I agree about militia being a basic guild... but it doesn't get fancy by adding more army events! THAT's what militia needs -->

Events!, there're only 2 events so far, and they're not too fun (in fact they got only Horde, because rollcall is kinda NULL

)...
watch ShadowDancers for example, their events are soooo fun, and they got a lot of events... (I posted some militia event ideas long time ago (with idea command), dunno if someone read them).

Also you could make those cross-maneuvers as high level militia skills... that way newbies wouldn't get confused with anything, militia wouldn't get fancy at first, because those would be skills you could only get by reaching a high level at militia.
I mean, I understand Idles viewpoint, it's good to have a basic guild, but what about highbies (I'm not one of them =) ) who want to be a tough big militia fighter, they fight very well, but the guild itself is so boring...