Pancernik

I don't think I'd ever use this feature, but it seems to have a lot of support here, so what they hey... as long as it doesn't take too much time from developing other features, more options for the player is always a good thing. To throw in my 2 cents... I would much rather start playing on the full sized world map right away. I don't like the idea of "unlocking" portions of the map by "winning" certain discrete stages of the game. Say that I have a small kingdom on

[quote] But, my infantry should be able to try to occupy the enemy long enough for my heavy cavalry to get away, too. [/quote] That sounds like a great idea, which would fit in well with Eplekongen 's post above. So maybe on the tactical map, your units would retreat at whatever strength they had when they reached the edg

I'm with Martok on this one, I think that the ability to retreat is very important. The frustration factor is avoided (or at least reduced) as long as army speeds are determined in a reasonable fashion based on what units you have in your army. So for example, light cavalry should always be able to retreat from heavy infantry, while conversely that heavy infantry has no chance of getting away from the light cavalry. This way, if you're having trouble resolving

I think the Crusader Kings lineage system was a great idea... as long as your family was relatively small. It was a lot of fun at the beginning of the game, but became a chore once all your time started going to arranging marriages for the offspring of all your fourth and fifth cousins. A good variation on the system might be to limit the player's control only to the head of the family, their spouse, and their children. When the head of the family dies, you name a suc

I like it. As I'm currently in the middle of Steven Erikson's "Malazan Empire" books, I think that it'd be a great mechanic if after a disastrous campaign, the one up-side to your defeat would be the fact that the handful of surviving units (who have made it through hell) might now yield heroes that you could then put in charge of your green recruits. Or maybe they would be pissed off with you enough to go off and join a rival faction...

I have to say that I love the cloth map. However, the zoomed in screenshots look really bare and empty to me. I know that these are really early, and the world will become more vibrant as development progresses, but here's my suggestion: I want to see my kingdom grow and develop on the zoomed-in map. I don't want to just have a large city surrounded by empty countryside and maybe only a few points of interest, as is currently the case. I want to see villages an