Poll Warband vs Bannerlord

[Owen Wulfson]

It is unfortunate that Bannerlord is not finished yet. Indeed, there are a lot of reasons why I don't bother playing past mid-game anymore. Chief among my reasons being my still-captive siblings, the inoperable garrison system and the incomplete dynamics among the npc clans (no new marriages, no children).

But there is so much potential with the Bannerlord system that, once completed, will offer unparalleled enjoyment both in native and mods to come. I dream of that day and look forward to it eagerly.

 

[Emil]

Warband, MP is much more organized and less repetitive with the addition of NW DLC where regiments and servers make each round unique.

 

[Marko͘]

And still

 

[froggyluv]

As of right now the only way to enjoy Multiplayer is Warband...
Also, did you hear about this neat DLC called Napoleonic Wars? You should give it a go Id choose NW over any game, any time.

Firearms in a game in which AI doesnt understand/use cover of any kind and ALWAYS knows where you are sounds like the opposite of fun -sorry

 

[Marko͘]

Who mentioned AI? Those are 200 player organised events.

 

[kreamy]

u watch too many ****
u have only 30 GB left in ur hard-desk
you can download only one game
go

bannerlord will vastly be better than warband in the long run. its almost better currently, but has no content

 

[Younes]

Currently warband is better.

Singleplayer is better in warband because its finished, once bannerlord SP is finished i'm sure it will surpass warband.

Multiplayer on the other hand isn't getting fixed. Because it has inherently design flaws the devs will refuse to fix.

So when the game is out:

SP warband < SP bannerlord
MP warband > MP bannerlord

 

[Dabos37]

I do not want to sound like a Bannerlord fanboy but for people saying that Warband SP is currently better, can you please elaborate why vanilla Warband SP is better? Bannerlord, even when It stills need new features a lot of polishing, even when Diplomacy and AI Lords relationship is almost inexistant, I find It much more enjoyable than Warband and It has new great features that Warband does not have.

Vanilla Bannerlord is already superior than vanilla Warband in SP for me without any doubt.

 

[Meraun]

Seems unfair since Bannerlord isnt doen yet

 

[light6486]

Bannerlord is better even though it was released too early and economy completely broken(can get 1,000,000+ in less than 5h of gameplay without cheat mode), most of the skills not working/useless because economy is broken and I've seen someone wrote what everything related to your own kingdom is broken/bugged too.

But it's enjoyable nonetheless, I hope they will continue with current pace of updates.

 

[PottyMouth!]

All else being equal, warband. Bannerlord combat right now is just horribly bad. I called this when the first videos for the game came out you could see how clunky and gross it was from a mile away.

 

[Chaosreaper187]

u watch too many ****
u have only 30 GB left in ur hard-desk
you can download only one game
go

I actually went back to warband yesterday because I was feeling like playing brytenwalda against after the new season of the last kingdom.
What is surprising is that the melee combat AI is really bad, 1 v 1 s are actually fun in bannerlord because the AI will block your attacks but in warband it's really easy to know when you should attack them

 

[Kulgrinda Košmarjus]

I'm gonna stash some new g..*cough*..y midget p..*cough*.n into those 30 GB and watch youtube videos on how to build a trebuchet

 

[Maximum997]

Bannerlord combat right now is just horribly bad.

Yes. Just returned in WB and goddamn it is so fun to use spears\onehanders\two handers on mount. In BL i played most of the game as footman, becouse horse battles are just not fun at all.

 

[eddiemccandless]

I do not want to sound like a Bannerlord fanboy but for people saying that Warband SP is currently better, can you please elaborate why vanilla Warband SP is better? Bannerlord, even when It stills need new features a lot of polishing, even when Diplomacy and AI Lords relationship is almost inexistant, I find It much more enjoyable than Warband and It has new great features that Warband does not have.

Vanilla Bannerlord is already superior than vanilla Warband in SP for me without any doubt.

Here's my reasons, for what is worth, listed in order of annoyance (biggest gripe comes first):

1) While it is not optimal, in Warband having an infantry army is perfectly feasible and enjoyable, and if cavalry charges blindly against a blob of Rhodok Sergeants or Nord Huscarls, they are going to have a bad time. In Bannerlord cavalry will just gracefully slide through small gaps as if they were made of rubber. It's immersion breaking and unfun, not to mention unbalanced.

2) There is no training skill in Bannerlord (Leadership perks are largely irrelevant), so you have to gather low level recruits and send them to fight while you semi-afk from your high horse. I don't consider this a fun activity.

3) Low level archers in Warband will tickle you if you have decent armor, while high level archers will hurt a lot. In Bannerlord there is much less of a difference in skill between low and high level archers, which removes a level of depth to the game.

4) In Warband you have complete control over the way you level, while in Bannerlord you really have no control over what skills you raise.

I am hoping that a lot of this will be addressed during development, but as for right now yeah that would be why.

 

[Maximum997]

I just dont like BL combat. There are few things that spoil game for me:

1) As a footman.
Stupid AI and morale and respawn system. Enemies will just kite you forever for some reason, then their reinforcment will spawn on your face. And your will be mile away. It is not fun to spend 10 minutes on chasing, then 1 minute on actual fighting, and another 10 minutes on chasing that one guy who dont want to give up.


2) As horseman i just dont like combat at all. With sword you should watch right in the ground to hit anybody, spears are slow and cluncky and just unfun.

 

[Dabos37]

Uhmmm, infantry vs cavalry is much more fair in Bannerlord than in Warband. I even find cavalry not really effective in this game, despite of cavalry units being able to knock down infantry easily.

On the other hand, Fians are the new Swadian Knights in this game a just destroy everything (being fair, It is not just about Fians but most of missile units).

I have not problem to upgrade my units fast but I can understand this complain.

I like a lot the new Bannerlord skill system but It should be tweaked. It is too slow.

 

[Maximum997]

Uhmmm, infantry vs cavalry is much more fair in Bannerlord than in Warband. I even find cavalry not really effective in this game, despite of cavalry units being able to knock down infantry easily.

In WB polearms and tight formations is the counter to cavalry. And cavalry beats archers.
In BL formations are useless against cav. In loose formation polearns are way way better against cav.
And archers is the counter to cavalry, and to infantry, and to another archers. And it is becouse armor doesnt exist in this game.

So my tactic is really simple.Some infantry to tank, and I just added some pikemen to archers groop for protection against cav.