Mini-map?

[Al]

My Let's Play video (see bottom of this post) got a few comments questioning the lack of a mini-map. My understanding from speaking to the dev team is that there are no plans to include a mini-map as strategic zoom (being able to pull all the way back to see the entire battlefield and zooming back in to the action) means it would be redundant. What do you think? Is a mini-map and essential requirement?

 

[amx_50B]

i am mixed about it. on one hand it would help to monitor your army. on the other i feel it will break a bit the scale of the game and make raids harder to pull out

 

[Al]

on the other i feel it will break a bit the scale of the game and make raids harder to pull out

Why would having more information make raids harder? I would have thought it would be the opposite.