To get initial gold you need to be at your troop limit (i'd suggest 100 if you're trying to make money) and then you will make about 10 gold every hour if you have strategus ticks (only get them playing in CRPG public servers)
OH CRAP! I had my limit set at 1000!
now i see wy im this broke, lol. Thanks bruvva if i hadnt seen this i'd surely wouldnt have noticed it, lol. And i got like 9k ticks, lol, so i should be fine.
do a sneaky deal approach one of the clans/alliances and say you wish to bandit in the enemies territory and request funding
or maybe you know a clan who is "friendly" to another clan but doesnt wish them to get too rich 
and same deal ^^
your a bandit!
Time to do some pr work.
Hell yeah! Back in the day they called those "privateers". Pirates that "worked for" one side, promising to only bother the other team, for a stipend.
Argg, now i must respec to shawshbuckler!
Ask your faction nicely for some basic gear and a few thousand goods and you'll be set for some good banditting. Otherwise, do small scale trading in a reasonably safe free trade area. Use the money you gain to buy some basic gear, carry some more goods at once and repeat until you have good enough equipment.
I left the brigade and besides the whole point of me doing strat now is doing it on my own, without a big bloc to support me with a thousand troops and a million gold.
Such a crook Porta 
Living up to my name!
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Thanks man.
Problem is getting money together, and hence gear, if not in a faction, only trade route I found I could do without getting constantly mugged and where you could buy/sell a bit was Dhirim/Shariz.
I noted it down, thanks for the tip.
Just steal S&D a ton for a few weeks, then convert all your money into equipment and start caravan raiding.
What you need is money for gear and horses(to catch the caravans), and troops.
what does S&D stand for, i guess not Search and Destroy lol! So does that mean that horses increase your movement speed?
If you die you keep your gold. I've not been a bandit but a rebel, where I done some high risk operations, so I have a little bit of experience in this field.
it was easier before in early strat to be a rebel but not anymore since it's a normal thing to see 2k troops in many fiefs and reinforcements ready to reinforce anyone
I wish you best of luck. Maybe if all the big clans and coalitions are dissolved we can see a golden era for bandits and smaller clans
well, i dont mind dying aslong as I can have some fun, ill probably will charge into battle head over heels while being outnumbered and outarmed.
im a hero like that afterall
And yeah i cant wait for that era to come, where small tribes rule the land, should be amazingly awesome.
Whoot check the map lazy bastards, there is 100500 caravans of 300 naked troops with 3-5k crates
go and take it nao!
hush Vovka! I shall charge your tincan armies with peasants and annihilate you!
