interesting discussion in regards to the racials, but for what its worth, without the nordic battlecry, i would have been totally fucked in a few different places. Companion quests come to mind, but there are several battles on Master difficulty where I was literally a one shot kill even in my souped up blacksmithing armors, and my nordic battlecry sent the bitch into a corner like a little girl while I wailed on him. it was the difference between a slow motion kill, a vulgarity, and a reload, or a looted corpse smiling as i mapped back to dragonsreach for a disenchant.
the starting skills are irrelevent, but the racial abilities/resists are important.