Mount and Blade: The Initial Journey

I grabbed Mount and Blade yesterday for the really low price of five bucks. Anyway, I played this game several months ago and didn't like the game. You can technically download the game and play until you reach level 7.

Anyway, I made up a character ... some one who had a warrior father, but worked as a smith. I made him look like a weird looking barbarian (these customizable faces are so hard to make them look attractive). I pumped up his strength with the remaining points and boosted his throwing skill. He's supposed to be a big burly fighter who uses throwing axes though he didn't look that way when I arrived in the world. He carried a regular sword and shield. Riding on horseback, I could also use a crossbow. In a few minutes in starting the game, my character, Davion, gets waylaid by 7 looters. I said, what the hell and charged at my opponents. I tried to shoot my crossbow at a distance but I realized I only hit one of them because I was firing at point blank range. I then used my sword and began slashing and trampling my opponents with my horse. With my bloodied blade, I managed to beat all the looters.

I realized I didn't like the combat before and I think maybe I set the combat difficulty too high. My combat difficulty now is at the lowest setting where I only take 1/4 damage, AI is set to dumb and battles are slow. I still don't like the fact that I don't have throwing axes at the start considering I have a really high throwing skill.

Back to my adventure, Davion in bloodlust proceeds to hunt down other looters. Coming upon a small party of 4, he hacks them all to death before arriving at a small farming village. The village elder asks him to find some cattle so that the village can start anew. Davion agrees and he goes off to other nearby villages in search of cows. More looters preyed upon the lone wanderer. Still, with his trusty blade, wins all the battles that he encountered. Several villages go ask to train their people to fend off the raiders but Davion turns them away. He is no teacher. He is a fighter though he takes 4 Nord recruits to join him to search for the holy cows.

I remember last time creating a character who was more of a leader than a fighter. He could field a large army of troops and that's what I did last time. I remember entering a large battle where I let most of my troops do the work but this time, I'm the one charging in with my horse in to packs of enemies.

Davion enters a large town and decides he should test his battle prowess in the arena. He takes out 16 fighters in an all out battle royale before falling to a stab in the back. His journey will continue as he explores this world and aims to become one of the fiercest Nord Barbarian there is.