Mount & Blade : Warband (and Napoleanic War)

Ok this game is nuts lol  I'm only going to talk about the Multiplayer (the most interesting aspect to me and the place I'll probably spend most of my time).

First game I jumped into was a 40 v 40 Elimination type game (Battle is what it is called).  It's a 1 life deal and is basically CounterStrike with knights and horses and archers and shit.  You buy equipment at the beginning of the round and earn money for damage / kills etc. each round.

I was on foot and chose a bow.  I think I was putting some arrows into some people but was missing a lot eventually I caught a spear in the eye and died.  But there were guys with 6 or 7 arrows in their shields and body parts.  I saw some guy use a throwing axe at a horse / rider.....he hit the horse and the thing tumbled to the ground and the rider was wiped out and trying to get up but before he could regain his footing all these dudes jumped him and he just go worked.

When you die you go into spectate mode and you can either float around, watch people in third person mode or in first person mode (when playing the game you can play in either tps and fps and switch between the modes by pressing R).

Second Match I tried the Napoleanic War DLC.  Jumped into a Seige game (attack and defend with respawns).  We were attacking....I think we must have 60 or 70 players on our team.  We all took cover behind these walls and were firing our muskets.  Seemed to be pretty uneffective - not many were dying on either side but there was lots of gunfire.  The guns are horrible innacurate and it takes like 30 seconds to reload between each shot.  But the story changed once our guys finally arrived with our cannon :) they started blasting the fort where the other team was held up and they were wrecking people and made a large hole in the wall.  With a hole in the wall we charged and as we got closer the guns became more effective - but eventually it was just a huge blood bath bayonet war.  The controls for melee combat are amazing.  You move your mouse up for a downward attack, right for a swipe from the right, left for a swipe from left and down to do a thrust, you can also press E to do a kick to kick your opponent off balance (hard to land a kick though), in addition to that you can do all those same types of moves for blocking.  There is parry/riposte system in the game as well - I believe it inolves timing an attack in the direction of an incoming attack which will cause your attack to knock the enemy weapon out of the way....but I'm not that good and it was so chaotic I didn't notice others doing it either.

I saw so much shit lol like guys up on roof tops firing crossbows and guys riding by on a horse and spearing guys on the ground....just so much crazy shit.

Only got about 2 hours of play but man the MP in this game is amazing ....and just crazy stuff.  For some reason my FRAPS is acting all stupid but I'll try and get some footage in the next couple of days if I can get it working.