I liked in .950 when there were 700+ armies running around. It gave you a proper sense of worth and the feeling that you were running a company of free mercenaries. I especially liked the rebellions in .950 with the huge armies. It felt so good when you a convinced a lord with an army of over 300 men to join your case. It also felt epic to defend castles against parties with 500+ men attacking. The stacks of dead bodies that would gather at the place where the ladder was mounted on the wall, the many men that would fall in defence of the castle and...those f***ing archers that stood outside the walls and shot your surviving men to death as they were trying to grapple with the concept of sallying forth from the castle.
But I digress. I eagerly expect version 1.0 and all the mods that will issue along with, like TLD or Raz's Holy War mod.