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The graphics and naval gameplay from the Blood and Gold Caribbean one made me think of the 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean game. That quick turn away as well with the lady on the bed was priceless Res. Got a good laugh out of me.

A note on Freeman:Guerilla Warfare - The devs I think filed bankruptcy and ditched their whole studio except for the original two guys and they are currently working on a sort of “remake” of the game. Supposedly not dead but we will have to see.

He forgot to mention that in BCOF you can make trenches. You can terraform the map in that game. Plus you can chop trees down to get a better line sight for your cannons.

Old retired Conqueror's Blade player here I started back in season 5/6 and felt the exact same way you did, when I was fighting these massive epic battles on the walls of a fort it felt so epic, I felt like some bad-ass warrior able to conquer the world but I also felt like the sum of a greater part, it was incredible, but as I played more and more I felt that wonder fade away and slowly replace a sense of tactical strategy. This sense of tactical strategy would quickly fade when me and my entire team was curb stomped by 10 units of T5 cav, and 5 units of whatever overpowered seasonal troop the devs added. I quit about a year ago because it was way to much to deal with, battles didn't seam well organized anymore, they just felt like slaughter fests of whoever unlocked the seasonal troop the quickest, old seasonal troops where basically obsolete after the new troops where unlocked leaving your barracks looking like an old toy chest from your childhood. I can safely say as someone with 2300+ hours, 2200 hours wasted, 100 hours enjoyed.

This dude really put a for honor character in the thumbnail of a video talking about mount and blade clones, good god.

I had a blast with Blood and Gold Caribbean back when it came out. Since it was the same engine as warband you could even copy your character over

Tiger Knight was my first proper experience of a M&B clone. I managed to grab a mate and me and him absolutely loved throwing our men in huge clumps right in to smaller player numbers that tried running around on their own. I loved using the longest pike I could get a hold of and poking over the top of my units' heads. The kill animations on other players was awesome every time.

Holdfast will always remain my personal favorite especially for the hilarious community you don't find communities like Holdfast's too often but that's what makes the game special and I'm glad the game it's still played a lot even frontlines gets lots of players occasionally. BCOF was quite special too, joined in the demo then stayed for release but it died multiple times with each update (still a few events though). *But excellent video here Resonant so many wonderful games from Mount and blade its amazing how big it's impact is.*

Tiger Knight: Empire War was amazing really sad that it died. I liked that you're hero wasn't super op like in some other asia games in this genre.

war of rights community events are the best!

Thank you for taking the effort and time to create this list! :) BTW War of rights looks amazing!

Damn, can't believe you never played the Roblox Napoleonic Wars copy, Blood & Iron. In all seriousness, I could never expect you to actually play it, considering it's a Roblox game, but it's quite an old and popular Roblox game that draws heavily from M&B Napoleonic Wars.

Viking Conquest is technically also a clone, created by diffrent developers but the game can be purchased as a warband DLC.

You should have add more recent footage of Conqueror's Blade, since things changed quite a bit with seasons, overworld expansions, gameplay changes and more overall variety.

Great well informed video as always.

Great vid, love the gameplay concept of mount and blade, and love to see it in different genres

i put 3+ years into holdfast ~2017-2020, specifically linebattles. I've been in a couple regiments, in leadership positions, who at the time were some of the largest. I racked up 1200 hours before i stopped playing it. Although i wish we had back then what holdfast is today, through the good times, bad times, and drama, it is a game i hold in my heart. Times were just different then. Frontlines was extremely enjoyable too. They have done well for what they had. that frontlines trailer gives me goosebumps every time ive heard it. Every once in a blue moon i go join up for a linebattle with the regiment i retired in just for that nostalgia of being the first person to die every round in the linebattle.

Sands of Salzaar is a strange cross between Mount & Blade and Diablo. It's actually pretty good, but it can get very repetitive very quickly as most of the battles take place on a single map per region.

Heya Resonant you really went all out in this one great video and great editing man!

9:45 as someone who’s never played mount and blade I fucking loved holdfast and I remember the WW1 update and man was that fun, I even witnessed that chips clip as it happened I was on the other end of the boat

Freeman Guerilla Warfare is a bit of a tragic story of development but there is reason to believe it hasn't been abandoned it's just going through difficulties. Essentially the dev team had the core of the game up and brought in help to continue work while they moved on to start new titles. Unfortunately the new members took the game in a different direction than the dev team originally envisioned, so they were fired and the dev team was forced to begin a complete overhaul of the game. At the same time they couldn't abandon the other titles they had already started work on so it's left them in a tough position where they have to juggle multiple games with fewer members and the overhaul needs significant time before it becomes a functional game. In the meantime the buggy and unfinished previous version is left up so people have something to play, but it's definitely not what the game is meant to be. They now have competition from Total Conflict Resistance but from what I've seen so far of that game the two games are different enough that there should still be room for them to coexist successfully. I wouldn't throw money at Freeman Guerilla Warfare until we see tangible progress being made but I don't take the current silence as a sign it's been abandoned, I expect it to take quite some time before there's progress they can really show off.

