Just playing Prophesy of Pendor for the first time and it's pretty fun! Never modded it before, what are the good ones?
I first heard about mount and blade when I saw there was the beginnings of a Darklands mod (which is still an incredible idea even though they didn't end up making it) so I'm particularly interested in mods that focus on small parties and roleplaying, but I would check out anything!
Floris modpack is neat, lots of addons to vanilla and overhauled unit trees. Brytenwalda is also very good, pre viking age british isles.
As for small party mods, dunno. Been I while since I played it.