I am not surprised to see perisno be at the top, but what blows my mind is that the hand I lent for something that I think is so small is still intact there…. I am the lore writer for the freelancer guild and I wrote that for them 9 years ago now. It’s truly been an honor to have my name planted within one of Warbands most beloved mods and it still blows my mind to this day.
Great review. I love Perisno and Pendor, Bannerpage is must for Vanilla. I played more or less everything from the list, but The last days of third age is the best for me. it's just awesome.
Does Brytenwalda have better troops in english isles troop trees? Because in VC clearly norse tree is superior and I didn't find it fun at all to form anglo-saxon armies lol
I'd definitely give you praise if you made a guide on Nova Aetas; the mod needs more attention, all i wish is that someone would pick it up to hammer out some game-breaking bugs.
Agree on Pendor. It's by far the most polished mod with so much new content but it's also by far the grindiest, most tedious Warband experience I've ever had. Every bit of power takes hours to achieve and while I do think that it's rewarding in theory, the amount of busy work you have to do is just unreasonable. And stuff like "Oh btw after this hour-long battle you didn't get Qualis gem, because the leader escaped btw you can't savescum so better fight another 1000man army" or "There was a red brotherhood quest to get 1 easy gem, but in our recent update we made the chance of getting it after talking to a traveler like 0.001% have fun!" or "We've heard that you could exploit sieges by shooting arrows and retreating so now we've made so a basic tactical maneuver of retreating grants your party -50 morale, -honour, controvery points and everyone hates you" are complete bs that just suck out every single bit of fun to be had in this mod.
Everyone has their own opinion. In PoP escaping leaders are a valuable reason to put points into prisoner management, which would otherwise be a dump stat. Also since I played PoP sieges became much more enjoyable to me in all mods, because I stopped that silly shoot-and-retreat-tactic and started playing sieges seriously. Taking a castle by full storm feels much more rewarding.
@@Chraan "valuable reason" aka "mandatory if you don't want to have extra ton of awful grind, since those leaders are the only way to get Gems" aka "Create a problem and sell the solution" type design. If you played sieges like this that's a you problem. Last time I checked Warband was a sandbox game, so making an extra handicap that makes literally no sense outside of metagaming just so "the bad players would play the way I want" is dumb and sucks the fun out of sandbox. And all it helped to achieve is making Pendor the only mod where I stopped fighting in battles altogether and went full autocalc instead, since I was not having fun at all.
@@duhotatoday3277 You keep saying "grind" but I have no idea what you are talking about, especially when you compare it to Perisno. Perisno has more grind, while in PoP there are more than enough points to spend because you get points for free. You talk about "you problems" but you describe your "you problem" ironically. Battles are awesome in PoP and I enjoyed them more than i Perisno, because in Perisno you can just swarm every army with mounted archers and that's it. In PoP I deployed tactics and chose my units carefully.
@@Chraan no idea what grind I'm talking about? Qualis gems in particular. By far the worst thing about POP btw. And btw mounted archers spam is by far the most powerful thing in PoP. Noldor doesn't ring any bells? "You problem" was that you for some reason couldn't stop exploiting until mod devs forced you into a playstyle with arbitrary punishments for using a retreat option that make no sense in the context of a game itself. That's what I'm talking about. You could have much more elegant solutions to retreat spam like you know, retreat causalities that you leave behind instead of "EVERYONE HATES YOU NOW CONGRATS"
@@duhotatoday3277Qualis Gems are rare and they are supposed to be. I found 3 in my complete playthrough and I only needed one for my custom knighthood order. No grinding. Also Noldor can't be spammed, they are difficult to recruit. In Perisno you can raise infinite slave armies in every town and among them are Virago Heroines, which decimate any army on open fields. An army of 1000 of them can be trained within 5 days. The punishments for fleeing sieges are fair, you get a penalty to your honor and that's reasonable, you need to make a tactical choice whether these punishments are worth abandoning the siege.
Novas Aetas, Light & Darkness: Heroes of Calradia, 16th Century, Gekokujo Daimyo Edition, Age of Sword & Sorcery, Warsword Conquest, World of Vasnar, 1257 A.D Enhanced, Hispania 1200, In the Name of Jerusalem, and the Last Days of the Third Age. These are my top favourite mods of all time. There needs to be more fantasy based mods around the Holy Roman Empire and Renaissance period where the Empire faces many unnatural evil enemies such as the undead, orcs, goblins, vampires and even corrupted humans.
I agree with Perisno being the first, but Prophesy of Pendor not in top5? Granted it is slow, but ticks all the boxes you set. In my book, Prophesy of Pendor is at least second, if not tied with Perisno for fiest position.
Yes. The whole list actually quite terrible. It's all according to his opinion and sadly his opinions is very bad. Great video idea, great mod knowledge, but absurdly bad taste.
I’d recommend a decent mod called Star Wars Conquest. It’s on Warband. It’s on the steam workshop but it never worked for me through it so I had to manually install it. It’s a pretty good experience if you’re a Star Wars nut (was the first Warband mod I played) and I can say I actually enjoyed it thanks to how large the map is. It’s got a large quantity of planets (though they’re more like one cell like a village) and features an actual active conflict between rebels and the empire, with each side able to take over planets. It’s more like an actual RPG than a battle-centered mod. Solid try in my opinion.
