Some ideas: raiding, seiging, spell AI and more..

[Graeme Dice]

baruk said:
- Attack and storm castle. Becomes available when an army is ordered to move into a province with an enemy held castle.
- Seige and storm castle. Available to seiging armies.

If I've spent several hundred gold on a castle, why should I not be able to use it for defense?

Commanders and units that have travelled using gateway, teleport or cloud trapeze will now suffer from planar sickness. If said troops fight a battle the same turn as their "jump", they start with a fatigue penalty: 20 fatigue times the size class of the unit.

Again, what's the point of this change?

There is nothing worse in the game than when the AI wrongly chooses to ignore my orders. I would rather it followed my orders, and suffer the consequences. I can always change my orders, but I can't easily compensate for what the AI might do.

No, it's far worse to have all your gems wasted when a person sends a single casting of arouse hunger at your armies before they attack.

My solution: mages start each battle in the same turn with the number of gems they started the turn with. For example, if I give my mage 3 gems, he will start each battle in the following turn with 3 gems.

Do you have any idea how overpowered this is? You've just tripled the number of gems that any mage will have.

Limit the total gem output from each type of item on a per province basis.

I've got a better idea. People should stop whining about gem generating items and play on smaller maps. I'm starting to get really frustrated with the people who want to change the game to make it yet another fantasy strategy game where magic doesn't have any significant effects.