Best Armor Mods For Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord (2024)

There are hundreds of mods available for Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord. Covering everything from simple lighting changes, to entirely revamping core gameplay in this strategy game. One of the most popular types of mods for this great strategy game are those that add additional items, such as armor or weapons.

Unfortunately, the vanilla real-time strategy game has received a large number of patches. Meaning mods need to be maintained and modified to keep them working flawlessly. All of the armor mods on this list were working at the time the page was written. However, it is worth taking time to check before installing them, just in case something has been broken by a more recent game update.

7 Swadian Armoury

Dozens Of New Armor Pieces

• Mod author: ADamnSexyName
• Download link: Swadian Armoury

The Swadian Armoury mod for Best Armor Mods For Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord adds plenty of new pieces of Swadian Knight armor to the game. None of these items are designed to be historically accurate, they are intended purely for visual variety.

The mod includes 37 helmets, 3 shoulder pieces, 5 new boots, and 4 different types of body armor. Furthermore, there are 18 types of armor for Vlandia included. Different textures and colors are used to add even more variation as well. Overall, a solid entry for this list, although in a lower spot.

6 Swadian Armoury Realistic Battle Mod Patch

Adding RBM Compatibility

• Mod author: MaGiC48x
• Download link: Swadian Armoury Realistic Battle Mod Patch

Swadian Armoury Realistic Battle Mod Patch is designed as a companion mod to the previous entry on this list. It enables the Swadian Armoury to be used alongside the popular Realistic Battle mod, as the original version was not compatible.

However, this companion mod also does a little more than fixing compatibility issues. It also aims to balance the new armor that was added by the Swadian Armoury mod, as some items were somewhat overpowered. The newly adjusted armor is in line with top-tier vanilla armor.

5 Equip Best Item

Helps To Choose The Best Armor And Weapons

• Mod author: shadowhen89
• Download link: Equip Best Item

This is a very useful quality-of-life mod for Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord. It applies to both armor and weapons in the game. There are so many great items that a player can loot, that it is often hard to decide which is the best to equip. This mod solves this problem.

Once the mod has been installed, the inventory UI is modified and will prompt the player to equip better items than the ones they are currently using. A number of filters can be set, and certain items can be locked so that they can never be replaced.

4 New Armor

Over 25 New Armor Sets

• Mod author: zeroas136977
• Download link: New Armor

The New Armor mod made a place on this list simply because it adds so many completely new armor sets to Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord. There are 12 new armor sets for males, including multiple color variations of most of them. 22 new female armor sets are also added, again with many color variations.

This is a very simple mod with no dependencies, which means it should work with all versions of the game, and continue to do so even if the game is patched later on.

3 Bahamut's Armory

40 New Armor Pieces

• Mod author: Nemerius
• Download link: Bahamut's Armory

This mod adds a whopping 40 new armor items to the base game. All of these new armor pieces are designed to be better than vanilla armor and are quite rare. They are only available in Vlandia and are quite expensive to buy from traders.

The mod author has included instructions on how to edit the mod XML file to lower the cost of these new armor pieces if the player would prefer to make them more easily accessible. Overall, this is a great armor mod for Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord and worthy of its place on this list.

2 Medieval Armour and Weapons

More Armor And Weapons

• Mod author: EnclaveF
• Download link: Medieval Armour and Weapons

This is quite a small mod, and only adds a handful of new armor and weapons to Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord. However, it has been placed so high on this list simply because the small number of additions it does give, are all such exceptionally quality, well-crafted pieces.

Being a simple mod, it is not likely to conflict with any other mods, and will likely continue working even if the game receives updates from the developer in the future. The mod author is continually adding new items to this mod pack as well, so it will improve over time.

1 Open Source Armory

Impressive New Armory Mod

• Mod author: Areldir
• Download link: Open Source Armory

No other armor mod for Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord could take the top position on this list. This is a huge mod that adds over 1,600 new armor parts to the base game. It was created by combining new armor that is part of other mods, into a single, unified mod of its own.

This mod also adds many new shields and almost 150 new weapons to the game. Anyone looking for an armor mod for Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord should look no further, this is the best of all the armor mods for the vanilla game.

Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord

Platform(s)

PC , PS4 , PS5 , Xbox One , Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S

Released

October 25, 2022

Developer(s)

TaleWorlds Entertainment

Genre(s)

Action RPG , Strategy