Have you tried swc: the new order? It’s a continuation of the original mod and has a lot more to do. Its development is halted indefinitely but the creator says he may pick it up again, still worth a play if you’re a fan of the original and it adds a lot of cool stuff, my favorite feature being the cover mechanic
Fun to see how many mods still use TLD assets. The giant spiders I did expect, the ancient version of our trolls in one of the top picks - I sure did not. Man, that's some true 2009 tech right there. :))
Aut ceasar Aut Nihil has to be my favourite mod alongside Perisno and Rising Sun Bakumatsu. The amount of content in AC AN is unbelievable. Joining as a soldier in the Roman legion is so much fun.
Bakumatsu and Gekokujo for that matter would be soooo much better if the battle AI was improved. Love the aesthetic and feel of the mods but just wish they had improved battle AI
My favourite mod has to be New Dawn, which (among a ton of other changes) adds roaming minor factions that occasionally turn into hordes, take over cities and become real factions. The battles are huge and there's plenty of faction variety too
While you prefer mods that overhaul the setting, I'll still recommend giving Silverstag a look. It's the closest thing I've played to an ideal vanilla+ warband and is probably responsible for a fifth of my 2k+ hours.
@@tonyravioli438 I personally really liked the perk system, troop recruitment changes, overall game balance, clean UI, and customization options for Silverstag. It was a very polished mod. I had fun with Floris and Floris based mods in the past but many features in them felt crude in comparison, and I crashed far more often. This is going off memories from 3+ years ago, keep in mind.
my issue with some mods is that they feel too much like native underneath the modded surface , unlike for example medieval conquests which is my fav mod
That's exatly my issue with Bannerpage. The mod is very well built, but I don't like native much anymore. I played the shit out of it when i was little and didn't know what even mods were.
As a Burmese, I played the mod "Suvarnabhumi Mahayuth," and I was shocked by the amount of effort they put into the game. The name of the characters and their relations to others are accurate, and they have awesome dialogues that are historically accurate. I have also tried Perisno, but it was too overwhelming and boring for me.
I am German and I put Suvarnabhumi Mahayuth over Perisno tbh. Perisno just seems to be an overlay of Suvarnabhumi Mahayuth as it adapted nearly all features, but while Perisno just seems messy and mashed together, Suvarnabhumi Mahayuth feels like a living world.
Southerner from the USA here, playing SB right now as the Portuguese and its still a blast, plus it always makes me crave Thai curry! Ignorant as I am of Southeast Asian history, with the attention to detail the one western faction gets, I can only imagine is much more satisfying it is for the native cultures, this being such a neglected period. Truly an amazing mod.
Gotta have in mind this a personal list with a very subjective raking that doesn't reflect at all the quality of the mods in anyway whatsoever. I'm sorry but this is a terrible list.
If you in a mood for something on native map „A New Dawn” is great mod to try. It is based on the Floris Mod Pack but with harder earlygame and more endgame content. I liked it because in native and floris I feel like I get to steamroll everyone too quickly. Also added minor factions are pretty nice and can be a challenge once they take some settlements.
damn, I think the last days of the third age is my number one favourite mod, except native and napoleanic wars it's the one I have the most hours in. Interesting it was so low on your list, makes me think I could give the others down there a go.
Well like i said, it can easily be one of the best mods for lotr fans. Not being a fan myself, its main appeal is lost on me. Definitely try the other ones though.
I loved Perisno but there are glaring balancing problems that makes the whole experience miserable. Getting oneshot and dealing 0 damage unless you only use bows and fat two handers is not ok.
I always played with quarter damage on perisno because getting two shotted with several points in ironflesh and the heaviest armor is not fun. Heavy crossbows still end up doing like 40 damage if its to the head...
@@BlackoutGootraxian Thank you! Now I feel better about playing with that high of damage resistance later on! If I’m being honest, if Perisno and the Third Age mods could somehow be squished together that would the ultimate!!
@@FromAgonyToLight To be honest, i think its much more fun this way. If i put in 15 points into ironflesh (ends up reducing taken damage by 45%) and buy the most protective armors, i expect to be a tank, and not a slightly less fragile glass cannon. On normal damage, it feels like my armor is made out of cardboard.
Missed a major issue with between empires: trenches. the game is at its best when you’ve set up a trench line and are being charged by a huge horde of enemies as you cut them down with artillery and machine guns and the crack of hundreds of rifles. However this usually doesn’t happen. Usually what happens is they’ll dig their own trenches. Cannons and howitzers will do almost nothing against enemies in trenches, same with machine guns, forcing you to either charge them (guaranteed loss unless they either don’t have bolt actions or you have 3x as many troops) or try to set up your own counter trench and pray that they take more casualties than you. There’s no way to get them to leave the trench. The mod is super fun right up until that starts happening.
@@HenryAnderson-th7en nah. People in real life didn’t take 12 direct hits from heavy artillery cannons and take 0 damage just because they were standing in some dirt behind some sandbags instead of on grass. Machine guns also are physically incapable of hitting people in trenches, they don’t understand that they can’t shoot through the sandbags.
@@AdamYang-z7h I've looked.. I think people privately trade it on Discord and reddit but you'd have to search really hard in the message boards etc.. lol If you find it lmk and vice versa! 😂😂
I will say that back in the day 1866 was actually way better than a lot of mods, has unique assets, scenery, the siege maps were fun as all hell and so were cavalry fights, it was just as good as 1860 for the old mount and blade. I will say that the ranking for warsword is mad low tbh, when you look at the quality of items added/assets and the magic system, poorly balanced as it all is it s probably the best warband mod out there
I for one prefer Prophesy of Pendor because it is the only mod I’ve played that never crashed on my laptop. I’ve tried Perisno and it never worked out - but PoP will always work.
