Paradox Interactive announces the release of Mount & Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars, the latest DLC for Mount & Blade Warband, which brings the real-time combat of the series into 19th Century Europe. On a related note, there's also a new patch for Mount & Blade Warband to update it to version 1.151. The patch should be available automatically, and there are manual downloads on AtomicGamer and The Patches Scrolls, and this forum post has the patch notes. Back to Flying Squirrel Entertainment's new DLC, here's what Napoleonic Wars adds to the game:

• Massive multiplayer battles with up to 250 players
• 5 nations with more than 220 unique units to choose from, with accurate early 19th century weapons and uniforms
• A wide range of artillery pieces ranging from field cannons to mortars, capable of firing explosive shells and rockets – all fully controllable by players
• Barricades, trenches, and explosives via the multi-purpose Engineer class
• Special musician units with drums, fifes, bagpipes or trumpets, able to play historically accurate tunes; all recorded and played by award winning musicians
• Lead squads of soldiers against each other in the new commander battle mode
• More than 40 classical background music tracks