

Bling of War: The royal armour of the player faction in SoD.They inflict heavy damages and are impressive when fired, but the number of ammunitions carried in an inventory slot is lower than those of arrows/bolts, like crossbows they must be reloaded between each shot but are less accurate. Awesome, but Impractical: The firearms.

Author Tract: According to Word of God, the Imperial Legion is a Take That! to American military imperialism.It gives the player a temporary penalty to this cap when a companion is too injuried. Arbitrary Headcount Limit: Slightly altered in SoDW, allowing the player to hire a bigger army: the leadership skill of each of the hired heroes is taken in account to calculate the maximum number of units that can be hired.A few mercenary faction characters (Lieutenant Agnessa for the Conquistadors, Guild Master Kephri for the Elephant Guard, Guild Master Velandir for the Jotna Clan) are female. Action Girl: Apart some of the Vanilla units (a female player character, Sword Sisters, Deshavi, Klethi, Ymira, etc), the mods feature the Jotnar clan, a mercenary faction relying partly on armored female warriors (footmen and riders).

The Sword of Damocles Mods Provide Examples Of: įor tropes related to the setting and gameplay which are unchanged from the unmodded game, refer to the Mount & Blade page.

Unrelated to the same name trope, although the Imperial Legion invasion of SoD is a sword of Damocles in the meaning of the phrase. SoDW needs Mount & Blade: Warband to work. There are more several hundredth places, divided between twelve factions (thirteen with the player's one). Contrary to SoD, the former player-only factions (and the Imperial Legion) are factions working like the default ones. The same mercenaries are still there, but they don't exist as factions, only as random guys that can be hired in taverns (although it is planned to implant them as actual factions). Then the factions (including the player-only ones) started to conquer another continent, which ended totally controlled by them when SoDW begins.Īs in SoD, the player (who descends from the player of SoD) can choose his native faction among five of them. Its events are set more than forty years after SoD, after the invasion of Calradia by the Imperial Legion have been repelled. The other mod, Sword of Damocles: Warlords, or SoDW (latest version: V3.92) is the sequel of SoD.
