Oh I always wondered you ANTRandomDude was your pretty damn hard to fight that's for sure, how long you been playing?
I didnt play cRPG when it first came out, i think maybe a month after it was around I started playing. I wont ever forget being a farmer wondering how to level up, and then realising I had to actually kill people to do it (the xp/gold system was different back then). Then I remember this 2h called Jesus who just killed everyone and he was really good (for the time). I raged at him for killing the guy i was fighting as it was the closest thing to a kill i'd had since i started playing crpg lol.
To become "good" I dont think you need to play that long, you just need some perserverence. Im always surprised by guys who I like fighting alongside and they say they've been playing for 3 months. Not just cRPG for 3 months and warband for longer, but warband + crpg for 3 months total. I've been playing warband for 2 years and Mount and Blade for probably another 1 1/2.
I always love games that require some skill. You can play an MMORPG and be a "good" Tank or "good" player, but usually that just means knowing the game enough to use the right items and when to click certain buttons, there's no real intelligence going on there. Games like Warband and Infantry are just better and will always have a longer lifespan for me.