The way of the sword is a japanese themed bannerlord mod.
Start as a small clan and use politics, intrigue and pure force to destroy your enemies.
Use our high quality models and unique custom designed katana fighting system, animated from scratch using motion capture.
Fight in larger and better battles then you have ever done before, use tactics, deployment and ambushes to stop your foes.
Become a ninja and use stealth to sneak upon your enemies undetected, or use ninja and geisha to control your enemies.
Fight on the water, challenge people to duels, master long forgotten techniques like the dual wielding technique of minamoto musashi, master the way of the sword and become a true samurai.
More information: Drive.google.com
Feature list ^ progress tracking: Docs.google.com
Discord: Discord.gg
Moddb: TWOTS
One of our devblogs for more in depth information:
The combat is an important part of the mod so we focus a lot on it. All troops of course use japanese weapons and armors now but that's not enough we want custom katana fighting animations to make it look more japanese. Instead of what happens in the normal game in this mod before you land a strike it's smarter to first choose a starting position. There are three starting positions: defending, neutral and aggressive. All have 8 attacks.
The time you need to strike and block depends on your position, so you could say your position is very important. All times and more information can be found on the mod drive file.
Now we told you there are 8 strikes, these strikes can all 8 be blocked by using one of the four blocks.
We also have art to illustrate this basis sword strikes.
Here you can see all strikes (left) and all blocks (right), the strikes are pretty straightforward and if they become brighter at some point (7 gets purple instead of brighter) that means that there is gore there (mostly decapitation) So you can see now that you can decap legs, hands, arms and split heads in 2 parts
have fun i say. Then at the right image we see the attacks again this time more quick shown but now their blocks have been added.
At the beginning of the game you also start with a few counter attacks and more advanced attack, you can see more about them on the drive page but we will here hightlight the most complicated, dangerous and cool one: The so called deflecting block attack.
When you block you normally use a full block in which you put your sword between you and the sword of the enemy. When you perform a block attack you wait longer with the block and instead of putting your sword between yourself and the enemy you swing your sword against the sword. You hit the sword in a way that it glides from your sword and continues its strike but you give it enough force to make it not hit you.
The block attack is only possible when blocking a 3-6.
in the above page you can see attack 1-6, 1 and 2 are the middle one which can only be blocked by a so called full block where you will fully stop the enemy sword (if you are on time). However the attack 4-6 can be blocked on a other way. This block attack demands a perfect timing, if you land the block to soon you will do a full block, if you land the block to late the sword won't change direction enough and you will die, you need to deflect the sword. If you achieve to deflect the sword the right way the attacker who expected to hit something will have to set a step forward and his sword will shoot further trough. Giving you just enough time for a quick but deadly swing.
So very basicly spoken you know something about the basic combat system of the mod, but we wont be perfectionists if we didn't dare to take it a step higher. We will add sword schools to this game in which you can study and learn highly skilled techniques. Today we are only showing off one technique, the technique of miyamoto mushasi. This man was probably the greatest samurai to ever live, he mastered fighting with two sword, the so called "two heavens technique" or just dual wielding
However we got some stuff about his school and are ready to show it to you guys. The style contains three technique but we will only show the third and final one, check out the drive for more again.
You use your wakizashi or katana to block while striking with the other sword.
We have the familiar strikes. But we don't just block we use counter blocks
Now ofcourse when fighting with two swords the position changes tho, we got some images of that too.
If you payed close attention to everything i wrote before i'm sure you saw i mentioned the three starting positions, well this one combines 2 of them: The aggresive and the defensive, so now you can defend and attack at the same time, but you also can block and strike the quickest.
So i'm going to quit for now a little head up: In the next Dev Blog you will be able to read about fighting with wakizashi, nodachi, yari, bo, and other weapons.
We also will take a sneak peak at the advanced tactics that the game will contain.
Godarcher
Progress
We already got 140 weapon pieces and multiple weapons into the game, and we are pretty far with the 3d modelling stage, have made 70 japanese props, a few samurai armors and swords, ninja pieces and much more.
