Probably the most useless of melee weapons until you're mounted, and you can't afford a mount for quite a while. Also not crazy about most starting characters starting off with spears and other polearms. It'd be nice if the game gave you some resource points for turning them back over to the cities, so that you could earn money by training up low-level troops. Troops seem to upgrade crazy fast, even without Training skill, which causes me to be unable to afford them.

And he's still basically wearing a t-shirt and using a cracked mining pick as a weapon, because I can't afford anything better.

Gundabad, and commands a hearty little squad of dwarves. Poor Khorin Steeltooth has been playing postman all the way to Rivendell and back, has killed at least two dozen orcs from Mt. The old version at least had the exploit where you could get the 'Hunt Goblins' quest for that neutral bandit king guy, and then as long as you hadn't fully completed it, you could turn it in over and over and over to rack up some gold, so you could score some decent gear to get you started. My 'complaint' is that I'd forgotten how freakin' HARD it is to get started in TLD. Dwarves seem to be horrifically slow in the forest but do pretty good for unmounted on the open plains.

Mount and blade warband couched lance