Check out the Discord for the next Pendor project here: discord.gg/BmM6dFkgaZ Tracklist in Order of Appearance (from Warband soundtrack unless specified): Mount and Blade Title Screen Travel Neutral Uncertain Homestead Beautiful Land Lords Hall Rhodok Neutral Infiltration Armorer Bandit Fight Calm Night Travel Swadian Paranoia - Stronghold HD Trancefusion - Stronghold Crusader Travel Nord Travel Vaegir Fight While Mounted 1 Crazy Battle Lords Hall Vaegir Hearth and Brotherhood Snowy Travels Town Rhodok Fight 1 Tragic Village Tavern 2 Ambushed by Nord Lords Hall Nord Frenemies - Orcs Must Die 3 Gore Mage - Orcs Must Die 2 Town Vaegir Lords Hall Khergit Arena Lover's Quarrel - Orcs Must Die 2 Lords Hall Swadian Vocaloid Blues - Armed and Delirious/Dementia (only available on UA-cam as a gamerip)
@@krieger8825Even if you’re not the marshal, get your relationship up with fellow vassals in your kingdom and suggest that they follow you. If you can get enough of them around a fort that is besieged via ladders you can siege it down before they run off. Highcliffe is also weighted in the attackers favor. Hold position your archers (preferably Arqubusiers) and let them chew through the tougher infantry. Then mop up the stragglers. If all else fails, autoresolve is your friend.
Bro you can‘t just appear on my feed and drop the best video on the best Mount & Blade mod I‘ve ever seen and then make me realize its the only Warband content on your channel! Honestly though, this video was terrific, keep it up!
"And alternate history version of the Roman Empire that survived into the Late Medieval" Brother in Christ, that isn't alternate history, that is literally the Byzantine Empire.
@@misterpeepee8812 Yes, it is. The Byzantine Empire was literally the Eastern Roman Empire, and they called themselves Romans not Byzantines. The Byzantine Empire survived up into the 15th century.
Hearing you say "a decade and a half" of Warband modding really made me stop for a second and consider the fleeting moments of time we experience. I was playing the original M&B in bed on my old family laptop I snuck into my room just yesterday. Now I'm 26.
Dang, I did the some thing when I was a kid. When my family and I was traveling for the summer in our RV I snuck into their bedroom took my moms laptop and played warband on it with a blanket over me and the laptop at the dining table, my mother was sitting right next to me on the couch and looking back, she knew. She just allowed it and probably would've let me if I just asked but I felt so damn sneaky. Now I'm 21 and can drink alcohol and I'm still surprised I can ask for a beer instead of soda at restaurants.
As a kid Phrophesy of Pendor was THE Mount and Blade experience, I never played the native game,later tried other mods but PoP was the base game for me.
WOW, this was a ride. Truly a ride. Through memory lane, through history, fictional and historical and a great narrative. I haven't thought about Mount and Blade in years. Guess I know I will waste my weekend on. Great job weaving playthrough narrative with gameplay description and grounding said descriptions in history.
Uncanny resemblence to a Warlockracy video. Good stuff. Never was the biggest fan of Pendor as a Floris enjoyer, but cool to get a rundown on why people love it.
I know right, he’s got that level voice and similar speech timing. His way of explaining things also. Which is a compliment, if you read this UA-camr man.
@@SolarMonolith206 the youtuber man loved this post then removed it. Must have read that reddit post instead of consuming the borderline schizo theorycrafting about what classic fallout is
@@sleepofgc I am cautious of loving too many posts that give me compliments. Trying not to seem like a self-masturbatory maniac. Receiving boatloads of compliments from random strangers on the internet is not something that usually happens in the normal course of life. Sorry I'm only seeing this now lol thanks for the support. as far as reddit goes, I avoid it like the plague
small mistake: Normandy was a Duchy of France, not a Kingdom. This led to an interesting situation where the Kings of England were vassals of France, but also acted independently (being Kings)
@@muffintopmd and this is without considering the Angevin dynasty, who ruled even more of France (until John Lackland, AKA Prince John of Robin Hood fame
Such a tremendous mod. Perisno was great too. When these type of mods make their way to Bannerlord, we'll finally have the game we dreamed of. Bannerlord when is still a thing...
@@hypermonkey600 its good to see another sane person around here. Not everyone decides to be a chad. unfortunately, they prefer to care and love their knife eared forest fairies...
@@hypermonkey600 But being able to hire their broken Archer completely worth it imo. Setting 20 or so of those in one settlement along with some infantry to plug the ladder hole and that place become an impenetrable fortress.
I was randomly recommended your video and channel while browsing UA-cam, and I'm glad I decided to give this a spin. Equal parts guide/walkthrough, history lesson, lore video and comedic Let's Play, this video has awesome pacing, production and commentary. I'll stick around and eagerly await more. Great work!
16:50 The best historical match for the D'shar faction would likely be the Great Seljuk Empire. In the Seljuk state, the ruling elite were Turks, while the aristocracy and much of the populace were Persian. The army was predominantly Turkish, similar to the D'shar's composition. The Seljuks also had their rivals Assassin's Order, the Hashashin, which most probably inspired the assassin order in the game. The origin of the word 'assassin' in English also comes from that order...
