How many people...

[Leshma]

... are playing this mod/game just because of superior combat system and don't give a dime about medieval wars, history and such themed stuff?

I'm really interested am I alone or there are some others. Actually I like history but that's not the reason why I'm here, I'm here mainly because of unique combat system, I would play this if it was about: robots, cowboys, modern warfare...

Since combat with 2H swords has most tricks, options, coolest moves, naturally, I enjoy the most using those weapons.

[Teeth]

I love medieval stuff, but if I were a true history geek I would have to rip my eyes out after playing cRPG. Medieval weaponry is just badass, to be able to use them with a good combat system makes this indeed the most interesting game. The history pulled me to the original Mount and Blade, the combat system made me stick to this franchise.

[Tears of Destiny]

I play this game because my RL friend (who is known here as Bothersome Aldryk) said that they finally made a game that him and me always discussed (where your individual slashes could be controlled, and had to be manually blocked), and that the game was a pretty cool game.

Since Calradia is a fictional land, I don't give two hoots about historical accuracy. if this mod was like the Stainless Steel mod for M2TW:K then I would be rabid about it being historically accurate, but this mod has nothing to do with historical accuracy so bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh to all the people who want to shove it in.

This game has a cool medieval fighting thing going for it, so I like it. Yay.

[Dach]

Love the mechanic

Like medieval stuff in general

Don't care about historical accuracy...

 

[Bobthehero]

I am doing a Major on Medieval Studies at my Uni, so your guess is as good as mine ;)

[RandomDude]

... are playing this mod/game just because of superior combat system and don't give a dime about medieval wars, history and such themed stuff?

I'm really interested am I alone or there are some others. Actually I like history but that's not the reason why I'm here, I'm here mainly because of unique combat system, I would play this if it was about: robots, cowboys, modern warfare...

Since combat with 2H swords has most tricks, options, coolest moves, naturally, I enjoy the most using those weapons.

hmm i remember some years ago when I dl'd the mount and blade demo

you could level to about lvl 6 or 7 i think before you couldnt progress any more

i played the tutorial and I thought "this is a bit shit looking" until the horse riding part and then my interest grew

I got out onto the campaign map, had a fight with some looters (a total fail noob fight as you would expect)

I made it to a town, walked around and checked it out, did some more checking out, realised I could get my own army and own fiefs and decided to buy the game - i was lvl 4 i think.

A bit off topic but thats why im playing now. I fell in love with the game then and thats why im still playing it now. I do like war and i do like medieval stuff but i play because i just enjoy the game.

My interest has stayed because of all the cool fighting mechanics involved in mp but if there was no mp id still be playing sp mods for sure.

[Gurnisson]

I've had M&B for 6-6.5 years now. The gameplay, as well as the theme, has always fascinated me.

[Prpavi]

the melee mechanic was awfull hard to master and thats why i love it, but it brings satisfaction when you become decent/good with it. so theres a bit of rage if you invest hours in mastering this (the hardest part of the game imo) and then you encounter 20 ppl on the roof just not giving a fuck, but hey thats life.

as for the history part, im not much of a historian i know some basic stuff from school and college and some interesting stories off the classical history books from my friend who is a historian but i in general love the raw, brutal mentality of the time and slicing someones face off  brings me pleasure and i still have some good times with my mates and the mauls hahah. oh yeah and the death screams etc. are awesome.

if ppl just werent such griefing douches...

Edit: i forgot to mention i am also not anal  about being 100% historically accurate and i dont hold grudges from the past, like me being Croatian and us waging wars for centuries with the Turks i dont have a problem with them in this time of day and age and will certanly wear Arabian clothes in game same goes for Russian, English, German etc. gear.

[The_Bloody_Nine]

... are playing this mod/game just because of superior combat system and don't give a dime about medieval wars, history and such themed stuff?

Me 100%! Well, sort of. Love the conbat mechanics since many years now. Since I played the original M&B the first time I couldn't touch any 3d rpg anymore. Everytime I tried to play a eldersrolls game or gothic 2 or so I couldn't bear the bad fighting mechanics. This has only worsened with Warband.

I allways dream somebody would make a really good singleplayer rpg someday. With a combat system like in Warband, a spell/sorcery system like in Arx Fatalis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-rQW5B87xY&feature=related (watch that, really cool game and spell system, where you had to draw certain runes and combinations of them to cast spells), and atmosphere and story like baldurs gate. Men, that would be awesome.


Back to the question I actually study history, but I'm not so much interested in the military aspects and it doesn't prevent me from loving unhistorically movies like Gladiator.