As an evil soup (black grail) player a lot of my issues with the faction have been addressed in the upcoming changes they've announced for the thralls and amalgam, that said there are still a few things I would love to see change for our internal and campaign balance starting with...

one: Give the herald of beelzebub some more durability because currently its kind of a waste of ducats in most cases campaign-wise its the fastest model in the game and has a useful upgrade in maddening buzz but its lack of armour and undead toughness makes it about the same durability as a wretched and harder to hide with its large model without much punch to make up for it either. Whilst it has found a use in one off games by flying forward and spread some early infection markers in campaigns it dies way to easily to be worth the investment as it will only last a game or two before dying and costing you a noticeable amount for not the most gain. My idea for a fix could be too either let it purchase undead fortitude for a price or give it some way to move out the way of firing lanes or make the shot maybe replacing its skirmisher with a superior ability but when it uses it suffers a blood marker having synergy with its proboscous ability.

two: This second change is sub-faction specific and regards to the dirge of the great hegemon and this change would be simple-ish, more armoury weapons would be nice as they suffer from a lack of late game options in my opinion and this is most clear regarding the executors melee weapon options think about it executor screams huge axe/bardiche/greatsword which cleaves people in two but which sub-faction doesn't get the axe of beelzebub? thats right the dirge! now it makes sense lore wise but a cool special melee weapon would be nice to use instead as opposed to the same weapon that clarence the shock trooper uses. In general some more unique stuff like the great hunger has would be brilliant because currently in my opinion they don't feel that unique so some more distinction would be amazing to have my most wanted being some anti armour or special shield or armour to replace the black grail shield that or some special ability on the executor other than tough albeit at an increased cost. (i know about the will of the hegemon ability but that's more a sub-faction rule than a model one)

three: now this is my greatest dream and also the least likely but the new strains for thralls and amalgams are a good sign and that dream is...         ...a warband strain editor now what do I mean by that so anyone who has seen the new thrall strains? For those that have imagine that but instead you choose different parts of the disease and they affect different units differently I.e choose a way of spreading then a symptom or two from a chart then a method of killing then a mutation and what you chose gives different buffs and downsides to certain models and this would allow so much customisation for people and give a way to maybe spend glory to edit it or add more mutations and perhaps to balance it make it so that the more mutations and symptoms you have the more downsides as well as benefits with certain models having special drawbacks or benefits from certain ones. I am well aware this would be a hell to balance but a soup creature can dream

remember this is just my personal ideas I'm not exactly a rule designer but I'd love to hear your thoughts about your own factions or just how my ideas might work balance wise.

if you could make three changes or additions to your faction/sub-faction what would they be and why?