I can 100% agree on this list. Im so happy i found this channel, i found out about new mods thath i didnt now they existed like brytenwolda or Aut Ceasar, such a good mods. I hope for new warband and bannerlord videos
it's astonishing how many massive mods there are for this game, each one of those sounded like a whole other game :0 thanks for reviewing! I just got this game a few weeks ago absolutely love it (I know it's over a decade old but you can't beat the classics and it was cheap!)
I just recently found your videos through your mod reviews on warband and thank you for giving honest reviews and will definitely be trying out most of these mods. Gonna be on the lookout for guide videos for these mods also
The last days and warsword conquest are my favorite mods that I've been playing for years until I started bannerlord. I do agree how you've ranked them and I expected you to rank Perisno as #1
I am quite suprised pendor is in the botton when perisno is in top, for me pendor and perisno both are amazing, perisno bit better. overall I agree, reason why I love last days on earth is that I either cheat so money is not broblem, or make money making into max, either way it is great. but yeah perisno is great.
Absolutely! While in theory, bannerlord is far more ambitious, bigger and on a larger scale, warband has mods that took years to develop! Which also means bannerlord mods on a much larger scale will also take a long time from now to come out. So meanwhile, warband on sale on steam will only be a few dollars, and all mods mentionned in this video are free. So totally worth it!
That's the first time in my life that I've ever heard someone say "I don't like Lord of The Rings". Though you later said that you are a die hard fan of ASOIAF, so I guess it makes sense 😂.
Might I suggest the independence of chile mod it really should tick a lot of your boxes and I'm surprised you didnt mention it and must tell you the dev of that mord is fast at work for the 5.0 version so you could get into the mod once it launches or even now 4.0 is really good
I know i am replying very late, but yeah. I generally dont like how much drop bows and crossbows have (and its near impossible to shoot on long range because you simply dont see where your shot lands) and they wont deal that much damage to heavy units anyway unless you headshot with a heavier crossbow. I never really bothered with ranged things in perisno as a result. Powerstrike 15 with the hardest hitting weapon i can find all the way 💪
YOU DIDNT MENTION "Chronicles of Might and Magic"!!! Thats crazy!!! Thats like one of my favorite with genuine spell book and pictures and spell points!!! And cool system of developing your character past your stats with drops from different dungeons. You can get your stats even like to 60 +
@@TerryDuke I consider Pendor to be by far one of the highest quality mods: good optimization, a beautifully designed map, nice graphics and interface, names of factions and characters, music, colors, weapons and armor, all this is amazing. In terms of quality, it could even surpass the original game and its DLC's. However, Pendor has a problem, namely it is boring. 200 days was enough for me. The gameplay boils down to monotony very quickly, it's not much different from a vanilla game. In this regard, Perisno is much more interesting to play because there are many new mechanics, quests and events that immerse and tighten much more.
I hate gekokujo although I think I have downloaded the mod wrong cuz all troops other than heros take too long to level up, I can't win any battles as even the basic enemies are stronger than my 60 man party and lastly when I join as a retainer and ask for leave randomly the mfering half of japan declares war on me.
Nice video, sorry that i could not get back to you with some new mods. I think you should keep producing videos on Warband and Bannerlord mods. This community need all around modding channels like what you are doing
L’aigle could’ve been so amazing if it wasn’t abandoned. My hopes are still high for between empires because what it offers is unlike any other mod. but at the moment it is borderline unplayable with how frequent the crashes are.
There shouldn't be crashes anymore at all in the current version. We fixed those in 2021 (I think?), the very frequent crashes were and issue with some collision models. I haven't had crash reports from anyone in a year
I may be outdated in this statement here, but last time I was on the between empire discord it was not looking great, the creator spent their time memeing and didn’t answer genuine mod questions in a positive manner
Sou um fã Brasileiro, seu conteúdo é muito bom ! descobri esse game como sendo um dos melhores jogos de estratégia mas foi graças á você que eu me aprofundei mais com os mods. Warband se tornou meu jogo favorito e anda me ajudando muito com o tratamento da minha depressão, minha medica elogiou muito e recomendou uma rotina para o jogo
If I’m being honest, I’m not looking for a mod that changes the entire game into a different world with a different story, but rather I am looking for a mod that makes the vanilla experience smoother and better, fixing its own flaws and adding maybe some features. Does anybody have any mods like this?
Very unfortunate the lack of love for Paradigm Worlds. A lot of people just see it as a schizo mess of nonsense. That its not supposed to make any sense. But after playing it for years, I got to say there is no other warband mod that holds up. The mechanics take a while to master, but its all worth it. It’s even worth learning about the lore, the story is one of kind, and it all makes sense after a bit of reading on the mod makers timigi website.
Wow, top 10! Thank you! Yeah, unfortunately crashes are an issue due to the many materials/textures. I hope to reduce them in the future, but I fear they will never truly go away
What hate? I didnt hate on it. But i did establish what my prefererences are. If i enjoy mods with new gameplay elements and a new world, well this one doesnt check the first mark and the second is largely lost on me, since i didnt play skyrim. A good for skyrim fans for sure, but that's about it for me.
Of all [7.5-10K hrs gameplay]: 1: Warsword Conquest, 2: Prophesy of Pendor, 3: The Last Days of the Third Age, 4: A World of Ice and Fire. All others far behind.
