Me and my nine-man strong band of recruits, minding our own business: The fifteen knights of satan coming to kill us all for being in the wrong general vicinity:
Many years ago I didn't even have a proper gaming PC. I had a rinky dink laptop and the only games I had were Stronghold crusader, Elder scrolls Oblivion, and M&B warband. PoP was my first warband mod and the first time I ever actually beat the game. Weirdly enough it actually holds up pretty well. Even at the time M&B was pretty below average in terms of graphics but anyone that played accepted it and it's crudeness actually gave it a timeless charm even today.
I relate too much to the rinky dink laptop struggle. It was one of the only games I could play as a teenager and because of all the hours I logged back then it's still my top most played game on steam. I remember when the multiplayer was still pretty big. The community was insanely toxic but it was a good time still, I miss it
I love bannerlord but the only thing missing is the amount of godtier mods warband had, from cowboys to brytenwalda to PoP to Starwars... it was so fun just finding legit overhauls to the game.
Idk I thought the same but replaying Pendor made me realize how meh some of those systems people complain are absent from Warband. Granted I do miss some of them but they’re virtually the same game really.
@@Soul_Tomato yeah maybe, but for all the years of development and all the promises that were made relating to diplomacy for example, I feel like it is a very disappointing game
Oh agreed. I’m def in a “wtf happened” camp. It’s both great they’re the same and also it’s greatest weakness. Why play the barely better new one when you have Pendor and all the other stuff on warband.
I remember doing a defense of Erebor one time against an army of Orcs. Was absolutely insane how cinematic it was. My only major gripe with that mod was there was 0 chance for any downtime. You had to immediately get moving or Mordor would overtake Gondor and wipe the map.
I really hope The Old Realms gets as good as Warsword Conquest. It's off to a good start but it just doesn't have the density of content that Warsword does.
@@Dover78 I just played Old Realms for a week and had fun with it, certainly no Warsword yet but a big update for Old Realms is supposed to come out soon. Someday Old Realms will be the GOAT.
man pendor and perisno war is the best time, both trying to upped the other and then there is medieval "something something" with some early guns early and deus vult
After several false starts, I finally seriously got into Pendor a few months ago. Played the hell out of it, although I didn't get that far. Basically just remained in the early-to-mid game for a while. I was slowly making my way up in the ranks, and got the hidden base. But meanwhile the demon doomstack of Eyegrim the Devourer was just running rampant. But perhaps that's inevitable. Eventually I got a bit burnt out with playing it, but I did play it so much that the cold open with the Jamaican Rum theme still sends shivers down my spine. Would have liked to have heard a bit about the history of the mod, its start as an art project, and the weird framing device where the information about the world was supposedly found in some 19th-century manuscripts. Always thought that was cool and unusual. In the early game, I found it best to just make money from trading, tournaments, etc. and hire mercenary troops. Unlike vanilla Warband, it's not really worth it building up peasant recruits at first.
Oh god. The moment I could create my own knighthood order was the moment I felt like winning the game for the first time. I Went from vanilla over Floris and Perisno to PoP, spent thousands of hours in the game (including many years in our famous 66Pp in Napoleonic Wars) and I must say, PoP is the first and only mod creating not only new game, but completely new experience, including amazing story, great possibilities and many more...
Good old PoP, I always loved it when a stray arrow penetrated my high tier helmet and still did 90 damage, killing me instantly If you'd make 1 or 2 lore videos about Pendor that would be cool, many of the knighthood orders have cool backgrounds and sometimes not so cool ideologies. I especially love the Order of the Radiant Cross and the Order of the Griffon, they aren't the strongest but their history is unique and their armor looks cool.
Okay, now I need to reinstall M&B and Prophecy of Pendor. I still remember the dread I felt when on the overworld map a squad with purple numbers would appear. Or when I would approach the edges of the overworld map…
So funny because the goals you chose we're basically what I did every time I played. Make a Knight Order and do Noldor stuff to get their super OP weapons and just run Order Knights and Noldor units.
Pendor was actually the first time I conquered the whole world in warband. I have such fond memories, it was so hard (apart from the inherent difficulty of the mod I also always pick the hardest possible settings). I remember just running around all by myself with a lance so that I can kill some bandits in early game lol
I'm not sure if the video brings this up but hooooly shit did that mod need its wiki, I had a qualis gem in my inventory for hours before I understood how I could even use it.
