

Training grounds are pretty much the in-game tuitorial area. In addition to the extra country and general options, it does have a sorta strategic-level tuitorial quest that you'll get right at the start, which guides you through how some of the basic stuff (getting quests, visiting areas in a city, recruiting troops, fighting other warbands in the map, raiding bandit camps) works, and will give you enough money to have a decent start at things. Thirding the recommendation to start with Warbands.

Should I start with one of the later ones? Do they hold my hand more? I've avoided them, because their subtitles kind of imply a more specialized experience to me, and I wanted to get used to the basic game first. What I really want is something to explain the basic gameplay mechanics to me. The guides I've found online have focused on strategy and the like, but I think I can figure out the big-picture stuff on my own. I have no idea how to do it.įrom what I've seen, I think I could really fall in love with this game, could I figure it out. The village elder there asks me to train some of his villagers.

Where and how do I get cattle? I wander some more, and figure that another village will give me a more straightforward quest (or at least have cattle for sale or something). I wander into a nearby village, and the elder gives me a quest - his village needs 7 cattle. After that, I have no idea where to go or what to do.

I do, but it's a lot like the tutorial, so I figure it's redundant. It dropped me in the middle of this huge map and then left me to my own devices, the only hint it gives is that I should try out the training grounds. Today, I started up Mount & Blade, played through the tutorial, and then started the game proper. So, I understand that this game is a really deep rpg, and have often heard it mentioned alongside Crusader Kings (which I absolutely love), so when it went on sale on Steam recently, I was intrigued enough to buy the bundle containing Mount and Blade, M&B: Warband, and M&B: With Fire and Sword.