I don't agree with your placings on Pendor, TLD and Warsword, but I really want to talk about your decision to put Age of Sword & Sorcery ahead of Warsword Conquest. Yeah I get it it has cool sword animations and new troops that are made by the mod author, but Warsword just has so much more to offer. Leave the magic, potions and dungeons. I am not saying age of Sorcery is bad, but you didn't even mention the unique items, grenades, the fact that you can summon units on the battlefield, etc. Anyway I respect your opinion and I hope you change it especially about Pendor and WC, also WC is also still actively developed and it also has a big monster submod. Also about the battle size in perisno and reinforcements, you can do that with any mod that has Diplomacy in it. And if the battle size is too limited for you, you can install a tool called " Warband Battle Sizer" which lets you edit the battle size of any mod. Edit 2: I just found out you know about Warband Battle Sizer. Oh well that was the first video I watched so, yeah.
Looking at the shaders, how the f did you get 16th century working with WSR? I get spammed with ”...has left part” messages every second if I try to run it with WSR2 :(
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I am not surprised to see perisno be at the top, but what blows my mind is that the hand I lent for something that I think is so small is still intact there…. I am the lore writer for the freelancer guild and I wrote that for them 9 years ago now. It’s truly been an honor to have my name planted within one of Warbands most beloved mods and it still blows my mind to this day.
I remember you from my first mod video! Even found the character named after you 😄
Thank you for your contribution to this great mod.
Thank you for your work on this mod!
Freelancers are some of my favorites
@@GirolamoZanchi_is_cool god does not exist
Great review. I love Perisno and Pendor, Bannerpage is must for Vanilla. I played more or less everything from the list, but The last days of third age is the best for me. it's just awesome.
You will not regret playing Viking Conquest if you like Brytenwalda
No doubt, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
I actually liked it more than brytenwalda
Does Brytenwalda have better troops in english isles troop trees?
Because in VC clearly norse tree is superior and I didn't find it fun at all to form anglo-saxon armies lol
@@ax23mgh8 anglo Saxon armies are crap, but the Irish nobles are incredibly good and easier to train than Norse troops
If you have brytenwalda there's absolutely no reason to play viking conquest
I'd definitely give you praise if you made a guide on Nova Aetas; the mod needs more attention, all i wish is that someone would pick it up to hammer out some game-breaking bugs.
I like the mod but god it's so badly optimized it might be my laptops fault but still a little bit of polishing could go a long way
That mod gave me hope for what warband really could have been like
Agree on Pendor. It's by far the most polished mod with so much new content but it's also by far the grindiest, most tedious Warband experience I've ever had. Every bit of power takes hours to achieve and while I do think that it's rewarding in theory, the amount of busy work you have to do is just unreasonable. And stuff like "Oh btw after this hour-long battle you didn't get Qualis gem, because the leader escaped btw you can't savescum so better fight another 1000man army" or "There was a red brotherhood quest to get 1 easy gem, but in our recent update we made the chance of getting it after talking to a traveler like 0.001% have fun!" or "We've heard that you could exploit sieges by shooting arrows and retreating so now we've made so a basic tactical maneuver of retreating grants your party -50 morale, -honour, controvery points and everyone hates you" are complete bs that just suck out every single bit of fun to be had in this mod.
Everyone has their own opinion. In PoP escaping leaders are a valuable reason to put points into prisoner management, which would otherwise be a dump stat. Also since I played PoP sieges became much more enjoyable to me in all mods, because I stopped that silly shoot-and-retreat-tactic and started playing sieges seriously. Taking a castle by full storm feels much more rewarding.
@@Chraan "valuable reason" aka "mandatory if you don't want to have extra ton of awful grind, since those leaders are the only way to get Gems" aka "Create a problem and sell the solution" type design.
If you played sieges like this that's a you problem. Last time I checked Warband was a sandbox game, so making an extra handicap that makes literally no sense outside of metagaming just so "the bad players would play the way I want" is dumb and sucks the fun out of sandbox. And all it helped to achieve is making Pendor the only mod where I stopped fighting in battles altogether and went full autocalc instead, since I was not having fun at all.
@@duhotatoday3277 You keep saying "grind" but I have no idea what you are talking about, especially when you compare it to Perisno. Perisno has more grind, while in PoP there are more than enough points to spend because you get points for free. You talk about "you problems" but you describe your "you problem" ironically. Battles are awesome in PoP and I enjoyed them more than i Perisno, because in Perisno you can just swarm every army with mounted archers and that's it. In PoP I deployed tactics and chose my units carefully.
@@Chraan no idea what grind I'm talking about? Qualis gems in particular. By far the worst thing about POP btw. And btw mounted archers spam is by far the most powerful thing in PoP. Noldor doesn't ring any bells?
"You problem" was that you for some reason couldn't stop exploiting until mod devs forced you into a playstyle with arbitrary punishments for using a retreat option that make no sense in the context of a game itself. That's what I'm talking about.
You could have much more elegant solutions to retreat spam like you know, retreat causalities that you leave behind instead of "EVERYONE HATES YOU NOW CONGRATS"
@@duhotatoday3277Qualis Gems are rare and they are supposed to be. I found 3 in my complete playthrough and I only needed one for my custom knighthood order. No grinding. Also Noldor can't be spammed, they are difficult to recruit. In Perisno you can raise infinite slave armies in every town and among them are Virago Heroines, which decimate any army on open fields. An army of 1000 of them can be trained within 5 days.
