It was a very long war and I had to constantly be moving and fighting to keep my army afloat. The first war that happened was with the Vaegirs. I did some more quests and farmed so more bandits for the time being. I also did some quests to improve my relationship with King Ragnar, because he believes that I would not be a great vassal at the moment. I won the tournament and came out with over 7 thousand denars, which is really good. I sold everything in my inventory from the battle and places bets on myself so that if I won, I would get a lot of money in return.

When I came to Reyvadin, they were having a tournament. I eventually came across some Tundra Bandits and defeated them easily. This is all part of the gridy and rising part of the adventure. The only short term things that I can do is farm both Sea Raiders and Tundra Bandits, while doing other quests and tournaments. This will eventually happen, as it is a long term plan and I will need to be close to becoming a vassal in order to do that. I am planning on investing in businesses, but I only want them in Nord controlled Towns, so that I will still get income. My income is enough to keep my army floating, but I need more and more.

I have found that it is difficult to play as a horse based character, but it has been a great experience so far. I have leveled up a couple of times, which is good for my character Rylin. I do not plan on focusing on getting any cavalry just yet, as I want to have a lot more money for that. I have been getting a lot of archers and infantry. I have not attacked their hideout, as to try to get more of them to spawn so that my army can fight them. It has been very difficult to level up because my troops have been becoming stronger, leaving me with little or no time to move in and kill any Sea Raiders. This will help me in becoming a vassal later on. To increase my income, I ended up becoming a mercenary for the Kingdom of Nords, which means that I can join the Nords in fighting other factions, while getting paid a little bit from King Ragnar. I also have a decent amount of archers that support my infantry in battle. I still have to level up and train up my infantry, which is the core of my army. However, at th emoment I have a few cavalry units that are low tier and I dont need a large force of horsemen with me just yet. Now unlike the AI, to even things out, I will end up hiring mercenary cavalry to deal with the other factions just in case I do end up going to war with those types of factions. I want to be a lord, own a village and make a really good Nord based army. Since when I am techinically a commoner, it will take me awhile to get vassalge, which is what I actually want to do in this playthrough. I also havent leveled up as fast as I want to with this character, mostly because of the type of start that I wanted, but that is mostly my own fault.

Then I basically rise and repeat, getting money to buy food and pay my soldiers every week. Then I head back to Wercheg to sell my loot and then gather recruits from the surrounding villages surrounding Wercheg. I mostly do my fighting on the coast near Rivacheg. Sure I have a short sword, but the bow is my main weapon. My character, Rylin, is a horsemen/archery type character. The one thing that has been a pain so far is that I have to travel far to get recruits, so I get a bunch at a time, but then I will also loose a bunch when I end up fighting a larger Sea Raider battle. Now, for the most part, Sea Raiders have been my own and only way to fight. For one, I have never really played as the Nords at all and second, I actually feel like I am winning at Warband. This singleplayer playthrough has been really intersting so far. My point bieng is that the Nords have good armies, but I wish that the AI Nord lords would hire mercenary Cavalry, just to even the playing field. Not going to lie, but in my Swadia playthrough, I was cutting through Nord armies like they were not even anything at all.

Now I am not saying that having horsemen is everything in Warband, but it just stinks to have suffer through constant cavalry charges from Swadia, Vaegires, Sarranids and the Khergits. Like the Rhodoks, the Nords are good at taking castles and towns, however, lack cavalry to use on the actual battlefield. The Nords have the best infantry in the game, so thier armies are similar to ones of the Rhodoks, except replace crossbows with archers and you get the Nord armies. Swadia is directly south and to the east is the Vaegirs and Khergits. The Kingdom of Nords are located in the northern part of Calradia.

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