History Videogame / MountAndBlade

* DropTheHammer:
** In ''Warband'', the Rhodok's array of hammers. They also deal a ridiculous amount of damage and ignore shields completely making them quite popular in multiplayer siege battles for clearing besiegers off ladders or holding of a tide of attackers pouring forth from a siege tower.
** Hammers also explicitly ignore a certain degree of armor, and the more armor you're wearing, the more armor it ignores. So wearing a full set of extremely expensive plate that even archers have difficulty penetrating means that hammers will do considerably more damage to you than other weapons.

* DropTheHammer: The plot quest for the Cossack faction involves looking for a unique mace (the "Black Mace"). When discovered, it happens to be one of the most powerful one-handed weapon of the game.

* ObviousBeta: [[JustifiedTrope Justified.]] [=TaleWorlds=] started selling while it was a beta and used that money to fund the rest of the game's development.

* ObviousBeta: Played completely straight with the expansion, down to debugging info and messages in the vein of "this feature is not yet implemented" being shown in the 'final' version. To their credit, though, TW started cranking out patches at an impressive rate to avert this.

* ObviousBeta: Continuing a [=TaleWorlds=] tradition, the initial release sees bugs and absurdities abound and key features missing. It's a little better presented than ''Warband'''s initial release was was but it's still clearly incomplete.

* NonStandardGameOver: Can happen during "The Secret of the Black Mace" questline. [[spoiler:With the help of the protagonist, Janusz Radziwill, a pretender to the Polish throne, becomes the king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. At the same time, he is the keeper of the secret of the Black Mace - a legendary relic, the owner of which will be considered strong and respectable enough to lead the entire Cossack gentry. Despite the promise given to reveal the family secret of the Radziwills, Janusz breaks his word, and as soon as he receives the Polish crown and takes the Black Mace from the ancestral tomb, the Cossack lords will begin to move to the side of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, on average one or two every three days. If the player does not or cannot prevent this, once all of them, including all their holdings, are under Radziwill's banner, the player will automatically receive a GameOver screen stating that Radziwill has gained full control of the territory "from the Vistula to the Volga", thereby becoming influential enough to detain and execute the protagonist.]]

* NonStandardGameOver: Can happen during "The Secret of the Black Mace" questline. [[spoiler:With the help of the protagonist, Janusz Radziwill, a pretender to the Polish throne, becomes the king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. At the same time, he is the keeper of the secret of the Black Mace - a legendary relic, the owner of which will be considered strong and respectable enough to lead the entire Cossack gentry. Despite the promise given to reveal the family secret of the Radziwill family, Janusz breaks his word, and as soon as he receives the Polish crown and takes the Black Mace from the ancestral tomb, the Cossack lords will begin to move to the side of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, on average one or two every three days. If the player does not or cannot prevent this, once all of them, including all their holdings, are under Radziwill's banner, the player will automatically receive a GameOver screen stating that Radziwill has gained full control of the territory "from the Vistula to the Volga", thereby becoming influential enough to detain and execute the protagonist.]]

* TheMusketeer: Avaible as a unit as well as player character. With some training, your companions also.
* NonStandardGameOver: Can happen during "The Secret of the Black Mace" questline. [[spoiler:With the help of the protagonist, Janusz Radziwill, a pretender to the Polish throne, becomes the king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. At the same time, he is the keeper of the secret of the Black Mace - a legendary relic, the owner of which will be considered strong and respectable enough to lead the entire Cossack gentry. Despite the promise given to reveal the family secret of the Radziwill family, Janusz breaks his word, and as soon as he receives the Polish crown and takes the Black Mace from the ancestral tomb, the Cossack lords will begin to move to the side of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, on average one or two every three days. If the player does not or cannot prevent this, once all of them, including all their holdings, are under Radziwill's banner, the player will automatically receive a GameOver screen stating that Radziwill has gained full control of the territory "from the Vistula to the Volga" and as a result became influential enough to detain and execute the protagonist.]]

* WimpFight: If two AI in the arena spawn with bows next to each other, they will proceed to punch each other for minimal damage until one is KO or (more likely) someone kicks both their asses.