I downloaded this mod at the tail end of my last M&B phase (you know how it is), made a character, got my $#!/ pushed in by cultists, and dropped the game for the usual few months- until the itch came back. I never imagined there'd be so much running beneath the surface, so many things I've long wished were a part of Warband's vanilla experience. Never, at least, until this video opened my eyes. I can feel the itch coming on again... and I have you to thank for that :)
Love when videos like this get recommended to me. Knowing that there is an army of literally mes out there defiling the world with their presence is always a comforting thought.
Only ever beat Pendor once last year after many many many restarts. Finally completed training my CKO into Super Human soldiers, defeated the main factions and cleaned up the minor faction humongous armies, when I got the win screen I was pleased but feeling the greatest burnout from the game. I love Pendor, but I don't think I will ever bring myself to go through it once again.
I'm of the mind that the playthrough stops when you want it to. There's a video game graveyard filled with my Mount and Blade characters, who's journey's ended soon after they capture their first castle. Pendor's list of objectives is absolutely insane lol.
@@muffintopmd 100% agree. Pendor's only fault to me is the late game grind if you aim to reach the ending. I couldn't win against the AI using regular troops so I was forced to wait the CKO training and equipment times and qualis & equipment unlock farming, got real tempted to abandon my character but in the end I prevailed and got some real terminators for troops, nothing can stand against horse archers using full noldor equipment. Pendor was mine in no time.
Guy who has beaten Pendor more times than I count. My King of Pendor character list in my save file for my current PC has 6. Y'all making this too hard on yourselves. You don't need CKO boys at all, although they are the best. You need a huge warchest and a companion party that can train Pendor Armoured Bowman in 3 days, at a minimum. If you get to the level that you're training Empire Heavy Infantry into Legionnaires in 2 days, you're in a good spot. Go take your first castle or town for yourself, dump your entire army into its garrison, and then go to the outpost and pickup your stash of gold bars, which you should make before declaring the rule of you. Take the gold bars to the first slavery you meet and trade them in for the elite mercs. Hundreds of them. Use them plus your original armies as your nucleus to wage an asymmetric war on your target kingdom, never letting them destroy your elite core of trained troops. A bunch of stuff goes with it, but that's the basics.
@jakkuhl6223 I just became a solo killing one man war machine. With enchanted shield and noldor spirit horse, I would just run the enemies out of arrows and kill 500 man armies with a ruby bow as long as they didn't have enough noldor composite bows. (Something about them makes them very hard to dodge, and even the champion/heavy spirit horse can't tank too many especially without 4x damage reduction ). Any major mishap like a headshot got canceled out by 14 first aid and tabbing out. The only enemies that stood a chance were noldor, which were not enemies.
I LOVED THIS! Watched all the way through, new to your channel and adored the narrative you gave this whilst also being somewhat of a review. Good job!
Thank you for keeping the original score in. Hit me like a brick and i instantly was brought back to being 15 playing warband til 3am knowing id have to wake up for school the next day lmao
One of the best warband videos I have ever watched, it was both endearing and nostalgic to see you rise from a lowly wanderer, to a mercenary captain into a baron. I was happy that I find somebody who can see the strength of Prophesy of Pendor's narrative building. I want to share my favorite PoP character I made, a man who prioritize his selfish desires, he sought money, women, glory and a castle to leave a legacy to remember. He fought everyone and fought for everyone, but he still felt empty there's something he lacked as he go through war after war and he thought maybe he just needs to be a king so he did. A moment of weakness as Fierdsvein suffered several defeats from Ravenstern, Sarleon and Vanskerry invasion left Valonbray with 500 men so he did a daring feat of invading a city with 168 men but these are hard men and most of them have grown and forged in strife, and their loyalty to their captain is borderline fanatical. it was long brutal siege at the end only a few of those 168 survived but he have taken the city, he became a lord, surprisingly a decent one, a bastion of peace on a sea of fire as Fierdsvein slowly picked apart by the other kingdoms. My last memories of the saved file is me taking over another city and several castles and launched a final fight against the heretic army. I always believe that he found what he was looking for not from the countless wars he fought but when he found peace and ruled until his death.......
Pendor is calcified in my mind as the default Mount and Blade experience. Often when I’m playing other modules, I find myself missing Pendor’s charm. The unique systems and well thought out world.
Just the soundtrack at the begining made me to crave another pendor or warband playthrough, im glad yt recomended u to me. 100% subscribe worthy for any warband players! The whole video was intersting ESP. The parts where u describe the lore made me drooling.TAKE care!
I JUST started playing this mod 2 days ago for the first time. Felt a little bewildered at first but youve got me hyped to play more intentionally now!
Old veteran of Pendor here. Good luck! Talk to V. The Scribe in Poinsbruk. I won't spoil it, but he starts you on quests that give you unique tools. If all else fails, almost every mechanic is documented on the mod's wiki.
A perfect mix of action, lore, sincerity and, above all, quality that really gelled with me. I didn't even realise it was an hour long video until around 45 minutes in as it engrossed me so much. I do hope your consider continuing Llewellyn and Vyke's stories, but nonetheless I can't wait for your next video! Bravo!
Genuinely one of the best videos I've seen on youtube in a long, long time. An incredible mixture of informative and narratively engaging. Keep up the good work! You've earned a sub from me. Your ability to tell a story while intersplicing a review/retrospective is truly outstanding.
