with current combat, especially how disproportionately damaging ranged fire is regardless of your gearing, it would be self flagellation, some people like to cause themselves pain so there it goes. As a concept, fine, but combat is nearly not close enough to consider it realistic. It is very unrealistic, too fast, missiles fire up to 2x realitic speed. Characters with higher athletics run like on drugs, horses with 150+ riding skill ? Easy to achieve unlike athletics. It looks and feels just not right. From my point of view, it would be like slapping myself, as the best thing to do would be, play cav archer, abuse retreat. Melee is also extra punishing, you get a few hits and the skills dont get any better, so while you can level up archery and riding easily, try that with 1H, 2H weapon. Melee is just not rewarding compared to ranged.
If you play as a warchief with you not being the main damage dealer, you can get away with a lot. Combat is both imbalanced and unrealistic. Only if you feel like you want to tell yourself, that you survived it, I guess that would be it. You endured it. Not much else.
