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On Fri, 19 May 2017 07:58:10 -0600, "rms"
<rsqui...@MOOyossmanMOO.net> wrote:

>Git r done:
>https://www.gog.com/game/mount_blade
>
>rms

I already have this game in my account, but thanks for the post anyway
rms. Keep them coming. ;)

On Fri, 19 May 2017 18:54:27 -0400, Mike S. <Mik...@nowhere.com>
wrote:

>>Git r done:
>>https://www.gog.com/game/mount_blade
>
>I already have this game in my account, but thanks for the post anyway
>rms. Keep them coming. ;)

It was already a free giveaway not long ago. Got it then.
Appreciate your effort anyway, thnx

On Sat, 20 May 2017 10:12:15 +0300, Rudi <ru...@iki.fi> wrote:

>On Fri, 19 May 2017 18:54:27 -0400, Mike S. <Mik...@nowhere.com>
>wrote:
>
>>>Git r done:
>>>https://www.gog.com/game/mount_blade
>>
>>I already have this game in my account, but thanks for the post anyway
>>rms. Keep them coming. ;)
>
>It was already a free giveaway not long ago. Got it then.
>Appreciate your effort anyway, thnx

It's been an on-again, off-again freebie for years. I picked it up for
free on GOG back in 2014. 

The original "Mount and Blade" is a very rough classic and, honestly,
if you want to best experience the game I really recommend you get the
"Warband" expansion (sadly not free but worth the $5). It smooths off
a lot of the rough corners and makes the game a lot more enjoyable. Or
you could just wait for the soon-to-be-released "Mount & Blade 2",
which looks to be to "Warband" what "Warband" was to the original.

I rather enjoyed the Mount & Blade games. The sandbox was interesting,
even if it did all feel very generic and repetive after a while, but
the scale and complexity were intriguing. It reminded me a lot of the
1992 classic RPG, "Darklands" in that neither game really had a story
but instead the goal of the game was just to make a name for yourself.

But the real star of the game was the huge battles and with a modern
machine you can edit various config files and have some truly
impressive conflicts with hundreds of soldiers. It is similar in scale
to a "Total War" game except you are actually down there in the
trenches with the soldiers instead of looking on from on-high.
Thundering down a hill with 60 other heavily armed knights towards a
thicket of spearmen is a lot of fun and gives you an idea as to how
absolutely insane those guys in the medieval ages must have been ;-)