@Wastelander, awesome on the update! good to know about the kingdom settings, though the problem is if it's a toggle of either seeing all the stuff that happens or just the total gains and losses I'd probably want both at once.
I would also suggest perhaps including the battle scores for knights, goblins, peasants and bandits and such in the game somewhere just to give you some sort of idea of whom to send where.
Alliances and food and such would be really bnice, as would some racial differencess once we get enough mechanics to mess with differences in, eg, different races having different food needs, living in different areas with different tradables and yes, having a different birthrate.
One thing i've always rather wanted is a medeival game where I can actually se my population develop, going from a small village with a few huts to a mighty city, or in a more miliar sence liek warsim, turning from a tiny besieged tribe into a huge sophisticated empire with weapons and trade and thousands of people.
That's why i'd love to see population growth, and some events reflecting it, indeed you could have a lot of fun with it for example some races like dwarves might have women fighting as soldiers but less children, others might have more children, others like elves might take more time for the children to be old enough to be draughted into the army, others might work harder at trade but reproduce less often etc.
heck you could even have fun stuff like undead not! having children but for every enemy soldier you kill your population increases 
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I also love the idea of diplomacy and complexity in terms of leaders and such, that would rock, indeed that might be a use for your jester, getting her/him to satyrise your enemies and change their relations to you, (after all everyone knows the power of propergander). for example if you wanted to cause a war between two kingdoms or have another kingdom attack an enemy, get your jester to spread rumours and tell jokes about your enemy to make other kingdoms go to war with them, or have your jester praise a kingdom you might want to ally with, rather as niclas was saying.
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)
