Any tips for a full intel character?

[Danny]

I'm looking to go for a full intel character, where raising strength or agility is not an option.
Also want to make it a female character who is not allowed to crossdress into male armour.
As that back in the time was a big no no in many countries. So dresses only, though helmets, gloves/gauntlets and armoured boots are okay.

With my combat oriented characters I can solo 30+ stacks of Searaiders on normal difficulty.
But have yet to try my hand on doing a more strategic way of playing, as my current army strategies are, get loads of "battering ram troops" (Swadian knights or Nord Huscarls types) and just bumrush the enemy.

[psychotron666420]

Early game will be tougher but late game will be a breeze. Focus on medicinal skills like surgery and your soldiers won't die.

I did pretty much this exact build..female and everything. Eventually I did the claimant mission for sarranids and won that, then left the sarranids and did the claimant for swadia.

Then I left swadia and started my own, attacking the khergits. I instantly had two allies with swadia and sarranids who loved me.
Then once it was down to 3 of us left, I went to war with both sarranids and swadia.

I basically won both wars in about 4 sieges, because all the Lord's were my old homies, I just convinced them with persuasion to join me with their fiefs and everything. Had very minimal fighting I had to do at that point.

Early game is a bit of a grind, but really not bad because women get renown quicker. You just can't solo a bunch of sea raiders at the beginning unless you're doing horse archery.

[Wovan]

Pretty straightforward. Just hold back and command. Focus on lance weapons. They're the only easy way to win tournaments and field kills, aside from naked bandits.

Dresses only? While you can say, a lady is not allowed to don improper clothings, such culture would also not allow a lady to hold any weapons nor horseride. Surely, any lady given such permission is allowed the minimum of basic traveling/adventure/combat clothing purposes.

[Danny]

Originally posted by Wovan:

Dresses only? While you can say, a lady is not allowed to don improper clothings, such culture would also not allow a lady to hold any weapons nor horseride. Surely, any lady given such permission is allowed the minimum of basic traveling/adventure/combat clothing purposes.

I was thinking along the lines that comanding would be tolerated, or rather giving the men advise from on top of a hill overlooking the battle.
The vanilla game doesn't quite let just tag along with a male commander, so gotta have to make some gameplay sacrifices.
Not to mention that would take away a bit too much control, seeing the AI in this game isn't exactly the brightest crayon in the box.