull.
@@TerryDukewhile we’re on the topic… that’s a nice head you have on your shoulders
Interesting pfp
@@KanekiKen-lm1dladditionally to your point, ARGHHHHHH.
Good point, after all it is harvesting season
Quick thing about sea battles in Viking Conquest.
Your Looting skill determines the chance of gaining ships after battle. If you rock 8+ looting, you're almost guaranteed to capture a ship after every fight. Late game, its one of the best ways to actually amass funds relatively quickly (other than wool trading, but that takes you usually to far from your kingdom.) The areas of the map that spawn alot of sea bandits are great farm areas for money making.
Also, there are subtle tactics you can use to make Sea combat a lot more tactical. Holding your ships to and having them board 1 enemy ship, maximizing your numbers advantage on a single ship-on-ship action, or attacking 1 enemy ship from 2 sides, staying behind a friendly ship so the enemy agro onto them and you flank. Using troops with high damage javelins to cause casualties from your ship helps too, since troops have 4x javs stack amount on ships.
I admit the ship AI isn't great, and you still take more casualties than on land, but if you use T2-T3 units to minimize economic losses, you're making a lot of money selling raider warships this way. Also you can keep the Oak ships that you find. So thats around 3.5-5k~ average per battle on ship selling alone. Larger bandit parties will give you larger, more expensive ships.
4x javs also applies to the player, so you can basically dish out 20 enemies with good throwing skill alone
To be fair, at the moment, VC is definitely worth it (on sale with a 3 dollar and some price tag) but at full price I’d say it isn’t worth it in 2022
Yes, on sale it's a good deal.
I remember playing this back in the day, didn't finish the campaign but it was fun overall. Having an objective and a clear progression.
The VC balance mod is a great addition to this dlc. It fixes bugs and adds some nice bells and whistles. I'd definitely recommend it.
And playing as a raider is a lot more rewarding
I bought DLC long time ago just because I loved original M&B. And I fell in love with Viking Conquest ever since.
I also bought with Fire and Sword just because I was intrigued.
I feel it was worth every penny I spent on it!
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I bought viking conquest 2 years ago, and i decided to re-play it with some submod. Like VC balance 13 mod. It becomes very insteresting !
You can even keep morrigan. Which is very good .
Recruiting can be done easily by just configuring it in the options. It can be made to work just like Native, but I do prefer how Viking Conquest does it.
I remember playing this before even knowing mount and blade had mods
It was a whole new game
as someone fairly new to modding and someone that isn't the best with computers or the smartest.. 1 thing you overlooked is the ease of access VC has over the mods.. as well as the trust factor. direct from the developers. no discord, no 3rd party website, no outdated steam workshop mods, its guaranteed to work. ( at least in theory ) .. I know some mods that are free are easy to install ( Especially if they are on the steam workshop and are up to date ) but some mods are really hard to install.. like warsword conquest ( at least for some of us ) .. not saying it justifies the price tag or anything ...
I love Viking Conquest above all. Buy it during discount period and recruit travelling Vikings, they are badass. Also once you get into it sea battles they are pretty goood money maker.
LESS TALKING, MORE RAIDING!!!
Sorry but this is laughable. Saying that boats are prohibtively expensive means you have not experienced VC at all. There are two strategies available: farm some money and get a fast ship. Load it with SAILORS not soldiers. They are good enough to fend off some pesky vikings if massed, but thats definetely the last option. As someone with a fast ship and sailors your main instinct should be FLIGHT. A skeid with 70 sailors will be flying across the north sea! Now if you really want to battle at sea get either a) several snekkars, skeids, generally thin, long ships and load them with skirmishers, then stay the fuck away from enemy boats and pelt them to shreds with stones javelins and other pointy things, or b) get a beefy broad ship with a mix of beefy vikings and sailors - the latter do the sailing cause broad ships are slow af, the former do the boarding and fighting. Fighting hand to hand on thin racing skeids is inadvisable because half your important shock troops will fall in the water lol. At some point you will fall for sure.
