Apologies if this has been brought up before, I've not been on here in a while,but I haven't had this much fun in an Elder Scrolls game since the King of Miscarand and his zombies were an unwilling entourage in Oblivion. I recently started a new character,and after a brief stop in Whiterun,to get the dragons introduced,headed Morthal/Solitude way. On the way I found the gap Northwest of Whiterun,Southeast of Morthal that cuts through the surface of Labyrinthian. There are 4 frost trolls here,and at level 9-10,why fight them when they can fight for you? Run about outside Labyrinthian,spam spells at them and run on.Slow down from time to time,get them angry and you have an almost unstoppable killing machine at your back. They destroy early level dragons,kill individual giants(stay away from giant camps though),clear out the surface of certain bandit infested forts,and will basically follow you with a murderous intent as long as you slow down now and then,hit one with a contemptibly weak spell,and carry on. Anyway,it's a fun way at early levels to train destruction and illusion and take down harder opponents,whilst exploring the world map. You might even get a dragon mask earlier on with their help,if you know where to go! Has anyone else used these guys as a weapon before,and has anyone else got any other cowardly,early level non Conjuration/Illusion ways of getting their enemies to fight for them?

Frenzied Heimskr to kill Nazeem.

Edit:Stupid me didn't read the 'non-illusion' part. It was still fun though...

if you have dawnstar you can find more interesting things about trolls there.

...it's a great way to build up your illusion though,and effort free dragon soul collecting at early levels. Which is nice.

Do you mean "Dawnguard"? I'm still on the vanilla PS3 version..

**Possible minor Dawnguard spoiler**





In Dawnguard you can purchase an armored troll as a follower from someone in Fort Dawnguard

Also OP you could just keep using Animal Aliance shout.

Ah,but do they keep you on your toes like the Labyrinthian crew that are trying to kill you? Guess I'm a little late here,but for early on dragon killing and map clearing whilst magic training,,,Labyrinthian frost troll enteraging is fun and helpful.

Well, as for a party, if you have yourself, your horse, your follower, your dog, and a summoned creature, asking for more would be overkill.

You could,if you remember where to go to get the shout. I'm suggesting this for open map carnage,early on,mostly for fun though and at levels way to early for illusion to work on giants and such.

Are you going to have such a party at level 9? I never buy a horse,or dog,I probably had a flame atronach at that level though,but if I had the other two,the messy melee would be hilarious,seeing as bears and wolves usually ended up in the trolls v (dragon/giant/?). Great practice for archer/mage characters anyway,mainly just fun looking at the angry simian looking gits violate everything that moved near them.