Topic: Neutral / wild enemies

I'm wondering how feasible it would be to implement enemies with traits something like the following

• They spawn without need of any buildings or economy. (Possibly randomly in certain pre-defined areas, or in fog-of-war near player borders or whatever).
• They attack nearby military buildings, and if successful they momentarily capture the building to push back player borders before razing the building.

I'm imaging something like what happens when you land an army from a warship, but spawned in some other way rather than landed from a ship; and not associated with any main player.

The reason I'm suggesting this is that I reckon in some maps it would be good to have a little bit of minor military pressure from non-players while building and exploring, in advance of full-scale war with actual players.

In particular, I find that I large maps I often basically ignore military training until I'm starting to get close to the enemy, then ramp up rapidly. It goes from basically zero military, to a full army of heroes, then an explosive short battle on the frontline, then it is basically over. I just wonder if it might more interesting with some stages along the way. I wonder if some small low-level threats from non-players might be interesting, just enough that expansion requires some conflicts in advance of more serious threats. I don't imagine including this in every map. Maybe it would only be for scripted special scenarios; or maybe as a game creation option.

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