There are two awesome features of boats that often get omitted by boat virgins. First, even a cheap ass byrding, around 5k in good condition, is fast enough to evade vikings and since there is no cap on space you can access the best trade routes for free! For early game it is a gift from Woden. 2) boat sieges. Yes. Boat sieges of ports are awesome because SKIRMISHERS have unlimited ammo while on boats. Even the pc will auto replenish so bring your best javelins. Stay within range but dont disembark and you can SHRED the enemy defences. Sure, they have shields, but soon all will be broken with javs and then even sailors en masse can deal with the rest. Boats make the game because they cause light troops to be massively op and justify an all light troop army if your goal is coastal raiding or piracy. Make your camp on an island and you are now [in the voice of Sterling Malory Archer:].... A pirate king!
Dude, you're making my points. Why should the sound move be to be fast enough to flee? Why can't I just easily mass a large fleet of affordable ships and competent soldiers to go on massive sea battles? And most of your strategies sound more like exploiting the bad AI and gameplay loopholes than actually doing what the game intended. Your landing strategy isn't all that different from lining up archers in front of a wall and killing the soldiers standing at the choke point. Except you're doing it on water.
I mean if that's your thing, by all means, enjoy! But what makes warband great in my opinion is the freedom we get to do our own thing. But VC brought in a feature that is very limiting in the choices we get to make with it, realistically speaking.
@@TerryDuke The reason why amassing a fleet of affordable ships and competent soldiers in the game would make no sense is because it was historically NOT affordable! Traders relied on speed and evasion because having a massive, armed fleet would cut in both the cost of running the freight AND limit the size of cargo that you could take aboard. The most lucrative option is to use smaller boats with skilled crews that would successfully sail dense cargo (high price, low quantity) across seas swiftly and safely. Having the capacity of fielding a large warband (lol) and fleet, was something within the capacity of a king or a chieftan, not a random dude starting from scratch. If you spend a while learning how to make quick profitable trades you will buy a decent used boat soon enough. And more than one too! Or just pay other people to get shipped across from say Norway and source your soldiers locally in Danelaw :D that would probably work to some extent even in reality.
Having to make multiple trips to unload your troops was a thing even in antiquity! Which makes sense here in game because of the troops quartering option. Move part of your overall army, make a beachhead, then go back and get the rest. This. Was. How. It. Was. Done.
This is EXACTLY why Britain has remained relatively "unconquered". Very few such landings as you have described have been done historically, and they were usually quite costly. Therefore what you would see around the time when the game is set would be lots of small vessels trying to stay the f out of trouble, or small raiding parties who would ravage the seaside.
Also it stands to reason that you would have MORE ammunition available if you can just line the bottom of your boat with it.
The very beauty of VC lies in the fact that it forces you to work within the confines of the time period. Back then you'd be a raider, a trader, or a fisherman. Seeing a fleet of the likes of Harald Hardrada or William would be for many a once in a lifetime experience. Hell, the fleet of Hardrada was about 300 ships, carrying 11k troops. Meaning you'd pack around 40 per ships, plus basic provisions. A skeid in game can carry 70... To get a decent size army you need 2-3 ships. Thats for harassment. To conquer you'd need 8-10 with several bands. This is realistic because in reality the islands did not change hands so much specifically because attempting such a landing was prohibitively expensive.
@@aeu569 Your argument of VC being good because of realism is very arbitrary and subjective. If I need a history lesson to appreciate the drastic limitations that a game offers, then limitations aren't fun. May I remind you, we're talking about the only mod ever to receive FULL technical support from the developers with the sole purpose of making the best product possible. And the biggest selling point of VC is greatly restricted because... the Norse were restricted in resources and logistics historically? And that matters for the game how? I'm going on killing sprees, cutting heads off from armored opponents while at the same time having a javelin stuck in my shoulder, yet I must bow down to reality when it comes to sea battles?
This is a broader argument that I would make for any game and I say this as a history buff: gameplay should never be compromised for the sake of realism (looking at your RDR2).
I mean, what if you could just have a huge fleet as easily as you can build a land army? And what if you could sail it everywhere you go, without limitations? Wouldn't that be fun? What would be so wrong with that?
