Also, on the topic of posts no one will understand, I'm starting to see how people sink 100's of hours into this Mount and Blade game.
Just finished a series of 3-4 big fights and only have about 1/3 of my elite troops left, so I need to go round up some more peasants and train them. Worse still I lost my fief when the local capital got taken over, so that's a serious hit to my income. We took the capital back like 2 days later, but since it's considered a "newly conquered territory" the King has to divvy up the land anew which will take a few weeks of game time. Sucky that I lost 1/2 my troops defending the little village only to have someone else not pull their weight.
I don't have much influence yet so the chances of me getting any new land isn't that great; if I do it'll probably be some other worthless hamlet I'll have to improve again. In the meantime I'm getting requests to go on another crazy campaign. Think I'm just going AWOL on them though (the consequences are pretty minimal for that anyway). Go back, get those peasants recruited, and start chasing bandits around to get them some experience. Hopefully by the time I get them useful I'll have a new little village providing income. Failing that I need to spend more time playing politics, or at least get married into one of these families in my faction so I can have a chance to get something worthwhile from all this war stuff they're obsessed with.
Yay for "one step forward, two steps back."
Edit: Also yay people coming into my office, it took 45 minutes to type that post.
Edited, Jul 28th 2014 10:34am by someproteinguy