Guide To Warband

(DISCLAIMER: YOU NEED TO INVEST POINTS IN SURGERY, PATHFINDING AND SPOTTING FOR MAXIMUM EFFECT)
1.) Hire peasants or mercenaries depending on money.
2.) Attack looters (tell them to hold position and then kill most of the looters until you have even or less numbers and then tell them to charge.
3.) Once you have around 20 men (they can be peasants) start stealing lots of cattle.
4.) Once you have around 5k hire mercenaries, preferably cavalry.
5.) Once you have around 30 or 40 mercenaries ask a vassal of a faction to become a mercenary.
6.) Loot and burn enemy villages and sell the loot.
7.) With the vast amounts of dosh you get from looting hire more mercenaries and buy good armor for yourself.
8.) With the army you have, conquer the world or help a faction conquer the world.