How drastic scaling are we talking about here? I have still much to learn about B&S, but my current char is lvl 23 or 24 on normal difficulty and I have seen but modest increase in party sizes, lords, bandits or other. I mean, my current party size is 237 so it seems quite natural to me for lords to have, say, 330 or so troops.
What am I missing?
And please, let us not talk about TES IV: Oblivion.
Not now, not later, not ever.
Or at least not here.