Hello there, I see you have your 3 main options picked out for patch 4.0,
glad to see one of mine is in there. Got a few more idea's, not cream of the crop like I was comming up with before im sure, but here goes.
My first idea is destructable buildings and seige weapons.
When you seige a castle, you always see that trebuchet or catapult there in the background, but you can never use it, and the enemy walls are in perfect shape, aside from one broken down block from the body guard overskirt. It would be awsome to be able to lay waste to the walls and kill some of the defenders like you would in a real seige, some options could be:
- Trebuchet/Catapult has 3-4 shots worth during the battle, were it breaks down some of the wall, not even passable, but just for the looks.
- Maybe have an option for it in the seige menu, when you go to build your ladders or seige tower you can ask to have it bombarded as well, which will cause the walls to look more battered, and lower some of the defenders numbers
- If the damaged walls is implemented, then maybe a good shot or 2 can cause lower morale on the enemies side and higher morale on your side.
My second idea is intelligance, like, military intelligance, knowing your enemy before you even attack, some possible ways to do this would be:
- Captured lord of that castle/town while a prisoner in your party gives you 10 battle advantage when you attack the castle/town that he owns.
- Failed attacks, when you seige them....and lose, then the next battle you would have +5 battle advantage, as you know the layout, and how to get into the place.
- Captured troops, from the same faction, would give you +1 battle advantage, cuz you can "torture/interrigage" information from him, about how hiss faction fights, or the layout of the towns from the soldiers that serve in them.
My third idea is to have paved roads, and while on these roads, going from town to town, or castle to castle, your map speed would be increased by 50%, as its easier and faster to walk no a flat hard surface than it is to walk over a hilly crumbly surface.
Thank you for your time in reading these suggestions, and wish you best of luck.