Utterly charming video, when it comes to story telling and weaving game mechanics into the script. I hope that you continue making content like this, as you have a real knack for it.
Its only real competition is Perisno. I haven't done a world conquest of that since early 2020, and I know it's been updated since then. It had some low effort content dragging its larger size down, so I'd still give the number 1 spot to Pendor.
Seriously wonderful video!! You touched on so many of the things that made me sink over 3000 hours into the series since 2011, with this awesome synthesis of a Mount and Blade tutorial and the magic of the game's modding community. I'm very excited to see your next video, especially if you continue telling Llewellyn's story! I'd also love to see your take on my own favorite single player mod, The Last Days!
You did an amazing job with crafting this video. Very well done in its composition, editing, and narrative framing. Keep it up my guy! I'd love to see more from you.
Very enjoyable, well done. I thought you would go through the hidden village and the history of your families destruction that is discovered with that.
Vyke is so unapologetically evil, I love him. I played a little of the version of PoP for the original Mount & Blade when I was younger, but I didn't really get it back then and I'm not one for sandboxes anyway. This video's making me wish I had the time to give it another try. I didn't know there's so much lore behind it.
Yea, sandbox games can be a little intimidating at first. There’s a sense of aimlessness or lack of direction that comes with not knowing exactly what you should be doing at any given moment. But once the unknown quantities become known and you have an understanding of the systems/options at your disposal they’re some of the most engaging video games in the world.
What a randomly great video to stumble on. Playing through pendor right now. Such a great mod. Guess this video shows how much people love this game and one of the games many great mods.
I started a PoP playthrough for the first time a couple weeks ago because of this video. It's fun, not sure its my favorite mod (That may still go to Floris Evolved) but it is a refreshing and well thought out total conversion. Pro tip for anyone else trying it for the first time: Enjoy your time as a mercenary. Don't rush being a lord unless your right to rule is getting too high. Money as a lord is bad, army costs are high, and good troops are worth their weight in gold... But its best to not pay that yourself. Mercenary costs are so heavily subsidized you can actually get a cash stack thats much harder as a lord
Fantastic video, haven't touched Pendor in years but this inspired me to give it another go. One story I have from Pendor that I always remember is when a Heretic host of around 1000 soldiers invaded Pendor, at the same time an Inquisition of over 1200 was roaming around, I managed to bait the Heretics into the inquisition and started the biggest and longest battle I have ever seen in M&B. No joke after my character was knocked out, let the game run for around 20 minutes before the Inquisition finally one. It was really cool
Just hearing this music in the beginning made me feel the nostalgia. But seriously this mod is awesome. Finding the Noldo, re-establishing the order of I-don’t-remember-their-names knights, fighting against the army of demons.. and that is just what comes to my mind when remembering the playthrough I had back in 2020. That was quite the enjoyable experience.
I had (and still do) so much passion for this mod, I still return to it every other year or so for a playthrough in a different way. I remember playing so many of the versions, every update added so much! ❤
Grew up with Warband. The nostalgia that hit me with the music was palpable. I'm so happy that someone out there still loves this game as much as I do❤
Loved this mod, but ohhh boy some of those DOOMSTACKS that would be roaming the world after just a few weeks! Despite never being able to get very far in the mod due to the aforementioned 2K+ armies it's definitely a gaming experience i really cherish.
They become manageable as soon as you can become another kingdom's marshal. You can rally the boys to go smack Wolfchode the Slaynerd back across the Ravenstern mountains easily. If you become a successful king with loyal vassals, you can do this even more easily. One of my favourite battles across 8 years of playing was my 6000 men against Eyegrim the Devourer's 5000 zombies.
Thank you for such a well made video! I've been a Warband enjoyer since release, and have never played PoP! Gonna have to fix that! I really enjoyed your character story telling!
Amazing! This is probably the best mount and blade video I’ve ever seen. You have a new fan in me Muffintop. We shall watch your career with great interest.
Truly some engaging content on an underrated universe. I've learned a good amount of lore from this despite having hundreds of hours in the mod. Keep it up!
Awesome video my dude. Love your comedy and the story you wove to display how good this mod is. Brought back a lot of memories, and for that you got a new subscriber.
This video is an absolute banger, and a beautiful tribute for this old mod. I had a lot of good memories caming back watching your well edited movie, nice work !! Hope to see the next one 👏
This video was already a great intro into the Prophesy of Pendor. That clip from History of the World Part I cemented my subscription. Great stuff, Muffintop. I can't wait to see more.
Okay. If that video doesn't deserve a sub I don't know what does. A well crafted story, a mod showcase, tutorial for warband (That actually taught me, a 1000+ hr player, some new stuff) all wrapped together in an entertaining feature length video. More please.
Prophesy of Pendor is the best Warband experience one can dream of. When I think about Warband I think about PoP, not the base game. I probably spent 1000 hours playing PoP and another 1000 hours playing other mods so you know Pendor is special.
I love warband and can't wait to watch this video. I'm 15 years old so I never got to experience the warband glory days but it's still one of my favorite games ever since I started playing it in 2019.
@@muffintopmd I'm currently playing fire and sword I know no one plays it but it takes place during my favorite time in history which is 16th century central europe
@loganatkinson7417 Fire and Sword is the first Mount and Blade anything I ever played. There’s a reason I sprinkled history from that time period all over the video. Firing muskets from horseback is just too cool of a concept to ignore.
