for me the game was incredibly easy to learn.. of course that it was in zendar's times...the new game version is much more difficult, sometimes you are launched in the map right with some 11 powerful deserters at your sight, a new player by instinct will just click somewhere in the map probably even in the deserters! so its a real danger for beginners, but at the same time realistic. in middle ages if you moved to a new land you probably wouldnt find people standing in a building all day to teach you how to fight or whatever, but instead people who would very well get profit from your lack of knowledge.