Floris Mod Mount And Blade Warband

Floris Mod Pack is a mod for Mount & Blade: Warband, created by monnikje.

Description:

Welcome to the Floris Mod Pack. This is a combination of a lot of good mods created by the community, bringing them all together and enhancing your gameplay experience.

Originally this pack started as a side project of my After Action Report (AAR) Me, Floris, but soon it had grown into a very big package in its own right. Due to all the different mods and features this pack has grown quite large in size and asks a lot from your computer. To make Floris available to as many people as possible, we made several different versions:

The American Civil War Mod: Revived is a single player mod for Mount and Blade: Warband that is built upon an old civil war mod that ceased development, that was called, 'A House Divided'. Thanks to the help from the amazing community here, I have been able to include some new features in the mod, like advanced formations and fire orders,.

Basic: This is just Native gameplay with some added music, sounds and items. If want to play Native with a little extra, this version is the one for you!

Gameplay: This version is a downgraded version of Expanded, allowing people with lower computer specifications to still experience Floris.

Expanded: This version contains everything Floris has to offer.

Dev Suite: If you're a modder yourself and you'd wish to fiddle with Floris, this is what you need: the source and all resources you'll need to build your own version(s).

Here are some general notes:

Since Floris is quite large, it might strain slower pc's. If Expanded tends to run slow on your machine, you might try the Gameplay or Basic version.

Because of this enormous size, the loading time of the mod is longer than you are used to. Have patience!

The basic version is compatible with any native savegame. Gameplay and Expanded are NOT savegame compatible with Native or any older version of Floris.

If you have any request for an additional mod to be added, just head to the Suggestion topic, and I'll see what I can arrange for the next version.

If you discover a bug, you can report it in the bug topic.

If you might help or if you run across problems, you should first read the FAQ. If no solution is provided over there, you can always ask at support.

If you want to use this pack in your own mod, you'll have to ask the authors of each mod in this pack for their permission (check the respective topics!). For the stuff created by me: you can use it as long as you give credit. It would be nice to let me know you've used it.

Always make a backup of your native files, so you can easily revert back if you want to.

Report problems with download to [email protected]

Regarding the COV-19 virus and its effects:Things are frustrating, and confusing, and scary. People dream up conspiracy theories to help make sense of things. They're not helpful, though, and only serve to make the world more confusing and scarier.We're not going to have that here. If there's new information to be shared, share it, but cite your information to a reputablesource. And we swear to God, if anyone comes in here and starts spouting off QAnon bullshit about COVID-19 or literally anything else, you are going to get permabanned so thoroughly that your grandchildren won't be allowed to post here. Everything.There's actually a describing what it does, but in brief:Lots of interface improvements.Character overhaul - the appearance of every character in the game is generally improved.New, fully-implemented companions with all the same features of the old ones.Loads and loards of new and improved items, including weapons, armor, clothes, horses, foods (including quality), and muddafuggin' War Elephants (which don't look so hot in practice because of engine limitations, but still).Troop Tree Overhaul - every faction gets a complete overhaul to its troop tree with loads of new troop types. I looked at the wiki, and it wasn't as helpful as I hoped.

Names of and links to included mods are nice to have, but when there's that many of them it becomes too much information to usefully absorb (especially considering how few mod authors think to include something as simple as an elevator pitch at the top of the page). Just a single sentence summarizing each mod would be amazingly helpful.Additionally, the wiki says nothing about the basic/gameplay/expanded thing. What's in each? Do the latter versions include the former, or are Gameplay and Expanded both addons to Basic? Graphical enhancements sound nice, but I'm not interested in a troop tree overhaul, and I might be interested in some items but not others. The new chargen screen I saw in a video looks awesome, as is the ability for your troops to keep fighting after you're KO'd, and that whole complicated screen of tournament options. But I have no idea what I'll get with each package, or if I'm better off cherry-picking a few mods and installing them individually.As an aside, in the Skyrim thread, someone once remarked on modders' inability to ever just change one thing.

I was reminded of this when I saw mention of a Warband mod that changed foreign-language unit names into English equivalents. And also included some stat changes. To quote the mod's Nexus page:'Basic: This is just Native gameplay with some added music, sounds and items. If want to play Native with a little extra, this version is the one for you!Gameplay: This version is a downgraded version of Expanded, allowing people with lower computer specifications to still experience Floris.Expanded: This version contains everything Floris has to offer.' I do know that even in Expanded, there's a selection box in character creation where you can choose which troop trees to use - with three options (Native troop trees, a 'rebalanced' troop tree, and the expanded troop trees).I'm pretty sure a lot of the other stuff can be turned on or off (or just not used) as well. So I'm looking it up to see what's in them and:Basic: This is just Native gameplay with some added music, sounds and items. If want to play Native with a little extra, this version is the one for you!Gameplay: This version is a downgraded version of Expanded, allowing people with lower computer specifications to still experience FlorisExpanded: This version contains everything Floris has to offer.Dev Suite: If you're a modder yourself and you'd wish to fiddle with Floris, this is what you need: the source and all resources you'll need to build your own version(s).The full mod includes lots of graphical enhancements and loads of alternate colors for items - all of these can cause a drain on your computer.

The Gameplay mod lets you play without those if your computer is slower (so you only get 1-2 colors of peasant hats, but still get Formations and AI tweaks and such). This isn't a trivial change - my gaming PC had a hard time dealing with huge numbers of horsemen because of the dust clouds, and hundreds of guys on screen each with individual gear gets intensive to track.A few personal observations:The Basic gist of Floris is to take a lot of popular mods and rework them to work together. If you want a heavily-modded game, Floris is a better option; if you want to just get a few extra horses and some formations, maybe not.The Troops trees are toggle-able. You can choose Native (the same troops as the base game, just with new gear and upgrade appearance); Reworked (slightly modified versions of the Native trees); and Expanded, which provides the full trees.

I prefer Reworked because, honestly, the Expanded trees are too fiddly for my tastes (like, multiple types of heavy infantry, skirmishers divided by weapon category, and so on - Reworked just cuts into down to a couple of paths like Spears vs Swords or Bows vs Crossbows).A neat thing about the Mod Pack is that the many new items are usually culturally-specific, rather than just items for their own sake. Lakemaster lpmnmlp04 04 paper map mille lacs mille lacs. For instance, the Rhodoks are modified to look like the Italian/Swiss expies they are, while Swadia looks like it walked out of the Hundred Years War and the Nords are appropriately Dark-Agey.

The actual stats are usually fairly equal, though, so gear choice comes down to how you want to dress up your avatar. There are a lot of alt-colors, too, giving you extra choice in that matter.The Tournament options are pretty fun: you get your choice of teams, team size, and equipment options, can issue commands to your team, win valuable prizes, and so on - plus, there are constant tournaments so it's actually pretty reasonable to earn a living fighting in tourneys. Plus, each tournament map is radically different, making for different strategies depending on the arena.

That's fair.All right, since I'm not rushing out the door in five minutes this time, as I am given to understand them:Basic: This is Vanilla gameplay, with new items, graphics and music improvements, altered maps, and such.Gameplay: This is vanilla graphics, maps, and items, with all (or at least most) of the gameplay changes - altered tournaments, troop tree options, diplomacy & pre-battle orders, landowners and moneylenders, so on and so forth.Enhanced: This has both the graphics/map/music/item improvements AND the gameplay changes. Possibly a bit moreso than the others have separately.The general idea is: If you like vanilla gameplay but want it to look shinier, get Basic. If you want better gameplay but your rig won't support the shinier stuff, get Gameplay, otherwise get Enhanced.