[Gandalf Parker]

My chaotic maps did something like that. At the most extreme setting it gave every province a random commander, with random equipment, and random units assigned to it. That meant that each nation also had that in their starting province. It wouldnt be hard to do it with starting locations only if someone wanted (altho I really enjoyed having some strange surprise in each nation).

With map commands, it doesnt have to be a created hero. It can be random selection of everything including summons, uniques, and even pretenders. Or it could be semi-random coming from a list of designed heroes. It could even be random selection from a list of heroes designed for each nation if someone wanted to put that much work in.

Hmmmm can a mod assign a set unit to a nation when they start? If Ulm always started with a commander named "Und Erdog" then a prgraom could randomly rewrite the particulars of the mod changing that character and all the other starting heroes each time you ran the program.