This strategus seemed so long to me.
At first I started as a
merchant, trading around the map, and building a decent army of almost 1k troops. Then one day I got too close to Coalition lands and got
assaulted by their
border patrols (
http://c-rpg.net/?page=strategusbattlesarchive#!?page=strategusinfobattledetail&id=4998). Then I could not be asked to keep going so I stopped wandering around the map for a few months.
Then, on the
last day of strategus I had troops and gold to spare, so I said why not attack some random fief. I was around Fenada, and I saw
Fearichen had a small garrison, so I headed there. I headed there, with a small but well equipped army and surprise, hours after launching the attack I receive news irl that made me go away for a few days. So I
missed the battle (if you can call it that with 3v3 mercs out of which 4 did not show up), which 2 nice lads
captured for me and here I am, at the end of strategus, mighty ruler of a tiny hamlet with nothing in it, Fearichen...
As mercenary, some of the sieges were fun, but because of my relatively low str I hate plate battles so damn much...