I opened the video expecting a bit of gameplay and a bit of lore of this amazing mod that you made me discover. I surely wasn't expecting movie tier storytelling with two different protagonists and an almost poetic undertone to it all. You've got my interest both in the mod and also in your channel. I really don't know what else to say except congratulations, this was a really well crafted work of art. . Edit: grammar
The algorithm blessed me with one of the easiest subs in my life. This vid is exceptional, the editing, the pacing, the way you tell a story and integrate it so well to tell about this mod. Pendor is fantastic and I've played back in the day and you certainly managed to stoke back some excitement for me to pick up Warband again.
Fire Emblem Fan here, I'd say Julia here is a reference to Julia in Fire Emblem, even if the beats are kinda WILDLY different. While Julia does have a twin named Julius who tries to kill her, a lot of the beats are different. For one, her father, Arvis, is a noble in his own right, their house being House Veltomer, he not a sergeant in service to one, though he was the head of the royal guard. Were it a 1 to 1, in this scenario, Julius would be essentially brainwashed by the serpent cultist into joining them on his birthday (though not his 17th), and Julia would also be lacking her memory of the event, it would only be revealed later on (She has magically induced amnesia). Along with that, during Julius's attempt on Julia's life, her mother gave her life to protect her, which isn't mentioned here, and Julius lived on after the attempt. There's a connection there for sure, even if the beats are very different.
Pendor is probably one of the best Mount and Blade experiences I've ever had. It's got a level of craft that few mods in any game out there could hope to match, being both a unique take on it's source material without totally altering it's function. I always thought I'd like Perisno more than Pendor but in the end the latter won out by a wide margin.
This is one of the best warband videos I have ever seen. The quality and story telling were top notch. Please continue with your channel, I feel like you have the beginnings of something big.
Check out the Discord for the next Pendor project here:
discord.gg/BmM6dFkgaZ
Tracklist in Order of Appearance (from Warband soundtrack unless specified):
Mount and Blade Title Screen
Travel Neutral
Uncertain Homestead
Beautiful Land
Lords Hall Rhodok
Neutral Infiltration
Armorer
Bandit Fight
Calm Night
Travel Swadian
Paranoia - Stronghold HD
Trancefusion - Stronghold Crusader
Travel Nord
Travel Vaegir
Fight While Mounted 1
Crazy Battle
Lords Hall Vaegir
Hearth and Brotherhood
Snowy Travels
Town Rhodok
Fight 1
Tragic Village
Tavern 2
Ambushed by Nord
Lords Hall Nord
Frenemies - Orcs Must Die 3
Gore Mage - Orcs Must Die 2
Town Vaegir
Lords Hall Khergit
Arena
Lover's Quarrel - Orcs Must Die 2
Lords Hall Swadian
Vocaloid Blues - Armed and Delirious/Dementia (only available on UA-cam as a gamerip)
I hate highcliffe castle, how do you even get that thing, lost like 30 of my Barclay Imperial Riders 😢 pushing to the ladder
@@krieger8825Even if you’re not the marshal, get your relationship up with fellow vassals in your kingdom and suggest that they follow you. If you can get enough of them around a fort that is besieged via ladders you can siege it down before they run off.
Highcliffe is also weighted in the attackers favor. Hold position your archers (preferably Arqubusiers) and let them chew through the tougher infantry. Then mop up the stragglers.
If all else fails, autoresolve is your friend.
you better be making a part 2 to this holy shit
Bro you can‘t just appear on my feed and drop the best video on the best Mount & Blade mod I‘ve ever seen and then make me realize its the only Warband content on your channel! Honestly though, this video was terrific, keep it up!
How do you think I feel? I had to search for this! Its a cold, cruel youtube.
It really is one of the best warband mods of all time, I'm glad someone has come along to showcase and it illuminate some of the lore.
💦💦aww yeah, take the mans hot load in your mouth.
"And alternate history version of the Roman Empire that survived into the Late Medieval"
Brother in Christ, that isn't alternate history, that is literally the Byzantine Empire.
Huh?? No??
@@misterpeepee8812 Yes, it is. The Byzantine Empire was literally the Eastern Roman Empire, and they called themselves Romans not Byzantines. The Byzantine Empire survived up into the 15th century.
@@misterpeepee8812 yes it is.
@@misterpeepee8812 I don't have anything to add, I just wanna dunk on you like a romeaboo.
*Eastern*
Hearing you say "a decade and a half" of Warband modding really made me stop for a second and consider the fleeting moments of time we experience. I was playing the original M&B in bed on my old family laptop I snuck into my room just yesterday. Now I'm 26.
Some experiences are universal
Dang, I did the some thing when I was a kid. When my family and I was traveling for the summer in our RV I snuck into their bedroom took my moms laptop and played warband on it with a blanket over me and the laptop at the dining table, my mother was sitting right next to me on the couch and looking back, she knew. She just allowed it and probably would've let me if I just asked but I felt so damn sneaky. Now I'm 21 and can drink alcohol and I'm still surprised I can ask for a beer instead of soda at restaurants.
Bro I was itching to play I was n 4th grade and my dad would let play games in his pc for a while if I was good, I always choose mount and blade
Memories you have unlocked for me now.
