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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 576: Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Video Games, Games, War, War Games, Strategy, Games & Hobbies, Strategy Games

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Len and John are joined once again by UNC Chapel Hill's Dr. Bret Devereaux to finally, at long last, discuss Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. We have some mixed feelings about it. What did we love and what did we really not? How do the systems and battles stand up to a military historian's eyes? And at the end of the day, is it actually good?

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0:00.0

Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm Len. I'm your host for this week. And I am joined by our good friend John Bolding.

0:08.6

Howdy you?

0:09.9

And once again, by UNC Chapel Hills, Dr. Brett Devereaux.

0:14.4

Hey, great to be back.

0:16.6

And we're talking about, usually when we have Brett on, it's for a game that has like,

0:22.2

oh, some really interesting historical perspective.

0:26.1

But this time it's Mountain Blade 2 Banner Lord, which I suppose does have, does have

0:32.3

maybe some historical stuff we'll talk about a little later.

0:35.6

But I think I would be really excited to find out what that is.

0:39.5

The first time we've, we've just kind of had you on as like, oh, I'm, I'm a person who plays video games and we want to know your opinion about this video game and not.

0:48.4

What is the grand unified historical theory of Mountain Blade? Yeah, I mean, I can do both of those things.

1:11.7

Honestly, I've been on this podcast enough time. Is this the fourth or fifth time? And when do I get the jacket? The honorary jacket. What I want to know. Yeah. Yeah, you have to kill a jacket holder and take that. Yeah, there were only a limited number made. It's kind of like Highlander. Okay, I mean, that's fine.

1:13.0

I know a guy with an exciting collection of historical firearms,

1:16.7

and John, you're not too far away, so this can happen.

1:19.8

This just got way scarier.

1:21.4

Yeah, you shouldn't have told them, shouldn't have told them about how the jacket system works,

1:25.3

because you're easily the easiest to get to.

1:28.0

I don't have a jacket. Yeah.

1:33.6

Oh, so now you two are going to form an alliance to go after the other jacket holders, probably.

1:40.0

So maybe I shouldn't have said it.

1:41.4

We're going to hunt down the legacy jacket holders. We're going to go after Tom Chick and Bruce Garrick.

1:45.5

Yeah.

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