Dragon Age 2, still not riftFollow

One final, interesting tidbit; despite romancing Merrill (and using her in my party for most of the game), in the epilogue it said that Isabela stayed with me. Odd. I'm guessing it messed up because I slept with her early on, then ended the relationship; but even later on some of the companions would talk about me and her like we were still together. Guess it triggered a flag somewhere.

Chicks build renown faster, so there's that benefit. And marriage is fairly simple for them too. And a noblewoman can get a wicked awesome starter horse. Get your renown up and work on a faction's leader's liking of you(I prefer the nords because their highest end troops steamroll castle defenses), then become a vassal. Capture a couple minor castles and ask for no rewards, then cap a city and ask for it. Cities are where the real funds are(my castles rarely do much more than just barely sustain their garrisons, but cities usually leave me 8000 left after garrison costs assuming the countryside is kept bandit free).

Build a dyeworks in Rivacheg(take salt to sell when you go there) when you can, build an ironworks in Curaw and then breweries most other places for steady income as you work on that..

Also, some of the cheapest mounted troops are Sword Sisters. Usually cost something like 10 less per week than other high end cavalry(though not as strong as heavy knights), are relatively strong for both regular fights and castle storming and ride some of the fastest mounts. Pain in the *** to recruit however(gotta rescue peasant women from bandits/armies).


Edited, May 22nd 2012 8:19am by Poldaran

Their knights are pretty good, but I still ended up supplementing them with half sword sisters for the costs.

That negative honor is gonna ***** you up something fierce. Only way I know off the top of my head to raise it easily is to defeat and release enemy lords.