Advice for Cavalier / Barbarian Beast Rider

[HeathenWays]

Howdy. I'm trying to build a Half-Orc character that can have an animal companion as early as possible, with the ultimate goal being to ride a Mastodon. I'd rather play a cavalier than a barbarian, but it seems the barbarian has some perks that are too good to pass up.

It's 20 point buy, and my only stipulation is that I want to keep INT at 10 for flavor reasons. I'm playing something of an archetypal noble savage. We're starting at level 1.

The stats I have at the moment are:

16 STR
18 DEX (2 from racial)
12 CON
10 INT
8 WIS
10 CHA

The reasoning for the low STR is that I took the Chain Fighter alternate racial trait, and have been working toward Dire Flail and TWF. As of now, my plan is to take the first level as Cavalier (Order of the Seal for trip synergy with the dire flail) and go Beast Rider archetype to get a camel, then go 5 levels of Barbarian Mounted Fury, working up to Amplified Rage and Ferocious Mount. With my mount raging adjacent to me while I rage, the way I read the rules is that I get +8 STR/CON, -2 AC. Assuming I take the alternate Half-Orc level-up bonus and take the extra rage round instead of +1HP/Skill, I think this could be a potent combo.

My question to you is, am I reading this correctly, and if I am, is there another, more efficient way to put this character together? Do I need 5 levels of Barbarian or more? Or less?

I'm absolutely married to the idea of a mastodon animal companion, so the sooner I can get one, the happier I'll be with my character.

Thanks, guys.

Edit: DM says no guns.

Also, I've been reading another thread on this forum, and found that one can wield two lances at once while on horseback, which makes the TWF build look even more viable. Charge in with 2 lances, then jump off and use the Dire Flail while flanking with my camel?

[Dustyboy]

Make sure you can sunder weapons, take improved sunder, then take the half-orc racial feat that allows you to regain rage on a sunder attempt, just hold off on it until you can deal more than one attack.

I'd use the calvalier archetype that gives you bonuses on ranged attacks and 7dip gunslinger
take the urban barbarian mc, or the armored hulk MC

With that you can sunder at a range with gunslinger, while mounted, full BAB vs touch. Every sunder attempt that succeeds actually can regain rage (+4 dex=+4damage)

You can archetype guntank to use a shield,

Half-orcs also qualify for human feats, I'd recommend using that with ratfolk to get gulch gunner archetype, if you get dismounted you can still harm people pretty badly. With quick draw you'll be able to still grab that lance and really hurt people. Ranged tanking on a horse is pretty epic.

By level 9 you'll be seeing a really potent character.

Also don't forget boon companion to make your horse a bit more potent. Or a ranger dip for a hippogryph mount.

take heed that all just popped off the top of my head, I might be forgetting some blocking loophole

[HeathenWays]

Agh, I forgot to mention that it's a no gun setting. My apologies. I appreciate it though.

Boon companion does look like a pretty cool feat. And I'll look into the sundering.

[HeathenWays]

Okay, so Cavalier 1, with Boon Companion and Amplified Rage. This allows me to safely spend the next 4 levels or so dipping in Barbarian, and then once I go back to Cavalier, at level 7 I should have my mastodon.

I may have to sacrifice the TWF and move to a STR based build. Getting rid of chain fighter leaves me with the Falchion, which is a pretty good trade.