Being a blacksmith, enchanter and alchemist would be more entertaining if I could build a large army. I'd provide my soldiers with the best equipment before marching into enemy territory.

The first order of business would be to provide my services to every Jarl so I gain their trust. I think they'd trust me if I annihilated all the forsworn. I'd mainly look forward to slaughtering those vile hagravens who are always nearby.

Don't they creep you out? They are so ugly and probably smell worse than fresh skeever feces. I'd rather put cockroaches in my pants than let them get anywhere near me. Which is why I blast them to pieces with giant fire balls from a safe distance. I don't even bother searching the corpses: thats just disgusting. Why would anybody want to touch that rotting filth? I don't care if there are gold necklaces stuffed up their buttocks. I'm confident even vultures would avoid devouring such grotesque carcasses.

Anyway after the Jarls trust me I'll start to recruit more members into my army and take over Skyrim. I'll boot the greybeards and Big P off the mountain because it is the highest peak in Skyrim and second highest in Tamriel. I'd like my palace and fortress to be up there. That would be cool.

What would you do with your army?

The concept of a DLC pack that you could start and maintain your own village/city/fortress and equip troops and take part in large scale battles would be pretty fantastic. In all honesty, a system where things come under attack and you attack with your army to control territory could be a nearly infinite game in and of itself.

This idea would be dwindling into the RTS genre surely?

Charge my elven armor wearing orcs!!

Some RTS would be fun. It could be an optional portion. I'd love to conquer Thalmor territory by choking them with tiny Talos statues.

honestly, for 2011 games, i'm suprised that rts has not minimally, but, successfully been integrated/developed into rpg's.

for all pcers- are there any games that play as such?

edit- factions and such "depth" was not part of the skyrim plan.

You can't. The only reason for this is "game should be the same on all platforms".