The punishments for fleeing sieges are fair, you get a penalty to your honor and that's reasonable, you need to make a tactical choice whether these punishments are worth abandoning the siege.
Novas Aetas, Light & Darkness: Heroes of Calradia, 16th Century, Gekokujo Daimyo Edition, Age of Sword & Sorcery, Warsword Conquest, World of Vasnar, 1257 A.D Enhanced, Hispania 1200, In the Name of Jerusalem, and the Last Days of the Third Age. These are my top favourite mods of all time. There needs to be more fantasy based mods around the Holy Roman Empire and Renaissance period where the Empire faces many unnatural evil enemies such as the undead, orcs, goblins, vampires and even corrupted humans.
So Warhammer Fantasy?
@@4mbrose More stuff like that. Not just Warhammer fantasy.
@@latter-daysaintbatman2679 That means more warhammer fantasy
Nova Aetas was really fun and I'd like a remake of it for Bannerlord.
I agree with Perisno being the first, but Prophesy of Pendor not in top5? Granted it is slow, but ticks all the boxes you set.
In my book, Prophesy of Pendor is at least second, if not tied with Perisno for fiest position.
It’s a bit surprising that pendor is rated so low. Many of the qualities that you praise perisno for are also present in pendor.
Yes. The whole list actually quite terrible. It's all according to his opinion and sadly his opinions is very bad. Great video idea, great mod knowledge, but absurdly bad taste.
I’d recommend a decent mod called Star Wars Conquest. It’s on Warband. It’s on the steam workshop but it never worked for me through it so I had to manually install it. It’s a pretty good experience if you’re a Star Wars nut (was the first Warband mod I played) and I can say I actually enjoyed it thanks to how large the map is. It’s got a large quantity of planets (though they’re more like one cell like a village) and features an actual active conflict between rebels and the empire, with each side able to take over planets. It’s more like an actual RPG than a battle-centered mod.
Solid try in my opinion.
Have you tried swc: the new order? It’s a continuation of the original mod and has a lot more to do. Its development is halted indefinitely but the creator says he may pick it up again, still worth a play if you’re a fan of the original and it adds a lot of cool stuff, my favorite feature being the cover mechanic
For ne gekokujo is always a win. The siege was awesome with different type of castle and multi layer gates makes your head really thinks hard sometime
Fun to see how many mods still use TLD assets. The giant spiders I did expect, the ancient version of our trolls in one of the top picks - I sure did not. Man, that's some true 2009 tech right there. :))
A nerd that doesn’t appreciate LOTR..? This world really is turning upside down…
Yup, lotr is overrated 😉😄
Aut ceasar Aut Nihil has to be my favourite mod alongside Perisno and Rising Sun Bakumatsu. The amount of content in AC AN is unbelievable. Joining as a soldier in the Roman legion is so much fun.
It's like a whole new game on its own.
Bakumatsu and Gekokujo for that matter would be soooo much better if the battle AI was improved. Love the aesthetic and feel of the mods but just wish they had improved battle AI
My favourite mod has to be New Dawn, which (among a ton of other changes) adds roaming minor factions that occasionally turn into hordes, take over cities and become real factions. The battles are huge and there's plenty of faction variety too
as much as new dawn is completely abandoned it's still an amazing mod, I love the mechanic of new factions emerging as revolts.
The new Trops are amazing, a huge and great mod
While you prefer mods that overhaul the setting, I'll still recommend giving Silverstag a look. It's the closest thing I've played to an ideal vanilla+ warband and is probably responsible for a fifth of my 2k+ hours.
in your opinion what makes it better or whats the difference with floris?
@@tonyravioli438 I personally really liked the perk system, troop recruitment changes, overall game balance, clean UI, and customization options for Silverstag. It was a very polished mod. I had fun with Floris and Floris based mods in the past but many features in them felt crude in comparison, and I crashed far more often.
This is going off memories from 3+ years ago, keep in mind.
@@Oddigan Thank you for the answer will try it soon
my issue with some mods is that they feel too much like native underneath the modded surface , unlike for example medieval conquests which is my fav mod
That's exatly my issue with Bannerpage. The mod is very well built, but I don't like native much anymore. I played the shit out of it when i was little and didn't know what even mods were.
American Cival War Revived is the G.O.A.T
As a Burmese, I played the mod "Suvarnabhumi Mahayuth," and I was shocked by the amount of effort they put into the game. The name of the characters and their relations to others are accurate, and they have awesome dialogues that are historically accurate. I have also tried Perisno, but it was too overwhelming and boring for me.
I am German and I put Suvarnabhumi Mahayuth over Perisno tbh. Perisno just seems to be an overlay of Suvarnabhumi Mahayuth as it adapted nearly all features, but while Perisno just seems messy and mashed together, Suvarnabhumi Mahayuth feels like a living world.
Southerner from the USA here, playing SB right now as the Portuguese and its still a blast, plus it always makes me crave Thai curry! Ignorant as I am of Southeast Asian history, with the attention to detail the one western faction gets, I can only imagine is much more satisfying it is for the native cultures, this being such a neglected period. Truly an amazing mod.
Gotta have in mind this a personal list with a very subjective raking that doesn't reflect at all the quality of the mods in anyway whatsoever. I'm sorry but this is a terrible list.
Gotta keep in my mind that your opinion is also very subjective ;)
A little correction here: In the name of Jerusalem, Light & Darkness, 16th Century are also all made by Chinese modders.
