The Vaegirs are my favourite faction as well. I think it's time to go home and pledge and figure out what's wrong with my favorite faction.
Until just now when Vaegirs lost two main centers within span of a week to the Nords. After a hundred days all factions held their ground quite firmly reclaiming most of the territory they lost. Kingdom powers seem to be quite balanced while I rode around hunting bandits and a doing short term mercenary work. The way troops level and become veterans is quite interesting and like most other changes it makes a lot of sense. I only wish I had chosen a higher difficulty than normal. Pikes and bolts still provide grave danger. I just reached level 30 playing a 'meathead' hero (24/24/12/9) and as a heavy horse archer I'm dominating tournaments and battlefields alike. I must say Silverstag is my favorite mod now.