Your Best and Most Satisfying Moments in a Mount and Blade Game?

[xdj1nn]

When I've finally uninstalled it

 

[Insider]

The best moment is when you have around 12000 denars after raiding the sea raider hideout for Boyar Meriga and can start your Dyeworks enterprise that is going to pay for your sixty-five soldiers

 

[JayWalker]

A battle during one of my first playthroughs. It was fairly even, and the enemy was on horseback. My horse was slain and I was running around fairly uselessly when he saw me . . .the lancer. He charged full speed and he seemed like the avatar of death itself. I pulled a javelin from my back. I wasn't very good with them, mostly I had been tossing them at enemy clumps and hoping for lucky hits. But now it was life or death. I stood still, waited as he bore down and me, and threw at the last moment. Normally my throwing damage was pathetic, but here I saw this lancer fly of the back of his horse as the javelin planted in his face. I was able to breath. We won the battle barely. Most of my men died, but that one moment of life or death action planted itself in my memory.

 

[OnlyToaster]

When my low-level troops get a bunch of kills against an outnumbering enemy and take no casualties. Those straight columns of green text in the combat log bring tears of satisfaction to my eyes.

 

[IceNoVa]

Gather around and listen to a tale of grandeur and heroism that is a lesson to us all:

It was in the later stages of the Warband Singleplayer beta when it happened. In the lands of Swadia a young lad by the name of @SvÄn had just bought his very first proper armour.
The lad was excited for he wanted to test His mettle and continue the road to glory.
A chivalrous heart beating in his chest, young SvÄn mounted his trusty old steed and wandered around the town of Suno, hoping to be of service to a young damsel in distress, or a wealthy businessman perhaps.
It was at this time that he encountered a band of robbers. Villainous scum that plagued the days of humble farmers, pursuing them across they countryside with the intention of helping themselves not just to the farmes posessions, but the women and the children, too.
Gladly young SvÄn intercepted the robbers, shouting they were to gain nothing but his cold steel. He charged onwards with his trusty steed, his long blonde hair flying in the Wind. The robbers were in sight, a mere 20 metres or so left to go, when the unthinkable happened. A cowardly robber had thrown a stone at the young nobleman, who was hit in the head and fell unconscious. Young SvÄn was taken prisoner and managed to escape a few days later, though the foul robbers remained in posession of his shiny new armour.

And that is why you always wear a helmet, children. So that your friends don't laugh at you in teamspeak when you moan in disbelief and anger at your own bad luck and incompetence.

 

[SvÄn]

@IceNoVa ?
You forgot about young SvÄn hunting down the robbers to take revenge and get back his equipment ?

But remember: always wear a helmet ?

 

[Brynjahr]

Crushthrough​

 

[Oxtocoatl]

That kickstart beginning I always pulled in original M&B. Start as a nobleborn blacksmith - > sell your tools,->use the money to hire Nizar -> steal his gear -> cobble together just enough money to hire 2 mercenary cavalry -> raid a village, watch your 2 guys murder 50 people and make a ton of money.

 

[Ananda_The_Destroyer]

When Sultan H shows up with 500 guys to raid your one useless fief and nobody comes to help and you're just watching...... you should just walk away, but then you decide no, not this time, maybe I can't beat 500 of you with my 45 men, but I can turn the battle size down and kill 50 of you solo over and over for the next 5 hours. Without their armored horses everyone's just a searaider afterall.

 

[Kernowek]

Have a really good playthrough going now - 1257AD playing as Wales. Caernarfon castle came under siege by the a huge English army - 1900 men, I rushed my retinue of Longbowmen into the fortress before it was too late, there was only 450 of us to defend the castle. The first wave comes up the ladder, at it's head Henry III himself, I took my battleaxe and began to cut through his Knights and eventually got to the King and clobbered him unconscious. After a long siege, which felt like a Cymraeg Thermopylae - a wall of Spearmen with my longbowmen shooting the enemy in the side we had been depleted to under 300 but the English army had lost half it's number. They break their siege and I manage to take the a large number of English lords captive as they scatter. A second battle between myself and Henry and he escapes again along with the Archbishop of Canterbury. I'll catch them next time

 

[sniparsexe]

Long-distance headshots with bows

 

[578]

When you joined multiplayer and had to choose each item for your warrior.

