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...
In the early game, I know there are options (trading, quests, etc.) but am I just missing something? It seems too obvious to just round up some low T2-T4 khuzait archer cavs (especially since you can hire low tier archer cavs without needing to have horses for them) to get you started?
It doesnt cost a lot to get 10 or so archer cavs and you can be fast enough to avoid the fights you want and kill what you can handle and just increase your size to 20-40 of whatever tier you can afford.
I try to avoid the temptation and go with infantry but your force is slower and overtime they do get killed off in melee's. It just really feels like you punish yourself avoiding pure archer cavalry and once you can afford it (a short somewhat tedius but easy grind on bandits) you can run with 50+ upper tier archer cavalry and go after nobles as a mercenary in wars.
Being a merc with a mini doom stack of 50-70+ veteran archer cavs and you can rinse and repeat attacking single nobles and either sell gear/troops for good money and sell the lord for a boost of gold or let go for the charm boost. By then your reknown grows over time with the fights and you can go to any kingdom as a noble / remain as a merc and really bring in the money while running down the enemies while building your skills/companions/party up to be ready for the late game.
I know blacksmithing and a few other methods can make good money but you gotta let it go at some point (and early black smithing is ... painful ).
Anyways just ... seems like its just too practical to go with mid tier archer cavs in early to mid. Doing this as a merc/noble and running around whacking nobles, and I raised a few million gold just selling loot/nobles (once their relationship was 50+ since I beat them multiple times).
Thoughts?
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