Brytenwalda Studios is an international company located in Spain. It was founded in 2014 by seven partners who had developed the Brytenwalda Mod for Mount&Blade: Warband as a hobby. Brytenwalda Studios then developed the successful Viking Conquest DLC for the same engine. The studio grew with its first project, adding talented graphics artists and programmers to its core team. The team is currently in the process of creating new titles.
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WHAT YOU IMAGINE, WE MAKE REAL
The team members of Brytenwalda Studios are fans of history. They are the types of people that almost miss the bus as they wander through ruins, or that sport lorica and scutum on weekends. They are fascinated by the stories of the remarkable persons and places of the past. They like to imagine what it would have been like to have been there, and they are delighted to take you with them.
The Dark Ages in the British Isles are fascinating. It was a dismal, warlike era in which people had to fight to survive.
The 6th and 7th centuries were a time of flux as several cultures and religions clashed and blended. Invaders (Saxons, Angles and Jutes) strove to enforce their destiny in a new world with the steel of their swords, shields and spears. More ancient peoples tried to resist, but saw their beloved world fade as their kingdoms were defeated and overrun by the Germanic “barbarians." But there were others older still, some of whom the Romans, centuries earlier, had named "Picts" for their full-body tattoos. Others inhabited Ireland to the west, fighting incessantly for land, clan, livestock and supremacy.
It is a world we know little, shrouded in myth, but that is like a magnet for history lovers. For it was a time of great deeds, where few kings died peacefully in their beds.
What does Brytenwalda mean?
The central element in early Anglo-Saxon politics is "the Imperium," an empire over all "English" peoples south of the Humber. In his Ecclesiastical History, Bede lists seven kings before 671(ii 5). To these seven, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle from the time of Alfred the Great attaches not only an eighth name but also the vernacular word Bretwalda (probably a scribal corruption of Brytenwalda), meaning ruler or wielder of Britain.
Brytenwalda Mod
Brytenwalda Mod is a deep conversion of the Mount&Blade Warband game by TaleWorlds Entertainment. One may play the single player mode as a lowly but ambitious commoner, traveling an open world in search of opportunities, gathering friends, trading over land and sea, and building the support to start a kingdom.
Alternatively, one may test one's mettle against other players in memorable Dark Age settings.
It was just a non-commercial diversion to the team of talented enthusiasts that first came together to make it. Its subsequent success was overwhelming, with more than a million and a half downloads and positive reviews across the Internet and paper press.
Again the horns sound in the lands of old Britannia, calling men to war. This time, the forces of the Angles of the North prepare to face the Britons and their new allies, the Angles of the South.
A heath-covered moor is the fated battlefield where the ambitions of three kings will collide. Many men of Deira and Bernaccia, Gwynedd and Mierce will spill their blood there, mixing it equally between that of brother and enemy. Some will live to remember having fought in Hæthfelth. The rest will be food for the crows; they will not hear if the bards remember their names.
Found among them is Eappa, one more among those who have been obliged to exchange plow for the spear and fight in the army of their lord. In the tense wait in the shield wall, Eappa confronts his own despair. But when the shields clash, he must either find the courage to oppose fear, blood, and iron -- or perish.
BRYTENWALDA: THE TABLE GAME
The Brytenwalda experience is also available in a rule set that will allow you to recreate battles and raids during the so-called British “Age of Arthur” and Saxon invasion. In Brytenwalda, you'll play a chieftain during the Dark Ages, commanding his men in defense of their homelands or looting and burning those belonging to your enemies.
The Dark Ages were an extremely violent era, filled with a great number of battles and raids, but only a few were detailed in the chronicles -- usually decisive pitched battles or those in which an important person died. Brytenwalda is focused on the kinds of battles which the modern war gamer would call a “skirmish." While you won't be able to re-enact the Battle of Hastings in Brytenwalda, you'll have plenty of fun leading a band of Scots-Irish pirates, a group of Saxon raiders or a unit of Romano-British pedites patrolling the frontier.
Centuries after the arrival of the Angles and Saxons, invaders once again cover the sea with their sails, but these are Northmen. Led by the sons of Ragnar Lodbrok, they have already conquered the kingdom of Northumbria to avenge his grisly murder in a pit of snakes. The question on everybody's mind is... what will they do next?
Set at a crucial turning point in history, the game covers the Great Heathen Invasion under Halfdan Ragnarsson, the desperate defenses by Alfred the Great and Rhodri Mawr, the emergence of Alba from the ashes of the Pict and Gael dynasties in Scotland, the unification of Norway under Harald Finehair, and the continuing internecine political struggles for the throne of the High King in Ireland. In story mode, the player will meet many of these leading figures as he or she gets sucked into the grand events of the era.
This single and multiplayer DLC advances the setting of Brytenwalda to the early Viking Age, complete with authentic scenes and cultures. The stories follow complex plots; often no choice is right, but every choice has consequences. Standard sandbox mode includes expanded options, controls, events, and features, including starting as a lord or ruler. Online battling also takes on its own flavour, with special modes like Coastal Assault and Warlord.
Brytenwalda Studios is an international company located in Spain. It was founded in 2014 by seven partners who had developed the Brytenwalda Mod for Mount&Blade: Warband as a hobby. Brytenwalda Studios then developed...
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