So you agree that limitations in a game are what makes it interesting, and that "more freedom" is not necessarily good.
I'm not saying that there are more elite troops than normal ones. I'm saying that there are just too many elite troops. Refer to the earlier post. 70% of troops are normal and 30% are elite. I'm proposing it should be 85% normal and 15% elite.
Children shouldn't be playing a mass murder game where you kill 10,000+ people anyway. Being old doesn't make it hard to play singleplayer games, one of the posters here (archaicwarrior) is 60 IIRC, and nobody over 80 has ever heard of a "mount and blade". The only disability which would make it hard to play games is being blind.
Reducing the amount of elite recruits from 30% to 15% is not going to make the game significantly harder or grindier, because it will apply to the AI as well as the player, so they will be at the same disadvantage.
It will only make the game take more grind if you are obsessively dedicated to only ever having a 100% elite party and never hiring regular troops. And it won't even be insurmountably difficult for you, either. But if it is too much, you can always use cheats.
For normal people who recruit a balanced army composition, it will not increase the game's difficulty or grindiness at all.
What it will do is:
1) Make elite troops feel more special, as they are more rare.
2) Improve immersion.
3) Make the perk to upgrade bandits to elite recruits comparatively more useful as a supplementary way of getting elite recruits.
4) Make the Vlandian Vanguard and Khuzait Heavy Horse Archer more viable compared to the Banner Knight and Khan's Guard.
5) Increase the variety in the game and player armies.
6) Reduce the issue of the player being at a disadvantage if they choose to pass up excessive amounts of elite recruits.
More freedom but not that cheat level is what I was in my mind.
15% eltite isn't good, 30% is more reaonable at least on normal level for common people to enjoy rather than not getting troop they want then end up not enjoy the game even on easy mode, easy mode should had something like 40% noble. 15% is making less thing to do in gameplay and that is not good as some don't want normal troop or some want horsemen right off bat, or whatever reason they prefer, they would still won't hire normal troop and waiting then looking noble, that is more cost time to them, and they would find game bored, nothing but waiting and try find noble unless normal troop already had horse or free upgrade without buy mount, without spent time seaching mount to buy and very costy at that, is why some seek noble in first place.
That's why I suggest free upgrade mount for normal troop, they might willing get normal more likely rather than waiting and try find noble only because had mount right off the bat and not had to search mount to buy costly mount.
People's body is not same thing, some elder need help with easy going due body slow reaction so they need more help powerful unit to winning without cheat.
There is game that do make harder for some disability, like deaf, some game's sound help winning while deaf wasn't hear, some are mental disability, I believe it's may be more common than people believe, at least in american, there disabiliy can't use hand but use eye on computer to work, so go on. There is couple deaf I knew do play game, and disability mental as well.
Believe or not, there is children do play game, even some don't follow policy rule said age 18 at least but didnt', since it's more of a guideline than a rule (well only for warband, but children do play (mostly male) battle many couple game, even point of Mortal kombat that are worst than this game but not real because breaking bone but still fighting as normal, so go on.
There is fine line between easy going and cheat, there, but fine line between normal and hard, what you want and talk about isn't easy or cheat, you want harder game in general as primary, that is big no no, that is should go for option, not primary.
I suppose they could add silder option how many noble number in game, same for slow or fast leveling in option, so go on.
Hard, slow, painful should be option, not primary official. I wasn't talk about cheat, I was talk about game enjoy on easy go or simple go at basic, anything more are option like harder, or difficulty or painful to get in game.
Game should be entertainment, game shouldn't painful, slow that eat up real life time, unfun.