What I fail to understand is why anyone from the Napoleonic Wars community would even care / want to play bannerlord? It's like going from one extreme to another.
Majority of people playing warband do it for the single player yet the only comments I see is about it's Multiplayer melee? If I was a native fan I'd be looking for changes to siege, army Management, identity of state, economy blah blah which I've seen some blogs on but no body here cares
I have over 4k hours on Warband. Tons of those hours were spent on NW, but a lot of that is from Native or modded single player, and also from multiplayer mods like PW/PK, Full Invasion, CRPG, and some others. This used to be the only PC game I owned so I’d play the hell out of it. The melee was what got me hooked on the game. It was so different than any other game and it was just done better. It would suck if the melee didn’t live up to expectations and regressed.
Also I love the additions they have made to single player. That stuff is gonna make the game so much better from a single player standpoint, but if the melee is wonky, slow, and clunky it will take away from the feel of the game for me.