outfitting your companions in full plate has never been easier, and if you need troops, you can just buy them hire 50 hired blades and 50 merc cavalry and laugh as the AI wastes it's troops against them (and your undead companions) while your actual elite troops are safely garrisoned at home. very underrated build IMO, high leadership's wage reduction synergies very well with selling prisoners (i found 5 or 6 in prisoner management to be a nice sweet spot, but you can push it to 9 if you want obviously) - you're absolutely rolling in dough. the 27 CHR, 12 STR, 12 AGI, rest in INT build aka charisma commander. The last few characters (+ reviews) have been: build recommendations are very welcome, even more-so if you have the patience to make it through the wall of text below
So it's that time again - get bored after 3/4/500/etc day and start a new character.