<P> Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is a medieval action role - playing game developed by TaleWorlds Entertainment . The game was announced in 2012, and the game project started in summer of 2011 . It is a prequel to the 2010 game Mount & Blade: Warband . </P> <P> The game is set 210 years before Mount & Blade: Warband, taking place during the decline of the Calradian Empire, and the formation of the Kingdoms that appear in the previous games . The Calradian Empire and its downfall are analogous to the fall of the Roman Empire and the formation of the early Middle Eastern, North African, and European kingdoms . The armor, weapons and architecture will draw inspiration from 600 to 1100 A.D. Furthermore, there are many different vassals which serve the Kingdom the way they do . </P> <P> Bannerlord will include at least eight major factions, each composed of competing clans with their own goals, as well as minor warband factions like mercenaries . The Northern, Western, and Southern Empire factions use a balance of heavy cavalry, spearmen, and archers . The Calradic Empire was a once significant empire that is now fighting a three - way civil war, they are experts in archery and heavily armoured cataphract cavalry . The Vlandians are a feudal kingdom specializing in heavy cavalry tactics . The Sturgians of the northern forests specialize in axe and sword equipped infantry . The Aserai of the southern desert are adept at both cavalry and infantry tactics . The Khuzait of the eastern steppe specialize in ranged cavalry . The Battanians of the central woodlands specialize in ambushes with archers from the trees and are inspired by Welsh, Pictish, and Celtic cultures . </P> <P> In September 2012, TaleWorlds Entertainment announced that the game was in development and released a teaser trailer for it . </P>

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