CHARGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !

Be an Adventurer, Bandit King or a work your way up the Ranks with a foreign Lord and become a Knight, Beat Tournaments and earn Fame making people wanna join you.

Build a Kingdom!

Hire Troops, Forge Alliances, Build your villages and Citys and take new ones from your enemy.
Hire NPC Heroes and train them yourselfes build them to be Commanders in your Kingdom our your personal Bodyguard.

Be a Merchant!
Build your own merchant empire, trade resources and make all the Money!
Trade Caravans, Quests, Buying Enterprises in diffrent Industries like winemaking in the Southern Parts or make Leather in the Northern Parts of the open world Map.

There is no real CLEAR line what to do, rather you are supposed to build your own Story.
I play Mount and Blade Warband a LOT with Mods, there are Mods that Quadruple the Amount of Stuff you can do adding stuff like MAGIC or ALCHEMY in the Game for Example a Warhammer Fantasy Conversion mod allows you to play ALL the Warhammer Races and Cast all the Magic!

Its just close to the perfect game, i prefer this over the second iteration even.

150 hrs on Vanilla and at least 1k+ with mods (Floris, Warhammer, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones)

Get it!

One of the greatest games ever. No debate. If you are a fan of action RPG involving war and combat this is it.
It has aged quite a bit and maybe the graphics are not top tier anymore but mods can give you fresh experiences.
It has cemented itself among the greatest games so it is set.