



It came with a mod, Warband Advanced with a few adjustments and BattleTime came along with it out from the box. Instead of setting up Battle Time by downpatching my warband and stuff, I just downloaed MB Warband Advanced from Nexus here. I guess I could also have him watch a livestream off my steam to see what's going on. I play the game on campaign then hit him up when we do a battle while talking to him and letting him know what's up over skype. I let him have Bashether and gave him a lance and bows and arrow since he likes to be a horse archery and lance people. I have my port open and play with my buddy. So I would use this mod only with people that you reasonably trust. The only caveat to this mod is that if you are hosting, you must know how to port foreward, and port forwarding can open your PC up to hacking (but its not something that 99% of people would know, so I wouldn't worry about it too much).

Here is the link: Ī quick googling shows that someone else has made a tutorial on how to setup and play the mod if you are interested: The mod lets you play any SP battle, so you don't have to worry about hampering your SP experience either. At one point, we had three friends playing together one was the SP "general" and myself and my other friend were his companion "advisers" and bodyguards when combat started. It's not perfect, as only one player can do a lot of the SP stuff, but it was certainly heaps of fun. He streamed the game over twitch so I could watch while he ran around doing the SP stuff, and I role played as his companion "adviser". When I did it with my friend, he hired a companion and I always played as that companion during my friend's fights, and I had him equip and level the companion as I wanted. The outcome of the battle is then imported into your save game and then you continue playing while your friend waits for your next fight. It's called "Battle Time," and basically one player plays the single player campaign and whenever you get into a fight, it starts up a multiplayer game and your friend can join your battle on your side (or the enemy side, for that matter) as one of the soldiers involved. While it's not perfect, there is a "coop mod" of sorts.