Warband at its core is a game that allows for that kind of freedom. Brytenwalda introduced realism as a means to make the game challenging, but it was still an option that can be disabled if that's not your thing. You're not gonna convince me that my review is wrong because I "played VC wrong". I'm playing VC like I'm playing Warband, and expecting the same freedom is not unreasonable.
Can't wait for the next video, great content!!!
Fondly remember loving this dlc and been eagerly waiting for their new one coming out for bannerlord
Brytenwalda said its not going to happen. They want to do their own stuff. And having played Bannerlord I can't say I blame them.
@@aeu569 really? I heard it was still in development. Did you see that announced in their discord?
Also, what do you mean by them doing their own stuff? Do you mean own completely different game or a mod that isn’t sponsored by taleworlds ?
I played Brytenwalda many years ago, I didn't play it much tho, the map was so big and you had so many things that it was way too complicated for my own taste. Then I played Viking Conquest around 2018 and I really enjoyed it, as far as I know it's the only game/DLC of the Mount and Blade series with a story. The story itself isn't that great, since there is no voiceover, just some texts and events (some looking like mini cinematics) but I would say it's worth it if you buy it on a sale. Even without the story I would say is a great "mod", I enjoyed the trading, raiding, battles and the atmosphere in general. If you have Bannerlord I don't know what to tell you, if you started on Warband then get it, if you started on Bannerlord directly this will probably be kinda outdated for you.
Something I forgot to say is that this "mod" actually made the spears relevant in Warband, before this "mod" the spears had so low damage and were so easily blockaded that it was kinda pointless to use them, either you or your troops. Here, on the other hand, the spears are really efficient on troops with a shieldwall and using one yourself is actually enjoyable and useful (other mods based on viking conquest have taken advantage over this, like A World of Ice and Fire).
Overall I would say give it a try, always buying the DLC on sale.
I personally enjoyed the need for more money in this honestly it obviously doesn't work for every mod but for what it is here it works very well especially in the late game and if you play as a raiding Viking
One thing to say about ships. Sea battles can be very good or bad for you depending on your army composition. If you have only infranty sea is where you want to fight, but if you have mostly archers thats not going to go well. Just like lords have different units taking them to rhe sea can make it easier or harder to beat them
as far as im concerned its very much worth it , i have around 400 hours in it (with almost 600 in warband overall)
Yeah, if you're gonna spend that much time, you get your money's worth for sure.
Its better than the base game so its well worth the money 👍
I got it for free
I think Viking Conquest is best than Bannerlord, is not boring, is challenging.
Man I loved this DLC, I just wish it had the B2 graphics
Well, given the fact that Viking Conquest is 100% better than Bannerlord, I'd say yes, it is absolutely worth it! Bannerlord is trash compared to VC.
There are other mods but i have not seen one where a shield wall was as fun to use as it was here, maybe a world of ice and fire can compare but i do not know.
Using Hakkon Legionnaries in Perisno is similar, just more over the top. There's no rank or shield wall formation but there are "rows" which" accomplishes the same thing. And the OP legionnaires came with darts and they were good throwers, so it was pretty cool to do as well.
@@TerryDuke I managed to use shield wall and other formations in perisno, i did something with the files, i googled how to enable formations, i believe there Is also an option to crouch, the experience was awesome.
I had an awesome campaign on that mod, by betraying the Valahir and rebelling against them, i managed to have a lot of territory, changed my culture to Valahir and then have Valahir units available to crush enemies with my shield wall.
I liked sea battles, but i don't think they are meant for beginners, i know i had to play a lot to save money for a ship. Also smaller armies have the advantage there due to ships being hard to manouver, eg. 10 elite vikings can easily kill 50 3rd tier soldiers.
thanks for the video ☺♥
Have you all tried perisno? That mode is number 1 for me
Its worth there are many contents you dont know and will discover I have played game for long and I still see unknown content like finding shipwreck
chance of this is high while walking near coast having big army and scouts sent and many like this
Okay cool mod, but is Thorfinn there?
