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Sherlock Holmes said:

Apparently there was a small Q&A on the /mbg section of 4chan in which(among other things) it was first asked and then semi-confirmed there is a new expansion/DLC coming for Warband!

The developers of Han Hun Total War went to Ankara to talk about the deal. This was first hinted on the Chinese forums when the modders posted pictures of the TW Office.

In the Q&A, someone asked about the whole thing and got a response:

Anonymous: "Can you comment on Han Hun Total War at all? Rumor has it on the Chinese forums that they flew in to Ankara to talk about being an official warband expansion"
Frank: "Oh that. Wow... I can't talk about that at all! I'm surprised you even know about it. Impressed, even."

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Anonymous: "Also, with Han Hun being basically confirmed(and therefore leading the way to a proper rotk mod), whats the estimated date of DLC release, judging from early VC leaks?"

Hope someone knows more information 

Edit: There's some stuff on Reddit as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/mountandblade/comments/57fcgb/last_night_communityguy_frank_did_a_quick/

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Hope you don't mind, I used some of your wise words in the video below, gave you proper credit of course. Good detective work Sherlock!

Excited for 12th, looks fantastic.

/Hugs,
RipperX

Thanks

Windle said:

Hi RipperX,

You are one funny dude! I really enjoyed watching some of your videos.
I was just wondering why you would pick "Melee Battlegrounds" and "Reign of Kings" above Warband for skill based?

Melee Battlegrounds
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Looks like Melee just has a few more swing directions without any other classes. No game play or anything to be found about fighting or blocking or anything. Warband has clan matches and weekend cups with tons of strategy in mind. Also keeping in mind what to buy to beat opponents. Like in a 8 vs 8 clan match where the other team has 6 cav its a players skill to either get good with throwing javelins or have knowledge how cav work and use a spear or pike. Then there are different game modes within Warband that makes you get a different mindset in order to become better and hence changing you approach on skill. Melee Battlegrounds does not feature any of this...

Reign of Kings
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Again a game with maybe more eye candy but from what I saw it just has a few more features to offer. Are there things like feints, counters, chambers, weapon speed perks, weapon lengths, ... that can alter how a melee fight is going down? Very curious how this game takes 1st based on skill.

Greets

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Hey Windle!

Great questions man, and totally valid. I've been in the Melee Battlegrounds closed dev alpha for a while now, there is indeed 8 attacks and 8 blocks, and they have some new modes which are very exciting. I think to be completely honest here, Mount & Blade could be #1 on the list, but I do believe when a new game comes out or is coming out, sometimes it's good to put it up high on the list as to get people talking, discussion as well as critique as to why it "should be #1".

I think at this point in time, Melee Battlegrounds has a huge amount of potential so that's why it's up high on the list. When Bannerlord comes out, Warband and Bannerlord will most likely be in the top 3, but again the list here is really about skill based player vs player combat and I believe all 3 titles, Melee, Bannerlord and Warband are doing it right.

As for Reign of Kings, it's really Chivalry combat with Minecraft/Rust building elements. Why Reign of Kings takes the cake for April is A. It's a new release with very brutal PvP scenarios and B. There are some very cool and brand new features in this game which have not been seen in any other game, ie. taking over the throne, reigning as king, taxing the server, bullet time arrows, hanging players, beheading players, capturing players & putting them in player built cages, just a lot of hardcore griefing that again is skill based at the end of the day. I don't think Reign of Kings will be #1 forever, but for this Month, in my opinion at least it definitely takes the cake.

Last but not least, yes, Reign of Kings has Feints, counters, chambers, weapon speeds and lengths, its very skill based, but the combat just takes a bit of getting used to. It will be similar to Chivalry where you use the mouse wheel for a top-down swing or thrust. I hope this helps a bit in answering your questions.

Best,
RipX

The video is up here:

Great event lads. Video is rendering down now and we should have a proper vid up from the event in the next few hours. I'll post a link here once it's up on the site.

Thanks again for the fun!

Cheers,
Ripper X

Please let me know if you guys have any more events.

Best,
RipperX

Yep Jan that was some great singing . Good times.

Cheers,
RipX