1. Skeid Ship

I love the idea of setting up my own private safehouse somewhere but I'm curious as to how everyone uses them. Do you put them right in the middle of the action, like the main region you're fighting in, or do you build it somewhere far away? Like a last-resort retreat ground if shit hits the fan. I'm just wondering because I'm torn between constructing it in Ireland (where I'm currently a mercenary) or in Wales (where I plan on backing a pretender to the crown of Gwynned once my contract is up).

Boats are a feature introduced in Viking Conquest. There are six different types of boats: Byrding, Knorr, Snekkja, Karvi, Skeid, and Busse.

Ireland is cool because like I said, it would be far out of the way from all the action, which isn't a huge deal because I'd eventually have castles, but Wales would probably get more use as that's where I plan on spending most of my time. Any advice from those of you who've already constructed refuges? How'd you use them?. Like Jehkobas said, you can build a port at your refuge so near a coast is good for that. My favourite location so far is on the west coast of England, west of Jorvik, north of Ynys Mon. I have my boats there to sail to Ireland, and if I want to go to Scandinavia I ride across England and sail from one of the ports rather than going all the way around the north of Scotland or south of England, which takes a long time.One thing to consider is. I actually have no idea whether the AI ever attacks the refuge, and when maxed out the garrison cap is 250 troops.

Skeid Ship

So I don't know if it's important to have the refuge relatively near the rest of your kingdom so you can get to it to defend it.Another location I've tried is a tiny deserted island between England and Ireland. Fun if you spend most of your time on boats.

I'm not writing about the first version of 'Mount & Blade: Warband - Viking Conquest', which, without doubt, was raw. What I'll be writing I'm not writing about the first version of 'Mount & Blade: Warband - Viking Conquest', which, without doubt, was raw. What I'll be writing about is the complete version - 'Reforged Edition'. It's not just an another mod of M&B, it's something bigger.

This game once more shows that it has no limits, by developing VC. I found no cons in it. It's beautiful. Even if you've already spent hundreds and thousands of hours, playing any other mod or an original version of the game, you will have already a new experience here. If you thought that this game couldn't become better, it became! Also if you're a fan of Vikings and their age, it will be an another bonus especially for you. But even if're not, the game will still have lots of new in it.

One another good thing about this is that it never stops becoming better and better. The new DLC Viking Conquest is not a perfect game. In its current condition, the game itself has quite a few bugs and there isn't much The new DLC Viking Conquest is not a perfect game. In its current condition, the game itself has quite a few bugs and there isn't much graphical improvement. But it is just a DLC and its primary goal is offering new content for the main game, Mount & Blade Warband. The Viking Conquest delivers this perfectly by opening doors for Scandinavian settings.

It brings over 200 historical characters like Harald the 1st and Ivar the Boneless. That's quite some content we are talking about.

If you play Mount & Blade, then you must somewhat like the Medieval theme. And there's not a time and place for M&B fans better than Dark Age Britain. As I said, Mount & Blade Warband: The Viking Conquest has some flaws and old graphics.

But the Viking Conquest DLC alone does what it needs to do perfectly. Now we just need some hotfixes and patches for the bugs.

Mount & Blade: Warband - Viking Conquest is the lastest, and probably the last DLC for a beloved RPG Mount & Blade: Warband. It was made by Mount & Blade: Warband - Viking Conquest is the lastest, and probably the last DLC for a beloved RPG Mount & Blade: Warband. It was made by the creators of a very popular mod called 'Brytenwalda'. To start off, no, the game still looks atrocious. The DLC does bring higher quality textures, but the overall look has not changed, which is not necessarily a bad thing. The question is, how's the gameplay?

