Mount & Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars Multiplayer DLC Announced!

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European Soldiers Take the Battlefield This Spring in Latest Expansion for Critically Acclaimed Action RPG

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NEW YORK – March 30, 2012 – 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.

Players can partake in Napoleon’s conquest when Mount & Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars launches later this spring.

Watch the announcement trailer here:
[video=youtube;XPv56deYrsQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPv56deYrsQ[/video]

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
  • 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
  • Lead squads of soldiers against each other in the new commander battle mode
  • More than 40 classical background music tracks

More about this game

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Yep. This is exciting all right. Now all we have to do is convince people to stand in a line or column :)
 
This is looking great. I would like a single player component, mainly for the future when the numbers of MP die down. It's also fun to just fire up a quick game at one's leisure. Is it MP only?
That and it says it's for Warband, not really certain they didn't make a mistake there.
 
I'm glad to see this but I'm upset to hear that its MP only, I really would only buy it for the SP because Im not an MP guy. Too bad, I love this timeline.
 
This sounds really great. Looking forward be able to test it.
 
I second the question: Is it MP-only? If so, I won't be be buying it.

Glad to hear it's for Warband at any rate. While you're making DLCs, I'd love to see an update to WFaS with some of the Warband features that got cut out...