Honestly, You are better off not joining anyone's kingdom and being a merchant. Literally the only thing that isn't completely retarded. Smithing is broken, parties are broken, towns are broken, kingdoms are broken, starting your own kingdom is broken, no one dies, cool fact though, at day 1101 peoples faces age and they go all grey haired, but sadly none of them freaking die of old age, and never declare peace for more than 15 seconds, and if at peace, suddenly find reason to declare war on 6 kingdoms at the same time. Forest bandits are broken, looters can now kill your elite horsemen in auto calculation battles - rocks are broken. Sieges are broken holy Jesus are they broken, wrapped shoes are broken, my wife is broken and her baby creation skills are broken, my companions are broken and captured,
I really just want to join the bandit faction, pretty sure they have their **** together, they've got scud missiles and sniper rifles and garrisons big enough to scare anyone off, They also don't have food issues, because I am always stealing their food.