Mount & Blade games have always offered more freedom than your average RPG, and this has not changed with Viking Conquest. As always, you start off by choosing your 'path', was your father a respected viking, or just a regular henchman? It's your choice, and this will affect how people will treat you at the beginning of the game. They've also added the option to pick a religion, nationality, and personality which is really nice. Ok, so after completing making your character, you are thrown in into the tutorial level which will introduce you to the new sailing mechanic, and basic combat. The first thing I've noticed is how clumsy everything feels, the boat controls are very not responsive, and overall a pain in the ass to control. I was kind of expecting that, don't get me wrong the combat in M&B was always fun, but it was also clumsy as hell.

I hope that Tale World is going to fix that in the upcoming M&B Bannerlord. Let's get back to the review.

After completing the dull tutorial, and talking to some people on the boat, you sail into the sea. And this is where the story starts, while sailing, you get attacked by a feared Viking, whose name I don't recall. He destroys your boat, captures your crew, your mother and that's it. You wake up the next day, and your goal is to find your mother and kill the Viking who captured her.

At first, I thought the story is going to be the generic 'I got a princess, go find her.' The dialogue has changed dramatically, it's much better than in previous M&B games, there a ton of new lines and choices which help you immerse into the semi-historically accurate world.

I can honestly say that they have captured the feel of Dark Age Britain perfectly with historical and random events, even historical characters which is really great if you are a history buff. To sum up the story, it's interesting, it has intriguing plot twists and interesting characters. Now that we talked a little bit about the story, let's move on to the technical side of things. I have got to say that this DLC is not in finished state, it's not. Week after release, the game was crashing constantly(go to the Steam forums, and look how many posts about constant crashing were made). They did fix the constant crashing, but you will still experience the horrible lag in the campaign map.

You know that something is wrong when M&B is lagging on GTX770. The game is full of bugs, sometimes in-battle mode, you will be spawned under ground, unable to do anything. And also, don't buy this for multiplayer, stick to Warband. At launch the multiplayer was a buggy mess also, which made the multiplayer dead as a result. I know that a lot of people want to buy this to play multiplayer, just because of the setting, but don't. Honestly, don't. You will never see lords leaving Norway to invade Britain, because of the horrible AI.

There is no Viking Conquest, the whole concept of the game is undermined by awful AI. The lords will just attend ceremonies and do other stuff, but never invade anyone. I've only seen Vikings invade Britain once, in a scripted section of the story mode, but other than that nothing. What surprised me the most is the small amount of items added to the game. I remember when Fire&Sword came out, they've added a ton of new items.

There is barely any armour to choose between, and by this point, I don't even know if there are any two-handed weapons in the game. I honestly never came across one. It's just a shame, because it looks like they put a lot of effort into designing the map, and the villages which look great. Why could not they put the same amount of work into the weaponry. To conclude, I can not recommend this game at full price, not in this state.

Yes, the developers fixed a lot of major bugs, but there is still a lot of them. Buy With Fire & Sword or Napoleonic Wars instead, they run smooth, there is a ton of new items, and the story(at least in Fire&Sword) is also really interesting. When the Viking Conquest goes on sale, buy it just for the story alone, but a developer who releases a DLC in this state should not be supported until the bugs get fixed. All you need to know about Viking Conquest is these five things: 1.

It has only 3 professional reviews.2. Even after the Reforged All you need to know about Viking Conquest is these five things: 1.

It has only 3 professional reviews. Even after the Reforged re-release, people still complain about bugs. Every 'perfect 10' review mentions a fault in the game. Its overzealous fans will mock someone for suggesting horned helmets because they are anachronistic, even though there's literally magic in the scenario (e.g. The immortal berserkers in the Morrigan quest line and 'elf' helmets) and your soldiers all shout audibly in modern English whether they are Anglo, Frisian, Danish, whatever.

There are more interesting free mods with comparable amounts of content: AD 1257, Nova Aetas, Gekokujo, and Prophecy of Pendor, off the top of my head. Given a 2 instead of a 0 because some effort seems to have actually been put into mixing up the M&B formula a bit in the form of 'strategic views,' naval ship command, children, an actual entire (though horribly buggy) story mode, and making spears functional in the most obvious way possible.