Tar-Minastir wrote:
Coenus Scaldingus wrote:
A return to a Legions-esque structure is a given...
What makes you say that? Has the dev team said the warband system is being abandoned?
I meant in the sense of having armylists restricted by geographical and chronological boundaries, rather than the very broad lists in the current sourcebooks. Beyond the mentioned examples, I see no developments towards the abandonment of the warband structure.
I agree that the Army of the Dead will likely do just fine if the King can lead unlimited warriors (as he will in essence). I would expect some other restriction on the Woses, for obvious reasons. In a similar fashion, I suppose a way to bring an army of Hobbits with Bandobras, without resorting to Paladin and the four Fellowship Hobbits, would be welcome, another issue fraught with difficulties (the very fact that the Halflings can only be led by a select number of named heroes currently helps restrict them to semi-sensible levels).
As for the alliances, I think those deserving of special rules will be the exception rather than the rule, each specifically mentioned and designed - i.e. no generic alliance special rules. Non-thematic alliances could be equally rare or perhaps more widely implemented - I could imagine simple rules such as the inability to use Stand Fast! and heroic moves from non-thematic allies as a generic penalty, and a generic penalty makes more sense than specific penalties for particularly 'wrong' alliances, although each would be spelled out (still the exception rather than the rule).