That game is medieval combat title Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, and in the simplest sense possible, the mod works by pausing CKIII at the time of a battle, switching over to Mount & Blade so you can resolve it, then switching back again. Yes, seriously.Ĭrusader Blade is a mod that lets you directly control any battles taking place in the game by literally using a whole other video game to do it. What this mod has done is make owners of both games able to seamlessly use both games to play both the grand strategy portions of Crusader Kings and conduct actual battles using Mount & Blade. It's not an afterthought, but it's close to one. Think of the battle sequence like one in a Civilization game.

The warring part of the game is extremely barebones by modern standards, literally just showing an avatar for an army that marches and then fights to a mathematical outcome. My listing warfare last was not coincidence. Crusader Kings 3 is a medieval grand strategy game focused on diplomacy, intrigue, relationship management, managing a family dynasty, and warring with other nearby kingdoms and realms. The battles featuring hundreds of combatants are really the sell for the game, however. Mount & Blade puts the player in a medieval fictional world and allows them to hack and slash their way to glory, fighting battles alongside the rest of their army, with some RPG elements thrown in. Confused? Well, this will take some brief background. Crusader Blade is a mashup mod combining Paradox Interactive's Crusader Kings 3 and TaleWorlds Entertainment's Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord. Even in those headlines you get a common theme: we wish we could have these things, but they don't exist. You can get a Cracked article entitled ' 4 Video Game Mashups Too Awesome To Exist', or a GameRant post entitled ' 5 Video Game Mashups That Would Blow Our Minds'. As are the constant attacks from original creators and rightsholders that seem to see such mashup work as a threat to the originals.īut what about the video game space? Go poke around for terms like 'video game mashup' and you'll get plenty of results, but all of them discussing theoretical mashups. When done well, the results are mind-blowing.

Take the music from one song and lyrical output from another, put them together, and you get something new and interesting. Music is the easiest entry point for those not in the know. It is, frankly, a tortured landscape largely littered with the metaphorical bodies of artists creating new and interesting artwork by combining previous works to create something new. Most of those posts deal with the copyright implications of mashup creators, be they for music or literature. Search the Techdirt pages for the term 'mashup' and you will see a metric ton of ink spilled on the topic.

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