That's impossible.  Transforming the current SP experience would mean making all sorts of sacrifices via a thorough "rebalancing", and in many ways you're not going to like (since you're against nerfing).  You may personally believe nothing should change, however, the gameplay mechanics have to be looked at completely differently now that every human player must each have a "fair" chance at winning. 

If this was a goofy light-hearted game like Minecraft, I'd say sure, switch this over to multiplayer and it'll be a blast.  But a delacate 4X TBS that is just now getting it right for single player?  I don't like it any more than you do (which is precisely why I'd never ask for this), but that's just the reality of it.

Chances of a stable LH multiplayer coming out in the next 1-4 months are pretty much 0.

Logically speaking, you're a -1.

I have to vote +1.

I don't have a lot of use for MP myself, but I have had three different family members and friends gush on about going at each other in those tactical battles.  In my opinion any MP version would have to be as badly imbalanced as it is now and players would just have to deal with it.  It would work out better in LAN situations where houserules might be easier to figure out and live with. 

I will leave it with a mention of a side conversation involving fireballing each other and an undue interest in impalement as a tactical strategy.  I could only reply that it gave me yet another reason not to multiplay with strangers.

Anyway, a vote on behalf of my friends.

This is like going into a pub and asking if alcohol should be banned. The people who like the game and avidly play it (enough to hang out at a dedicated forum) are the people who are fine with the game as it is. The people who would like multiplayer either skipped buying the game (pretty much all my Civ-playing friends except one) or lost interest quickly. Neither group will be posting in threads like this one.

-1 

+1, and no nerfing needed. Rulesets for faction/trait usage would quickly evolve. Beastlord or no beastlord, etc.

Randomness would have to be lowered, though. As it is now the major random events, map, and drops would determine much of the outcome.

-Major random events need to be possible to tudn off.

-Map algorithm needs to be able to produce balanced maps in terms of city locations and resources.

-Drops must less determning. In my opinion it could even be used to balance the game so that the weaker the player the better the drops. This would encourage losing players stay in the game.

-Of course mechanic-breaking exploits must be fixed (pioneer queueing most of all).

OP, you're not going to get much support here, unfortunately. Most people who cared about MP abandoned the franchise a long time ago. None of my friends who bought the original WoM have even bothered installing FE or LH, let alone spend any time reading the forums. We all got it for some team-based comp-stomps like we used to do in FFH2 but the MP feature got removed in FE going forward, after never being finished in the original release.

Multiplayer would be fantastic and they could keep the focus/balance on single player, but I've long since given up hope of that happening. You're much better off patronizing companies that support the features you're looking for, like Paradox.

or experienced

+2 (I have two accounts)

It's already been settled with a no by the devs:

https://forums.elementalgame.com/447256/

"Multiplayer

We have a lot of requests for this.  Here’s the basic issue.  The tactical battle system in the Elemental games was not written in a way that allows for multiplayer. All the actions in it happen within its own box. The short version is that all the tactical battle stuff would have to be rewritten, from scratch, to have the tactical battles happen in multiplayer and that’s just not going to happen. That would be extremely expensive for us.  It’s not that we don’t think there should be multiplayer. It’s just a cost/benefit ratio (not just in terms of dollars but in terms of human assets that would have to be taken from other projects). It’s not something I’m happy about either."