Purpose And Scope
This post captures some advice that I find myself giving repeatedly to new free-to-play players of Tacticus, especially the stuff that I don't see other people saying. Lots of very knowledgeable players giving advice are also older players that have forgotten what it's like to be a new player without Yarrick, so there's a niche for me to say useful stuff. I will also try to say some stuff these guides don't. Those guides say a lot of very useful stuff, so I don't have to say those things.
This advice will mostly assume you are fairly new, completely f2p, and have not been lucky getting characters from requisitions. On occasion, I will try to cover the possibility you have Yarrick.