Robots.

Also.. roving armies that can travel into a province, sacking outlying villages and burning crops, like Lords of the Realm 2. (This assumes that there might be a separate campaign map and tactical battle map.. but if the scale is large enough then I suppose the strategic province maneuvers could be built into the same map as the battles..)



Lords of the Realm 2 also had a cool system where encamped armies built their siege equipment on the spot, as it should be imo. Mostly stationary siege equipment would be cool for any game with castles and sieges.





Also:



|||Catapults that fire biting horses.|||actually, i thought the Goblins in the first DS game were pretty epic.|||roving armies are fun. but they cause a lot of problems if they aren't balanced. they would need to keep it to a bare minimum. have it as a rare occurance.



Majesty 2 had a lot of complaints about their roving creatures, who caused so much trouble in games, that many players were defeated by them before even engaging their opponent.



it was the worst balance i've ever seen.|||katzenkrimis