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Introduction and credits
Everyone who has ever tried to mod Mount&Blade games knows perfectly well, that the documentation for it's Module System is severely lacking. Warband Module System, while introducing many new and useful operations, did not improve considerably in the way of documentation. What's worse, a number of outright errors and inconsistencies appeared between what was documented in the comments to the header_operations.py file (which was the root source of all Warband scripting documentation, whether you like it or not), and what was actually implemented in the game engine. Sooner or later someone was bound to dedicate some time and effort to fix this problem by properly documenting the file. It just so happened that I was the first person crazy enough to accept the challenge. I have tried to make this file a self-sufficient source of information on every operation that the Warband scripting engine knows of. Naturally I failed - there are still many operations for which there is simply not enough information, or operations with effects that have not yet been thoroughly tested and confirmed. But as far as I know, there is currently no other reference more exhaustive than this. I tried to make the file useful to both seasoned scripters and complete newbies, and to a certain degree this file can even serve as a tutorial into Warband scripting - though it still won't replace the wealth of tutorials produced by the Warband modding community. I really hope you will find it useful as well.

Alexander Lomski AKA Lav. Jan 18th, 2012.

And the credits.

First of all, I should credit Taleworlds for the creation of this game and it's Module System. Without them, I wouldn't be able to work on this file so even though I'm often sceptical about their programming style and quality of their code, they still did a damn good job delivering this game to all of us. And then I should credit many members from the Warband modding community who have shared their knowledge and helped me clear out many uncertainties and inconsistencies. Special credits (in no particular order) go to cmpxchg8b, Caba'drin, SonKidd, MadVader, dunde, Ikaguia, MadocComadrin, Cjkjvfnby, shokkueibu, Dalion, Dj_FRedy, Vetrogor, VonDegurechaff, Theoris, Swyter.