I also miss the politics of it! I really miss the peace so you can manage your kingdoms, get to know nobles, and feast. I said in another part of the forum, I'd love for peace to have massive bonuses. I'd love for it to result in more food, growth, greater prosperity, army recruitment and training, and larger profits to fill your coffers. I'd love for peace to be desirable. Peace could lend time for feasts that improve noble relations. War should be exhausting. If it goes on too long, it should result in greater banditry that starves villages/towns and decimates a regions prosperity. Long term war should empty coffers and make nobles disgruntled. Greater banditry, starvation, and a loss of prosperity is what happens historically with war.