Hello The Reformist, I am the mod creator. I enjoyed watching your first video and now this one (I got to know about that because there has been a boost of visits in the moddb Sparta page and someone told to be there because he watched your video). So, apart for my compliments to your work, I would like to give you some tips, for the beginning of the game, at least and to put into evidence some of the features may be a bit hidden. I hope you don’t take this in the wrong way, feel free not take these tips into account, obviously. During the first week or so you will not see lords going out to the map because they are still recruiting, after a week you start seeing also patrols, called stratiotai. They are grey coloured name (like neutral) or of the faction’s colour they are patrolling for. They both chase bandits, who as you found out, are pretty hard people to defeat with low level recruits. One tip is to stay close to some of these patrols at the beginning, and to help them to hunt bandits. In the battle you will be their commander too, so you will have a big help. You may even stop a bandit party running away from them and then just leave so that the patrol may reach it better. Freelancer is also a good way to start for the first 3 , 4 weeks as you get experience, money and a big share of loot (much bigger than you get usually at the beginning because loot is someway related to the level of the commander). Better to choose a lord who own a city in some point of action... Brasidas, or Agis for example. Once you get some money (10.000?) you could leave the lords as you will not get those fancy armours anyway because the upgrading path follows the 3 troop tree level of village castle town, depending on what you chose to be at the start. I suggest to recruit only AOR hoplites, they are the hoplites of the main poleis, already well armoured and you get 20 men for 2000 money. After a week you can recruit them again in the same town. If you watch the political map in the report screen, you can see where all the AOR towns are. As you noticed, tourney are a gold mine in this mod. My last suggestion is to start battles with the first choice that is Starting holding position (but that in the next version will be start battle in formation). This way, if you ave more than 15-20 infantry men ( I don’t remember) they will start in phalanx formation and if you press their F1 hold flag on one enemy formation, they will attack it keeping their phalanx, with some bonus. You are doing very well, I enjoyed your videos, I hope this long post is not annoying you. Regards Z.
Hey Z! Thank you so much for your work on the mod, it is amazing. Also I definitely appreciate the helpful information and tips you've given in your comment, I'm sure it's going to help me and others who may need it. I'll try to keep your tips in mind next time I'm playing!
I discovered your mod from Reformist's video. I have to say its one of my favorite warband mods. I really love how you really emphasized spears/ phalanx on phalanx combat in this mod. The large recruiting numbers are lovely, its not too slow paced. However the only thing i dont like is when enemies sit at the back of the map but its no big deal to me. I absolutely love this mod, and i greatly appreciate all the hard work you've out into this. Its truly amazing and a must play for warband.
Greetings Zedpaolo, and hail to Hellas from Australia! I have one suggestion after playing your mod for awhile. I noticed with the sizes of lord parties, the battles can end up involving 2,000 - 3,000 troops, which can take a very long time in Warband to resolve. This is all well and good, but it can be grating to get knocked out in combat within the first 10 minutes, and then watch the AI battle back and forth for the next 30 - 45 minutes. I was thinking of a solution to this issue which is present in another historical mod that features massive battles - In the Name of Jerusalem. In that mod, once your character is knocked out you can actually take control of one of your soldiers afterwards. Once that soldier is knocked out, you can take control of another and so on until the battle's end. I think this would be a fantastic feature for Sparta, and would compliment the huge battles brilliantly, since you'll be able to take part in the entire fight. Just a thought. In any case, cheers for this mod. Classical Greece is one of my favourite periods of history, so it's really cool to see a fleshed-out and functional mod covering that era.
Work. God damn work... source of probably 75% of all the bad things in my life. Glad you still have your fingers, hope the rest of you is ok too. Thanks for risking your health and safety to provide the world with... well whatever it is you do. :)
He is far better than I am which is good for me lol. There probably are people even better than him but those are the super hardcore guys that's all about stats and stuff.
This is so amazing, both the mod and the fact that the game has such a fanbase. I really hope Bannerlord is half as much fun and it'll be an instant classic.
