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n. (context dated English) A group of soldiers or other military personnel actively engaged in warfare
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Warband may refer to:
- A local warrior society
- The ancient and medieval Germanic comitatus
- Warband (games), a sub-breed of wargames
- Mount&Blade: Warband, an standalone expansion for the video game Mount&Blade.
Warband games, also known as skirmish games, are a sub-breed of wargames. Whereas the typical wargame has the player control an entire army, a warband game is much smaller in focus, with the player controlling a single tactical unit, or 'warband' of six to twelve individual models.
Examples of this type of game include:
- Avalon Hill's Squad Leader
- Games Workshop's Mordheim, Gorkamorka and Necromunda.
- Kenzerco's Fairy Meat
- Wizard of the Coast's Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Game.
The computer and video game equivalents of this board-game genre are real-time tactical and tactical role-playing games.
Usage examples of "warband".
Nor will noblemen be denied bodyguards and armed retainers, but the large warbands are to be dissolved.
In the ward behind them, yells exploded, jeers and curses and ill-natured taunts from the warband.
Although most warriors lived in the dun of a noble lord and served him as part of his honor-sworn warband, silver daggers traveled around the kingdom and fought for any lord who had the coin to hire them.
As they came round the side of the broch, they saw half the warband gathered round Jill, who yelled foul insults back as fast as they yelled them at her.
Except for Cullyn, the warband began cursing and slamming their tankards on the table.
Big enough to hold over a hundred tables for the warbands, it had four enormous hearths.
I want to know is this, how does one man slip through all those warbands and suchlike?
Both warbands were laughing too hard at the sight to give chase, much less battle.
She saw Ynydd scrambling back onto his horse just as the warbands closed around them.
Lovyan named Sligyn cadvridoc until the army should meet up with Rhodry, and in a bustle of talk and the jingle of mail, lords and warbands alike got up and began filing out of the hall.
The warbands surged forward, cheering, yelling out her name until Rhodry screamed them into silence.
Later, after the warbands drifted back to the barracks and the noble lords up to their chambers, Rhodry brought over a game of Carnoic, the finest set Cullyn had ever seen.
Captains of warbands had looked at him that same way, when he was a silver dagger back in Deverry.
The other was a priest of Bel, who announced the betrothal that very evening in the great hall, as the warbands and the servitors were lingering over their ale.
With a howl of laughter and shrieks like battle-cries, both warbands came bursting out of the broch and swept across the garden.