My ideas:
Gore I BEG YOU, add dismembering and decapitation and more Gore but keep a balance between it so it is not too much gore, more like Chivalry but less retarded like punching somebody in the face and see his helmet disappear and his face explode, for me it feels very unsatisfying to cut somebody's skull and see little bit of blood splash, i want to see wounds!
Thrusting Please, make thrusting with swords/spears a lot more lethal... 24P is the highest i know and that does little to nothing, people would stab for more damage and go through chainmail.
Shields Please make the shields less like a wall of blocking attacks and give it ability to use it offensively and when you want to do something against somebody swinging towards you, deflecting it would work better.
ARMOR as said before, i want to see armor being armor and not just more hit points..
OP WEAPON Remove Great Swords, i beg you, i have seen so many people act cool by killing other people in 1 one hits through good armor and then instantly fail against an arming sword or an elite scimitar, please, it is few centuries behind warband, remove that bull****
Axes Make all Axes Unbalanced, like the great axes and other weapons, one handed axes were also unbalanced.
MORE USEFUL SPEARSPlease make spears a lot more handy in melee and not just a stock against cavalry.. I want to use a spear effectively in melee, in history spears were the most easiest weapon to learn and hardest to counter, i am not even talking about historical accuracy though THEY ARE JUST LACKLUSTER, not talking about the awlpike..
Spear and Shield Please more attack options for spear and shield...
STANCES Please more different stances for every attack direction, so it is not the exact same position..
Tougher Helmets Please add bouncing off towards helmets, i am tired to see a knife go through a nasal helmet -_-
Less Horses on Steroids. Please give Horses less Hitpoints in Bannerlord, i remember stabbing a horse that ran in full speed towards me with an awlpike to the face and that horse survived... I facepalmed myself for few rounds..
More Worthy Swords Make the swords a little bit more worth it than they are. Bannerlord is far behind Warband and swords were pretty expensive in the dark ages, this could also give more reason to use other kind of weapons like maces, axes, picks more than just a sword.
Wear Clothes you Beggar! Force players to wear clothing for a reason, so if you are naked you can easily die but if you wear a gambeson you can probably survive two cuts or 2 arrows thus giving a reason to not go naked, i am not saying going naked is a normal and easy thing in warband but it didn't make a lot of difference since almost every weapon two hit killed in multiplayer through any medium armor or 3 hit kill through mail...
Robinhood.. Make archery a little less OP because it is kind of a cheap alternative.. You can 2 shot almost anyone and 3 shot through best armor available in multiplayer. And also archery isn't that hard, even in melee you can still kill an infantry if you are lucky, i find archers unbalanced and there is a reason why there is a limit in events and in siege servers, best fix is to make bows do less damage but a lot easier to hit people.
Aiming in melee combat Please allow aiming with melee combat so i can stab the guy's face through his helmet or aim for the legs, you can do that in warband but it could be done a lot better. Thus you can kill someone easier if you are skilled in aiming in combat as well rather than just go spazzing out in feinting and left swing spam while looking ground..
I disagree about SPEAR SHAFTS BREAKING EASILY BY AN AXE BLOW, well infact the spear shafts did not break that easily in any chance, it is just hollywood nonsense that it breaks in one ****ing swing like you might you think, so easily breaking Spear Shafts with an axe blow get's a -1 from me..