Suvarnabumi Mahayuth is the goat. My favourite warband mod.
If you in a mood for something on native map „A New Dawn” is great mod to try. It is based on the Floris Mod Pack but with harder earlygame and more endgame content. I liked it because in native and floris I feel like I get to steamroll everyone too quickly. Also added minor factions are pretty nice and can be a challenge once they take some settlements.
Everyone sleeps on this one. Perhaps my most played mod! 👍
Great list for finding new mods! My personal favourite is definitely Pendor
damn, I think the last days of the third age is my number one favourite mod, except native and napoleanic wars it's the one I have the most hours in. Interesting it was so low on your list, makes me think I could give the others down there a go.
Well like i said, it can easily be one of the best mods for lotr fans. Not being a fan myself, its main appeal is lost on me.
Definitely try the other ones though.
@@TerryDuke I'm considering the warhammer mod since I'm a big fan of warhammer total war, and that map was looking beautiful.
for me number one was always prophesy of pendor , i tried to like perisno was so boring and buggy it is not even in my top 20
@@KYCb_0w0 dude perisno is a mod that every single useless element were put on pendor has a char and has a great story that no mod haven't achieve yet
I'd highly recommend the ACW revived mod. It just got a massive update too
Best mod imo
@@Rizzbullawhat is it about?
Would be helpful when you write the full name
@@irgendeinname9256ACW= American civil war
I loved Perisno but there are glaring balancing problems that makes the whole experience miserable. Getting oneshot and dealing 0 damage unless you only use bows and fat two handers is not ok.
I always played with quarter damage on perisno because getting two shotted with several points in ironflesh and the heaviest armor is not fun. Heavy crossbows still end up doing like 40 damage if its to the head...
@@BlackoutGootraxian Thank you! Now I feel better about playing with that high of damage resistance later on!
If I’m being honest, if Perisno and the Third Age mods could somehow be squished together that would the ultimate!!
@@FromAgonyToLight To be honest, i think its much more fun this way. If i put in 15 points into ironflesh (ends up reducing taken damage by 45%) and buy the most protective armors, i expect to be a tank, and not a slightly less fragile glass cannon. On normal damage, it feels like my armor is made out of cardboard.
"I never really liked the Lord of the Rings" this comment is offensive and sacrilegious... I'm subbing
Missed a major issue with between empires: trenches. the game is at its best when you’ve set up a trench line and are being charged by a huge horde of enemies as you cut them down with artillery and machine guns and the crack of hundreds of rifles. However this usually doesn’t happen. Usually what happens is they’ll dig their own trenches. Cannons and howitzers will do almost nothing against enemies in trenches, same with machine guns, forcing you to either charge them (guaranteed loss unless they either don’t have bolt actions or you have 3x as many troops) or try to set up your own counter trench and pray that they take more casualties than you. There’s no way to get them to leave the trench. The mod is super fun right up until that starts happening.
So its pretty accurate then
@@HenryAnderson-th7en nah. People in real life didn’t take 12 direct hits from heavy artillery cannons and take 0 damage just because they were standing in some dirt behind some sandbags instead of on grass. Machine guns also are physically incapable of hitting people in trenches, they don’t understand that they can’t shoot through the sandbags.
The Skyrim Civil war mod is like.. unobtainable these days... a golden relic if you will..
true, can't find it anywhere
@@AdamYang-z7h I've looked.. I think people privately trade it on Discord and reddit but you'd have to search really hard in the message boards etc.. lol If you find it lmk and vice versa! 😂😂
Great list, have you tried Star Wars Conquest? I believe is one of the best mods for sure.
Never heard of it, will look it up.
I will say that back in the day 1866 was actually way better than a lot of mods, has unique assets, scenery, the siege maps were fun as all hell and so were cavalry fights, it was just as good as 1860 for the old mount and blade. I will say that the ranking for warsword is mad low tbh, when you look at the quality of items added/assets and the magic system, poorly balanced as it all is it s probably the best warband mod out there
I for one prefer Prophesy of Pendor because it is the only mod I’ve played that never crashed on my laptop.
I’ve tried Perisno and it never worked out - but PoP will always work.
Yeah, PoP is fairly stable, that's a bonus for sure. But having no issues with Perisno, I definitely enjoy it more.
Prophesy of Pendor on 26th? GET LOST.
Prophesy of Pendor should really be up there. I understand that it’s personal preference, but it’s by far the most polished mod out there.
Polished isn't necessarily good. It's one of my least favorite mods because they made a lot of decisions that just make it kind of boring and slow
rising sun also a submod for gekukujo
for me it's:
6th: Prophecy of Pendor
5th: L'Aigle
4th: Gekokujo
3rd: A Clash of Kings
2nd: Last Days of the Third Age
1st: Perisno
I can see that spice has changed your eyes colors duke 😂😂
This a dune reference? 😆 i think i just oversaturated the shot, i'm almost wearing lipstick too 😂
This is EXACTLY why I previously subbed. Thanks for another awesome video!
Thanks for the sub! Tell your friends :P
I can 100% agree on this list. Im so happy i found this channel, i found out about new mods thath i didnt now they existed like brytenwolda or Aut Ceasar, such a good mods. I hope for new warband and bannerlord videos
Thanks, you got plenty of mods to try out before you need new content from me though :P
it's astonishing how many massive mods there are for this game, each one of those sounded like a whole other game :0 thanks for reviewing! I just got this game a few weeks ago absolutely love it (I know it's over a decade old but you can't beat the classics and it was cheap!)
