Your Crusader Kings III battles, fought in Bannerlord. Open a book.
Chapter I
KingsBlade fights your Crusader Kings III battles in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.
Your own realms, regiments, commanders and champions take the field, in your campaign’s proportions. When the fighting is done the result goes back to CK3: the losses, the deaths and wounds, the siege and the war score.
One crossed-swords button in CK3’s battle, duel and tournament windows starts it.
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Chapter II
Your actual CK3 armies, regiments, commanders and champions fight in Bannerlord, in the campaign’s proportions.
The battle
A cinematic introduction presents the engagement: its name, its date, its war, and both sides under their arms. Commander speeches affect morale and health according to Martial and personality.
Named commanders and champions
Your campaign’s own characters take the field with prowess-based skill, health, equipment and existing injuries. Martial shapes a commander’s tactics, deployment and effectiveness as an allied leader.
Culture and troops through the ages
CK3 regiment types become culturally mapped Bannerlord troops, equipped by the campaign date. Authored 867, 1050 and 1168 rosters change the look and kit of levies, specialists, guards and champions.
Large-scale battles
Army scaling and reinforcement waves let substantial engagements play out at their relative strength, with selectable limits up to 6,000 soldiers in the field and 3,000 in sieges, as the engine allows.
Formations and allied armies
Regiments keep their identities, with battle lines, cavalry wings and ranged positions shaped by the commander’s ability. Capable allies support your movements, coordinate attacks, commit reserves and withdraw damaged formations.
Combat options and battle sounds
Configurable cut-through and separate player and AI melee friendly fire. Realistic Battle Sounds adds material-specific impacts, weapon sounds, wounded horses and battlefield voices.
Consequence
Battlefield losses and named characters’ deaths, wounds and maimings carry back into the campaign, with configurable risks. Siege results, prisoners, war losses and war score connect the fighting to CK3’s wider politics.
Chapter III
CK3’s fort strength, breached walls, garrison and siege regiments shape the assault, and the defence.
Attacking
Organised deployment, proper gate pushes and a storm of the walls. Siege regiments bring the engines; the breaches are where CK3 made them; the garrison’s bowmen hold the walls.
Defending
When a holding of yours is besieged, hold its walls with the garrison and the regiments you stationed there: in person, as the champion leading the defence, or as the commander of the city guard.
Falling back to the keep
A defence that loses the walls retreats into the keep for a final fight. Hold it, or take it to the last man.
Prisoners and the war
Keep prisoners, war losses and war score go back to CK3’s wider situation. A won assault completes the siege through CK3’s own siege logic; a held wall leaves it in progress.
Chapter IV
Fight CK3’s single combats and tournament bouts yourself.
Duels
CK3’s single combats, fought personally with the characters’ actual prowess, equipment, injuries and duel conditions. Your Bannerlord victory determines the winner; CK3 applies the duel’s story and consequences.
Tournaments
Tournament duel bouts in culturally matched arenas, with cheering crowds, the host’s banners, and real or sparring weapons. Your fought result decides the CK3 bout and feeds back into its tournament.
Adventurer encounters
Sixty-five adventurer contracts mapped against combat encounters: criminal duels, raids, ambushes, escorts and prison breaks. The duels are in; group missions and rescues are development work.
The Battle of GrunwaldJan Matejko · 1878
Chapter V
Your CK3 heraldry flies on the field.
Banners
Your actual CK3 heraldry appears on battlefield banners and shields, with each realm’s colours: edited coats of arms, newly created titles and Japanese clan mon included. KingsBanners builds it all on your PC from your own CK3.
KingsBanners
Regiments carry physical standards, levies display the arms of the vassals who raised them, and kingdoms field royal banners. Standards support morale, and a fallen banner can be recovered in the fighting.
KingsGuard
Kings and emperors receive guards whose numbers and equipment reflect court grandeur, culture and era. Command them separately or as a following bodyguard; enemy and allied rulers get the same.
KingsArms
High prowess or court grandeur unlocks prestigious, culture-specific royal weapons for kings and emperors. Eligibility is adjustable, and the same progression applies to player, allied and enemy rulers.
England
France
Holy Roman Empire
Byzantine Empire
Scotland
Mann & the Isles
Wales
Denmark
Sweden
Castille
Poland
JapanTwelve realms, as KingsBanners paints them from a CK3 install.
Chapter VI
The Japan add-on, with a book of its own.
Japanese campaigns receive period troops, samurai equipment, regional battlefields and castles through the Shokuho-based add-on. Three dedicated duel maps, seven fight layouts and two Japanese tournament arenas extend that setting into personal combat.
KingsBlade builds ShōgunsBlade on your PC from your own copy of Shokuho, so Shokuho must be installed. All of ShōgunsBlade’s assets, terrain, weapons and armour are the great work of the Shokuho Team.
Chapter VII
KingsBlade is two parts: the Bannerlord module and the KingsBlade app.
Requirements
The field manual covers installation and every setting.
Chapter VIII
KingsBlade is made by Okano Softworks.
With thanks to
The Battle of Grunwald by Jan Matejko, 1878, is public domain. UnifrakturCook and Shojumaru are used under the SIL Open Font License. KingsBlade is not affiliated with Paradox Interactive or TaleWorlds Entertainment.
Chapter I
ShōgunsBlade is KingsBlade’s Japan.
Period troops, samurai arms and armour, Japanese battlefields and castles for the armies of CK3’s Japan, with its own duel grounds and tournament arenas.
It is built on your PC from the Shokuho mod, so Shokuho must be installed. All of ShōgunsBlade’s assets, terrain, weapons and armour are the great work of the Shokuho Team.
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Chapter II
Japan’s campaigns fight on their own fields, in their own arms.
Troops
Samurai, ashigaru and mounted archers in Shokuho’s armour and weapons, mapped from CK3’s Japanese regiments by era, each family under its mon.
Battlefields
Japanese battle maps for the engagements of CK3’s Japan, with the battle named and dated as CK3 names it and the muster of every family that brought men.
Chapter III
Japanese castles, with their own walls, towers and gates.
The same siege as KingsBlade’s: the assault or the defence, the gate, the fall back into the keep, and the result carried back to the campaign.
Sekigahara Kassen Byōbu-zuLate Edo period · about 1850
Chapter IV
Personal combat in Japan.
Duels
Three dedicated duel maps and seven fight layouts, chosen from the fighters’ capitals, with the characters’ actual prowess, equipment and injuries. Your result decides the duel; CK3 applies its consequences.
Tournaments
Two Japanese tournament arenas, following the CK3 venue, with the host’s banners over the ring. The fought result feeds back into the tournament.
Chapter V
ShōgunsBlade is not a download.
Subscribe to Shokuho on the Steam Workshop. KingsBlade builds ShōgunsBlade from your copy on your PC, and loads it after KingsBlade when it starts Bannerlord. Shokuho itself is only read, never changed.
Chapter VI
All of ShōgunsBlade’s assets, terrain, weapons and armour are the great work of the Shokuho Team.
Its battle maps and castles are theirs too, used with their permission. KingsBlade ships none of it: each ShōgunsBlade is built from its player’s own Shokuho.
The Sekigahara screen is in the public domain. Shojumaru lettering is used under the SIL Open Font License.
