As much I personally like the crimson guild, I don't like the idea that one is
forced to take one with you. The forcing isn't the way to do it, they should
have somekind of edge over all others, but how to make that edge and balance
it right, I'll leave that to wizards

I agree, forcing something sucks. But on the other hand no-one
forces to use tarmas and conjumages in eq, they just
make the whole thing more fun. Partying with breaking
formations can be lived with, but a durable formation
(via a Crimson with CM) would be the way to go.

I don't see this as too rigid, expecially when it can
be easily scaled to be necessary only at the top-end,
the way wizards would see it fit.

I still miss the problem here, you are talking about the ultimate leader
guild. You only have to lead, you cannot actually do anything else, nothing
to get your attention away from healers spells, monsters spells and info that
party is giving you. Now you would like to force some handless monkey in
topend parties, since no-one who actually likes to really play(not trigplay)
don't play crimsons, problem is totally elsewhere, it's the backround.

And before you start even suggesting "force us into parties", how about you
try to suggest wizards some nice skills or other form of functions so one
might enjoy playing crimson and not golf during eq.

Ah, see that's where I got it all wrong. I though the new
Shield Wall-skill was just that, a way to give crimsons
something to do...
Believed them to be active, tried to make them useful too.
Guess we have to work on that "active" part still

Shield Wall is a nice idea but if it takes 3 crimsons to make it work I don't
see it doing any good for the guild/background.

If one crimson could do it with non-nomad tanks (who naturally wouldn't be
quite as good in it) it might be useful and encourage parties to invite a
crimson. As the skill is now, I don't think it will improve the nomad
background at all.