Mount&Blade: Bannerlord Will Become Bigger and Better: 30 Epic Mods

In this game, there are countless possibilities: you can become a mercenary or a lord with your own castle, you can raid caravans or take part in knightly tournaments, engage in trade or warfare, join battles yourself, or watch your warriors fight while giving orders to your troops. 

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So much is possible here, but what if even that isn’t enough for you? The answer is to install mods! That’s exactly why we have put together this collection of mods.

Detailed Character Creation

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Just like in the base game, everything begins with choosing your faction and creating your character, so we’ll start with a mod that allows you to customize your character in more detail. Height, body type, skin tone, age, and even the character’s voice and tone can all be configured.

Moreover, if you play with mods that add new races, such as elves, you’ll be able to customize them as well.

Realistic Battle Mod

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This mod fixes and adjusts the game’s combat component, improves AI, makes enemy and ally actions more logical, and changes the armor and damage system depending on which armor is being used and which weapon inflicted the blow. Weapon and unit physics have also been overhauled, and knightly tournaments are altered to be more balanced.

Diplomacy

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Mount Blade isn’t just about constant battles—it’s also about diplomacy. This mod makes diplomacy more flexible, detailed, and varied. In my opinion, it’s one of the best mods for diplomacy. Now, interactions with the leaders and lords of different factions will be more engaging and fleshed out. You’ll be able to forge alliances, set your own terms, and negotiate.

RTS Camera

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How many times during the heat of battle have you lost sight of one of your squads? How many times has the enemy reached your archers while your cavalry was chasing a few enemy riders, leaving your main forces without mounted support? This happened to me many times, but thanks to this mod, controlling your troops becomes much easier. A new camera mode, similar to strategy games, will let you become a truly experienced commander!

Warlords Battlefield

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This mod can safely be called one of the most popular! It fixes one of the game’s biggest problems: the poorly balanced combat system. Now, you won’t be able to rout a hundred heavy cavalry with just a couple of dozen soldiers in an open field. I highly recommend installing it.

True Battle Loot

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Imagine this scene… A long, grueling fight against superior enemy forces. Your soldiers fight like lions, and your blade is already dull from striking the enemy’s heavy armor. With one final counterattack, you defeat the enemy knight and realize the battle is won and it’s time to collect the spoils… and among the loot, you find 3 rusty swords, a piece of bread, and an old tattered padded armor. Sound familiar?

Well, this mod fixes that injustice—loot now matches your opponent’s strength and equipment!

Open Source Armory

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This add-on brings several hundred pieces of armor, helmets, and weapons, both for soldiers and their mounts. If you’re tired of the standard models, you can diversify your game by adding these new ones. The armor looks quite authentic and believable.

Raise your Banner

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You can’t really say banners are strictly necessary, but having them on the battlefield makes it more historically accurate and, of course, more epic! This mod "teaches" soldiers how to hold banners in their hands or attach them to their backs.

Raise your Torch

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Another mod that isn’t exactly essential but is very atmospheric and cool. It adds torches and oil lanterns for night battles. Now, nighttime battles won’t look like a blur of indistinct shadows, and you won’t have to crank up the gamma. With this mod, you’ll love fighting at night!

Perfect Fire Arrows

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And since we’re talking about night battles and battlefield illumination, let’s discuss another mod by the same author: the introduction of flaming arrows! Nighttime battles will become even more epic, incredible, and atmospheric!

Family Control (Pregnancy)

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What kind of medieval setting would it be without bastards, throne struggles, and lavish weddings? Exactly—it wouldn’t be one, which is why this mod is in our collection.

It greatly expands interactions with your significant other and lets you conceive an heir not at a random moment as before, but whenever you want. In addition, the mod lets you have your own bastards, and if you wish, you can acknowledge them, granting them your family name and all the associated rights.

True Town Gold

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Be honest—how many times have you had to travel around the map between settlements and towns, selling off your loot piece by piece because the merchant didn’t have enough gold?

Yeah, I’ve done it many times too, but here’s a simple solution: install this mod and, when trading, deal not just with a single impoverished village merchant, but with the entire economy of the city!

Banner Kings

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Any Mount Blade player dreams of becoming a king. But upon achieving this goal, you run into awkward and rather limited settlement management. Ultimately, managing your possessions doesn’t bring any satisfaction. To fix this, I recommend installing Banner Kings—now managing everything from a simple village to a castle becomes convenient, in-depth, and, most importantly, effective!

Realm of Thrones

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One of the most expansive mods in my selection. This mod transports you to Westeros, where you can join any of the factions, meet familiar characters, and put your chosen favorite on the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms! Or perhaps you’ll take power into your own hands? Oh, and I almost forgot—it doesn’t just add factions and familiar characters, but also giants, White Walkers, dragons, and other creatures from this universe!

Banner Editor Enhancer

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A mod with reworked banners that greatly expands the possibilities for creating your party’s banner. Now you can create your own unique banner that suits your hero and playstyle.

