Larger and better battle map...

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Terrain features like bogs, fords and the like would be nice. What would also be nice is if the map "moved". The cheezy tactic I like using on the defense is having my Army butt up against the edge of the map to restrict flanking. I think the map should stay the same size and as the whole of one force approaches another, the map would move toward the defender.

Hey, that's a good idea. Then instead of routing off the map edge to finish a battle, you could just make it that the battle ends after all of one side's remaining units have been in continuous route mode for a given period of time.

However, I think it would probably be too resource hungry to implement.

Edit: On second thought, maybe not such a good idea anyhow, since there'd be no easy way for the AI to tell where the "centre" of the battlefield was anymore...