I'm about 10 hrs in as a redsominorother fella, focusing on 1hand, archery & light armour so far. Only downside I can see to having a character heavily based on fighting as opposed to magic/sneaking is all I seem to do is create weapons non-stop to up my smithing. I'm on like 85 smimthing now so can get the glass armour, but now I need the two different and somewhat scarce metals to make it, so I'm now running around looking for them, so in 10 hrs I've done maybe 3 main quest missions and say 4 mini side quests and 2 bigger side quest missions. I'm basicly playing a blacksmith game where I occassionally get in a fight.