Editing all the challenge out? I hardly find roaming around with 300 men (like the npc heroes) and fighting their armies of 300+ in massive battles (battlesize changer)
less challenging than the usual running around with 60 men frantically killing every bandit patrol to keep morale up and fighting skirmishes where you and your heroes slaughter 90% of the men. I take way more losses and have much more fun and challenge commanding my troops in a 300v300 mass battle than in small fights. Not to mention keeping an army of 300 fed, I have to constantly stop and buy out villages.
All this does is allow my 10 leadership commander to actually
command. I can lead armies, like the npcs, and can participate in mass battles without having to be the marshal and lead around the npcs. In my game, lords leading armies of 300+ is pretty commonplace. The Vaegir king is currently running around with over 700 men by himself, with his entourage of lords totaling to about 3000.
Plus the next time the king says "Come to campaign with 196 troops" I can actually BRING that many troops, instead of going to him with a party of 100 whose morale dropped to piss poor on the walk over only to be told I don't have enough men.
Different style of gameplay? Yes. Less challenging? Hell no.
Oh, and good to know others have found this useful