For those interested in getting a peek at how bandit occupation of villa tiles will work in the mid-game, the beta branch now includes this feature, although it lacks certain finishing touches such as announcements, but as you are constantly looking at your hexes the presence of bandits will probably not escape your notice in any case.
This feature is activated along with mid-game by pressing "p," at any time, although I do recommend you let the starting tiles load before doing so.
Sorry about the short post, but I am getting right back to work on getting the last important features of the alpha up and integrated. We'll have one more test build and then we can integrate it into the main build.
Thanks to all our supporters!
Chris