Nice write up, but they didn't talk about anything we didn't know already.

(my desire for new info on this game could best be described as a craving.)

^ Yeah. I find it very weird, that the devs haven't posted any details about the tactical combat + combat mechanism at all. I am waiting for these infos, since the game have been announced.

IIRC, in Deadalus's (spelling?) video of BoogieBac's presentation at PAX, he seemed to indicate that a zoomed in version of the tactical combat will be something like a turn-based Total War game. Perhaps he was just referencing the level of detail. But we can be certain that both cloth-map and eyecandy cam will be available in tactical combat. Anyway, a turned based version of the total war style battles (kinda like a computerized version of warhammer fantasy) would be pretty sweet.

I expect that the devs are taking some well deserved R&R after PAX. I'm sure more info will come. Just curious what will be first, the beta, or a nice packet of info. (granted the beta will probably tell us a lot we didn't know already)

I think it likely that a lot of information from now on will come in the builds of the beta. According to the builds schedule they will need to average a new build about every two weeks (if they implement only one new element per build, anyways) so I think probably rather than posting Dev journals, we can expect a lot of the new information to be within the beta builds themselves. Still hoping for Dev jounral goodness and lots of lively discussion, but I expect there will be a swing from posts to "see for yourself".

Someone on another thread was wanting more information on tactical combat - I expect devs will likely not comment too much on game elements that are quite far down the beta objective schedule.