Start as a small clan and use politics, intrigue and pure force to destroy your enemies.
Use our high quality models and unique custom designed katana fighting system, animated from scratch using motion capture.
Fight in larger and better battles then you have ever done before, use tactics, deployment and ambushes to stop your foes.
Become a ninja and use stealth to sneak upon your enemies undetected, or use ninja and geisha to control your enemies.
Fight on the water, challenge people to duels, master long forgotten techniques like the dual wielding technique of minamoto musashi, master the way of the sword and become a true samurai.
More information: Drive.google.com
Feature list ^ progress tracking: Docs.google.com
Discord: Discord.gg
Moddb: TWOTS
One of our devblogs for more in depth information:
The combat is an important part of the mod so we focus a lot on it. All troops of course use japanese weapons and armors now but that's not enough we want custom katana fighting animations to make it look more japanese. Instead of what happens in the normal game in this mod before you land a strike it's smarter to first choose a starting position. There are three starting positions: defending, neutral and aggressive. All have 8 attacks.
The time you need to strike and block depends on your position, so you could say your position is very important. All times and more information can be found on the mod drive file.
Now we told you there are 8 strikes, these strikes can all 8 be blocked by using one of the four blocks.
We also have art to illustrate this basis sword strikes.
Here you can see all strikes (left) and all blocks (right), the strikes are pretty straightforward and if they become brighter at some point (7 gets purple instead of brighter) that means that there is gore there (mostly decapitation) So you can see now that you can decap legs, hands, arms and split heads in 2 parts
have fun i say. Then at the right image we see the attacks again this time more quick shown but now their blocks have been added.At the beginning of the game you also start with a few counter attacks and more advanced attack, you can see more about them on the drive page but we will here hightlight the most complicated, dangerous and cool one: The so called deflecting block attack.
When you block you normally use a full block in which you put your sword between you and the sword of the enemy. When you perform a block attack you wait longer with the block and instead of putting your sword between yourself and the enemy you swing your sword against the sword. You hit the sword in a way that it glides from your sword and continues its strike but you give it enough force to make it not hit you.
The block attack is only possible when blocking a 3-6.
in the above page you can see attack 1-6, 1 and 2 are the middle one which can only be blocked by a so called full block where you will fully stop the enemy sword (if you are on time). However the attack 4-6 can be blocked on a other way. This block attack demands a perfect timing, if you land the block to soon you will do a full block, if you land the block to late the sword won't change direction enough and you will die, you need to deflect the sword. If you achieve to deflect the sword the right way the attacker who expected to hit something will have to set a step forward and his sword will shoot further trough. Giving you just enough time for a quick but deadly swing.
So very basicly spoken you know something about the basic combat system of the mod, but we wont be perfectionists if we didn't dare to take it a step higher. We will add sword schools to this game in which you can study and learn highly skilled techniques. Today we are only showing off one technique, the technique of miyamoto mushasi. This man was probably the greatest samurai to ever live, he mastered fighting with two sword, the so called "two heavens technique" or just dual wielding
However we got some stuff about his school and are ready to show it to you guys. The style contains three technique but we will only show the third and final one, check out the drive for more again.
You use your wakizashi or katana to block while striking with the other sword.
We have the familiar strikes. But we don't just block we use counter blocks
Now ofcourse when fighting with two swords the position changes tho, we got some images of that too.
If you payed close attention to everything i wrote before i'm sure you saw i mentioned the three starting positions, well this one combines 2 of them: The aggresive and the defensive, so now you can defend and attack at the same time, but you also can block and strike the quickest.
So i'm going to quit for now a little head up: In the next Dev Blog you will be able to read about fighting with wakizashi, nodachi, yari, bo, and other weapons.
We also will take a sneak peak at the advanced tactics that the game will contain.
Godarcher
Progress
We already got 140 weapon pieces and multiple weapons into the game, and we are pretty far with the 3d modelling stage, have made 70 japanese props, a few samurai armors and swords, ninja pieces and much more.