Have fun :D
I just recently found your videos through your mod reviews on warband and thank you for giving honest reviews and will definitely be trying out most of these mods. Gonna be on the lookout for guide videos for these mods also
Thanks! Enjoy the content :)
The last days and warsword conquest are my favorite mods that I've been playing for years until I started bannerlord. I do agree how you've ranked them and I expected you to rank Perisno as #1
I am quite suprised pendor is in the botton when perisno is in top, for me pendor and perisno both are amazing, perisno bit better. overall I agree, reason why I love last days on earth is that I either cheat so money is not broblem, or make money making into max, either way it is great. but yeah perisno is great.
As a newcomer to the series is it worth buying warband if you can't afford bannerlord right now?
Absolutely! While in theory, bannerlord is far more ambitious, bigger and on a larger scale, warband has mods that took years to develop! Which also means bannerlord mods on a much larger scale will also take a long time from now to come out.
So meanwhile, warband on sale on steam will only be a few dollars, and all mods mentionned in this video are free. So totally worth it!
can you do video about mount and blade warband napoleonic wars like the one of vikings conquesets
Maybe but NW never really interested me.
That's the first time in my life that I've ever heard someone say "I don't like Lord of The Rings". Though you later said that you are a die hard fan of ASOIAF, so I guess it makes sense 😂.
These interests aren't mutually exclusive of course, but yeah, the main appeal of ASOIAF is the opposite of LOTR :P
Might I suggest the independence of chile mod it really should tick a lot of your boxes and I'm surprised you didnt mention it and must tell you the dev of that mord is fast at work for the 5.0 version so you could get into the mod once it launches or even now 4.0 is really good
I never liked to much fantasy in my games so for me 1417 was defiantly my favorite the wse is my favorite thing ever
I highly recommend to try out 457 AD, one of the best Singleplayer mods I ever played. Kind of similiar to Brytenwalda.
Hehe ua-cam.com/video/FOG1rkmjJcI/v-deo.html
Sixteenth-century is great but it's overwhelming it's just a lot
I CANT STOP I HAVE LIKE 10 SAVE FILES I SHOULD FINISH BUT I CANT I JUST WANT TO PLAY SO MANY DIFFRENT ONES
Playing Paradigm worlds multiplayer must feel like the average online game experience from the late 2000s/ early 2010s
Gekokujo is legit one of theee best mods it just feels good to play and being a really big japanese history buff I love the atmosphere
i just wish that perisno had a (balanced) firearm in the game thats what im desperately missing in that mod
I know i am replying very late, but yeah. I generally dont like how much drop bows and crossbows have (and its near impossible to shoot on long range because you simply dont see where your shot lands) and they wont deal that much damage to heavy units anyway unless you headshot with a heavier crossbow. I never really bothered with ranged things in perisno as a result. Powerstrike 15 with the hardest hitting weapon i can find all the way 💪
What version of Phantasy Calradia do you play? I use V158 from nexusmods and it's... "playable." I've had a few bugs and stuff.
No Star Wars Conquest?
YOU DIDNT MENTION "Chronicles of Might and Magic"!!! Thats crazy!!!
Thats like one of my favorite with genuine spell book and pictures and spell points!!! And cool system of developing your character past your stats with drops from different dungeons. You can get your stats even like to 60 +
For me the best mod is AD 1200 ,but its removed. I have played for 1000 hours on it
Honestly I think Pendor was better than Perisno
As many others have argued. I do think it was overhyped for me though.
@@TerryDuke I consider Pendor to be by far one of the highest quality mods: good optimization, a beautifully designed map, nice graphics and interface, names of factions and characters, music, colors, weapons and armor, all this is amazing. In terms of quality, it could even surpass the original game and its DLC's. However, Pendor has a problem, namely it is boring. 200 days was enough for me. The gameplay boils down to monotony very quickly, it's not much different from a vanilla game. In this regard, Perisno is much more interesting to play because there are many new mechanics, quests and events that immerse and tighten much more.
Thanks! I will start with Bones of Ragnvald, then definitely try the Perisno. Keep up doing the good work, peace
Thanks, and have fun!
Ah 1257 AD. I remember knocking the Pope unconscious in Italy.
Is there any mods that you can respawn after die in battle, or maybe control another troop?
1257 AD and Diplomacy Litdum Reloaded both had the ability to take control of a random unit once you're killed.
16th century is jaw dropping. literal dream come true lol
I still playing warband from 2016 ... Pendor is the best mod
I hate gekokujo although I think I have downloaded the mod wrong cuz all troops other than heros take too long to level up, I can't win any battles as even the basic enemies are stronger than my 60 man party and lastly when I join as a retainer and ask for leave randomly the mfering half of japan declares war on me.
Nice video, sorry that i could not get back to you with some new mods. I think you should keep producing videos on Warband and Bannerlord mods. This community need all around modding channels like what you are doing
No worries, as you can see I still had my hands full ;)
Light Darkness top 1 forever. The best mod in terms of replayability.
Viking conquest is my all time favorite warband exoerience.
9:27 i'm glad i'm not the only one that doesnt like pendor. It was boring imho. Its just native but with different locations and characters
Maybe i should back on warband, my pc is to old for bannelord 😢 last time i play mnb2 modded it takes 5-7 mins to load the battlefield
L’aigle could’ve been so amazing if it wasn’t abandoned. My hopes are still high for between empires because what it offers is unlike any other mod. but at the moment it is borderline unplayable with how frequent the crashes are.
