Emphasising in a potentially-offensive way that the task is simple implies that nothing is stopping you from doing it easily. It seems like an interesting idea, so if it's simple as you insinuate, it deserves consideration.
Yeah, my way was
potentially offensive in that particular case because I don't want to read loads of obvious spam obviously. And I repeat, not every simple idea deserves consideration
I wonder if there are distance trackers in Mount and Blade? If there were, soldiers could keep back when two Captains are duelling. That'd be interesting to see.
This, on the other hand, is an interesting idea. It can be scripted, yes. Although I'm not yet sure if we can both control other AI soldiers to not interfere and at the same time make them behave themselves in a natural way. Fixed standing circle is not the way to go