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I did think about doing this. I think I may have to....
If have no 100g - Practice fights
Step 2. Feast on looters.
Step 4. Profit.
My main suggestion is:
You can go to villages and try to do quests their NPCs provide. Some of these might give you a reward, and some even give you money up-front. For example, one of the missions is to train up 10 troops to veteran status that are given to you. I don't recommend that mission generally (it is very difficult to complete and I have seen it bug a lot), but it would give you troops you need to hunt down some bandits or such and get their loot to sell and make some money. Then you could start recruiting troops from nearby towns. Some missions also give you down payments, and you could use those to help yourself out.
Once you have enough money to start recruiting just a few basic troops, the basic game-play loop is likely going to be hunting down smaller groups of bandits over time and selling what you get from them. Looters are the easiest, forest bandits are a bit more difficult (but I would not fight them without shield troops, lots of cavalry, or better archers as bows shred recruits), steppe bandits are very difficult to catch and sea raiders are quite strong (but have great loot).
You can also try trading things if you are willing to. If you find goods that are cheap in towns or smaller settlements/villages, you can hold onto them until you find somewhere better to sell them. You can buy mules and cheaper horses over time to speed up your party and give you more carrying capacity as well.
I have played about 25 hours of my campaign, and have more than 500,000 gold. I earned the first half of this by trading and building up a huge group of units over time, and then buying out workshops in towns and forming caravans (need 15,000 gold for these) with a couple of my guys. I then joined a kingdom, got a castle and some villages awarded to me, made them prosperous, and fought in wars where I could get tons of loot and stuff from battles that let me get even more money.
You can also of course do combat with bandits until you get enough renown or troops to join as a mercenary for a faction at war, and tag along with them to get money and the chance of eventually joining a faction and getting your own land. Land which will give you taxes.
Edit: Though if you're absolutely broke with nothing to your name and no troops, restarting might be a better idea. Though 1000 gold you start with isn't really that much to earn.
profit.
1: Kill a small band of looters. Maybe it's not an option, but next time, make sure you have a horse, and a bow+arrows, or a stack of javelins, and you will always be able to horse skirmisher small bands of looters.
2: Win an arena. Getting a few kills will get you 5-15 gold. Hang back as much as you can, grab a shield off a corpse, and win a bout, and you'll get 250.
3: Easiest method: Do a quest. "Find my daughter" is easy, and either requires 1 speech skillcheck, or dueling with an unarmored peasant. 'Deliver herd" is combat-free... unless you run into enemies while delivering. "Access to commons" is simply talking to some peasants near the village. Any one of those will net you anywhere from hundreds of gold to thousands. Good luck!
You can't join anyone as a mercenary until clan rank 1 and can't join faction until I think clan rank 2.
3 out of 4 of my starts I've used bow on horseback to start. That way can easily get away if things get hairy and you should also be able to kill 5-7 looters even if solo.
I'd prioritze upgrading a few long range or missile units first.
I wouldn't buy more then 10 troops because it will slow you down on campaign map.
After a few battles you probably will have enough coin to buy a few horses to increase map speed (troops in party passively ride them).
From there you can stay on the horse or ditch it.
1. Participate in tournament
2. Win tournament
3. Sell prize to make some bucks
4. Pay bribe a castle guard and meet a rich young lady
5. Make some money to gift her father, and marry her
6. Strip your wife of her fancy arms and armor
7. Sell it for 90k
Yes. The life of a sleazeball. The irony is, this actually did happen a lot in the Medieval times. Particularly famous person who dun this shi*?
Guy de Lusignan, the last king of the Holy Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Do you ever have to fight the peasants in access to commons? when i talk to the quest guy for those it comes across as go be mean to the peasants and make them give me there land which I'm reluctant to go be mean to the peasants and I def don't want to fight them so i've never tried that quest. I suppose I could always save a game try it and see what happens.