I understand that PoP is advertised as being harder to start in, but this is just.
I had heard that the game, unlike Vanilla, had a very nice redesigned early-game, which was distinct from mid-game, which was distinct from late-game, but I'm not seeing the progression. Cool, run into a group of 20 knights that were colored the same as every other faction, but were hostile and faster than your group of 30? Restart. There are roving bands of small, elite units that travel very quickly, making it difficult to simply try recruiting a horde and grinding on smaller groups with a high Pathfinding skill.
Of course I knew to avoid sea raiders and maybe even "tundra" raiders (which have plate armor in this?) due to basically being elite troops, but there are extremely armored mounted units placed among random bands of even looters and forest bandits, sometimes 3 or 4, which even footmen have an incredibly difficult time killing they kill a good chunk of my force every time. Without a host of companions with Trainer, it seems like troops take ages longer to train up to just being footmen in PoP. It's a grind that spits in your face and is invariably less interesting than Not Losing. I come from games where Losing is Fun, but Mount & Blade losing isn't fun. It came down to two obviously, but Floris was described as "Vanilla+" so I opted for PoP. Vanilla Mount and Blade became too grindy and uninteresting for me, so I decided to look into mods.
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