Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord's War Sails expansion is terraforming the land to encourage maximum boat bastardry

Sorry, humanities farming colony folk. You unrecorded successful the oversea now. Ok, fine. By the sea. But that's the champion we tin do. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord's War Sails enlargement is owed this Autumn, and TaleWorlds person enactment retired a caller heavy dive blog covering what to expect from the large conflict strategy RPG's archetypal foray into wavely warfare. Shiver maine tambourines and different specified phrases that would person confused a viking, here's the archetypal trailer successful lawsuit you missed it.

As is bully journalistic practise, I'll commencement with the spot I find the funniest, conceptually, particularly if I ideate it arsenic a paper headline. "Several towns person been moved person to water". Rivers person besides been widened, and bridges person been "reconsidered". This is each portion of TaleWorld's efforts to reshape "the precise veins of the continent", ostensibly to widen the maritime commercialized network, though I fishy it's really conscionable to springiness you much targets to vessel batter.

"For settlements present hugging rivers and coasts, information sails person — rival ports are present conscionable a voyage away. To conscionable this caller maritime threat, some parties and armies tin present question by water, gaining entree to naval question and combat."

The satellite representation is besides being expanded with "a caller rugged agelong portion of a south-facing coastline". Coincidentally, rugged agelong is besides my stripper name. Here's the map:

Image credit: TaleWorlds Entertainment

Returning to coastline plundering, TaleWorlds person besides elaborate the portion naval warfare volition play successful sieges. Namely blockades, which volition beryllium automatically formed aft mounting up a siege camp, arsenic agelong arsenic the siege people is simply a naval colony and the besiegers person ships available. As a player, you tin besides reenforce besieged towns from h2o - "either by breaking done the blockade astatine the outgo of immoderate troops, oregon by attacking the fleet straight to assistance it."

A fewer different bits of interest: If you dock and past spell pottering astir connected land, you'll beryllium capable to summon your ships again from immoderate coastal town. Sailing itself volition beryllium aided oregon hindered by upwind velocity and currents, and you'll person to contend with attrition, from hazards similar storms and regular aged disrepair, portion you're retired there.

How is Bannerlord these days? I played it for astir 50 precise bully hours erstwhile it came retired and haven't touched it since. Sin reviewed it backmost successful 2022 and didn't reckon it was a meaningful upgrade from the previous. "I inactive bask Bannerlord due to the fact that there's thing other doing those unfastened satellite battles," she wrote. "But astir everything other is simply a robotic, shallow grind offering nary surprises, with a plethora of complaints that aboriginal entree is expected to robust out".