In an open sand box world you choose your allies, your enemies, what provinces to conquer, what castles to siege and what quests to embark on. With Fire & Sword also greatly builds and expands upon the highly regarded combat system from Mount & Blade: Warband. Firearms have been introduced to the battlefield. Also, muskets and pistols can now be used as sidearms in hand-to-hand combat to quickly drop your foes. In addition to the enhanced singleplayer mode, With Fire and Sword also provides a host of original multiplayer content including the new game mode: Captain.Key features. Three exciting storylines based on the novel "Black Hetman" by Alex Trubnikov. Some ingame characters are taken from the novel by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz's "With Fire and Sword".

In 2010 the game came in the Тop-10 sales in Russia and Poland, and has received awards and appreciation of many magazines and websites. Voting Member of the largest Russian site, dedicated to computer games, "With Fire And Sword" hit the Top-5 in several categories, ahead such games as Mass Effect and Dragon Age.

Read more

Mount & Blade has already become a cult classic and Tale Worlds are working on the next part of the series. Bengt sat down with producer Mikail Yazback at the Paradox Plaza event to get some more information.