I have been watching your channel for years and love watching you play warband I finally got to play the game yesterday and I was so excited to finally do it
found out about this mod from your special feature glad that you made it into a series Hints: getting a mercenary contract is pretty amazing also you can use local troops from towns as they are cost effective
So glad you decided to go for a full let's play of this, told you it was a very good mod. I can't stress enough how good this mod is, and I am really surprised that the mod creator himself reached out here to you. Anyway, as any mod that has it, freelancer is the way to go for the first few weeks, I got massively strong by following in a lord's retinue in gekokujo, and I'm planning to do the same in this one. ps, mate you aren't a veteran, you're THE veteran ahahaha
Ohhh Boi i am excited for this Mod. I just really want bannerlord. The Mod potential would be amazing. I hope the developers let you implement some fps elements so you can play star wars/ ww2 Full conversion mods. I mean star wars conquest is great. But imagine the same with good gun mechanics and awesome Graphics. I would never play any other game.
Such a cool mod! Even though it lacks the number of factions compared to the other ancient Warband mod, who’s name escapes me, I think I prefer it more. Great job mod creator!
Wow, I caught an LP at the start. This is rare! Also props for going with Elias instead of Barney. I get the reference, but I am such a stickler for muh immersion 😂
'BARNEY' omg hahahah! That asshole made me buy that game back then! Love it! Still thinking about barneys adventure now and then. The first cut is the deepest, right? ;)
This mod is my favorite from this game, I love it. I changed it a little bit though, I ported a hairstyle from the mod Rome at War where it has a golden laurel crown & I also modified some audio files for the command orders & screams with commands & screams from Leonidas from 300 & the Spartan warrior from Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior. Suffice to say, every battle is an epic battle when you have Leonidas commanding the troops
This mod looks amazing! Even some characters that were in AC Odyssey, so you know the history is solid. I'm always looking for good historical MBW mods, so I'll definitely check out this one. ^_^
Just so you know. This mod is HARD! Like even harder than Prophecy of Pendor imo! The enemies aren't even your greatest enemy. It's just the fighting style alone that'll give you a run for your money (maybe it's because I'm a first person player so the difference between someone blocking and striking isn't very clear. But once you get used to it, it's still gonna be bloody hard but still I suppose you get used to it.)...But boy do I LOVE it! :)
Another few tips that I experienced in my game. (playing on easy mode but that's because i'm kind of slow in general and because I wanna have a good time but anyway): - If you take on bandits make sure you have either atleast double the amount of soldiers they have or have some very good quality units with proper shields. Picking your terrain is also a great bonus. If your enemy has a ton of ranged units, try to get them in a forest. Lot's of trees to hide behind. Let your units chase them in loose formation as well. If your enemy has a lot of melee put them in close formation and marche towards them. Whatever you do not allowe your enemy to break up your formation. I once lost 30 vs. 15 because I just charged at them. I lost 20 of them and they had still 10 left. - Oh, before I forget this mod has a form of freelancer! (nevermind, you already know) Hope these help. :)
a glitch makes it so that i cant change the difficulty in this mod so that kinda killed it for me. if anyone had this issue too, tell me how yall fixed it
I like the mod but the only problem i find, also some other mods that do this, but WHY are the unit names not in standard english? I get its historically acurate but why is a spartan hoplite not just called that for example? It would make upgrading troops way less of a gamble imo
Spartans are called Lakedaimons because that is what the land itself was called. Sparta was the capital city of the state of Lakedaimon. But I certainly understand what you're meaning. It's a fairly minuscule difference to refer to a Thracian Peltast as a Thraikes Pelteste.
Hello The Reformist,
I am the mod creator. I enjoyed watching your first video and now this one (I got to know about that because there has been a boost of visits in the moddb Sparta page and someone told to be there because he watched your video).
So, apart for my compliments to your work, I would like to give you some tips, for the beginning of the game, at least and to put into evidence some of the features may be a bit hidden. I hope you don’t take this in the wrong way, feel free not take these tips into account, obviously.