* NonStandardGameOver: Can happen during "The Secret of the Black Mace" questline. [[spoiler:With the help of the protagonist, Janusz Radziwill, a pretender to the Polish throne, becomes the king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. At the same time, he is the keeper of the secret of the Black Mace - a legendary relic, the owner of which will be considered strong and respectable enough to lead the entire Cossack gentry. Despite the promise given to reveal the family secret of the Radziwill family, Janusz breaks his word, and as soon as he receives the Polish crown and takes the Black Mace from the ancestral tomb, the Cossack lords will begin to move to the side of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, on average one or two every three days. If the player does not or cannot prevent this, once all of them, including all their holdings, are under Radziwill's banner, the player will automatically receive a GameOver screen stating that Radziwill has gained full control of the territory "from the Vistula to the Volga", and as a result became influential enough to detain and execute the protagonist.]]

* ValuesDissonance: Deliberately invoked. You're told up front that, as the game is heavily based on the Middle Ages, the most powerful people in Calradia tend to be of noble birth and male. Indeed, in the early stages of the games, most [=NPC's=] will treat a female character like a joke. Of course, there's really no penalty for playing as a girl, and in fact there are several achievements that require you to accomplish certain impressive feats with a female character.

* WimpFight: If two AI in the arena spawn with bows next to each other, they will proceed to punch eachother for minimal damage until one is KO or (more likely) someone kicks both their asses.

** Straddling the line between this and BladeOnAStick, the [[SinisterScythe Shortened Military Scythe]] is a scytheblade facing upwards.

* BladeOnAStick: Spears are best used only against cavalry, and most other polearms are best used only by cavalry.

* DreamTeam: The PlayerCharacter plus the assorted heroes recruited in taverns, especially in the lategame when their skills are fully leveled up and they have been provided with the best gear.

* AscendedFanfic: The DLC is more or less the ''Brytenwalda'' campaign ascended as an official ''Mount & Blade'' DLC and ported by ''Brytenwalda'' developpers.

** ''Kingdom of Rhodoks'' - [[UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} Kingdom of Spain]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} City States of Italy]], [[UsefulNotes/VaticanCity Papal States]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}} Confederacy of Switzerland]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Poland}} Polish]]-[[UsefulNotes/{{Lithuania}} Lithuanian]] Commonwealth, Kingdom of Scotland.

* NonStandardGameOver: Can happen during "The Secret of the Black Mace" questline. [[spoiler:With the help of the protagonist, Janusz Radziwill, a pretender to the Polish throne, becomes the king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. At the same time, he is the keeper of the secret of the Black Mace - a legendary relic, the owner of which will be strong and respectable enough to lead the entire Cossack gentry. Despite the promise given to reveal the family secret of the Radziwill family, Janusz breaks his word, and as soon as he receives the Polish crown and takes the Black Mace from the ancestral tomb, the Cossack lords will begin to move to the side of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, on average one or two every three days. If the player does not or cannot prevent this, once all of them, including all their holdings, are under Radziwill's banner, the player will automatically receive a GameOver screen stating that Radziwill has gained full control of the territory "from the Vistula to the Volga", and as a result became influential enough to detain and execute the protagonist.]]

* NonStandardGameOver: Can happen during "The Secret of the Black Mace" questline. [[spoiler:With the help of the protagonist, a pretender to the Polish throne, Janusz Radziwill becomes the king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. At the same time, he is the keeper of the secret of the Black Mace - a legendary relic, the owner of which will be strong and respectable enough to lead the entire Cossack gentry. Despite the promise given to reveal the family secret of the Radziwill family, Janusz breaks his word, and as soon as he receives the Polish crown and takes the Black Mace from the ancestral tomb, the Cossack lords will begin to move to the side of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, on average one or two every three days. If the player does not or cannot prevent this, once all of them, including all their holdings, are under Radziwill's banner, the player will automatically receive a GameOver screen stating that Radziwill has gained full control of the territory "from the Vistula to the Volga", and as a result became influential enough to detain and execute the protagonist.]]

* AnAxeToGrind: Axes have a bonus against shields and throwing axes are one of the signature weapons of Nord Huscarls.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To VideoGame/SidMeiersPirates.

* BlownAcrossTheRoom: A decent bodyshot with a pistol can send a bandit corpse flying a foot or two, and it goes up from there until some routed brigand gets shot in the back with one of the bigger muskets and gets sent flying forward like he was hit by a car. However, it was fixed. Enemy soldiers usually slump down and ragdoll reasonably.