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Having your own refuge is also a cool addition as a pseudo-castle and place where you can keep extra troops for those of you who donвЂ™t wish to become a vassal of any old king, but still want to reap the benefits of having a steady place to call home (and for storing items and the like).

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There are also the additions of being able see troop trees in-game, so it was easier to plan out how you wanted to upgrade your troops to get the desirable troop make-up. Representations of parties on the map increase in number of men to help give a visual indication of how large it is. The world map is textured well and pretty detailed with better water graphics. Seeing past the seemingly random jumble of vowels and consonants, you will find that Viking Conquest looks really nice, or at least a lot nicer than the vanilla version. Or perhapsВ you can and IвЂ™m just dyslexic with historical names and sometimes history is just silly like that anyway. The following screen is the opening screen you see when you start a new adventure, explaining to you the setting in perfectly legible English.Д«ut perhaps you arenвЂ™t fazed with being a vassal, or lord, of people whose names you cannot remember or pronounce, and watching over lands and towns whose names you also canвЂ™t pronounce. In fact if you were just reading about theВ new features, you would probably think itвЂ™s all pretty swell. A whole new world, one that is historical and real, with a whole new story aspect to play through that helps you learn and explore the admittedly less diverse, but interesting world. Gameplay has been further expanded to allow ship travel and all the goodies that come off of that. The visuals are heads and shoulders better. If the original WarbandвЂ™s jump was equal to your highschool varsity championвЂ™s long jump, Viking Conquest is Mike PowellвЂ™s. The new features that the Viking Conquest DLC brings just completely blows it out of the water.

It was a very impressive jump with a lot of new features that made the game all that much more fun and enjoyable. Then came Warband in 2010 where all the RPG-esque stuff got expanded to the point where you could marry ladies and create your very own kingdom. Some fun, extra side RPG-esque stuff was the cherry on the top.

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The trailer below doesnвЂ™t have any gameplay, but it does feature a lot of eager Viking enthusiasts.The Mount & Blade series first hit the scene back in 2008 and while it wasnвЂ™t particularly visually appealing, the kind of gameplay it brought to the table wowed the critics with itsВ open-world sandbox that allowed you to head your own group of men, which could number up to the hundreds, and fight together with them on the battlefields as your own playable character.

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Religion will play a role too, with both Christianity and the Old Norse Gods represented in the game.ДЄ full feature list of all the lovely bits and pieces expected in Viking Combat can be read over on this official page. Vikings, Saxons, Picts and Irish Gaels will all be there, along with more than 200 historical characters. Viking Conquest will transform the standard Warband map into the shape of Norway, Denmark and the British Isles, made up of 21 separate kingdoms. This, along with the suggestion of storms, suggests that the Warband engine has been tweaked pretty significantly for this DLC. Naturally, since itвЂ™s a Viking game, thereвЂ™s going to be fleet combat and naval raids. ItвЂ™s a single and multiplayer expansion, requiring the original Mount & Blade: Warband to play (itвЂ™s not stand-alone, in other words.)

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Like previous DLC release Napoleonic Wars, Viking Conquest started life as a mod for the Warband. That news comes both from publisher Taleworlds, and the conclusion of an entertaining live-action/cosplay trailer (below.)

The Viking Conquest DLC for Mount & Blade: Warband will be released upon unsuspecting Saxon villages everywhere from 11 December. What is this, some kind of STEALTH Viking raid.