During the first week or so you will not see lords going out to the map because they are still recruiting, after a week you start seeing also patrols, called stratiotai. They are grey coloured name (like neutral) or of the faction’s colour they are patrolling for. They both chase bandits, who as you found out, are pretty hard people to defeat with low level recruits. One tip is to stay close to some of these patrols at the beginning, and to help them to hunt bandits. In the battle you will be their commander too, so you will have a big help. You may even stop a bandit party running away from them and then just leave so that the patrol may reach it better. Freelancer is also a good way to start for the first 3 , 4 weeks as you get experience, money and a big share of loot (much bigger than you get usually at the beginning because loot is someway related to the level of the commander). Better to choose a lord who own a city in some point of action... Brasidas, or Agis for example. Once you get some money (10.000?) you could leave the lords as you will not get those fancy armours anyway because the upgrading path follows the 3 troop tree level of village castle town, depending on what you chose to be at the start. I suggest to recruit only AOR hoplites, they are the hoplites of the main poleis, already well armoured and you get 20 men for 2000 money. After a week you can recruit them again in the same town. If you watch the political map in the report screen, you can see where all the AOR towns are.
As you noticed, tourney are a gold mine in this mod.
My last suggestion is to start battles with the first choice that is Starting holding position (but that in the next version will be start battle in formation). This way, if you ave more than 15-20 infantry men ( I don’t remember) they will start in phalanx formation and if you press their F1 hold flag on one enemy formation, they will attack it keeping their phalanx, with some bonus.
You are doing very well, I enjoyed your videos, I hope this long post is not annoying you.
Regards
Z.
Hey Z! Thank you so much for your work on the mod, it is amazing.
Also I definitely appreciate the helpful information and tips you've given in your comment, I'm sure it's going to help me and others who may need it. I'll try to keep your tips in mind next time I'm playing!
Congratulations on your mod! I like it a lot! I like the possibility of formations and the animations of the high atack. Very historicaly acurate
You did a amazing job! Hope to see you in Bannerlord!
I discovered your mod from Reformist's video. I have to say its one of my favorite warband mods. I really love how you really emphasized spears/ phalanx on phalanx combat in this mod. The large recruiting numbers are lovely, its not too slow paced. However the only thing i dont like is when enemies sit at the back of the map but its no big deal to me. I absolutely love this mod, and i greatly appreciate all the hard work you've out into this. Its truly amazing and a must play for warband.
Greetings Zedpaolo, and hail to Hellas from Australia! I have one suggestion after playing your mod for awhile. I noticed with the sizes of lord parties, the battles can end up involving 2,000 - 3,000 troops, which can take a very long time in Warband to resolve. This is all well and good, but it can be grating to get knocked out in combat within the first 10 minutes, and then watch the AI battle back and forth for the next 30 - 45 minutes. I was thinking of a solution to this issue which is present in another historical mod that features massive battles - In the Name of Jerusalem. In that mod, once your character is knocked out you can actually take control of one of your soldiers afterwards. Once that soldier is knocked out, you can take control of another and so on until the battle's end. I think this would be a fantastic feature for Sparta, and would compliment the huge battles brilliantly, since you'll be able to take part in the entire fight. Just a thought.
In any case, cheers for this mod. Classical Greece is one of my favourite periods of history, so it's really cool to see a fleshed-out and functional mod covering that era.
Had the worst day at work and everything literally went to shit. Lucky to have my fingers. Thanks for this casual good feel video.
Hey man, I hope life will get better for you soon.
literally?
Work. God damn work... source of probably 75% of all the bad things in my life. Glad you still have your fingers, hope the rest of you is ok too. Thanks for risking your health and safety to provide the world with... well whatever it is you do. :)
did you nearly get your fingers cut off?I am sorry if it’s some sort of expression,english ain’t my first language.
Mercurian Republic aint ha xD if u dont know how to speak english properly why u selecting hard words ?
I mean do you know where to use “aint” ?
Sparta! Hellas! Then and again sing of 300 men!
300 men suck.
Sparta! Hellas! Glory or death, Spartans would never surrender!
Comrade Koupetorska ohhh ahhh!!!
@@psittacis5431 THEN THE WINGED .....
Oops wrong song
A man of culture, I see.
10:30 he doesn't even acknowledge the single Perioikoi recruit that killed to of the bandits while being 1v5ved
Elysium awaits you, son of Sparta
i cri evrytiem
I hear that nostalgic Rome Total War (1) music. Good choice by the creator.
