Welcome to the Swadians...

[jrawlings]

Let me tell you, those Swadian counts are merciless! Here I am, a lowly new recruit (level 12) in the Swadian army. I go to the count in praven and ask for a mission. He sends me and my humble party of 12 to go intercept a raiding party. I find the party and it has like 10 knights and 20 horsemen. I'm not exactly sure because I turned and ran as fast as I could! I then go to the Count at Suno and he asks me to go get him four black helmets! Yowza! Talk about breaking the bank! Next up, I go to the king himself at Sargoth, who sends me on an errand to capture 4 Vaegir Knights! Whoa Nelly! Running out of royalty, I find my way to Jekala, where the Count asks me to get him 9 sumpter horses... finally a quest I can handle!

Is it me or do the Swadians have a bit of a high expectation for their new recruits? Wonder if the Vaegirs are just as sadistic!

 

[Ancientwanker]

Of course, in my mod they sometimes ask a first level guy with a stick to take down the khergit horde and bring the khan back in chains.

 

[Ingolifs]

What do you mean sometimes? It always bloody happens!

Don't worry about it though, it's just luck of the draw.

 

[dablade]

Of course, in my mod they sometimes ask a first level guy with a stick to take down the khergit horde and bring the khan back in chains.

Yep, that was my first mission for the swadians playing your mod, lol.
Took me a while to achieve it.

 

[allthesedamnnamesaretaken]

wait till you get the "bring me 13 chargers" quest or the "capture a dark general" quest

 

[enkidu]

what is a good level to join one of the kingdoms?

 

[Ingolifs]

Any level, really.

 

[Mage246]

Any level, really.

Not really.... You want to be either big enough, tough enough, or fast enough to deal with some of the smaller faction armies. At a low level, you just can't do this unless you have no army (ie run away), which also means you wont be able to train up much of an army of your own. I suppose you could try only playing on one side of the map, but it would mean not being able to do many non-faction quests.

That having been said, "any level" in which you feel comfortable fighting the faction armies you've seen that are as fast/faster than you is a high enough level. It varies on the person: I tend to wait until the late teens/early 20s, because I get into more than enough fights with bandits before then; why make enemies when I don't need to?

 

[dablade]

I usualy don't join any side before level 25 or so, because i'm too busy searching for good equipment and/or building my private litlle army.

When playing mag7 and getting those tough "capture the ubber badies" missions, i find myself assembling diferent teams, depending on the mission.
- For dark hunters i like to bring good infantry, with lots of ranged units, to engage them from a safe distance while i distract them on a fast horse with a 2 handed blade.
- For those nasty khergit riders lots of cavalry is a must. Oh, and don't forget to bring a shield.

 

[NikkTheTrick]

Join as fast as you can since it gives you more targets

 

[Lobos]

Isn't there a way for a mod maker or something to add a 'feature' that checks what level you are on and the count gives you something that a player of that level would be able to accomplish?