Battle Mini Map

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This mod may not be for everyone, but it belongs in this collection. It adds a mini-map in the corner of the screen, allowing you to track the positions of your and enemy units. You can quickly notice if one of your flanks is weakening and promptly deploy reserves. Or, if the battle isn’t going in your favor, the mini-map will show you it’s time to retreat.

The Old Realms Roster Expansion

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This collection already featured a mod that sends us to Westeros, so it wouldn’t be fair not to mention another similar mod, even if it’s not as large-scale.

This mod replaces the standard Calradian warriors with those from the Warhammer Fantasy universe and also adds various heroes from that universe. It’s up to you whose banners you will stand under and whose name you will immortalize!

Calradia Expanded Kingdoms

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For those who feel comfortable in Calradia and don’t want to install a mod that moves the game to another universe, this mod is perfect. It greatly expands the continent’s territory, adding new settlements, quests, and random events, without changing the usual flow of the game. It’s definitely suitable for fans of the vanilla version!

Serve as soldier

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A rather unusual mod that lets you experience life as an ordinary soldier. Start your career as a simple infantryman serving a lord and climb the career ladder to become a commander. Or maybe you want to prove that even someone of non-noble birth can become a king? You’ll have that opportunity too! In general, this mod is perfect for anyone who ever wanted to play not as a lord but as a regular soldier or who wants to rise from the bottom.

Fourberie (Cunning)

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Every Mount Blade 2 player has raided caravans and villages, and not always during wartime. But mostly, that’s where illegal actions in the game ended. What if you want more? As you’ve guessed, this mod adds various criminal structures and organizations, plus many illegal activities like orchestrating assassinations. But be careful—others can put a contract on you as well!

The Old Realms

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While I was writing this article, my friend, with whom I play Mount Blade, sent me a mod I’ll now share with you. This mod completely overhauls the game—not just the factions and units but also the map, adding traits, magic, and much more! It’s so incredible and huge that after installing it, I played for 21 hours straight without a break! 

You could say it’s not just a mod but an entirely new game, given how fundamentally different it is! All fans of dark fantasy should download it, as you’ll be transported to the brutal and harsh world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles.

Random Events

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I don’t know about you, but I really like random events—they bring an element of surprise to the game and make each campaign unique. This mod adds exactly those kinds of events, and the list is quite extensive. There are events that occur during long marches, events involving your lands and holdings, events related to your party or not, with either negative or positive consequences.

Shields Block On Back

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A small but useful mod. When you install it, your shield won’t lose its blocking properties while it’s on your back, and you also won’t see an error message in the chat when an arrow or javelin hits that shield.

Now, if a stray arrow hits the shield on your back, it will be blocked and won’t deal damage to your character.

Unlimited Smithing Stamina

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You’ve probably encountered the inconvenient weapon-forging system, specifically the forced waiting for your smithing stamina to recharge.

It would be fine if you could go out on the global map while your stamina recharges, but no—you have to hang around town. That’s not the best idea, so this mod removes the need to wait for a recharge. Forge as much as you want!

Kingdom Annexation

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Mount Blade has one annoying oversight by the developers: even after you’ve defeated a faction, its troops still appear out of nowhere and keep harassing you, trying to retake towns and villages. They also refuse to negotiate and constantly demand money, even though they were long defeated.

This mod fixes that problem and lets you completely conquer a faction.

Screamerlord Command soldiers with your voice

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Another optional but very interesting mod. It lets you command your troops by giving voice commands. Essentially, it’s an extension for the well-known program VoiceAttack.

This kind of change is perfect for those who love a clean interface without icons and buttons. Personally, I installed it just to shout at my soldiers and give voice orders like a real commander! It completely changes the feel of the game.

NPC Revamp 9.0

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Life in the Middle Ages was hard and tedious, so it’s no surprise that NPCs have tired, worn faces. However, this is easily fixed with this mod.

After installing it, characters’ faces get a slight cosmetic makeover and look noticeably better and fresher. It might be a minor change, but it’s quite nice, since one quickly grows weary of monotonous, gray faces.

Harmony

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This article features a large number of different mods, but sometimes certain mods conflict with each other, making it difficult or even impossible to play.

To fix this, you need to install several mods, and the first of them is Harmony.

UIExtenderEx

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Another mod that helps resolve conflicts between the game and mods, as well as among the mods themselves. I strongly recommend installing this mod along with the previous one and the following one to ensure the game works correctly.

ButterLib

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And here’s the last support mod. Don’t forget to install the two previous support mods as well, so you can fully enjoy the game!

When you install these three mods, they’ll automatically move to the top of the list in your launcher.

I hope this article was helpful and that among the various mods—both technical and gameplay—you found something interesting and appealing. Of course, this is far from a complete list of really good and useful mods; there are countless others out there. After all, Mount and Blade II is not only a captivating game offering tons of emotions, but also a convenient project for implementing the most daring ideas!

Have a great time playing, and see you on the battlefields!

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