[Edi]

A feature request:

Indies and monsters from events (barbarian hordes, vampire counts etc) regarded as belonging to different "nations" (e.g. "indies" and "marauders"). That way if some event happens in an indie province, the monsters from the event aren't just added to the province garrison but there will be a battle between the indies and the special monsters, with whoever is victorious left in control of the province. Similarly, an indie provice getting the high priest, Elludian refugee and other similar events would have these added to their garrison. This suggestion was inspired by the problems that occurred with the Doom Horror garrisoning an indie province on the Loemendor map.

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Another one:

It would also bne awesome if indie provinces could act like nations and recruit additional units and commanders. This idea might work better if such happens only when the indie provinces border one or more nations, they would go into recruitment mode (or they could start from turn 1) and once they get enough above what they began with (e.g. a 50% increase or double), you would have forces from the indie province trying to reclaim land from the evil, imperialistic gods who intend to gobble them up (so some province that was left sitting alone for a long time would mount preemptive raids immediately upon getting a nation neighbor). Scripted provinces would have to use the number of units they originally got during game generation before the #land command wipes them out for this determination.

Don't know how easy or difficult this would be to do, but it would certainly spice up the game and would also give good incentive to really take care of the nastier indie provinces as soon as possible or risk getting your plans disrupted by invasions.

In the same vein, indie units from events (barbarian horders etc) and units from these proposed incursions should damn well also siege and storm forts and then hold them (which would make taking indie provinces with forts a big priority, because they would also get more resources as per admin and be able to recruit more troops).

Would also be nice if when some nation dies a Dominion death, their leftover units would simply go native and become indies instead of vanishing like smoke into the wind.

Edi