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There seems to be, I see some small kingdoms that I don't remember in the set-up screen...
Yes, there are minor factions when you play. Their cities usually sit by a unique creature improvement, so if you capture the city you can build that creature. For example, in my game I captured a city that gave me access to Bone Ogres (and thus made the rest of the game hilariously easy, but alas..)
cool. thanks. 
They seem to only to be useful to empires though.
What happened to the MoM idea of the citizens having specific race and conqueroring new races woul give access to their army types?
They can be useful to trade with, for treaties, or arrange marriages. Furthermore, their cities have some small but inherent advantages such as crystal or mining based on their function. They might have a crystal resource you don't have access too and can trade for.
@Carewolf, most of the army types are dependent on resources and technology. I haven't even really seen a minor race build any units so it wouldn't be too useful to conquer them for their army. I don't know if you can use the Empire's army after conquering their city... probably not because you don't have their techs or resources.
Well, that's not totally true, you can use wargs, but I wasn't able to build any of the empire's other units. I like to put my warriors on wargs and archers and mages on horses.
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