Played Around A Bit; Have Some Questions

So I've played a bit of Mount & Blade for a fair few hours, then got the $5 Warband expansion and have been playing THAT for a fair few hours. Short story is, picked Swadia since they're supposed to always be in lucrative wars but they were never at war. Once I got my ass captured for screwing with people too much, I decided to start fresh. Got brought on to the merc payroll easily since I'm of noble birth now.

So, what's a good pace to go at? It seems like you have to bide your time a lot in this game. Even in my farthest save file I never DREAMED of trying to take on those lords and their 70+ soldiers. Should I stay by myself with no party members and have a large group of low pay soldiers for a while? Perhaps instead go for a smaller force of upgraded soldiers?

Also, I'm aware that getting merc pay to dent my pay to my troops will help me stockpile money for bigger armies and better equipment, but aside from slowly crawling up to sacking caravans from folks we're at war with, I've been capturing bandits to sell and doing the non-annoying or stuff that's not way too hard asked of me by lords here and there. They get kind of pissed though, when I tell them my band of militia and lvl3 self aren't up to capturing veteran horse archers from basically the Mongols.

Submitted May 23, 2017 at 02:55AM by MyLifeIsRandom http://ift.tt/2rNxeVB