Steam Sale Dom3 players might like.

[Illuminated One]

In some mods you can "ask" captured lords to join your kingdom (that is if you have one) or kill them (1 less army for your enemies) - I really don't know why you'd want to play vanilla if there's 100s of good mods around. In the vanilla game you will eventually be offered ransom money via a messenger.

[Ink]

hang on to captured lords/kings for awhile and eventually their 'families will offer to pay you for their release'

that's all there is to it, just have to wait. the message will just pop up as you are wandering around the overland map. they usually pay from 3-6k. also, while talking to other lords they will occasionally offer to take them from you for a lesser amount.

[Ink]

you need to read up on more economics to go along with your archival knowledge

http://www.investopedia.com/universi...economics4.asp

the service steam provides is very elastic, it isn't essential and can be supplied easily by any number of other existing competitors providing similar services. Therefore, it will never be profitable to levy a subscription fee for a steam account because people will just leave steam.

[Foodstamp]

I am ready to try a mod for Mount and Blade but I am having a hard time wading through the modding forums. Can you guys name a few mods that are top notch. I am particularly interested in an improved vanilla maybe with a few features added if they fit well into the game. Is SoD a good mod and will it work with the graphic improvement one?

[Joelz]

I haven't been playing M&B much recently, but after looking at some mods, I'd recommend these:

WWII: China Battlefield
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/board,137.0.html

Prophesy of Pendor
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/board,119.0.html

Pendor is a bit more complicated than most mods, so I suggest reading the mod's forums a bit.


About the graphical improvement, I think they just replace textures and models from native, so they should work.

EDIT:
Oh yeah, forgot to mention Native Expansion
Link:
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/board,109.0.html

Here's the list of released mods:
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/board,63.0.html

[Foodstamp]

More fun stuff in Mount and Blade. I added Vanheim complete with a troop tree!

[Ink]

I've always thought a Dom mod would be perfectly doable for M&B

[Foodstamp]

It's pretty cool. I've been learning python so it was pretty easy. My troop tree is Serf --> Huskarl --> Hirdman or mounted Hirdman ---> Vanhere or Vanherse. The lords are "Vanjarls". Then I just took a few cities from another faction and gave them their little place in the world .

I want to do arco next, but I am having a hard time finding appropriate armor and shields.