Division skills

I don't use prestige (the game is more fun for me without it), but I also am unconcerned about competing with those who do.  One can build a bigger city faster using prestige, and amass a bigger army, but one can't build an alliance faster with it, nor create more confeds who will fight at one's side.  

Yes, this suggestion does not directly depend on the possible prestige bonus.  Simplified, in a tournament over four weeks a player with ten towns could buy a bonus of 10% for all divisional skills with 4*8*4*10=1280P.  That's a maximal strength of 120% with prestige vs. 110% without prestige in ordinary divisional skills, ignoring the extra 5% for one special skill depending on the commander unit type.

With ten additional levels it would be 130% vs. 120%, a relatively smaller advantage, because 130/120 is slightly less than 120/110.  Or if you look only at the divisional bonus, 30/20=1.5 is less than 20/10=2.

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Self Bonuses

Skill Required	Description	Lvl	Value	Next Lvl	Action
Heroism	Attack	10/10	2257	Max
Avoid Charge	Defence vs Cavalry	10/10	1281	Max
Break Spear Wall	Defence vs Spears	10/10	915	Max
Cover	Defence vs Ranged	10/10	976	Max
Sword Mastery	Defence vs Infantry	10/10	1220	Max
Vitality	Max Health	3/10	250	300
Accelerated Healing	Health Regeneration	5/11	10 p/h	12 p/h
Defy Death	Chance to Survive Combat	10/10	10	Max
Uncanny Sense	Chance to Escape Assasins	5/10	5	6

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Division Bonuses

Skill Required	Description	Lvl	Value	Next Lvl	Action
Charge	Cavalry Unit Attack	10/10	10%	Max
Close Quarter Penetration	Spear Unit Attack	0/10	0%	1%
Concentrated Fire	Ranged Unit Attack	0/10	0%	1%
Bloodlust	Infantry Unit Attack	0/10	0%	1%
Square Formation	Unit Defence vs Cavalry	15/15	15%	Max
Phalanx Formation	Unit Defence vs Spears	0/10	0%	1%
Tortoise Formation	Unit Defence vs Ranged	0/10	0%	1%
Interlocked Shields	Unit Defence vs Infantry	0/10	0%	1%
Forced March	Unit Movement Speed	10/10	50%	Max
Military Logistics	Unit Carrying Capacity	0/10	0%	+5%
Force Of Will	Unit Magic Resistance	0/10	0%	+5%

This appears to be a rather large prestige effect for skilled commanders.  How about adding ten new levels to the division bonus?  The total number of skill levels is now 120+7*10+1*15=205, where 120 corresponds to the twelve other skills with ten levels.  With ten new divisional levels it would be 120+7*20+1*25=285, and the worst prestige effects would be limited to 30% vs. 20% for an ordinary divisional bonus, or 35% vs. 25% for the special skill matching the commander unit type.

Arguably 30 of the 205 existing skill levels are irrelevant:  If a given commander type never leads different unit types into an attack, at most 175=205-30 skill levels make sense.  It wouldn't surprise me, if some harmless commanders are already at levels near 175, and could use additional divisional skill levels.