What game of the Mount & Blade games do you guys recommend?

[Mecylon]

Want to buy Mount & Blade but don't know which one of them you players recommend the most.

[Morkonan]

Mount and Blade:Warband is what you want.

[Friendly]

Warband has the most to offer, it is the most played and has alot of interesting mods that have kept me playing many hours - for single and multiplayer.

[Anon Assister]

Mount and Blade Warband. And the mods are absolutely amazing. 1247 AD is my personal favorite, but they have good ones that focus on anything from Feudal Japan to Game of Thrones to Lord of the Rings and even Star Wars. It's a must buy!

[Olko_00]

Yeah I also like warband the most

[KING KREB]

Warband is better compared to regular Mount and Blade, which I got by mistake. Fire and Sword is also cool, set in another time period. If you get Warband and eventually get bored with it, get the Viking Conquest DLC to avoid repeating the same things again and again.

[BelgiumGeneral]

Warband is the best and if you're interested in it also napoleonic wars

[The Space Butterfly]

Warband, hands down.

[Tuidjy]

Warband is simply better than Classic. It is a straight upgrade - there is nothing that Native Classic has and Native Warband does not.

The one and only reason to get Classic is to play some of the mods that have not been ported to Warband. Most mods have been, but at least two great ones have not: Wedding Dance and Star Wars Conquest.

[[*UNITY*]_ james]

Almost undoutbly Warband.

Best content value, plenty of mods, and an active multiplayer community.

The original M&B has nothing to it that will make it worth purchasing. Warband is everything what the classic one was but expanded, with no features stripped and looks better. Also has few mods.

Then there's M&B: With Fire and Sword. It follows a historical setting with the background of 17th century eastern Europe, with the Poles, Swedes, Muscovites (Russians), Crimean Tartars (steppe horsemen), and Cossacks (peasent Ukrainians essentially). It has a couple nice features of its own in singeplayer but also drops others. It has cool weaponry including grenades, matchlocks, etc. as well as traditional weapons you would expect like swords and pikes. Not many people play it online though, and there's virtually no overhaul/complete conversion mod to speak of that exists (although a couple of small mods that add tweaks are there). Do recommend if you don't mind the setting or are into it (btw, its based off a novel with the same name), and probably on sale. Has a different feel and flavor to it.

Finally, there's the two DLC for M&B Warband: Viking Conquest and Napoleonic Wars.

I haven't played Viking Conquest seriouly in a while, in part due to the buggy launch it had. It has been patched since and is in a far better state now than before but I would imagine its still a little rough around the edges from time to time. However, it introduces a narrative story mode- first to be seen in the series and it works well with cool quests and branching choices- but the sandbox element (which makes up a traditional M&B's singleplayer) is a little lacking. Also fits the Viking theme well and you can even sail boats and land raids. Next to no people play it on multiplayer though.

Napoleonic Wars has absolutely nothing for singleplayer other than custom battle (in which the enemy A.I. is horrid), but its multiplayer is a true gem. Much more people play Napoleonic Wars online than vanilla Native, and battles can have up to 200 players. Besides being a line infantryman or a cavalry troop, you can play as a sapper (engineer, you can construct fortifications), officer, artilleryman (yes, there's fully functional artillery in this game including cannons, howitzers, and mortars with different kinds of shells), sailor (only for UK and France), and even a flag bearer or a musician. There's also many regiments that host events with epic linebattles- highly recommend you find a good one if you wish to see that kind of stuff.

Overall, don't bother with the original M&B, certainly get out and play Warband, and possibly buy WFAS to change things up. As for the two DLC for Warband, both are really fun but each lean more to one aspect of the game (VC being more single-player centric and NW the opposite). Depends on your taste in the end, but get both if you can.