What could we steal from other fantasy games...

[Saulot]

Some nice ideas floating around.

One that has around 0% of being implemented, but is neat anyway, is the bounty system in Sins of a Solar Empire.

I would suppose one way of doing the dominions version would be a variant on the global Looming Hell, where instead of it targetting armies inside the casting nations dominion, it targets random commanders of target nation, and they get attacked by various indep. assassin units; demonbreds, empoisoners, ninjas, slayers, stalkers, star children, etc.

Each successful attempt subtracted some gold from you. Each unsuccessful attempt subtracted half as much.