I do understand this, and I did see people using wooden weapons to own some people in fairly geared equipment. However, without skip to 30 do you think in the starting gear you have a realistic chance?
I mean it wasn't until the second game and us checking the site to see if we missed anything did we see the "skip the fun" section. I'm still lost on why you have 1-30 when 30 is obviously the start of the game.
It's the RPG aspect of it. I do think it was more fun being a peasant in the old version though. In the old version, you had to stay near the fighting AND stay alive to get xp and gold. It was intense and fun.
Now when you start as a peasant you get stuff by not doing anything, which I think is a mistake, but whatever.
Still, you can kill people as a level 1 if you have a bit of luck and know what you're doing. You can start really racking up kills with only 12 str. All you need is a blunt or piercing weapon. Blunt and pierce work a lot better against heavier armor than cut weapons do. Also, archery REALLY sucks until about level 25 or so unless you have a lot of experience in it.
The game itself is super-fun and if you're quitting before you've even been in a strat battle you are really missing out.