Quote Originally Posted by Flickerdart View Post
Warband's main improvement is heavily nerfing couched lance attacks. In the base game, as long as you can keep your lance couched you wreck everything it touches.

It's definitely worth five bucks, but I feel it doesn't have that much replay value past "what if I build a guy that fights with two axes and a hammer up his butt" because the late game is kind of tedious.
I found the Diplomacy mod lessens the endgame grind somewhat, and smoothes out the rougher edges of the lord/king level strategic level gameplay.