Mate, I'm somehow 33 already. I was 26 seemingly yesterday. Time is an eyeblink.
This video is PEAK, it deserves way more views just for the dedication to explaining this mod's lore
Pop llllllppppppppppppppppppplppllpp ppl I'mp mm
As a kid Phrophesy of Pendor was THE Mount and Blade experience, I never played the native game,later tried other mods but PoP was the base game for me.
Too real
WOW, this was a ride. Truly a ride. Through memory lane, through history, fictional and historical and a great narrative. I haven't thought about Mount and Blade in years. Guess I know I will waste my weekend on.
Great job weaving playthrough narrative with gameplay description and grounding said descriptions in history.
That M&B music suddenly makes me so nostalgic
Uncanny resemblence to a Warlockracy video. Good stuff. Never was the biggest fan of Pendor as a Floris enjoyer, but cool to get a rundown on why people love it.
I know right, he’s got that level voice and similar speech timing. His way of explaining things also. Which is a compliment, if you read this UA-camr man.
@@SolarMonolith206 the youtuber man loved this post then removed it. Must have read that reddit post instead of consuming the borderline schizo theorycrafting about what classic fallout is
@@sleepofgc I am cautious of loving too many posts that give me compliments. Trying not to seem like a self-masturbatory maniac. Receiving boatloads of compliments from random strangers on the internet is not something that usually happens in the normal course of life. Sorry I'm only seeing this now lol thanks for the support.
as far as reddit goes, I avoid it like the plague
small mistake: Normandy was a Duchy of France, not a Kingdom. This led to an interesting situation where the Kings of England were vassals of France, but also acted independently
(being Kings)
man, sometimes history is stranger than fiction. this is some crusader kings level politics here, which i suppose is the point.
@@muffintopmd and this is without considering the Angevin dynasty, who ruled even more of France (until John Lackland, AKA Prince John of Robin Hood fame
Oh so that's one of the fuels that started the 100 years war then
Vassals as Dukes of Normany, but independent as Kings in England. The French kings had no say over what happened in England.
@@Hugh_Morris but the king did have some rights on the land or sort considering well a king ruled over it subject?
Remarkably in-depth and entertaining video. With the herculean effort you've bled into this project you're 100% going places man‼
Such a tremendous mod. Perisno was great too. When these type of mods make their way to Bannerlord, we'll finally have the game we dreamed of. Bannerlord when is still a thing...
Thought the same, my 12 year old self would be very pleased to play pendor and/or perisno in bannerlord
Such a shame the devs have given up on Bannerlord, guess its up to modders to build the game it was meant to be.
@@IMNOTAMUSED1It was ever thus
I can't count the number of hours I spent trying to build up relations with those Noldor bastards by helping them against the Jatu...
I could've become an Olympic athlete with all the time I spent following Noldor around trying to get CKO unlockables.
first mistake was allying yourselves with the scum sucking tree rats of Noldor instead of the Sigmas of the Ebony Gauntlet
@@hypermonkey600 its good to see another sane person around here. Not everyone decides to be a chad. unfortunately, they prefer to care and love their knife eared forest fairies...
@@hypermonkey600 But being able to hire their broken Archer completely worth it imo. Setting 20 or so of those in one settlement along with some infantry to plug the ladder hole and that place become an impenetrable fortress.
We are the Jatu. We salute you.
I was randomly recommended your video and channel while browsing UA-cam, and I'm glad I decided to give this a spin.
Equal parts guide/walkthrough, history lesson, lore video and comedic Let's Play, this video has awesome pacing, production and commentary.
I'll stick around and eagerly await more. Great work!
16:50 The best historical match for the D'shar faction would likely be the Great Seljuk Empire. In the Seljuk state, the ruling elite were Turks, while the aristocracy and much of the populace were Persian. The army was predominantly Turkish, similar to the D'shar's composition. The Seljuks also had their rivals Assassin's Order, the Hashashin, which most probably inspired the assassin order in the game. The origin of the word 'assassin' in English also comes from that order...
I downloaded this mod at the tail end of my last M&B phase (you know how it is), made a character, got my $#!/ pushed in by cultists, and dropped the game for the usual few months- until the itch came back.
I never imagined there'd be so much running beneath the surface, so many things I've long wished were a part of Warband's vanilla experience. Never, at least, until this video opened my eyes.
I can feel the itch coming on again... and I have you to thank for that :)
For de love of god man, please make a part two of Llewellyn and Vyke.... and please more M&B videos, you are really talented.
Love when videos like this get recommended to me. Knowing that there is an army of literally mes out there defiling the world with their presence is always a comforting thought.
We are Legion.
Only ever beat Pendor once last year after many many many restarts. Finally completed training my CKO into Super Human soldiers, defeated the main factions and cleaned up the minor faction humongous armies, when I got the win screen I was pleased but feeling the greatest burnout from the game. I love Pendor, but I don't think I will ever bring myself to go through it once again.
I'm of the mind that the playthrough stops when you want it to. There's a video game graveyard filled with my Mount and Blade characters, who's journey's ended soon after they capture their first castle. Pendor's list of objectives is absolutely insane lol.
