Quote Originally Posted by Furious Mental
It's true that the onagers and elephants were rather overdone in the trailers, but this doesn't appear to be a trailer to me.
The elephants and onagers were overpowered like hell in the RTW gameplay movies too. This was as some people have pointed out a scripted battle.
The badboy cannon was suppose to wipe the knights out to give them a "glorious" end. While I don't doubt this cannon will be powerful in the final game, it will most likely be very inaccurate.

RTW doesnt have a combat penalty for units that are flanked or surrounded
Yes there was.
The morale dropped if the soldiers were surrounded and even more when they were flanked.