

Lords taken as prisoneers should be kept to ransom to establish a monetary reserve. The early game should last about 40 days.

Generically speaking, the best way as to achieve this is to work for the guidemaster and do tasks for the lords before offering vassalage, with the occassional village raiding. As for equipments, other than buying the bare minimum to start building experience in a certain arms. The goal of the early game would be to establish relations with lords of the clan in which you want to serve under and to build up monetary reserves so as to be able to afford the recruitment of troops.
