I think Floris (?) had one that had a picture of the troops as they appear in the Party window. From that essentially its easy to recognize what their main attributes are.... swords or single handed spears etc.
On the topic of Floris, for a later release... would it be hard to implement some of their features? Like free roaming deathcam, diplomacy etc?
I'm sure the authors of the smaller mods that add stuff like that, hideouts you can set up etc would want larger mods to utilize that.