@@muffintopmd 100% agree. Pendor's only fault to me is the late game grind if you aim to reach the ending. I couldn't win against the AI using regular troops so I was forced to wait the CKO training and equipment times and qualis & equipment unlock farming, got real tempted to abandon my character but in the end I prevailed and got some real terminators for troops, nothing can stand against horse archers using full noldor equipment. Pendor was mine in no time.
Guy who has beaten Pendor more times than I count. My King of Pendor character list in my save file for my current PC has 6.
Y'all making this too hard on yourselves. You don't need CKO boys at all, although they are the best. You need a huge warchest and a companion party that can train Pendor Armoured Bowman in 3 days, at a minimum. If you get to the level that you're training Empire Heavy Infantry into Legionnaires in 2 days, you're in a good spot.
Go take your first castle or town for yourself, dump your entire army into its garrison, and then go to the outpost and pickup your stash of gold bars, which you should make before declaring the rule of you. Take the gold bars to the first slavery you meet and trade them in for the elite mercs. Hundreds of them. Use them plus your original armies as your nucleus to wage an asymmetric war on your target kingdom, never letting them destroy your elite core of trained troops. A bunch of stuff goes with it, but that's the basics.
@jakkuhl6223 I just became a solo killing one man war machine.
With enchanted shield and noldor spirit horse, I would just run the enemies out of arrows and kill 500 man armies with a ruby bow as long as they didn't have enough noldor composite bows. (Something about them makes them very hard to dodge, and even the champion/heavy spirit horse can't tank too many especially without 4x damage reduction ).
Any major mishap like a headshot got canceled out by 14 first aid and tabbing out.
The only enemies that stood a chance were noldor, which were not enemies.
It's ok. Alexander The Great, Julius Caesar, nor Genghis Khan ever conquered their lands twice. You can rest easy, king.
Disco Elysium quote in the first 3 minutes?
Instant subscribe
I LOVED THIS! Watched all the way through, new to your channel and adored the narrative you gave this whilst also being somewhat of a review. Good job!
Thank you for keeping the original score in. Hit me like a brick and i instantly was brought back to being 15 playing warband til 3am knowing id have to wake up for school the next day lmao
One of the best warband videos I have ever watched, it was both endearing and nostalgic to see you rise from a lowly wanderer, to a mercenary captain into a baron. I was happy that I find somebody who can see the strength of Prophesy of Pendor's narrative building. I want to share my favorite PoP character I made, a man who prioritize his selfish desires, he sought money, women, glory and a castle to leave a legacy to remember. He fought everyone and fought for everyone, but he still felt empty there's something he lacked as he go through war after war and he thought maybe he just needs to be a king so he did. A moment of weakness as Fierdsvein suffered several defeats from Ravenstern, Sarleon and Vanskerry invasion left Valonbray with 500 men so he did a daring feat of invading a city with 168 men but these are hard men and most of them have grown and forged in strife, and their loyalty to their captain is borderline fanatical. it was long brutal siege at the end only a few of those 168 survived but he have taken the city, he became a lord, surprisingly a decent one, a bastion of peace on a sea of fire as Fierdsvein slowly picked apart by the other kingdoms. My last memories of the saved file is me taking over another city and several castles and launched a final fight against the heretic army. I always believe that he found what he was looking for not from the countless wars he fought but when he found peace and ruled until his death.......
I have spent so many weeks in Pendor, it's nice to see the mod get proper publicity and recognition. It really is a whole new game on its own.
Pendor is calcified in my mind as the default Mount and Blade experience. Often when I’m playing other modules, I find myself missing Pendor’s charm. The unique systems and well thought out world.
@@muffintopmdTrue, it's such a significant upgrade in quality and gameplay that it's impossible to go back to the base game, or to other mods.
Just the soundtrack at the begining made me to crave another pendor or warband playthrough, im glad yt recomended u to me. 100% subscribe worthy for any warband players! The whole video was intersting ESP. The parts where u describe the lore made me drooling.TAKE care!
I JUST started playing this mod 2 days ago for the first time. Felt a little bewildered at first but youve got me hyped to play more intentionally now!
Old veteran of Pendor here. Good luck! Talk to V. The Scribe in Poinsbruk. I won't spoil it, but he starts you on quests that give you unique tools. If all else fails, almost every mechanic is documented on the mod's wiki.
It was pleasure watching your characters' journeys through the mod, and hear from an avid mod user of the Warband era of the franchise.
A perfect mix of action, lore, sincerity and, above all, quality that really gelled with me. I didn't even realise it was an hour long video until around 45 minutes in as it engrossed me so much. I do hope your consider continuing Llewellyn and Vyke's stories, but nonetheless I can't wait for your next video! Bravo!
The dark urge to try to enlarge the pendor map with the other continents
It would be a monumental task. Nonetheless, I hope Jim and the crew have been taking bits and pieces off of it all this time lol.
I've seen a couple medieval fighting games, dont even remember which one is this one, still watching for some reaosn
Same
Genuinely one of the best videos I've seen on youtube in a long, long time. An incredible mixture of informative and narratively engaging. Keep up the good work! You've earned a sub from me. Your ability to tell a story while intersplicing a review/retrospective is truly outstanding.
Utterly charming video, when it comes to story telling and weaving game mechanics into the script. I hope that you continue making content like this, as you have a real knack for it.
excellent video, full video show throughs for Warband mods are deeply needed
This mod was THE THING 6 to 8 years ago! So happy to see this come across my feed!