I remember playing this several times normally, getting really pissed at the fact the mod blew a fuse and went all preachy on you if you used a healing cheat in battle, and eventually just modded the mod to give myself ten times troop capacity and make food items have ten times as many charges. Drowning rogue knights in peasants and leading the charge against demon armies. Grabbing my handful of Noldor units, holding a hill above an unending mosh pit of my low tier infantry fighting the demonic worshippers, both sides sending an unending tide of reinforcements into the meat grinder...honestly, best time I ever had with the mod. Never got a full victory however.
damm, yeah these kinds of things are missing in bannerlord one of things that made warband great in spite of its ps2 graphics was the amount of total conversion mods that comunity made, and how good they were ah my fav 2 banner lord mods were anno domini (13th century europe conversion) and Pendor, havent heard any simmular mods in that scope for bannerlord
These were the best months of my life finding out about this mod. I might download it again, but I've also seen some teases about something with Bannerlord. I don't know if that was official, but those were amazing times regardless.
(oops. totally typo'd this, accidental double negative. *wasn't expecting.) Majesty OST on a Prophecy of Pendor video is way more based than I'd thought possible.
Knights of the Clarion call are probably the best troops beside the Noldor from what i remember, i had this shitty PC with those old, white monitors, id get home from School and sink HOURS in Pendor, some of my best memories in a game because it stoped me from save scuming (same as Fallout 4 on survival dificulty)
Great video brother, I could feel your excitement through the screen, it is a wonderful world, I got back into it a few weeks ago and I am 500 days in, it is crazy fun.
I plan to, I am a vassal/ martial of Sarleon, trying to get rid of one faction before I declare independence. I managed to trade some places I sieged for Laria, and two castles near the Noldor forest, wich I am friendly with. I am a grandmaster of the rangers of clarion call, and I train their troops, going well so far, Pendor is hands down my favorite warband mod.
Man all these Pendor videos made me want to play my most recent save, yep it's still there, still fighting for Baccus, still friends eith the Noldor, still trying to get Lethlaridien to train my nee knightly order
In fact, you can fight by yourself. Not with all kinds of weapons, but with spears, bows, and maybe big swords. For me, this has always been the most interesting part of the game. The bows in Pendor are very strong on their own and with practice you really turn the game into a shooter. However, you had to carry around half an inventory of arrows and return to the box periodically. Spears, on the other hand, utilized the speed mechanic and were perfect for fighting knights. However, it was the lunge forward that you had to use, not the knight strike. Both strategies relied heavily on horse riding and depended entirely on the health and speed of the horse. Therefore, the worst opponents were the throwers. Because unlike archers and crossbowmen, they didn't try to hit you from the other end of the map (Enemies in the warband actually used limited arrows, so it was possible to kite even noldor with some success.). The weakest were the mounted armored knights. And the Jhatu raiders were extremely strong, as they had long spears, fast horses and mounted archers at the same time.
@@Soul_Tomato it was cool. like it had colonial adventures and crusades and stuff. it turned the big unused island into a byzantine calradic empire rump state and you could join armies and stuff
Definitely disagree with this. I think people come into media at different times and your perception, taste, opinion will inevitably mold and change as you grow. I have watched films I’ve hated when I was younger that I love a second go around. First impressions matter but they are a stepping stone. Pendor is good because it’s good, not because I remember it being good ya know?
Pendor is so good I can't stand a framework of a game that bannerlord is, despite trying to enjoy it for 120 hours. Please don't even mention the mods in bannerlord cause they first need to work with the game after installing them...
@@Soul_Tomato the mod lets you start with decent chainmail armor and ironflesh 3 and the freaking bandits holding the merchant's brother captive can kill you in 3 hits cmon dude
![Top 5 Knighthood Orders - Prophesy of Pendor [POP]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/iw7d_Xo_TJ8/mqdefault.jpg)
Me and my nine-man strong band of recruits, minding our own business:
The fifteen knights of satan coming to kill us all for being in the wrong general vicinity:
“Oh gods why are they so fast?!” Me being constantly humbled in the early game
" *YOU* have been marked! "
We all shat out collective pants when we fought Eyegrim the Devourers the first time. And those demonic Magnis just refuse to die
Many years ago I didn't even have a proper gaming PC. I had a rinky dink laptop and the only games I had were Stronghold crusader, Elder scrolls Oblivion, and M&B warband.
PoP was my first warband mod and the first time I ever actually beat the game. Weirdly enough it actually holds up pretty well. Even at the time M&B was pretty below average in terms of graphics but anyone that played accepted it and it's crudeness actually gave it a timeless charm even today.