I love it and you can pick it up on sale for normal a cupul of bucks and that's how I fell in love with it
can we do couched lance damage here in viking conquest?
Did brytenwalda also had the option to build a fort and expand it as much as it is in VC? I don't remember that.
look at the Blood Eagle mod for viking conquest
Does Brytenwalda have storyline? also which Brytenwalda should i DL? the one from steam workshop or the repolished version?
It does. About 12 hours storyline if you focus solely on it.
Review Gold and Blood Caribbean, a standalone game based on warband, I love it
Not currently in my plans, but hey, it's on my steam wishlist, my steam is in the video description. If someone buys it for me, I promise I'll do a video on it ;)
Avoid like the plague! Broken af.
Ho terry...is there any mod for warband that has similiar looks to viking conquest..n doesnt look like native...
@@freakgamer839 well VC is based off Brytenwalda so there you go. Age of arthur as well
Terry duke ! Love your videos. Will you please review M&B Warband Age of arthur mod ?.
It's very interesting mod !
Thanks, way ahead of you though ;) ruclips.net/video/bD45Dl33FDo/видео.html&ab_channel=TerryDuke
Wow, haha well im new subscriber so i don't know !
Very good
You should review gloria sinica, han xionghu wars, its a warband mod thats they made into a standalone game set in ancient china, its basically a payed mod.
Have you already checked the Bannderpage mod?
Yes, I covered it in two other videos.
Vq should be on console, it would be worth it as someone who plays pc and console. Vanilla is fun but barebones. Hopethey bring this to console
Well it's been a while since it was released, so I doubt it. Then again, RDR is finally coming to PC 14 years later, so there's hope.
If u sell normal gear to long ports shirts hats helmets armor is worth way more than if u sell to market and same thing with prisoners sell them to the Vikings at the farm it sells you will have plenty of money every time i alway come back to vc it is my favorite and it’s more realistic sombody not just gonna let a nobody come it and start recruiting men when there are bigger names and your not known who is gonna follow u it’s is a lil time consuming but it’s easy and soon you will be disbanding units all the time you will have armada of ships and once u get good troops u can sea raid entire city’s and becomes very easy to stream roll fast if do your setup if you don’t get your village/city loyalty up you will not be recruiting enuff men to keep your castles and they will be low lvl if you get city’s up high you will be getting 20 teir 3 units every go around and if you don’t get your passive income up you will be crushed bye own weight early late game vc is hard to start when u play on realistic no quitting without saving with gear affect stats wounds stamina blood loss etc if not it’s to easy and not as it’s really involving but when u challenge your self it’s feels good to have a warlord and it really feels like you worked your way up in native and other mods you get money and become a god really fast without much effort it’s very rewarding and you feel strong but with a heathy respect for the world and bye having to take your time going a lot of plasces it’s fun cause vc encourages exploration exploration iv been playing vc since it came out and every time I play I find /learn something new and there is so much so refined content and hidden stuff it’s crazy I’ve gotten 1000 hours easy out of it and the last thing is they did the time period extremely well very true to the time it’s the best Viking simulator I’ve ever played hands down if you don’t like history your gonna over look alot of thing that make this dlc amazing and the are a lot of Unique npcs that do special unique things all over the map hands down fave dlc without mount and blade war would not be the same for me
I will make one of the greatest warband mod one day with my team ❤❤ similar To Viking conquest and Between empires
Brytenwalda was the greatest mod ever created
For the algorithm
Well I really liked VC even more than the vanilla game but the game is challenging way more challenging
Oh it's definitely better than native, just not that big of a leap compared to other mods.
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Yeah there some mods that are better like the prophesy of pendor
Yes it is, I've played it, great dlc, but... the story mode kinda... sucks?
The game is 15dolars, ofc its Worth it, why punish a team That went from modding to a professional product? Good for them, obvisoly TW Saw talent in them. And they are to this day still working on the DLC and updating it. Its not expensive in anyway, Video games are an art form and take alot of time and dedication to make.
A rather biased review, which is full of skill issues.