It's not dead, nor resting. It's fine and it's still under development.
This mod aims to expand almost every aspect of M&B. Updated list of main features coming soon.
Travel a lot:- Explore new, 2 times bigger and more interesting world map.
- See how each party icon looks different on world map, depending on faction, type of the party and number of party members.
- Hire a ship and let it take you for a fast sea travel between Tihr and Wercheg.
Gather your party:- See how revamped fation troops look like and handle themselves in battle.
- Face many new enemies and bandits, hire many new mercenaries.
- Find some more Companions and make them join your party.
Meet with people of Calradia:- Take a walk around the living towns, listen to the street noise or enjoy the peace and beauty of the nature during a visit in a village.
- Admire new towns, their architecture and new, much more beautiful buildings.
- See how village is changing and how villagers happily build new structures if their lord is not a miser and ivests in his fief.
- Discover different cultures - the look, customs and architecture of people living in each part of Calradia.
- See how settlements go to sleep for the night.
- Choose who you want to recruit, if the village is multi-cultured.
Earn respect and noble titles:- Get use to heraldry of Calradia, where each noble lord have its own unique coat of arms. No more randomeness.
- Make your own, brand new banner, if all the existing ones are not enough for you!
- Earn your respect and hearing, because nobody will listen to a common peasant...
Fight:- See all the new attack animations.
- Let your troops finish the fight by themselves, if you were wounded in the battle.
- Shout out your orders laud! No more muted player, now you will hear orders you are giving to your troops!
- Show the beauty of astronomy to your enemy! Hit him hard with your shield, so that all stars will explode with a bright light in his head!
- Decide what to do with wounded enemies. Let them free, take them prisoners, or just kill them remembering, that all choices have their consequences.
- Loot your enemies, this time for real. Now you'll be looting actual equipement of the troops you fought against, not some picked randomly stuff! You can even loot your own troops, if you like to.
- Test your weapons and armors by sparring with your troops on arena.
- Order your troops to form ranks, wedge or a line.
- Show your valor on the battlefield and watch enemies run cowardly for their lives.
- Do not loose fights and do not let enemies to take you alive! Your way to regain freedom may be long, hard and painful.
Have a look at your inventory:- Gather all the new items, prepared exclusively for this mod.
- Paint your shield, change the look of your clothes. With new "painting" system you will no longer have to buy the same item twice just to see how it will look in different color or with some other pattern on it.
- Search for your most-wanted items across all Calradia, because merchants in each part of the world sell different stuff. No more crossbows in Nord cities, no more steppe horses in Swadia, no more heavy axes for Rhodoks etc...
- Repair your broken equipement at smith. Harten your sword, reinforce your shield, sharpen your axe... if you have money of course.
Entertain people:- Gain fame and the love of common folk by fighting on arenas in different parts of Calradia, climbing slowly to the top of this brutal carieer.
- Take part in knight tournaments and joustings, that are available only for nobles.
- Be the last man standing on brutal barbarian arenas, where no mercy is shown to the weak ones.
Be your own master:- Raise a new kingdom from nothing, name it as you want, make your own banner, choose your kingdom's culture...
- Manage your kingdom, search for loyal vassals who will serve you and give them fiefs.
- Plan and give orders to your vassals using the interactive, strategic map of Calradia.
- Declare a war or try to make a peace with enemy faction. Try to ransom your captured friends.
- Hire elite troops, choose what equipement will they use or buy them some new stuff.
- Choose one of many cultures. You don't have to lead troops from standard 5 factions anymore. Now you'll have much bigger choice.
- ...or you can became a bandit leader and live in constant war with other kingdoms, ambushing their caravans, plundering villages etc.
- Make your companions army leaders. Give them troops and let them fight for their own, besiege towns, rape, plunder and raze villages.
Do something for others:- Hire as a part of caravan guard.
- Defend peasant from looters.
- Finish other brand new quests.
Wipe out your ears:- Listen to a lot of new beautiful music, which will build proper atmosphere in scenes or encourage you in the heat of the battle.
- Hear tons of new effects, battlecries, and ambience sounds.
Gladden your eyes:- Admire the natural beauty of Calradia. Many old models and textures were replaced by new, better and more atmospheric ones.
Have fun:- Beat some drunken asses in a tavern brawl.
- Play dice or dice poker.
- Give few denars to poor musician, and maybe he will play some nice tunes for you.
- Solve riddles to open locked chest and find out what's inside.
- Buy picklocks and master your lockpicking skills, by opening locks on doors and chest.
...and much more.
Mod will be released when it's done.
