Unfortunatley underbaked for 10 years of development. The combat was decent 20 years ago in mount and blade, but there has been no refinment to combat. Simply put, if number bigger, you win. if number smaller, you lose. tournys suck since its just that over and over, there is no stamina or other system to allow for skill play. Its just hope your opponent doesnt have god teir armor that you do 3 damage to and 10x the skill to boot. even slightly better means there is no way to win, the ai perfect blocks every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ swing, there is no failure, no way to outplay, a counter attack doesnt work since if you are skill 150 and they are 151 they beat you every single time, and there is no way to combo, say block an attack and get an imidiate swing back.
there is no concept of diplomacy, kindom managment, politics or any other thing that would be involved in this many people working together. the systems that are there are so incredibly barebones as to be insulting. No concept of different kinds of war, no ability to stratagize as a kingdom for war objectives or goals. its just all out war with no guidance besides whoever recruited and army. but they do the stupidest ♥♥♥♥ with those armies so unless its the player army its next to useless
