Godd idea with faction weakening, then you could use "<enemy faction> has grown weak, lay siege on <capital city of enemy faction> and claim the city in the name of <your faction name> and i will reward you well" as "finish off" quests to destroy a faction. And you could also use "<your faction> has grown weak, defend <capital city of your faction> and prevent any siege party to come near" as an quest if your own faction gets weak, what say you?. (back to lay siege on common towns) there should be 4 options when you enter an enemy town. Leave, try to sneak into town, bribe the guard and lay siege. To lay siege you must own ladders and/or catapults, ballistas, mangoels, trebudshed just something that can raze down walls or get your soldiers up on them (you wont need siege weapons if sieging an lorthlorien city, faramirs rangers camp or any other town in the game without walls) otherwise you will just get a text message "just before you order your soldiers fo form up you realize that nobody can win a siege without ladders and siege weapons" Dont you think it would be really cool to cut down gondorian soldiers of minas tirith while your men just keep coming, marching over destroyed walls and corpses of gondorians and the catapult boulders is raining from the sky, crushing the walls and kills some unlucky men

. I would love it. The crushed walls my be a little hard to program but it is an easier way. when the catapult boulder hits a part of the wall, smoke covers the wall followed by the sound of exploding rocks then the smoke dissapears and reveals, an destroyed wall that your soldiers can march over and into the castle. And yesterday when i was playing TLD i got an idea how you can make minas tirith, texture the first floor then make all other floors eye candy - simple but good
(again, please excuse my bad english)