Mount & Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars Multiplayer DLC has been Announced

I’m a bit surprised to say that not the newest game in the Mount & Blade franchise With Fire & Sword but Mount & Blade: Warband is getting some DLC love. The DLC is called Napoleonic Wars and will likely be familiar to people who have played some of the many mods available for Warband as its heavily influenced by them.

This DLC is looking to be more authentic than Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword. It is in danger of making the multiplayer component of With Fire & Sword redundant because Napoleonic Wars is going to feature more weapons, units and seem more engrossing.

Mount & Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars launches later this spring.

From Paradoxplaza: “From occupying Calradia to the invasion of Russia, Warband fans will have a new war to look forward to this year. Paradox Interactive and Taleworlds Entertainment today announced the next DLC for popular action RPG Mount & Blade Warband. Napoleonic Wars is a multiplayer expansion pack that will take players back to the final years of Napoleon’s conquest in this massive update for the definitive open-world sandbox series.

Developed by Flying Squirrel Entertainment and Taleworlds Entertainment, Napoleonic Wars will support multiplayer battles of up to 250 soldiers and enables players the chance to create a character from 220 unique units available, all hailing from five different European nations. Fight battles with your tried and true sabre or utilize newly introduced artillery pieces such as cannons and rockets in this historically accurate and immersive 19th century experience like no other.”

Mount & Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars features:

• Accurate early 19th century weapons, uniforms and environments.
• Massive multiplayer battles with up to 250 players.
• 5 nations with more than 220 unique units to choose from.
• More than 40 classical background music tracks.
• Lead squads of soldiers against each other in the new commander battle mode.
• A wide range of artillery pieces ranging from field cannons to mortars, capable of firing a variety of missiles such as canister, explosive shells and even rockets – all fully controllable by players.
• Finely crafted game balance insuring player skill is the hero of the battlefield, not the gun or the sword.
• Construct barricades, dig trenches, and rig explosives with the multi-purpose Engineer class.
• Special musician units with drums, fifes, bagpipes or trumpets, able to play historically accurate tunes; all recorded and played by award winning musicians.