Yeah I always loved that Pendor had an actual storyline and goals to eventually achieve. It takes a while but it’s a lot of fun
I relate too much to the rinky dink laptop struggle. It was one of the only games I could play as a teenager and because of all the hours I logged back then it's still my top most played game on steam. I remember when the multiplayer was still pretty big. The community was insanely toxic but it was a good time still, I miss it
I love bannerlord but the only thing missing is the amount of godtier mods warband had, from cowboys to brytenwalda to PoP to Starwars... it was so fun just finding legit overhauls to the game.
Yeah the only really good ones so far as the Warhammer one and Anno Domini
I'm not sure mods are the only things missing from bannerlord haha
Idk I thought the same but replaying Pendor made me realize how meh some of those systems people complain are absent from Warband. Granted I do miss some of them but they’re virtually the same game really.
@@Soul_Tomato yeah maybe, but for all the years of development and all the promises that were made relating to diplomacy for example, I feel like it is a very disappointing game
Oh agreed. I’m def in a “wtf happened” camp. It’s both great they’re the same and also it’s greatest weakness. Why play the barely better new one when you have Pendor and all the other stuff on warband.
Damn, PoP. I remember watching Someguy2000 play this for hours when he was still around, before I could afford a PC. Some classic memories.
A name I’ve not heard in a long while wow
same
A history of sodomy.
17:49 Not only did bro fly too close to the sun, he forgot how to couch lance for the big damage
20:30 return of the couch
Somehow, the couch returned
I often fly too close to the sun in M&B tbf
@@Soul_Tomato Oh, me too! Hence why I be save scummin'
Landing a crouched lance doing 300+ damage on the enemy knight charging at you are the best feeling ever while playing this game.
Totally true
Never played this but i used to play the LOTR and Warhammer mods for hours on end
I remember doing a defense of Erebor one time against an army of Orcs. Was absolutely insane how cinematic it was. My only major gripe with that mod was there was 0 chance for any downtime. You had to immediately get moving or Mordor would overtake Gondor and wipe the map.
Prophecy of Pendor's Jamaican Rum is such an iconic theme for me, representing a time when all I played was Warband. Good times.
It’s such an iconic song
Man I remember starting in Janos and getting dunked by Snake Cultists until I said "fuck it" and turned on cheats. Good times.
Early game they’re tough but I think they’re probably the easiest spawn army. Their snake warriors don’t have shields
PoP Companions only run was one of the most fun experiences I had in gaming ever.
Only mod coming close is Warsword. Also brilliant.
I really hope The Old Realms gets as good as Warsword Conquest. It's off to a good start but it just doesn't have the density of content that Warsword does.
@@Dover78 I just played Old Realms for a week and had fun with it, certainly no Warsword yet but a big update for Old Realms is supposed to come out soon. Someday Old Realms will be the GOAT.
Man, I'd never seen this previous one, I'd only ever played Bannerlord
It looks like a classic Total War game, for good or for ill
I think Warband holds up better in a lot of ways but combat and graphics are much better in Bannerlord
I’ve never seen a mod so good that it has it’s own OST
Honestly. That’s a great point.
I have been a Perisno man a while, but PoP held my goat position before it and still holds a fond place in my heart.
That’s a fair enough replacement. I’ve heard it’s quite good - I personally never played it.
Short answer: yes
Long answer: absolutely
I have more hours in PoP than in vanilla, Napoleonic and all other mods combined.
man pendor and perisno war is the best time, both trying to upped the other and then there is medieval "something something" with some early guns early and deus vult
After several false starts, I finally seriously got into Pendor a few months ago. Played the hell out of it, although I didn't get that far. Basically just remained in the early-to-mid game for a while. I was slowly making my way up in the ranks, and got the hidden base. But meanwhile the demon doomstack of Eyegrim the Devourer was just running rampant. But perhaps that's inevitable.
Eventually I got a bit burnt out with playing it, but I did play it so much that the cold open with the Jamaican Rum theme still sends shivers down my spine.
Would have liked to have heard a bit about the history of the mod, its start as an art project, and the weird framing device where the information about the world was supposedly found in some 19th-century manuscripts. Always thought that was cool and unusual.
In the early game, I found it best to just make money from trading, tournaments, etc. and hire mercenary troops. Unlike vanilla Warband, it's not really worth it building up peasant recruits at first.
I’d have to probably track down the team for something like that. A this is Pendor video would be pretty sweet tho.
Oh god. The moment I could create my own knighthood order was the moment I felt like winning the game for the first time. I Went from vanilla over Floris and Perisno to PoP, spent thousands of hours in the game (including many years in our famous 66Pp in Napoleonic Wars) and I must say, PoP is the first and only mod creating not only new game, but completely new experience, including amazing story, great possibilities and many more...