Yes! Was hoping for a playthrough even before finishing the special feature!
Thank you for listening to your subscribers! This is the best warband mod since 1257ad -- I look forward to this very much!
Lol this man's really asked if he was a veteran so modest YOU ARE "THE VETERAN"
A Good Mod for spear users finally
Yeessss love it! Reformist, you're my hero dor this week 🙏
Edit: You are THE veteran of m&b, the elite of the elite
He is far better than I am which is good for me lol. There probably are people even better than him but those are the super hardcore guys that's all about stats and stuff.
Lol
good vid plz more of it
I think its the best Project of your Channel...
This is so amazing, both the mod and the fact that the game has such a fanbase. I really hope Bannerlord is half as much fun and it'll be an instant classic.
I love when you start talking strategical
I have been watching your channel for years and love watching you play warband I finally got to play the game yesterday and I was so excited to finally do it
So glad you're playing this and not save scumming! This and the star wars series are both two series im very much enjoying rn.
Love the time period and video! Keep up the good work.
33:51 1v1 and music from 300 stars playing. Just epic.
Yes I was hoping it will become a series
found out about this mod from your special feature
glad that you made it into a series
Hints: getting a mercenary contract is pretty amazing
also you can use local troops from towns as they are cost effective
Can't wait for this series! Always enjoyed watching you play!
I’ve been waiting years for too do another one of these mods
So glad you decided to go for a full let's play of this, told you it was a very good mod.
I can't stress enough how good this mod is, and I am really surprised that the mod creator himself reached out here to you.
Anyway, as any mod that has it, freelancer is the way to go for the first few weeks, I got massively strong by following in a lord's retinue in gekokujo, and I'm planning to do the same in this one.
ps, mate you aren't a veteran, you're THE veteran ahahaha
Wow, Somebody is actually still playing this game, Downloading it now and i'm excited to play the game.
I ready to see a huge army of Spartans
Im not getting enough of this mode mate keep it going!!!!
Ohhh Boi i am excited for this Mod.
I just really want bannerlord. The Mod potential would be amazing.
I hope the developers let you implement some fps elements so you can play star wars/ ww2 Full conversion mods. I mean star wars conquest is great. But imagine the same with good gun mechanics and awesome Graphics.
I would never play any other game.
Such a cool mod! Even though it lacks the number of factions compared to the other ancient Warband mod, who’s name escapes me, I think I prefer it more. Great job mod creator!
Wow, I caught an LP at the start. This is rare!
Also props for going with Elias instead of Barney. I get the reference, but I am such a stickler for muh immersion 😂
Sounds like your excited to be playing this mod can't wait for more
I like how your team chose one guy to team up on too just to throw it back at them saying "No u" non verbally.
ReformistTM: Let's see if we could....
Deserter: No
Totally here for these. Hope theyre daily!
Great video! Pls continue this!
Heck yea thank you for starting a let's play love your videos I also asked for a let's play on the first video and look what happened 👍
Love the mod, keep up the series 👍
Very funny episode, thanks James.
Really enjoyed watching, just downloaded the mod to play along with you.
This is such cool mod. I will definitely download it once I finish my conquest of the land.
This is Reformist! Sorry couldn't help myself, good video as always
I agree with jess 04, plz stick to one faction and only use their troops. Also nice video!
Great video keep up the great work!!
Also just to be cool
FIRST
“Am I a veteran of mount and blade”
Me: *scrolling through the thousands of episodes of mount and blade vanilla and mods* naaaah, totally not
your not funny
@@E4MB you are not funny
@@yeetyeet2098 you're not funny
you aren't funny
y'aren't funny
Hey love the vid keep it up
Yes I love this mod hope it gets at least 100 episodes.
Good videos dude , keep it up ;)
Definitely continue this series . Also it would be a good idea joining the faction of Epir .
Hopefully it will be a long series! :D
Great. Another mod I'm going to start a game in instead of finishing any of the ones I already have.
oh ma gad i waited years for a mod like that
Just got a gaming laptop got warband downloading now been stuck on xbox native for two years im so excited!!!
