Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword

Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword is the weird middle child of the franchise – not quite a sequel, not quite a mod, but still better than most of the junk that tries to do what it does. If you like muskets, cavalry charges, and dying instantly because some peasant sniped your horse with a flintlock pistol, you’re in the right place.

This one ditches the medieval sandbox of Warband and drops you into a gritty 17th-century Eastern Europe setting with real historical factions. It’s grim, it’s messy, and it captures the chaos of early gun warfare better than any polished AAA title. Muskets suck to reload, but when they hit, they hit. Watching a cavalry line get shredded by a volley is equal parts hilarious and horrifying.

But don’t expect polish. The UI is archaic, the animations are stiff, and the campaign has a weirdly railroaded main quest. If you’re coming from Warband, you’ll miss the marriage politics and feudal depth. It leans more toward scripted quests than sandbox freedom, and some of it just feels unfinished.

Still, it’s Mount & Blade. You can build your army, siege castles, roleplay as a Slavic warlord or Swedish gunman, and live that mercenary life in a world where the rules are simple: shoot first, loot later, reload never.

Not for casuals. Not for the faint of heart. But if you want raw, sandbox brutality with muskets and mustaches, With Fire & Sword scratches an itch that few games dare to touch.

Towards the end of the Cossacks questline, I was finally made Marshal of the Hetmanate.
I then called to arms all my valorous brothers, to aid me in an epic, daring campaign aimed to conquer both the Tsardom and the Khanate's lands.
Most of the Lords who joined stayed only for a short time, evidently preoccupied with other matters within our realm.
Only a couple of faithful subjects remained with me throughout the whole ordeal.
And so we endured, back to back, fighting strenuosly, whether galloping in an open field or engaging in urban combat.
The enemy was fierce, but we withstood them all; and during our 2-months offensive, we laid waste of anyone who dared oppose to us.
After countless battles and sieges, we bravely vanquished the last of our foes.
With a pride-filled heart, I then turned to one of my fellow Lords, one of the valiant few who sticked with me from the beginning, and told him it was ultimately time to end our campaign.
He slowly raised his head, and while looking straight into my eyes, uttered these words:

"Do I know you?"

10/10 GAME

I wish this game could have more mods...

Cool

beautiful game.

Fun game, but you should get Bannerlord instead

good open game yes

When the winged hussars arrived
A cry for help in time of need, await relief from holy league
60 days of siege, outnumbered and weak
Sent a message to the sky, wounded soldiers left to die
Will they hold the wall or will the city fall
Dedication
Dedication
They're outnumbered 15 to one
And the battle's begun
Then the winged hussars arrived
Coming down the mountainside
Then the winged hussars arrived
Coming down they turned the tide
As the days are passing by and as the dead are piling high
No escape and no salvation
Trenches to explosive halls are buried deep beneath the walls
Plant the charges there and watch the city fear
Desperation
Desperation
It's a desperate race against the mine
And a race against time
Then the winged hussars arrived
Coming down the mountainside
Then the winged hussars arrived
Coming down they turned the tide
Cannonballs are coming down from the sky
Janissaries, are you ready to die?
We will seek our vengeance eye for an eye
You'll be stopped upon the steps of our gate
On this field you're only facing our hate
But back home the sultan's sealing your fate
We remember
In September
That's the night Vienna was freed
We made the enemy bleed
Then the winged hussars arrived
(Stormclouds, fire and steel
Death from above make their enemy kneel)
Coming down the mountainside
(Shining armour and wings
Death from above, it's an army of kings)
Then the winged hussars arrived
(Stormclouds, fire and steel
Death from above make their enemy kneel)
Coming down they turned the tide
(Shining armour and wings
Death from above, it's an army of kings)
Then the winged hussars arrived
(Stormclouds, fire and steel
Death from above make their enemy kneel)
Coming down the mountainside
(Shining armour and wings
Death from above, it's an army of kings)
Then the winged hussars arrived
(Stormclouds, fire and steel
Death from above make their enemy kneel)
Coming down they turned the tide
(Shining armour and wings
Death from above, it's an army of kings)
We remember
In September
When the winged hussars arrived

