I lack any artistic talent so I am just throwing this idea out there.
What does everyone think of a total conversion mod to make the game like you are playing as a knight in a kings army? There could be 2 warring castles with small outlying villages that would trade openly. There could be vast armies of knights and archers and pikemen. Think of first-person "Medieval Total War" RPG game.

There could be triggered massive NPC battles of evenly matched sides so the radiant AI (scripted or not) and your actions (do you lead a flanking manuever around the right or try to split up the center?) will determine the outcome of the fight.

You could choose to help either one king or both or a mercenary side army.

Lots of possibilities. (a betrayer in a castle? assassinate a prince? fight in a royal tournament?)

Aspire to be great!
or
Rule the weak!

Depending on how easy the Construction Set/kit thing is to work with I might attempt this myself but as I stated I have mediocre drawing skills at best. A mod team would be ideal for this conversion.

Does anyone think this would be a worthwhile mod or not?

Wouldn't this be very laggy?

Well.. No.. All because it woldn't be online O_o

But it would cause the best computers to crawl down on their knees and beg you to kill them..

If computers had knees.. or could beg..

Oblivion cant handle armies that large, Make 20 people in balmora, and watch the lag jet up. Make 400, and watch your compy die from lag.

I like the idea, but the lag would be very difficult to deal with...at best. Maybe if the armies were only 10-20 people.

So small skirmishes could be accomplished.....perhaps like wave after wave?
I dont know if we can speculate yet what Oblivion can and can't handle untill we get the CS and start playing with it.

Doesn't have to be online to lag