I disagree with this one. The armies do not belong to the general. They belong to the sponsor, as such, the composition of the army belongs to the sponsor. If the general wants this kind of control, he should sponsor his own army.
However, these powers are good, but they should reside in the army sponsor, not the general. The sponsor can already change Marshal/VM at will. The sponsor should also have the ability to kick people out of their own armies. Just add that power, which has been frequently requested, and you have the powers you want, just in different people.
if sponsors would be allowed to ban nobles from the army, and generals would be allowed to ban marshals - to block some noble to hold marshal position in the realm - that could possibly be even more sophisticated while not giving too much power to anyone.
yet marshals should have at least
something more than now, they do so much of hard work. maybe at least perks that could be visible only to sponsors, nobles in question and their lords, and maybe to generals as well. perks could not have any direct mechanical influence, but could act as some sort of noble's rating in terms of martial affairs.
the general idea attempted over all this proposals is to give some more power to positions, just to allow them to have more weight in power clashes and more opportunity to initiate power clashes,
not to allow them to take ultimate command.