Good old PoP, I always loved it when a stray arrow penetrated my high tier helmet and still did 90 damage, killing me instantly
If you'd make 1 or 2 lore videos about Pendor that would be cool, many of the knighthood orders have cool backgrounds and sometimes not so cool ideologies. I especially love the Order of the Radiant Cross and the Order of the Griffon, they aren't the strongest but their history is unique and their armor looks cool.
Knights of the Griffon I think were the last to get updated so they have dope armor
This brings me back 😔
Come with me, and you’ll be, in a world of nostalgia fueled imagination.
Okay, now I need to reinstall M&B and Prophecy of Pendor. I still remember the dread I felt when on the overworld map a squad with purple numbers would appear. Or when I would approach the edges of the overworld map…
You really do need to
Killing your first Heretic Magnus in the early game feels like such a huge accomplishment tbh
Honestly killing anything in the early game feels like an achievement lol. Took my about 8 hours to escape the death spirals
So funny because the goals you chose we're basically what I did every time I played. Make a Knight Order and do Noldor stuff to get their super OP weapons and just run Order Knights and Noldor units.
That’s kinda why I picked it. I feel like a lot of people follow similar trajectory in this mod so I wanted to try and get close to that
Pendor was actually the first time I conquered the whole world in warband. I have such fond memories, it was so hard (apart from the inherent difficulty of the mod I also always pick the hardest possible settings). I remember just running around all by myself with a lance so that I can kill some bandits in early game lol
Same for me. I think it’s the only time actually
I'm not sure if the video brings this up but hooooly shit did that mod need its wiki, I had a qualis gem in my inventory for hours before I understood how I could even use it.
Oh it doesn’t but it probably should have. It helped me in this run lol
6:37 You can very easily add your own banners to Warband though and I kinda prefer that to just having an editor.
I remember playing this several times normally, getting really pissed at the fact the mod blew a fuse and went all preachy on you if you used a healing cheat in battle, and eventually just modded the mod to give myself ten times troop capacity and make food items have ten times as many charges. Drowning rogue knights in peasants and leading the charge against demon armies. Grabbing my handful of Noldor units, holding a hill above an unending mosh pit of my low tier infantry fighting the demonic worshippers, both sides sending an unending tide of reinforcements into the meat grinder...honestly, best time I ever had with the mod. Never got a full victory however.
I got a full victory only once because it takes forever. Legit think the run was around 150 hours or something insane.
@@Soul_Tomato Damn, yeah.
damm, yeah these kinds of things are missing in bannerlord
one of things that made warband great in spite of its ps2 graphics was the amount of total conversion mods that comunity made, and how good they were
ah my fav 2 banner lord mods were anno domini (13th century europe conversion) and Pendor, havent heard any simmular mods in that scope for bannerlord
Anno Domini actually came over to Bannerlord with a different team
@@Soul_Tomato wait for real, why nobody informed me XD
the “somebody stole my shoes” like caught me off guard lmao
They stole my shoes lol
Glad to see people still enjoying Warband
WOAH didn't know you played it, nice to see it after not playing it for many years!
Might end up doing more mods from Warband too!
These were the best months of my life finding out about this mod. I might download it again, but I've also seen some teases about something with Bannerlord. I don't know if that was official, but those were amazing times regardless.
heard the Majesty soundtrack at 29:53 and thought I somehow booted up the game on accident. wasn't not expecting it. you have impeccable taste, Soul.
A fellow based and RTS pilled sigma I see
(oops. totally typo'd this, accidental double negative. *wasn't expecting.)
Majesty OST on a Prophecy of Pendor video is way more based than I'd thought possible.
Knights of the Clarion call are probably the best troops beside the Noldor from what i remember, i had this shitty PC with those old, white monitors, id get home from School and sink HOURS in Pendor, some of my best memories in a game because it stoped me from save scuming (same as Fallout 4 on survival dificulty)
I joined them my last run that I can recall. Horse archery in general is just stupid strong
I think this guy would like ck3
Nah probably not
Tabletop games are not real games
@@ивандонбас huh? What are you talking about
Great video brother, I could feel your excitement through the screen, it is a wonderful world, I got back into it a few weeks ago and I am 500 days in, it is crazy fun.
Go for a total victory. I’ve only done it once because it takes HOURS but it is a core gaming memory for me
I plan to, I am a vassal/ martial of Sarleon, trying to get rid of one faction before I declare independence. I managed to trade some places I sieged for Laria, and two castles near the Noldor forest, wich I am friendly with. I am a grandmaster of the rangers of clarion call, and I train their troops, going well so far, Pendor is hands down my favorite warband mod.
