I am going to respond out of order because, I think in bursts.
Gold vs Influence I actually agree a lot with your influence idea from the flavor perspective. I play Mount and Blade Warband(MnBW) and there is a mod called Last Days of the Third Age(LDTA). Usually MnBW uses Denars as currency, but the mod changed it to influence and I think "resources". I liked the change and it makes sense as you describe it. The only reason the term "gold" is used is because it was just plain simpler to think about for new players. The term "gold" has been the influence of the Dwarven, Umbarian, and Khandish special rules if I remember off the top of my head. In the end, both terms are both sides of the same coin. I might take action on the influence, or equivalent, idea in some shape or form. At the very least a footnote can be made much like I did for Shadow of Saruman, which I still want to rename "Saruman's Influence" or one of the other names I had picked out.
Heroic Presence & Rapid Fire Assuming that the proposal is to replace both options with "Select a Heroic Action, from now on your hero does not expend might to use that action on a 4+ once each turn", that might be an idea. A hero could be known for their ability to swiftly maneuver troops and so the player would say their hero could heroic march or move. I like the flavor and concept. Eventually a problem forms where you can make deathstars very easily if you have a hero of each action in a sort of "Super Friends" formation of various assortments and groupings. It is not hard to achieve, relatively speaking, and there is only 100% profit. I can add that to a list of things to playtest, it'll take time to watch it be nurtured in each stage of a campaign from early to late game.
Perry, I mean Pippin, I mean Merry, I mean Parry I like the idea of -1 to the opponent's roll. Possibly -1 to one die, so as to represent it being harder to parry many attacks and keep power in check for high fight value units. The Rumil-dupe is also an idea that I like, because we did it anyways with my testers.
How Am I? Doing well, moved to where there are no players so I am based out of Roll20 and Tabletop Simulator now. However, I found out that 4 players live 15 bucks of gas away (one way) from me and want to actually use their lotr models and try Battle Companies. Perhaps I need to tap into that seed-community and visit once per month.
In Conclusion I have more stuff to add to my processing track, thank you for your input and thought-out statements. It is most helpful! If you have more input and/or any questions, I will also be making a thread. This new thread is meant to be a one-stop-shop for having a line with myself. Hopefully that will clean up my clutter so that people's awesome threads don't get washed away as a side effect.
I hope your day is fantabulous and may you never get supply-blocked on Starcraft, Commi
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