With the Lets Play video showing the options for custom battles online, will these apply offline?

[Dbx125]

I absolutely love that now when we play custom battles online and choose a map, we can play at the actual historical locations and replay the historical battles with different sides etc.

However will all these options apply offline too? Im just wondering how the AI will cope. I mean, If I want to play a custom battle in Carthage for example, me being the defender and the AI attacker, I can't imagine them being able to program the AI to take advantage of the ports like in the scripted player controlled historical battle so I imagine it will just boil down to a standard siege map.

I do really love the fact that we get to just click on any location on a map for our custom battles now. As they said in that video, that equals 1000's of maps effectively.

Also...HURRAH for finally as the defender being able to have siege weapons on the walls of your city. This should make epic sieges 100% better.

[nubcaker]

Well, I sure hope so.

[kamikazee786]

i sure hope that it'll be in custom battles, that way you can explore the whole map