A thought on the new 'random' arms/armour feature in the units - do you think this will be an option? Like in RTW you currently have the option to select/unselect the desynchronised unit animation option in the preference.txt to boost performance at the cost of visual imersion so maybe this random look will also be turn-offable to boost performance on less state-of-the-art pcs? I'm sure there are people with lower spec pcs who would rather have a return to clone armies than a beautiful slideshow. Obviously there may well be other ways of boosting performance via the details settings, I was just wondering if this was another possibility.

Another question - do you think the 'random' unit is generated on the fly before each battle, or will it remember which soldier had which body/head/shield/weapon combination from the very first battle the unit fights in? I know the TW series always keeps track of an individual soldier's stats in respect to experience, but I wonder whether this is now expanded to keep track of which combo each soldier is made up from.