Any mods/tweaks that logistics and/or strategic chokepoints?

Food logistics
I understand the nature of your complaint. It's not uncommon for Empire sim games to have systems that impose severe morale issues if they go beyond territories adjacent to friendly territories.

Consider though that this game wasn't designed as a pure Empire sim game. In the original the player could not even found their own kingdom. There is no special distinction between a player with 10 troops versus a one with 500 troops aside from mobility, morale, and food consumption.

The first issue becomes less prominent (for the player...) if you have massive armies. The combination of slowed mobility + increased food consumption means that you will suffer severe financial/morale issues if you waste time inside enemy territory.

It does effect the CPU in a different ways. The CPU cannot replenish troops until they retreat to friendly territory (unlike the player), and it seems to have a deployment limit as well. (If you join/lead a campaign, you'll notice some lords will leave on their own to get supplies if it takes too long.) It's also pretty easy to pick them off if they go deep into your territory, as the AI won't be able to retreat to nearby castles/towns.

Lords and army strength
Individual lord troop deployment is effected by their renown + land holdings. As you acknowledged, while there is a high number of lords they should all have around 50 troops each. Troop quality is also effected, so they should be a weak 50 troop army as well.

The game really is designed to bias those that have Lords in mass warfare. I think the bigger problem in this case is that the player can so easily overpower the computer without Lord aid and not that the player cannot overpower a coalition of all the lords.

With high tactics skill + renown even this shouldn't be a problem, especially in Native. For example my Prophecy of Pendor character can deploy 500+ troops. I've taken down armies of 1500 elite troops, so I doubt that an equivalent number of low-tier troops would be too difficult.

If you cannot defeat them create an alliance. All lords that have no land suffer gradual relation degradation with their liege. In time they will desert and beg to join your forces even if they have negative relations with you. If you refuse them and there are no other kingdoms to join, they will leave the game.
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Just realized I didn't answer your question. Don't personally know of any mods that tweak those gameplay features, and I doubt such a mod exsists for the Logistics demands. I do not think it would work without enforced Empire sim play. Seems like it would require a fundamental redesign of M&B rather then tweaking pre-existing features.

Lord impact on Army Size seems more viable. I can imagine a modder making it such that a lord defaults at 0 extra troops without land holdings. I haven't heard of a mod that does this however.
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Luminaire posted...

That's exactly what I want. Can you please share the name of these mods? I googled it and found nothing.

I think this is it:
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=157972.0
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Official claimant of Mem Aleph for the theoretic cause of promoting Shin Megami Tensei IV of the 3DS.