The different types of battle in Rome II - clarification?

[Lockcaps]

So i was reading the strategyinformer article and i noticed this:

"Whilst this may not be the full list, we’ve managed to get a rundown of the different types of battles that a player could experience whilst playing Rome 2.
On the Land, these are: Walled City battles, Settlement Outskirts battles, field battles, combined land/sea coastal battles, River battles (as in, attacking/defending across a river), Encampment battles (when you attack a fortified army), Ambush battles (which we’re told will be very different to previous games) and Supply Train battles, which is what happens when you’re attacking an army that’s force-marching.

On the Navy side, there are: Port siege battles, open sea battles and of course the land/sea coastal battles."

There are some new battle types : Port siege (yay), Encampment battles, Supply train battles, and combined battles. But the other types aren't exactly new..or are they? It seems like there's going to be different objectives depending on what type of battle you fight (if you attack someone near a river, you won't have the same objectives as if you would've attacked in the field)

[Rhaegar1]

I know one thing and that is that it sounds awesome! I know there are plenty of people that don't understand the benefits of CA using steam statistics but this is a result of them.

CA notices that a very large amount of battles is autoresolved: try to diversify the battles more
CA notices that an even greater amount of sieges is autoresolved: try to create less sieges and makes them more epic and important

This game really is shaping up to become the greatest ever.

[panzerschreck]

custom battles, campaign or both?

[Dude with the Food]

It has to be both. The number of times I've wanted to try ambushes in custom battles and I've not been able to...

[sleepyx732]

I want to know exactly what a Settlement "Outskirts" battle is and how it differs from field battles. I know it's when you attack a city of a region (not a province), such as Jerusalem, Sinope, Rhodes, ect..

We had a form of port siege in FoTS, but here I wonder if we can use land units as well. From the picture of the articles yesterday, ports can (maybe just are) be apart of a coastal city. Read: Sinope, Trapezos. Will that coastal city be apart of the battle map? Or just the port?

[torongill]

I have to say I'm not sure whether Port/Siege battles are what we think they are. It seems to me they will be a siege in which the city in question has a port, which you can attack with ships. Something like the battle of Carthage.
Can it be something else?

[PietroMicca]

port siege is the most important point to clarify

[Hesus de bodemloze]

Encampment battles aren't new ether in my opinion. RTW had the ability to build forts for legions when these forts got attacked you had your encampment battle.

[jtfjtfjtf]

Encampment battles aren't new ether in my opinion. RTW had the ability to build forts for legions when these forts got attacked you had your encampment battle.

I hope it's not the same as those fort battles. Then it's just mini siege battles all over again, and they said they want less siege battles.

[Serger989]

I think this is all pretty simple to determine.
If you are attacked in forced march, you baggage train is on the battlefield.
If you are attacked in defensive stance, you have a small defensible encampment (I imagine some small palisades etc)
If you are attacked in ambush, you deploy around the enemies marching formation.
Field battles are your typical total war fights away from cities.
Outskirt battles will have the settlement close in the distance
I would imagine port sieges are the same, I will guess that they will be "outskirt" port battles, where if you are besieging a port with your navy and the navy is attacked by another navy, the port will be in the field of view on the battle map (I imagine, obviously I am guesstimating for how this stuff works).
I cannot wait for the combined navy and land battles.