PoP 3.8 tips

So I've recently reinstalled M&B and Prophesy of Pendor. I haven't played PoP since...like, 2011, or something, for Mount and Blade (not warband) and I did eventually beat it back then. However, I've pretty much completely forgotten what I'm doing.

Right now I'm level 10 and have 84 soldiers - rolling with some useless party members (besides Sigismund) who I intend to replace with Knights as soon as possible (Sir Roland, etc). Other than that I've been trying to phase out my Fierdsvain derivatives in favor of decent mercenaries, and I'm going for Ravenstern Archers.

I'm not sure what else to do right now, though - I can't take on any Noldor or significant snake cult/heretic/jaku/etc parties and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do to bridge the gap between now and when I can actually start taking cities.

Which faction should I join? Should I go mercenary, or just sort of keep fucking around? I know I'd like to eventually take Laria and be friendly with the Noldor, so I'm assuming I don't want to do mercenary work for Sarleon.

I'm not trying to play super min/max style (my character isn't stacking INT/CHA or anything, since I forgot about gems and potions you get later), but I would like to be able to accomplish stuff.

What sort of army should I try to build up, ideally? What faction do you guys usually do mercenary work for initially?

Thanks in advance or any advice. I'd forgotten how awesome this mod is, but I'm sort of stuck right now.

Submitted October 22, 2017 at 06:43PM by DongQuixote1 http://ift.tt/2yHt8TK