
Instant-death couched lances, extreme durability, even more durable horses, and even if you do dehorse them, they're a good match for most infantry head-on anyways.

You might have noticed quite a bit of praise for Nord Huscarls in the page.See the Game Breaker entry down below for details on just how they'll murder anything that's not also a Rhodok with impunity. Particularly brutal if there's a lot of them. Enemy cavalry with lances can be this way if you've been on the receiving end of a couched lance attack too many times.As bad as assaulting castles are in general, trying to conquer Vaegirs is a frickin' nightmare. They're insanely accurate, hit for a ton of damage even against high-ranking troops, and usually turn up in frighteningly large groups. Vaegir Marksmen, the best damn archers in the game.As you progress and your party grows, they may be downgraded to Goddamn Bats or even to Mooks. Their horses are fast, so fast they may forever elude you at first, their arrows are omnipresent and will interrupt your attacks, and they come in hordes. Khergit horse archers, which is to say, all Khergit cavalry, which is to say, all Khergit troops ( sans basic recruits).Not to mention temporarily crashing Steam's Shopping Cart on launch day due to Demand Overload. When the long-awaited Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord finally emerged into early access release on Steam, it instantly shot right up to near the top of the list of the most-played games on the platform, behind only perpetual list residents Counter-Strike Global Offensive, Dota 2 and Player Unknowns Battlegrounds, revealing the long-delayed game to be anticipated beyond what almost anyone could imagine. The game is actually a very, very popular under-the-radar classic, far more than most people would realise.
MOUNT AND BLADE WARBAND MULTIPLAYER GENRE MODS
There are no other games out there that combine role-playing, Real-Time Strategy and third/first person melee combat as well as this one, making for an extremely engrossing experience despite the flaws, and player-created mods have long since stepped in to address the worst issues.

Complacent Gaming Syndrome: Getting Swadian Knights, Rhodok Sharpshooters, and Nordic Huscarls, all 3 of which are on the same side of the map.As the game and sequels became cheaper, members of the fandom who felt this way changed their minds and just purchased the now notably cheaper sequels. There were vows to never buy or instead pirate the sequels as they felt they were cheated by the deal. A segment of the original fandom who had pre-purchased the game were then less then pleased. Instead they were made into addons that had to be purchased. The improvements were to include better combat, multiplayer, and improvements to sieges and management. However, once a publisher picked up the game, the promised improvements were never made to the original Mount and Blade. Broken Base: Before Mount & Blade was picked up by a publisher, they were operating on a "buy now, get a fleshed out version later without added cost" deal similar to Minecraft and Terraria (which was after the two, it's an industry standard "Early Access" arrangement).Author's Saving Throw: The much hated cattle jobs from the original Mount & Blade and Warband were finally changed in Fire & Sword by simply having the cattle follow you rather than herding them to the objetive.