Man all these Pendor videos made me want to play my most recent save, yep it's still there, still fighting for Baccus, still friends eith the Noldor, still trying to get Lethlaridien to train my nee knightly order
Oh my I just found your channel and this playthrough looks incredible. I really hope you upload more pandora content
Idk about Pendor specifically but I think I’m gonna revisit old Warband mods
Why do you gotta hit me with that flashback Soul, I can't count how many hours I put into that mod :DDD
You could always…download it again 👀
@@Soul_Tomato I could but I think I will have a hard time to get used to warband back after playing hundreds of hours of Bannerlord
@@aruik8332 I thought I'd have the same problem but HONESTLY it felt really smooth most of the time after getting used to the controls again
In fact, you can fight by yourself. Not with all kinds of weapons, but with spears, bows, and maybe big swords. For me, this has always been the most interesting part of the game.
The bows in Pendor are very strong on their own and with practice you really turn the game into a shooter. However, you had to carry around half an inventory of arrows and return to the box periodically.
Spears, on the other hand, utilized the speed mechanic and were perfect for fighting knights. However, it was the lunge forward that you had to use, not the knight strike.
Both strategies relied heavily on horse riding and depended entirely on the health and speed of the horse.
Therefore, the worst opponents were the throwers. Because unlike archers and crossbowmen, they didn't try to hit you from the other end of the map (Enemies in the warband actually used limited arrows, so it was possible to kite even noldor with some success.).
The weakest were the mounted armored knights. And the Jhatu raiders were extremely strong, as they had long spears, fast horses and mounted archers at the same time.
This was so good! Thank you for making it👍👍
Picked up a playthrough of this recently, I'm eagerly awaiting the Shokohu mod to come out for Bannerlord.
Damn I never knew about 99% of this knight orders stuff
One of my favorite aspects of the mod for sure
haven't played this one, but i probably have hunderds of hours in the 1800s wild west and star wars total conversion mods of warband
i loved prophecy of pendor and warband
Great times. Warband had such amazing mods
@@Soul_Tomato did you ever play nova aetas
@@august8696 never heard of it!
@@Soul_Tomato it was cool. like it had colonial adventures and crusades and stuff. it turned the big unused island into a byzantine calradic empire rump state and you could join armies and stuff
God I love PoP. Played this more than base warband!
Oh easily. I played loads of PoP
This was great, how about a series where you complete PoP? Or you could make videos on other Warband mods?
I have two modded bannerlord stories I’m going to be working on next
PoP shits on bannerlord.
Eyo, PoP lore videos; when?
I swear, your voice, reading lore? I am tempted to see if I can get my own Fantasy setting into CK3
You should give it a go!
you fond memories of a thing is the truth. then it was THAT good. a later impression is never as truthfull or correct as your first.
Definitely disagree with this. I think people come into media at different times and your perception, taste, opinion will inevitably mold and change as you grow. I have watched films I’ve hated when I was younger that I love a second go around. First impressions matter but they are a stepping stone. Pendor is good because it’s good, not because I remember it being good ya know?
Pendor is so good I can't stand a framework of a game that bannerlord is, despite trying to enjoy it for 120 hours. Please don't even mention the mods in bannerlord cause they first need to work with the game after installing them...
Id kill for a bannerlord remastery
I wish. Apparently they’re making their own IP
Prophesy of Pendor was and is one of the greatest mods in Warband,too bad Bannelord does not have any good mods yet
I wouldn’t say ANY. The Warhammer and Anno Domini mods are very good
Old Realms is decent
tldr: yes, yes it is
bro got the sneakers stolen Nahhhhhhhhhh
I'm getting old man...
It really do be like that
I still play it 🔥
Yes
I need PoP in Bannerlord
I wish. Sadly it isn’t coming over
REVIEW THE OLD REALMS!
I’ve kinda done that already: ruclips.net/video/j5c3AJl3msE/видео.htmlsi=3uWXjGhsKnODGa96
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: also yes
No. I have no problem with difficult games, but when I outnumber the most basic bandits and still lose, you made a bad mod, not a challenge
Almost none of those minor factions are basic mobs which is usually new players mistake. You can still kill regular bandits fairly easily.
@@Soul_Tomato the mod lets you start with decent chainmail armor and ironflesh 3 and the freaking bandits holding the merchant's brother captive can kill you in 3 hits cmon dude