 

[Sidhwen_Khorest]

I would say my favorite thing is when you are playing a woman and you get enough renown that the lords around you start to respect or even fear you. feels a lot more satisfying getting over every hurdle because you are constantly defying everyone's expectations of you.

second favorite is beating up a lord to win back your girl, just because I think it's funny.

 

[Honved]

on account of my over-sized genitals, makes riding horses very painful... you wouldn't understand

OK, I do understand. It's probably painful for days, after a player such as myself either puts an arrow in them or gives them a good kick while riding past.

Incidentally, are you by any chance THE "Dread Zeppelin", the somewhat oversized and locally semi-famous Elvis impersonator?

 

[Cilcain]

My first battle against a similarly-sized faction army, in the original Mount and Blade. It's so long ago now that the playthrough is vague, but I muddled through for a long time without fully understanding how to play. It was ages before I discovered the tactical map for example, I used to follow my own troops to find the nearest enemy

That first faction battle felt completely epic, partly because not having the tactical overview. Complete, glorious, unforgettable chaos! I really thought I was going to lose but at the end I won by a whisker. A lot of hard-won army-building progress had been wiped out but I was still standing -- and kind of astonished to discover it.

Another good memory was a fort in original Mount and Blade that you could conquer more-or-less solo. It was a wooden one with a fire burning in the main gate and a kill-zone courtyard. Lethal for attacking AI troops, which made it a nice one to own too.

 

[DreadZep]

OK, I do understand. It's probably painful for days, after a player such as myself either puts an arrow in them or gives them a good kick while riding past.

Incidentally, are you by any chance THE "Dread Zeppelin", the somewhat oversized and locally semi-famous Elvis impersonator?

lol no I am not them, those dudes are probably in their 70s by now. I grew up near Pasadena where they used to do shows. in my teens I was very seriously into led zeppelin, to an obnoxious degree as you can imagine, and one day I saw an add for these guys playing at some bar. in my mind I imagined some heavier version of led zeppelin cover band, got real excited and planned to sneak into the bar to see the show. What I saw deeply offended the very young and serious boy I was... some very over the hill, sweaty fat guys doing some weird elvis reggae heavy metal/psychedelic version of my fav led zeppelin songs. even though I wasnt much of a fan of their music... I had to appreciate their commitment to being so ridiculous and out of control. they also managed to snap me out of my led zep snobbery, which is something. this was about the time online computer games like world of warcraft started coming out and we all had to get really clever on what names to use for our avatars. so yea, I know you didnt ask, but now you know the whole story of why this obscure band name holds a special place for me

 

[The_BlackThorn]

Long-distance headshots with bows

This. And better when they and you are on horseback and the epic rag dolls that result

 

[Easter Cow]

Winning a multiplayer tournament then getting 3 silvers in a row .

 

[ArzhurG]

I'd say that it was in the Prophesy of Pendor mod. I assaulted a city, Ravenstern. I ended up getting over 600 personal kills, which I think is still my record for a single battle. The main thing that I can remember is the intensity of frantically trying to find any and all missiles to shot/throw at the enemy (I didn't bring anywhere near enough), while not getting hit.

 

[Honved]

lol no I am not them, those dudes are probably in their 70s by now. I grew up near Pasadena where they used to do shows.

Interesting, if not just plain disturbing, that there was obviously more than one "Dread Zeppelin". The guy using that moniker in PA did an Elvis impersonation show just a couple of decades back, not LZ material, and he was the "zeppelin" (technically, more like a blimp). As for "most satisfying moments", smashing and burning any remaining copies of such "music" would be quite satisfying. I had the dubious pleasure of working with one "not the sharpest tool in the shed" Elvis fan, and frequently tormented him over his favorite singer: Elmo Paisley, or was it Eldon Parsley.... I understand that there was another impersonator of the famed "Elvis the Pelvis" going by the stage name of "Enos the.....".

Not familiar with Pasadena, but I worked in Anaheim briefly, within a block or so of Disneyland.