You can also fight in tournaments which vary from region to region according to local custom. You can own villages, cities or castles in the name of your king and, with due time, you can even become a Marshal of the kingdom, organizing campaigns and dictating where your fellow lords should ride. You can now be a lord yourself if a king happens to notice your prowess. If, in the year 2006, combat was pretty much all one could enjoy, along with trading and doing quests for lords, now the scope has greatly increased.

And the good thing is, two years later, this game is still the greatest example of how to implemented mounted combat in a game, making it fun and balanced. Now, in the year 2008, Mount and Blade looks like this. That was two years ago, and back then, Mount and Blade looked like this. Its name was bandied about quite a few time during the development of Oblivion as the quintessential example of how mounted combat should be handled in a game. Some of you here might know of the indie game Mount&Blade.

Lord of the rings mod mount and blade