Guess Im the first commenter to praise this work of art.
I will be more excited to see you play mount and blade 2 bannerlord than playing it myself
'BARNEY' omg hahahah!
That asshole made me buy that game back then! Love it! Still thinking about barneys adventure now and then. The first cut is the deepest, right? ;)
Yes a new vid 😊
Oh this should be fun
Keep going Sparta ❤️❤️❤️
First also great video keep it up!!!
Looking forward to this
This mod is my favorite from this game, I love it. I changed it a little bit though, I ported a hairstyle from the mod Rome at War where it has a golden laurel crown & I also modified some audio files for the command orders & screams with commands & screams from Leonidas from 300 & the Spartan warrior from Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior. Suffice to say, every battle is an epic battle when you have Leonidas commanding the troops
This is great !
Thankyousomuch for this!
Awesome man
This mod looks amazing! Even some characters that were in AC Odyssey, so you know the history is solid. I'm always looking for good historical MBW mods, so I'll definitely check out this one. ^_^
im from greece and its very funny that i understand every word and u have a difficulty in this😁😁😁
so excited
Thanks for updating
Yes I loved this
Freelance mode in this mod is pretty fun.
I really like this.
Elias survived a javelin to the face, he surely has the blood of Hercules
your presentation is so funny 😄😄😄
Bomb ass mod dude.
Awesome dude thank u
they didnt use denars during that period
You got less money after defeating the second bandit group because you had more soldiers and it impacts the sharing of the loot
Hey Reformist! Could you only recruit mercenaries and units from the Peloponnesian league (Spartan units)?
It makes sense that it has good spear mechanics cause Ancient Greek warfare was very spear heavy.
Just so you know. This mod is HARD! Like even harder than Prophecy of Pendor imo! The enemies aren't even your greatest enemy. It's just the fighting style alone that'll give you a run for your money (maybe it's because I'm a first person player so the difference between someone blocking and striking isn't very clear. But once you get used to it, it's still gonna be bloody hard but still I suppose you get used to it.)...But boy do I LOVE it! :)
Another few tips that I experienced in my game. (playing on easy mode but that's because i'm kind of slow in general and because I wanna have a good time but anyway):
- If you take on bandits make sure you have either atleast double the amount of soldiers they have or have some very good quality units with proper shields. Picking your terrain is also a great bonus. If your enemy has a ton of ranged units, try to get them in a forest. Lot's of trees to hide behind. Let your units chase them in loose formation as well. If your enemy has a lot of melee put them in close formation and marche towards them. Whatever you do not allowe your enemy to break up your formation. I once lost 30 vs. 15 because I just charged at them. I lost 20 of them and they had still 10 left.
- Oh, before I forget this mod has a form of freelancer! (nevermind, you already know)
Hope these help. :)
Also I really hope they are gonna change denarii into drachma at some point. Just doesn't feel right.
Finally spartan mod
Hey Reformist how big is your pc RAM?
Yey I love it
shouldnt it be drachmes instead of dinars ?
Veteran of MnB more like a champion
Cool!
a glitch makes it so that i cant change the difficulty in this mod so that kinda killed it for me. if anyone had this issue too, tell me how yall fixed it
This is SPARTA
nice vid
I love that mod
I like the mod but the only problem i find, also some other mods that do this, but WHY are the unit names not in standard english? I get its historically acurate but why is a spartan hoplite not just called that for example? It would make upgrading troops way less of a gamble imo
Spartans are called Lakedaimons because that is what the land itself was called. Sparta was the capital city of the state of Lakedaimon. But I certainly understand what you're meaning. It's a fairly minuscule difference to refer to a Thracian Peltast as a Thraikes Pelteste.
Barny , bear (uruk) Bernias ?
:3 love your vids bb
Does the ,od work on a pkrated version?
bro i wanna play it but i dont have the warband is this a issue?
how can i download the mod i dont no how to do this
Hey how to show float banner on ally
Where you got the mod?
Is this steam compatible?
Anyone else getting the issue were the files for this mod don't have face textures or is it just me?
nice excited
Can we play this mode with the Demo of MB?