Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

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B.A.R.D. - Aserai Army Overhaul
   
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Type: Troops
Setting: Native, Medieval
Game Mode: Singleplayer
Compatible Version: v1.0.0
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Oct 25, 2022 @ 3:07pm
Oct 31, 2022 @ 12:34am
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B.A.R.D. - Aserai Army Overhaul

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B.A.R.D. - Bannerlord Armies ReDone - AIO
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Description
A complete overhaul of the Aserai Army with the aim of giving them a unique identity and bringing them up to par with other empires. Extreme care and attention to detail was taken to make them look good, functional, and as historically accurate as the vanilla assets allow. There are also new units, new items and stat fixes/changes included.

TL;DR
  • Awesome reskins
  • New units
  • New items
  • Balanced Aserai

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Background

Bringing you my fifth mod after finishing my other overhauls. I figured I would give them the same treatment as I gave the other factions. The inspiration for the troops are armies of the 10th-12th century Mamluk Sultanate.

The mod completely reworks the entire Aserai troop tree, nobles included.

There are also a lot of balancing changes here to round off the mod.

The units look much better in my opinion, but please understand that this is just my personal taste, and will stay as such. Your constructive criticism is still welcome.

Lastly, this is a work in progress, and there will be a lot of updates and small tweaks as TaleWorlds updates the game and better modding tools are developed and released. Having said that, I think it's already in a really good place, check out screenshots and see for yourself.

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Disclaimer

As a general philosophy, I'm trying to create a more "grounded" look for all troops I edit, so you won't see full plate and mail armored soldiers on Tier 3 and such. Even on some of the higher tiers you will not see that, as levied soldiers simply didn't have access to that quality of equipment in the time period Bannerlord is set in. In order to keep balance I'll increase/decrease stats and add modded items where needed so the faction can stay competitive with other empires.

Having said all that, I hope you will enjoy the mod.

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Compatibility

Compatible and tested on v1.0.0 & e1.9.0.

Save Game compatible. (If you're adding this to an existing campaign though, it might take a while until the new troops appear for lords and as higher rep village recruits, but they will be available to the player instantly if you're upgrading from the Aserai Recruit)

The mod is now also compatible with most other troop overhauls, as long as they don't modify Aserai troops and uses the module system for easy install/uninstall.

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Check out my other mods in this series

Sturgian Army Overhaul
Battanian Army Overhaul
Imperial Army Overhaul
Vlandian Army Overhaul
Aserai Army Overhaul
Khuzait Army Overhaul

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FAQ

The mod is not working?
If you have the latest version of the game, subscribed to the mod, enabled it in the launcher and my mods are below the native modules and you don't crash, the mod is working.

My units don't have the [Bard] prefix as in the screenshots?
Yes, that is how it's intended. I use that prefix for my own testing in my own game, but when I upload to the Steam Workshop I remove it. In your game, the units WILL NOT have the [Bard] prefix

Help, I crashed?
If you think you crashed because of my mod, send me the crash report so I can take a look at it. Otherwise I have no way of knowing why you crashed.

Is it compatible with X, Y or Z
I created this with maximum compatibility in mind, but I can't make it compatible and test it with every mod out there. Please try it out before asking.

Is it compatible with RBM?
Yes, with caveats. It is compatible with their AI and Arena modules. It is NOT compatible with their Troop Overhaul (for obvious reasons) and only semi-compatible with the Combat Module. I would recommend sticking with only AI and Arena. Also, see above.

Balance seems off?
While I do my best to test units one on one to make sure nothing roflstomps other units, I'm just one man, and can't test every unit against every other unit in thousands of scenarios, so I might have missed something. If you think a unit is OP, or a faction's combined arms power is way too strong let me know. Please send me a detailed list of army compositions so I can test that scenario and see what I can do about it.

X unit should use this or that, could you change it?
Please provide your reasoning in the comments, with historical sources if possible, and I'll consider the change if it makes sense.

This mod sucks, I hate it?
That's ok, I can't make it appeal to everyone. No hard feelings.

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Uninstallation

Just click unsubscribe (but see known issues below) or manually delete the "AseraiArmyRedone folder".

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Known Issues

If you uninstall the mod while you have my modded troops in your save (which you will if you use the mod) the game will crash. You'll most likely have to start another save. Sorry about this, but the way troop modding works now, there is no way for me to prevent this. As soon as there is a solution, I'll do my best implement it.

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79 Comments
SPYDER Feb 15 @ 2:40am 
Does this mod still work?
King of Dungeons Aug 23, 2024 @ 10:01pm 
Will this mod get updated?
Kaio615 Aug 14, 2024 @ 12:57am 
@Shas'la could you please update this mod, there are 2 trees your units appear in the game but the original ones are the ones who are chosen
Abood Aug 3, 2024 @ 10:20am 
Can someone compare it to vanilla to see if they are stronger or not?
Aleon777 Feb 20, 2024 @ 3:45am 
Not sure if its just my game but I looked at the Aserai Shabun's stats and they had a 400 in their one handed melee as a tier 2 cavalry.
Mikhail Dec 22, 2023 @ 4:41pm 
so will this get updated to v1.2.7 or no? just wondering
SIX Oct 8, 2023 @ 3:48pm 
Very nice but the woven shoulder pads on the Mameluke need to go :p we need those sexy long sleeve bronze scales shoulder guard!
Thalion Jul 30, 2023 @ 9:03pm 
Seems BeatleFett copy/pasted the recent message on a bunch of mods pages
✚BeatleFett✚ Jul 30, 2023 @ 9:50am 
BRUH UPDATE THE MOD. Please, if not for you then for everyone else or if not for everyone else then do it for you please my dude just do it. :WH3_skragHapp: :WH3_greasus_rofl:
ノベルドラゴン Jul 29, 2023 @ 4:21am 
is there a command i can use on console so i can recruit them faster