I know a lot of players don't stick to a monotone cultural getup when they play, but a lot of players probably do what I do; try to stick to culturally appropriate armours and weapons for the culture I am playing. I take this mentality with me to smithing as well, where I try to smith and use weapons that suit my characters culture appropriately. But I have some exceptions; I often use animal pelts for shoulder armour when playing as a Vlandian or Imperial. If I play as a Sturgian I may use some Khuzait armour. And if I play as a mercenary or Lord for a different cultural faction than my character is from, I may use a mix of regional armours and use my own culture for a weapon. Example; I played a Nord corsair mercenary for the Empire. I used gilded scale Imperial armour with gilded scale shoulderguards, golden pirate gauntlets and boots, and a brass Aserai helmet with a Nord one handed sword with gilded pummel and handguard. Anyone else give themselves similar cultural restrict...
I can't tell my soldiers to try to take a particular type of soldier alive -- only all or nothing. If I tell them to just use blunt, then my troops are at an extreme disadvantage. If I don't, then it's a crapshoot.
Ignoring that, it's a separate, crappier crapshoot to see if I can even find an enemy army I can take on, and when I find one, I need to hope it has the rank and kind that I need.
But the most infuriating thing is when I am sent to capture spearmen and trained spearmen won't do. Apparently knowing which end of the stick to poke into the enemy makes them too good to trade away. Damn I wish I could just hand over any kind of troop. Or maybe I could just buy that troop from a ransom broker.
Above all, it pisses me off that I lose face for declining this type of quest in the first place. I can't tell my king, "with respect, I am a soldier, not a manhunter" or "fetch quests can burn in hell."
Submitted December 28, 2018 at 01:13AM by FlipChicken http://bit.ly/2VgGbpR
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