Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-12349921-20130716003640/@comment-213.67.177.41-20150306173411

Orc battlemage is quite useful as you deal twice the damage with your weapon and take half. Making it possible to get away with little armor and not the strongest weapon.

Training your orc in schools of magic isnt hard at all so i cant see a problem, and you got smithing/enchanting from the get go. To be honest berserking is one of the best racials abilities out there mainly because it never falls off. The better  weapon you got the more damage you deal with it.

Only drawback is that it doesnt work with spells.

Altment got that sweeet extra magic that equals 5 lvls in it. great when starting out and the racial to replenish magic is also great. Still they have nothing to help out with melee fighting at all. No real skills to support it (like the orc lacks skills in magic). But i cant see why it shouldnt work.

Pick the one you like the most and remember that "that is magic race" and "that's a warrior race" matters very little as you gain skills when using skills anyway. Go for looks and/or racial.

ps: I would go for orc just because its more unusual and you can deal massive damage if you berserk -> stealth and attack. Killed a dragon with 1 attack.