Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword
2009 · Sich Studio and TaleWorlds
Source book
- With Fire and Sword — Henryk Sienkiewicz
A Mount & Blade sandbox loosely hung on Sienkiewicz's war, and on the sequels' wars too.
Platforms
Windows
Fidelity
A stand-alone Mount & Blade developed by Sich Studio and TaleWorlds. Wikipedia says the storyline is loosely based on With Fire and Sword and on its sequels, covering the Khmelnytsky Uprising and later the Swedish and Ottoman wars. The Russian release was 4 December 2009, published there by 1C; Paradox published it in Europe. Windows only.
Read first?
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When to read first
Read the novel first if you want Sienkiewicz's characters and the shape of that uprising before a sandbox starts mixing in the later books' wars.
02
When playing first is fine
Play first. It is a loose campaign generator set in those wars, not a chapter-by-chapter retelling. The book will still be a different experience.
03
Why
Loose plus a sandbox is the profile of a game you can play before you read. You will learn the war. You will not have been told the novel.
Source
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_%26_Blade:_With_Fire_%26_Sword
The call above is an editorial reading of that public page. If the page and this note disagree, believe the page.
