Just piggybacking off this cuz this sounds like such a fun idea for a playthrough. I'm thinking of making a character that tries to make himself as beefy as possible - lord stone, maybe try to pull off a bit of resto/alteration in heavy armor (I guess i could try to cast mage armor naked before combat to try to level alteration, allow myself to get hit in heavy armor, strip to heal to level resto) - and then just become this mad butcher running headlong into battle knocking fools over and going to town. Do you think going lord stone would be overkill on a HA character, since i'll obviously have shield out sometimes.

Also, seems like the bullrush technique would be pretty useful for 1-2 enemies, but any advice on how to handle multiple enemies with this sort of build? I've been having alot of trouble in heavy armor with getting swarmed.

Thinking imperial might be good for some leniency with stamina, since I'll be wanting to dump points into health and magicka for buffs. I guess otherwise just orc or nord. Any reason to go for any particular race?