Omitted characters in kingdoms

Hey ya’ll I hope you guys are enjoying kingdoms as much as I am. Just wanted to voice my thoughts on omission of characters in this mode.

For those who aren’t aware, the new kingdoms mode is defence oriented, with one of the key mechanics being the distribution of characters to repel attacks on your inns.

For the sake of balance only 12 of the 14 characters are available for any 1 campaign (with custom mode being the exception). As to not make reinforcing trivial.

While this is understandable, I found myself sorely really missing those 2 characters, especially since they are chosen at random from those not in the starting party. (For my first run flag and crusader were gone)

I would personally like to suggest either an option to manually choose who gets omitted, or better yet include a difficult time sensitive event during the campaign, wherein we can unlock the omitted characters.

If I were to go about it, I would make 2 events spawn during escalation 1 and 2, wherein you must go through a region consisting of escalation 2 and 3 enemies respectively, with a boss at the end. Success grants 1 of the characters.

What’s everyone else’s thoughts?