This video was amazing. I'd love to see the story continue in future videos. I'd also love to see your take on the warhammer mod.
Man this shit takes me back. Pendor gotta be the top 1 or 2 mod for Warband, incredible mod.
Its only real competition is Perisno. I haven't done a world conquest of that since early 2020, and I know it's been updated since then. It had some low effort content dragging its larger size down, so I'd still give the number 1 spot to Pendor.
This was some really awesome storytelling. Great job
To this day, this remains probably the single best mod I've ever played for any game.
This modding masterpiece was done justice by this labor of love video. Incredible storytelling.
Seriously wonderful video!! You touched on so many of the things that made me sink over 3000 hours into the series since 2011, with this awesome synthesis of a Mount and Blade tutorial and the magic of the game's modding community. I'm very excited to see your next video, especially if you continue telling Llewellyn's story!
I'd also love to see your take on my own favorite single player mod, The Last Days!
Great editing, funny commentary. Also i like that you try to explain lore.
Really good video :) Thanks for the upload.
Watching this while trying to sleep not because I'm bored rather I'm imagining how great its going to be to load up warband again when I wake up.
nice vid bruh you captured the unique feel of pendor that sets it aside from any other mod
Hell yeah, it feels like it ought to be its own game on Steam and retail for $50.
This was enthralling. Takes me back to reading Me, Floris way back in the day.
Halfway through this video just reminded me how much I want a pike and shot Total War, or also a Medieval 3 (done right of course).
I try to emulate it with the Empire in TWW3, but it’s just not the same…
You did an amazing job with crafting this video. Very well done in its composition, editing, and narrative framing. Keep it up my guy! I'd love to see more from you.
Very enjoyable, well done.
I thought you would go through the hidden village and the history of your families destruction that is discovered with that.
Vyke is so unapologetically evil, I love him.
I played a little of the version of PoP for the original Mount & Blade when I was younger, but I didn't really get it back then and I'm not one for sandboxes anyway. This video's making me wish I had the time to give it another try. I didn't know there's so much lore behind it.
Yea, sandbox games can be a little intimidating at first. There’s a sense of aimlessness or lack of direction that comes with not knowing exactly what you should be doing at any given moment. But once the unknown quantities become known and you have an understanding of the systems/options at your disposal they’re some of the most engaging video games in the world.
This is superb!
What a randomly great video to stumble on. Playing through pendor right now. Such a great mod. Guess this video shows how much people love this game and one of the games many great mods.
I started a PoP playthrough for the first time a couple weeks ago because of this video. It's fun, not sure its my favorite mod (That may still go to Floris Evolved) but it is a refreshing and well thought out total conversion.
Pro tip for anyone else trying it for the first time: Enjoy your time as a mercenary. Don't rush being a lord unless your right to rule is getting too high. Money as a lord is bad, army costs are high, and good troops are worth their weight in gold... But its best to not pay that yourself. Mercenary costs are so heavily subsidized you can actually get a cash stack thats much harder as a lord
This video got me to try Pendor after a few failed attempts to get into it, and it is now my favorite mod. Thanks bro.
Fantastic video, haven't touched Pendor in years but this inspired me to give it another go.
One story I have from Pendor that I always remember is when a Heretic host of around 1000 soldiers invaded Pendor, at the same time an Inquisition of over 1200 was roaming around, I managed to bait the Heretics into the inquisition and started the biggest and longest battle I have ever seen in M&B. No joke after my character was knocked out, let the game run for around 20 minutes before the Inquisition finally one. It was really cool
Just hearing this music in the beginning made me feel the nostalgia.
But seriously this mod is awesome. Finding the Noldo, re-establishing the order of I-don’t-remember-their-names knights, fighting against the army of demons.. and that is just what comes to my mind when remembering the playthrough I had back in 2020. That was quite the enjoyable experience.
I had (and still do) so much passion for this mod, I still return to it every other year or so for a playthrough in a different way. I remember playing so many of the versions, every update added so much! ❤
Prophesy of Pendor was so goated, im gonna download it right now and hop in again.
This was so nostalgic, thank you.
This is probably the best M&B video on UA-cam, cheers
Grew up with Warband. The nostalgia that hit me with the music was palpable. I'm so happy that someone out there still loves this game as much as I do❤
I remember playing this mod years ago. One of the best Warband has to offer.
the new Star Wars Conquest Remastered is top quality too
these videos are exactly what I been looking for, amazing keep it up
Great video man, subbed!
A great video of a great mod
Loved this mod, but ohhh boy some of those DOOMSTACKS that would be roaming the world after just a few weeks! Despite never being able to get very far in the mod due to the aforementioned 2K+ armies it's definitely a gaming experience i really cherish.
They become manageable as soon as you can become another kingdom's marshal. You can rally the boys to go smack Wolfchode the Slaynerd back across the Ravenstern mountains easily. If you become a successful king with loyal vassals, you can do this even more easily. One of my favourite battles across 8 years of playing was my 6000 men against Eyegrim the Devourer's 5000 zombies.
Thank you for such a well made video! I've been a Warband enjoyer since release, and have never played PoP! Gonna have to fix that!
I really enjoyed your character story telling!
