The music blog called the Sturgians the "viking style faction"
One of the screenshots has a sword called "viking sword" belonging to the Sturgian faction
I think you have to be very optimistic to think that Sturgia won't be more heavily influenced by vikings/Nords than Slav/Vaegirs.
I would say I hope it doesn't turn bloody but some of the footage makes me fear it's too late. God it was bad enough to wake to a bloody morning today.
There is a fleshed out bombardment phase on the overland map, during which, the siege weapons you construct will exchange fire back and forth with the defenders', resulting in casualties,
I'm not too concerned about women in Bannerlord
Might even be neat to see if Isolla was truthful or not
But if they go overboard there will be mods to fix it, just like with the Total War games.
I would kill for coop. Even if it's not proper campaign map multiplayer, just something like being able to play as someone's companion would be awesome. Like the battletime mod but less cumbersome.
There's also the fact to consider that voice acting also limits how much the developers can do, because anything new they want to add or anything they want to change they have to get the same voice actor back and record them and in general there is less incentive to give players more options in dialogue because you will have to pay and spend time to record everything.
At least it looks like Bannerlord didn't get a ****ty dialogue wheel