The political and cultural structure of Battania, located in the northwest of Calradia, refers us to the Western European Celts. The presence of such 'minor' factions is a characteristic feature not only of the Empire, but also of all other countries, but it is in the Empire that this is most pronounced. Previously, the Empire stretched across the entire continent, but now the borders of the former hegemon have significantly decreased, and the country is in a civil war between three pretenders to the throne. The prototypes of the Empire were Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, as well as Byzantium. There are also six factions in the new game, but they bear different names and are more reminiscent of the states that actually existed in our history.

Bannerlord events begin a couple of hundred years before the Warband storyline and are dedicated to the same Calradia - a fictional continent torn apart by a war for domination between six independent factions. There is no magic, goblins, orcs and elves, but there are enough references to what happened in our history a thousand years ago.

The Mount & Blade universe, although fictional, is much closer to historical realism than most medieval fantasy games. Now that the dust has settled after the announcement and new information has ceased to flow, we decided to collect all the information about the game in one piece and tell you about what Friv5Online Games Studio has in store for us in the coming year. On August 19, an announcement trailer appeared, which indicated the release date - Bannerlordwill be released in March 2020 in Early Access.

During all this time, the Friv5Online Games Studio has written more than a hundred issues of developer diaries, telling almost everything about the game (for example, there were separate blogs about scabbards and reins), but never announced a release date so as not to disappoint fans with false hopes. The sequel to the famous Warband is not only one of the most anticipated games, but, perhaps, one of the main long-term construction of the present time: seven years have passed since the announcement. The announcements of the release date for Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord at gamescom 2019 were waiting - as, however, they were waiting for this at the last exhibition in Cologne, and at the year before.

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