[PvK]

True for some, and others if not balanced well, though others are good general suggestions (e.g. more casualty detail available).

The "quest" idea could work if the reward were unlikely to exceed the effort (a bit like the current arena event - just a different twist).

The "Blazing Commander" seems a bit excessive and the mechanic to not quite make sense, though the general idea of a commander well-buffed for one battle, after which he dies, would be no less interesting nor more powerful than many high-level armor-blitzing spells, if balanced with them in mind. I kind of like the idea - if balanced well and with a mechanic more refined than "double all stats" (which I assume was just an example). The general suggestion was just "add more spells", which I imagine Illwinter will continue to do anyway, if and when they have an idea they like, and which is worth programming the effects and AI decisions about when to use them or not. I can already imagine complaints about the "dumb" AI killing its (or their) own commanders with this spell, when to them it seemed obvious they'd win the battle easily, etc.

Occasional attacks from independents might be interesting... though this actually already happens, in the form of independent "uprisings". Just add an event that calls an "uprising" an attack, and perhaps uses the troop type of a nearby independent province, and you've just (fairly easily) added some interesting color without changing the way the game balance works.

Hmm - back to work.

PvK