POLSKA GUROOOOOOOOOOM

I tried really hard to like this game. I really did. About only half the playtime spent on this game is accurate for me (20 hours). This game lacks the soul and wonder that Warband and Bannerlord has.
You don't get to choose where your starting zone is. Each faction feels practically the same troop wise and geographically. The sense of progression doesn't seem to be present. The guns feel lackluster (awful aim, random 1 hit killing), and the battle themselves don't feel epic in this one. There's no tournaments in the towns anymore. I could go on & on. Honestly, just play Mount & Blade Warband/Bannerlord. Skip this one forreal

made a musket line
missed all shots
got smashed by lancers

Oyunda 1000günü hilesiz aştım oyundaki en güçlü zırhları donandım ama hala savaşın en kritik yerinde oyunun en kötü tüfekçisi bile tek atıyor, hadi gerçekçilik vs diyelim,2 saat uğraşıp tüm ordusunu dağıttığın ülke 10 dakika sonra daha güçlü bir seferberlik gücüyle tekrar geliyor, gerçekçilik olacaksa birazcık buna da olsun, ne hikmetse hangi ülkeyi seçersem lordları ambale oluyor 200kişiyle dolaşan lord 30-40 kişiyle dolaşıyor rakip lordlar ise tam tersi,hile ile bitirmiştim hilesiz bitirilmeyecek bir oyun değil ama akıl sağlığım daha önemli, neden warband ve bannerlordun yanında esamesi okunmuyor hatırladım

aaa 100/10..

It's a fun game, I definitely recommend it if you like strategy games. Even more so if you like Eastern European history. Not as polished as warband but still decent, i'd rate it 8.5/10.

defeat at zhovti vody and has tuhaj bej in it, best M&B game

is gud

mount and blade with guns

when the winged hussars arrived!

pistols and muskets are fun to use, and armor & weapons have nice designs. all of the recruits are cool too. i like the setting and time period, but the map feels pretty small.

good game

Prawdziwe cudo

Although not as complete as Warband, WFAS still is better than bannerlord.

I played the heck out of this game with cheat codes. I took over the whole world and had a blast being an end game threat until my right hand man who I also cheated and gave him insane stats and joined my enemy steam rolled my ass to kingdom come. 10/10

Interesting game but very much just reused assets

This game is good but due to the lack of mods youd be better off to get warband on sale but if this is on sale for 2.50 its more than worth it

GG

It's old and terrible for it's own time

Fantastic Franchise

Heck of a lot of fun. I like to run around solo without an army taking out many enemies alone but you can recruit an army for a different experience. My tip: get yourself a fast horse.

kosm hamod

Bije szwedów w królewcu i jest git

If you like bannerlord but want muskets and gunpowder, then this is the game for you

fun for 10 minutes, boring the rest.

BEST GAME EVER

I wasn't into the whole gun thing.

Good

horse

good

Mount and Blade: With Fire and Sword may be an older game, but it’s still a blast to play. The mix of real-time combat, strategy, and open-world exploration keeps it exciting even today. The addition of firearms to the classic melee combat adds a whole new layer of depth, and I’ve found myself losing hours leading armies, besieging castles, and navigating the complex politics between factions. Despite being a bit dated, the game’s depth and replayability make it feel as fresh as ever.

9/10
If you love strategy or medieval warfare, this game is absolutely worth playing.

its good game but Can Parradox make that game Playable on Mac?

When I first started playing I was not sure it was for me, but MBWFS grew on me rather quickly and I really the game.

Lithuania mentioned

Fun

ffffff

Warband on steroid, with a nice dose of historical shenanigans

Literally the fallout new vegas version of the mount and blade franchise

It is not a bad game, not by a long shot. You won't find even a fraction of the mods Warband has, unfortunately, to the point that I haven't even played half a dozen F&S mods. Unfortunately the game plays quite differently than Warband, too - don't expect to come in and enjoy it in the exact same way. This game is intended to be more 'story'-ish, following quests to join factions and potentially even rule them, instead of founding your own. You CAN'T found your own, in fact, nor can you even recruit from a village without being allied with the proper owner. You'll likely rely mostly on mercenaries (which are customizable to a degree which is neat) and tavern troops, until you join a faction. I don't enjoy it as much as Warband, and most of the features added to it have been back ported and improved in one way or another, but it's worth a shot.

Listen up gentleman today we gonna invaded Polish Commonwealth

Bring your musket, bring your flintlock we gonna invaded them with our Blade

POLSKA GUROM XD (I'm not polish btw :P)

A game that i come back to year after year, just like any of the other games in the mount and blade series! A game that allows you to fully customise your character and play the game exactly how you want. You can be as friendly or as evil as you want. This game adds the additional fun of gunpowder. There is nothing like mowing down your enemies like a rank of musketeers!