FOR USE WITH M&B WARBAND V 1.13
Pike & Blade 3.5: Riders on the Storm!
THIS VERSION WILL WORK WITH SAVES MADE WITH PREVIOUS VERSIONS

Infantry expanded upon without losing the flavors of the factions or overwhelming the player with new units.

Contents: Zip folder that contains pike&blade readme, item-kinds1.txt, party_templates.txt, troops.txt


The primary goal of this mod is to develop infantry into a more versatile and interesting arm of the various faction armies without ditching the faction themes. In other words, Rhodoks are still Rhodoks, just more so!

While each of the factions has received new units, the number of new units is low. Units have only been added if they remained true to the faction's theme (like the Rhodok Pikemen and Cleavermen, who jointly fill separate elements of the old Rhodok Spearman's role) while filling a new and interesting niche (like the light infantry skirmishers of the Nords, or the offensively potent but poorly armored Rhodok Macemen), or if they provided an essential balacing element (like the Sarranid and Swadian Squires, offensively potent t5 2h sword footmen who are now the only way to acquire t6 Swadian Knights and Mamelukes). No fluff units, new textures or scripts have been added.

This mod is intended for players who like using lots of cav and wish the other factions were a legitimate threat as opposed to a speed bump, or for players who enjoy fighting with infantry armies, but dislike how under-developed, weak and tactically uninteresting they feel in Vanilla -- in other words, people who think "hide on a hill and fire arrows at them" shouldn't be the last word in infantry tactics.

Feel free to download, try, and tell me it's shit!



This site has the useless blackout spoiler tags, so for more information and the changelog please check this thread: http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,110114.0.html

V3.5 (5.04.2010) significantly changed horses (see readme or forum thread!)
V3.2 (5.01.2010) changed AI reinforcements
V3.15 (5.01.2010) minor bug fix, some balance changes
V3.1 (5.01.2010) major fix to major update, apologies to those who have to redownload NO LONGER BREAKS SAVES (SEE FORUM THREAD FOR DETAILS)
V3.0 (5.01.2010) major update
V2.51 (4.27.2010) bugfix patch!
V2.5 (4.25.2010) is only posted here, and can use the plainly visible counter finally.
V2.0 (4.25.2010) has, at the time of this post, been downloaded 93 times (including 28 times on Rapidshare).
V1.2 (4.23.2010) has been downloaded 101 times.

Thanks!