Hm..I don´t really understand why everybody is looking forward to this, while there is something released, which is also from Hinkel and one of the best mods for Warband, better then mm russia and I would say better then NW. Don´t get me wrong, this will be awesome and so on, but maybe it will short the period of wating for you. It´s called Secession and I highly recommend it to everybody who looks forward to this mod http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/board,240.0.html