I'd imagine we will have those random murauding monsters like in MoM.  You know, where a monster lair that hasn't been cleared might spawn a monster from time to time that will head towards whatever tasty city is ripe for the razing.   Sometimes they burn the towns to the ground, but sometimes they just loot, destroy some buildings, kill a few thousand inhabitants, and then vanish into the night. 

I'm really interested to hear about the temples/tombs/dungeons, since its been inplied that it will be more like X-com or the original fallout when it comes to exploring tombs (rather than a regular battlefield with a simple 'lair' or 'temple' doo-dat on the enemy side)

Wandering monsters seem like a must-have to me. They were fun in MoM and around the D&D table.

Capn, re the searching thing, you can add site:forums.elementalgame.com to the end of a search string at any good search engine and get hits only from this forum. That parameter is still one of the 10 most useful things I learned in the last 10 years.

yeah, you must not have played for very long.

They also are prone to appear at the least oppurtune time, like when you have a city with nobody on it to be protected *BAMPH* a deamon attacks.   That isn't entirely true, but that is how it feels because it happens (also because demons move by 'flying' so they shoot over water and similar places where you don't expect, so you THINK its safe until something comes from the sea.  Also, deamons are tough and usually can't be stopped by the 1 spearman I sent to protect the town from other random monsters.

I figure this game would have settings for it, like how tha barbiarans and neutral animals had settings Civilization 4.

That would be pretty awesome. I'm pretty sure that could happen unless of course the "inside" areas are instanced.