Awesome video dude! I hope you continue to make more ones about these games and their mods
Dude. This was the BEST Pendor video I’ve every seen. I need more now! If you can make another video about these characters I’d love to see it.
what an video my friend. Pendor was my first mod and still my favorite, the world, in warband. Lots of nostalgia, keep up
Amazing! This is probably the best mount and blade video I’ve ever seen. You have a new fan in me Muffintop. We shall watch your career with great interest.
Truly some engaging content on an underrated universe. I've learned a good amount of lore from this despite having hundreds of hours in the mod. Keep it up!
I saw the title and jumped without thinking! The video looks dope too!
Awesome video my dude. Love your comedy and the story you wove to display how good this mod is. Brought back a lot of memories, and for that you got a new subscriber.
This video is an absolute banger, and a beautiful tribute for this old mod. I had a lot of good memories caming back watching your well edited movie, nice work !! Hope to see the next one 👏
This video was already a great intro into the Prophesy of Pendor. That clip from History of the World Part I cemented my subscription. Great stuff, Muffintop. I can't wait to see more.
Don't usually comment much, but class video! Lovely storytelling, going to check out the rest of your channel.
great video, probably one of the best mount and blade videos ive watched
great video! Pendor is my all time favorite warband experience.
Amazing video. Very good analysis and storytelling weaved together. I've subscribed.
As a warband moder I one day hope to bring something as polished as Pendor to the warband community. Great video, loved it!
Okay. If that video doesn't deserve a sub I don't know what does. A well crafted story, a mod showcase, tutorial for warband (That actually taught me, a 1000+ hr player, some new stuff) all wrapped together in an entertaining feature length video. More please.
The best mod! I've sat malding at Warband mod compilation reviews they don't even mention this one. Even its wiki is S tier!
Immensively impressive work, great job brother
Absolute legend. Made a video on M&B Warband in 2024. What a lad.
Prophesy of Pendor is the best Warband experience one can dream of. When I think about Warband I think about PoP, not the base game. I probably spent 1000 hours playing PoP and another 1000 hours playing other mods so you know Pendor is special.
This is definitely the best Mount and Blade video I've ever watched, great stuff!
Even just reading the words “Prophesy of Pendor” instantly took me back to those days.
Very cool video, can not wait for more content! Deserved sub
I love warband and can't wait to watch this video. I'm 15 years old so I never got to experience the warband glory days but it's still one of my favorite games ever since I started playing it in 2019.
glad to hear that the kids are gunna be alright! hope you enjoy the video man. keep playing niche, semi-obscure forgotten classics.
@@muffintopmd I'm currently playing fire and sword I know no one plays it but it takes place during my favorite time in history which is 16th century central europe
@loganatkinson7417 Fire and Sword is the first Mount and Blade anything I ever played. There’s a reason I sprinkled history from that time period all over the video. Firing muskets from horseback is just too cool of a concept to ignore.
@@muffintopmd agreed
Love that the backstory I always pick for pendor is the EXACT same as the one you used lol
I played the heck out this when it came out, one of the best Mount and blade mods.
I opened the video expecting a bit of gameplay and a bit of lore of this amazing mod that you made me discover. I surely wasn't expecting movie tier storytelling with two different protagonists and an almost poetic undertone to it all. You've got my interest both in the mod and also in your channel. I really don't know what else to say except congratulations, this was a really well crafted work of art.
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The algorithm blessed me with one of the easiest subs in my life. This vid is exceptional, the editing, the pacing, the way you tell a story and integrate it so well to tell about this mod. Pendor is fantastic and I've played back in the day and you certainly managed to stoke back some excitement for me to pick up Warband again.
I loved this mod - never actually knew a thing about the story though… nice to finally learn
Great video, especially liking the storytelling, quite reminiscent of what Warlockracy is doing. Keep it up! :D
The Warlock is a major influence. I know less about slavjank, so I have to talk about Anglo-saksi games instead.
Fire Emblem Fan here, I'd say Julia here is a reference to Julia in Fire Emblem, even if the beats are kinda WILDLY different. While Julia does have a twin named Julius who tries to kill her, a lot of the beats are different. For one, her father, Arvis, is a noble in his own right, their house being House Veltomer, he not a sergeant in service to one, though he was the head of the royal guard. Were it a 1 to 1, in this scenario, Julius would be essentially brainwashed by the serpent cultist into joining them on his birthday (though not his 17th), and Julia would also be lacking her memory of the event, it would only be revealed later on (She has magically induced amnesia). Along with that, during Julius's attempt on Julia's life, her mother gave her life to protect her, which isn't mentioned here, and Julius lived on after the attempt. There's a connection there for sure, even if the beats are very different.
This is an absolute BANGER out of the left field, holy shit dude you blew it out of the water. Deserves WAY more attention.
Pendor is probably one of the best Mount and Blade experiences I've ever had. It's got a level of craft that few mods in any game out there could hope to match, being both a unique take on it's source material without totally altering it's function. I always thought I'd like Perisno more than Pendor but in the end the latter won out by a wide margin.
Super entertaining, I've barely played the base game but you explained everything perfectly
Legitimately one of the best M&B videos on the platform, loved every second.
What an excellent video! I remember playing this mod a very, very long time ago.
I hope you post more!
This is one of the best warband videos I have ever seen. The quality and story telling were top notch. Please continue with your channel, I feel like you have the beginnings of something big.