There shouldn't be crashes anymore at all in the current version. We fixed those in 2021 (I think?), the very frequent crashes were and issue with some collision models. I haven't had crash reports from anyone in a year
I may be outdated in this statement here, but last time I was on the between empire discord it was not looking great, the creator spent their time memeing and didn’t answer genuine mod questions in a positive manner
Did you play the Bannerpage mod? Its a vanilla enhancement more likely.. very very good for those who want a better vanilla-style game.
Someone didn't watch the full video. :P
@@TerryDuke ops.. Didn't pay enough attention to the honorable mentions.. My bad! It is a great video nonetheless!!
Sou um fã Brasileiro, seu conteúdo é muito bom ! descobri esse game como sendo um dos melhores jogos de estratégia mas foi graças á você que eu me aprofundei mais com os mods. Warband se tornou meu jogo favorito e anda me ajudando muito com o tratamento da minha depressão, minha medica elogiou muito e recomendou uma rotina para o jogo
If I’m being honest, I’m not looking for a mod that changes the entire game into a different world with a different story, but rather I am looking for a mod that makes the vanilla experience smoother and better, fixing its own flaws and adding maybe some features.
Does anybody have any mods like this?
@@destiny3988 look at the honorable mentions, it's exactly what you want
16th century mod is overwhelming lmao
Very unfortunate the lack of love for Paradigm Worlds. A lot of people just see it as a schizo mess of nonsense. That its not supposed to make any sense.
But after playing it for years, I got to say there is no other warband mod that holds up. The mechanics take a while to master, but its all worth it. It’s even worth learning about the lore, the story is one of kind, and it all makes sense after a bit of reading on the mod makers timigi website.
14:57 Frogmouth...full plate armor duel what is that mod, i NEED IT!
Bannerpage
Thanks guess im reinstalling warband again...@@TerryDuke
i do agree that perisno is the best mod in warband but men did i feel sad seeing prophecy of penor so low
Knights of Honor soundtrack to start off with, cheffs kiss!
I want Dickplomacy for Bannerlord so badly it was Epic.
Closest thing rn is hot butter 😄
Soo... Bannerpage seems to be pretty difficult in building your first warband right?
Not really, depends on the choices you make.
16th century doesn’t include my country 😢
Wow, top 10! Thank you!
Yeah, unfortunately crashes are an issue due to the many materials/textures. I hope to reduce them in the future, but I fear they will never truly go away
I figured. Still, really enjoyed it! Keep it up!
floris evolved is my all time favorite warband mod
between empires should be number 1 in your opinion
Doesn't like Prophesy of Pendor. Opinion automatically invalid.
I haaave to ask as somone hwo likes brytenwalda so much what is your opinion on Viking conquest??
I made review of it, check it out 🙂
wild how you can like perisno and dislike prophesy of pendor when they have exactly the same philosophy behind them
@@shashumgadimbo6857 different application
Tigger moment. Why the hate on the Skyrim mod? Yes, it is mainly a reskin. But what's wrong with reskinning a good game?
What hate? I didnt hate on it.
But i did establish what my prefererences are. If i enjoy mods with new gameplay elements and a new world, well this one doesnt check the first mark and the second is largely lost on me, since i didnt play skyrim.
A good for skyrim fans for sure, but that's about it for me.
I know you're trying to hit the 10 minute mark but you didn't have to go this far.
Overdoing it is my specialty.
12:50 he forgot to mention how painfully often between empires crashes.
My experience was fairly stable though, I don't even remember it crashing.
I agree with Laigle... it needs more work! I don't really have any favourite mods but I think the rising sun was a mod I spent a lot of time
This guy wearing heavy lipstick
All natural, the ladies keep telling me i have nice lips. 😚
Probably overemphasized from applying saturation, color grading aint my specialty.
Eh, i kinda expected Star wars conquest mod
Yeah with so many mods to play, there's still plenty more I can't cover. I did write the mod down for future videos though
Of all [7.5-10K hrs gameplay]: 1: Warsword Conquest, 2: Prophesy of Pendor, 3: The Last Days of the Third Age, 4: A World of Ice and Fire. All others far behind.
I would rank "Warsword Conquest" (warhammer mod) much, much higher. But I totaly agree that Perisno is the best!
I’ve never played warband or bannerlord but am very interested, I feel
Like I’m going to have a lot of fun.
Oh boy, be ready to invest a few months of your life into warband ;)
I don't agree with your placings on Pendor, TLD and Warsword, but I really want to talk about your decision to put Age of Sword & Sorcery ahead of Warsword Conquest. Yeah I get it it has cool sword animations and new troops that are made by the mod author, but Warsword just has so much more to offer. Leave the magic, potions and dungeons. I am not saying age of Sorcery is bad, but you didn't even mention the unique items, grenades, the fact that you can summon units on the battlefield, etc. Anyway I respect your opinion and I hope you change it especially about Pendor and WC, also WC is also still actively developed and it also has a big monster submod. Also about the battle size in perisno and reinforcements, you can do that with any mod that has Diplomacy in it. And if the battle size is too limited for you, you can install a tool called " Warband Battle Sizer" which lets you edit the battle size of any mod.
Edit 2: I just found out you know about Warband Battle Sizer. Oh well that was the first video I watched so, yeah.
Looking at the shaders, how the f did you get 16th century working with WSR? I get spammed with ”...has left part” messages every second if I try to run it with WSR2 :(