[feivel]

Yes there is a purpose to mountains, they slow you down and give the people on the uphill the advantage, you cant limit how large of an army can go over mountains. what they need to do is make mountains that arent just hills, I mean mountains that you have to go through narrow passes and stuff.
and about killing commanding officers,
thats redicilous. Killing commanding officers is not dishonorable, and it is the smartest thing to do. Also you cannot force the army to route just because its commanding officer was killed, because his second in command will take over, but the effect will still remain on moral because now that battling is complicated an army is going to have to strategize and if the second in command is not as good as the first in command he is going to have a harder time getitng the army in formation to fight effectively.
Also lets say I am with my army and the commanding officer is killed and then the second in command is killed that will reduce my moral because I know two of the best people have been killed and I have even less chance of surviving then I thought I did.
And especially now that there are bigger punishments for deing people are going to think more realistically. I think now in battle there is going to be less death because people are going to do stupid things like run into the middle and randomly slash because maybe it worked on g2k1 but it wont work on this. I foresee that rather than an army winning because it killed all of its enemies I see an army winning because it out manuevred the enemy and the enemy knew that they couldnt manuevre as well and if they kept on fighting it would be hopeless so I see more battles being one because of retreat rather than mass deaths. Also someone thought it would be better if you didnt lose experience and such in a kingdom battle.... You have too, that is what makes you have real moral and think realistically, if I know that the only penalty for me deing will be I wont be able to fight in this battle then I am not going to be as careful as I would if my charcter had bad things happen to it.