User blog comment:Wolfishtail/Overhaul of civil war quest mod/@comment-6518657-20130517183334

Personally I'd like to see Stormcloak soldiers/ Imperial Soldiers have better combat abilities than city guards.

It's a bit strange that a town guard can beat me at level 20, but the same character can obliterate an encampment of "professional" soldiers.

I think if your character is the guildmaster of a faction, the Dragonborn should be able to pledge that faction's support to the cause.

So the Companions in Whiterun and the Dawnguard could provide soldiers at pitched battles.

As a side note, I think the Imperials should be able to field battlemages in pitched battles. In the tutorial quest you can see two mages wearing imperial armour trying to sling firebolts at Alduin, yet that is the only place they appear in the game.

Also I think road patrols should appear more frequently, and with greater numbers. The occaisional scouting party of 3 soldiers you meet on the road don't really give you the feeling of a nation at war. However, a group of say 6 or 8 soldiers marching down the road would give a greater sense of scale.

If the player completes the questline for one side of the war or the other, they should be allowed to request faction troops to their aid. If I'm an Imperial Legate or a widely-famed Stormcloak champion, I shouldn't have to wander around by myself. Perhaps an ability to obtain a cluster of about 3-4 recruits from either faction as a bodyguard could be considered; there would be enough to constitute a fighting force, but not enough to overwhelm a bandit fort without the player's help.