God this is great, I almost crapped my pants when I saw this while installing RTW:BI on my new computer! Can't wait to start zoomin in while my heavy cavalry starts mowin down unruly peasants in-game. I'd also like to hope that since the game is still in development, that by the time we get it, the graphics will have only improved and the AI becomes almost impossible to match (at least compared to it's predecessors) !

On a side note, I'm rather pleased they included the Americas, the Aztecs were always there and the Europeans had the ability to travel there for a good long time, they just never really thought about it (or even cared) to actually head out across the ocean. Naturally this will give the player somewhat of an advantage as they'll obviously KNOW that the Americas are out there and can gear themselves up toward headin there while the AI is undoubtedly going to focus on the more immediate problems (example: You) and more likely only find the Americas by pure accident as seems to be the case with how it worked IRL.