I played Freeman a lot, I missed when they had vehicles. Always kept a mortar halftrack in my army for in direct fire support. Worked wonders when paired with a sniper team.

Goddamn, I own most of these games and I genuinely forgot why I owned these games NOW it all makes sense. I had an unhealthy obsession with MnB as a kid and got as many games that gave me a slight feel for this game. Thank you for reminding me of my childhood lol

Amazing video. Thank you

What I would love to see, is a bannerlord single player, game based on the Civil War, Napoleonic, wars, World War I, etc. much respect to the multiplayer side of things, but would also like to see that single player experience get some love.

While I admire your dedication to playing every single clone, you technically missed one. Tales of Glory is a Mount and Blade clone for VR. The VR aspect creates many technical limitations: battles are smaller and the AI is poor, and while the actual combat physics are decent (arguably better than other games in this video), they aren't Blade and Sorcery. But it is the only game out there for VR that accurately captures the M&B experience, and actually being able to charge alongside your troops is great fun. Plus, it's made by a solo developer, so limitations can be forgiven. Sadly, it's single player only and the last update was 2021, so it's basically dead, but if you have a VR headset it's fun to check out.

Ship combat, destructible environments, immersive and dramatic lighting, faces that look like human beings rather than googly eyed tatties... Taleworlds could stand to learn a thing or two from these games.

War of Rights has a special place in my heart. If any game could give you ptsd, it would be WoR.

A mixture between Mount and Blade along with Battle Brothers seems great to me but is probably hard to implement, random events on the world map with hex tile battles plus equipment crafting.

I remember being in the warband mod that war of rights was based on. And it was so hyped and it actually delivered the first 2/3 weeks were a magical time

War Of Rightes is one of my all time favorite games some great units for anyone looking to play are 27th Virgina "give them steel" and 2nd US Sharpshooters "Greenwave"

Wow...I didn't even know these exists, and some are very impressive.

WOR - I came for the game and stayed for the voice chat. Let's just say the Confederate players REALLY get into their roles.

excellent video. KK Studios just asset flips ... they grab whatever art, audio and code libraries they can glue together, drop it on the market, and then skeedaddle! Freeman and Vikings were hopeful titles, but then ...

Ah, Prime & Load! That brings back some good memories... and bad ones. I managed to get my regiment-clan to switch over once it released and we were very fond of it, but sadly due to a bad launch, we quickly became the only ones to play it. And now its all down and we had to go back to Holdfast, which in turn is not up to our standards of historical accuracy and gameplay... I'd be down for a P&L commander event!

Holdfast is still going fairly strong, AGS just released a huge update. I strictly play in regimental events so idk why the public side is like but there's still a thriving community of people who play the game.

You forgot to mention “Tales of Glory” the VR mountain blade game lol. Very Jank but very fun!

I think TCR told in their latest update notes that they are planning a major update and thus slowdown. My main problem with the game is lack of self-sufficient generals (I think they plan adding them) and some sketchiness in battles.

Tiger knight was a great game. That game has so many spin offs now but I wouldn't call them clones. That's like calling all fps games a clone. I was confused when that game was changed into another game. It was weird but fun.

exelent video! just wanted to make an aclaration, Conqueror's Blade is a great game in it's mechanics, and it's true that everything can be unlocked trough grinding, tons and tons of it, it plays based on seasons, an each season presents a new tematic set of units (romans, vikings, medieval knights, etc) the main issue of the playerbase with it and the reason of it's constant decline in population is that each season the new units are insanely broken to the point of having one button "i win" skills, wich is a strategy from the developers to force players to go for the new units, and with insane grinds to unlock them you either get them free at the end of the season by grinding 3-5 hours a day for a month, or pay to get them instantly, with many players buying them so they can wreck everyone with them, making those players that don't pay unable to even stand close to the units without dying to a sneeze

Nice list. I was expecting With Fire and Sword, too. (I guess it's in the mod category)

Looks fun

Well, there is also With Fire and Sword. Although it looks like a mod, it is a separate game made on M&B engine and it turned out quite OK

Conquers blade really needs new players, so many different units and hero’s and ways to build them. The game is really fun with multiple different modes and the best it has to offer comes from when you join a house and do lots of mmo stuff.

Freeman was a great idea, maybe they will make a refined version II in the future.

0:51 best part

Watching this made me want to go back to playing Balders Gate 3. That's what I'm gonna do

my dude really used outdated footage of counqeurs blade lol

I feel like there's one game that is missing on this list that deserves mentioning but cannot be revisited because the game was shut down by its developers: War of the Roses (2012) by Fatshark.

I saw another M&B Clone called Voor de Kroon, a game set in the Teutonic Crusades

I want more single player clones

Fantastic video. I've tried a lot of these games and most of them fail to capture that inherent... I don't know what to call it... scale, or depth that games like Warband had. Shit, not even Bannerlord captured the immersion and interested I had in Warband. It's still fantastic but has fallen short. I think community mod support is a big factor, having a good base game to expand on. Mount and Blade was the first and why try and base an entire game off of just that being a mod? Won't happen. It's a solid game concept though and I really hope to see more games like it in the future, preferably big RTS RPGs.

