Posted August 11, 2015
CarrionCrow: I need to start playing through that series soon. Think I'm only missing the Viking expansion. It sounds interesting.
NoNewTaleToTell: It's a great series but all you really need is Warband, and the original Mount & Blade for one or two mods. It has an insane amount of total overhauls, including a Western one that is great, one set in the Gekokujo period in Japan, even a Star Wars one. Prophesy of Pendor is a total overhaul itself, a very detailed one. I'm really looking forward to Bannerlord, it looks like a improvement in most ways.
Edit: Some mod links for your consideration
Warband only:
Gekokujo: http://www.moddb.com/mods/gekokujo
Prophesy of Pendor: http://www.nexusmods.com/mbwarband/mods/3710/?
Brytenwalda: http://www.moddb.com/mods/brytenwalda/downloads (I would suggest picking up the 1.40 Special Edition and the update that moves it up to 1.41, as the Special Edition includes a Novella and a board game)
Original Mount & Blade only:
1866: http://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?id=2714
Star Wars: Conquest: http://www.moddb.com/mods/swconquest