I miss Tiger Knight, that game was great i rly wish i could still play it

I spent a lot of time in Blood of Steel which is quite some fun. Actually it is a really good game for being free to play and not pay to win at all. However the playerbase is unfortunately not so big, so on certain times it will be hard to find a match against players

Tiger Knight Empire war will forever be one of my most favorite games to have ever existed, now as far as I know all EU and NA servers have been taken down but it is still possible to play the game on Chinese servers (play at your own risk)

Man O War: Corsair is a war hammer 40k game that was definitely Mount and Blade inspired

5:33 no way mans pronounced Bonaparte as 'Bony Party'

..Is that the garage band guitar loop that Mike Duncan used in 'History of Rome'??

Now you should do video about every mount&blade mod

Next big total conflict resistance update might be Air ✈️😮 You can get lots of fun out of it although the campaign can be kinda hard to understand at first also it starts kinda slow when it comes to technology

6:50 I love M&B but it is definitely far from having THE BEST melee combat 😂

You forget about Steel and Flesh 1 and 2 it's mobile version of Mount and Blade that you can download it for free.

It’s a shame Tiger Knight Empire War was forgotten about. Never heard about it until now. I blame their abysmal marketing.

I can't find the Holdfast trailer anywhere but I need that version of I vow to thee my country that they used in the trailer its so beautiful

Naval Action is also a game very similar to Mount&Blade and is a lot of fun for those who like ships in the 18th century

I absolutely still love playing big bot survival on mount and blade napoleonic

I still remember playing holdfast during the pandemic, I was just laughing my ass off with all the memery. And when Holdfast frontline dlc came out we were blaring out “A long way tipperary” if we’re british and “Prussia gloria” when we’re german. LONG LIVE THE KING’S ROYAL ARMY (KRA)

You missed the War of the Roses, an M&B clone that got abandoned around release.

As a guy who plays holdfast regularly. I find this extremely accurate. 😂

tiger knight was so much fun when it first came out, but gadamn they ran it into the ground. Makes me miss total war arena

Where's the part where he plays For Honor? I see Warlord in the thumbnail but I can't find it anywhere.

Weird that you consider Conquerors blade a M&B clone given that the gameplay is completely different. The only thing similar is that you can command troops. We should start saying Mount & Blade is a clone of 'Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War' by this logic.

Battle Cry of Freedom is great game and needs more players. Captain mode is actually really good

You missed Tales of Glory, a VR mount and Blade game (which I did voice acting for)

WAR OF RIGHTS DO BE GOOD THOW

We need more games to take mechanics from Mount and Blade, Total War, and Kingdom Under Fire.

take a shot every time he says 'God damned'

Huh. So, I think of mount & blade likes, I think of starsector and battle brothers. Using the same core loop(Mercinary rpg/sim with a customized retinue, low/no story, economics focused on looting/questing and interacting with a responsive market), but a very different genre/setting. Wild how much that game inspired.

War of the Roses, War of the Vikings, Chivalry, Mordhau... What about these?

My biggest problem with Holdfast is that it could run just fine on my PC before, but now it just sorta slogs more.

Gloria Victis is also a mount and blade like. But as MMORPG.

Of King and Men! That’s where I started into this channel. Oh how long ago…

War of rights is such a good game

i would not call all of them clones but i get where the name comes from.

Total conflict fan here all you said is correct

among all of de games among this genre, conqueror blade is de best so far. only con is kinda hard for newbie just started for it. but latest update it kinda trus to support a bit for newbie. it not really p2w but more to pay to fast progress. u can get all de unit just only a bit grindy. but join guild will help u a lot. also no need aim for all unit, just target certain meta unit, even de 3 star and 4 star unit is better than lot of 5 star unit. u just need to position ur unit in good place. War of rights seems interesting. might try it out.

Honestly if anyone wanna makes a Prime and load game, id think setting it during the 7 yrs war would be a much smarter idea. Like you get all the appeal of the napoleonic era and the 18th century feel. Maybe with some single player stuff with a multiplayer put on the side like Mount and blade having people get dragged in by the single player before forming clans and regiments in the multi player.

i miss tiger knight so much

>We don't speak of this game >*Most replayed section*

Why is the Total Conflict Resistance footage so old? Video came out two months ago but the game hasnt looked like that in over a year now. It looks suspiciously like the demo vs the full game.

Tales of Glory isn't too bad, it's basically Bannerlord VR

I would have liked several of these if only they weren't multiplayer. :)

Homeboy used conqueror from for honor in the thumb nail

The Viking way has soooooooo much potential but once you get to “late game” it feels like the game makes you die, takes your ships and your towns and just strips you down to nothing, im convinced it’s actually impossible to win in the code, if you die you lose everything and restart the game from scratch

there is a mobile game that came out around 2010 called "Lord And Master" even though i was quite young i had more fun on this game then any other mobiles game at the time, although its graphics were really bad and the company that owns it got shut down; the style of the game and the gameplay was always incredibly fun in my opinion

"just make a mod" ain't no money in that

You didnt add blood of Steel it has the exact combat experience with MB but with side steps and rolls and heavy attacks and dash attack

war of rights is not a mb clone

I want a coop version of mount and blade