"It was all a hoax."

Failing that, the dungeons/quests, random DnD parties and natural/neutral features and creatures.

Maybe events.

I'm more interested in actual solider / item creation. I want to know to what extent can the player manipulate a soldier's / item's stats. (One could say if you were allowed to manipulate these stats enough you could create a....... Super Soldier or weapon.) I wouldn't complain however if the next journal was on Channeler creation or Tactical Battles. 

moar about the cloth map and how it is generated differently every game

I've been really curious about tactical battles. Stardock has a great track record with 4x type stuff, but as far as I know they haven't done any RTS. I want to know how big a part of the game they are going to be.

Well, I guess what I actually want to know is how good they are going to be. This whole project is so ambitious, even without tactical battles. It seems to me that if anything is not given as much focus, it will be the RTS stuff. I wonder if they're going to consult or hire anyone with RTS experience, maybe someone from the Total War games.

I am one of them. Rather than ranting about real-time "strategy", I will tell you that Brad expressly said Elemental will be entirely TBS.

Demigod has some pretty good music.   I wonder if Elemental is going to be able to benifit from similar talents.   (I assume the music was related to GPG, but still.)

I can imagine many different kinds of music.  I'd think peace time to include a lot of woodwinds, and tictical battle music to include some soft brass.   Perhaps remixes of music with major and minor keys for good and evil players respectivly.

Not many games that won;t let you run Media Player or equivalent in the background.

Personally, I'd enjoy it if Elemental had a varied and diverse soundtrack. But barring that, I'm with Solam.

So if there's no RTS, what will the tactical battles be like then? Will they be only observation, or will we be able to select a strategy, like aggressive or defensive?

Something along the lines of qeueing orders for your different units with the possibility of pausing the game to change orders as needed.

I believe it will be almost identical, with perhaps more units/options, to Master of Magic.  I.E.- You move one unit at a time in the tactical map area during combat.  Much like so many games after MoM.  I could be wrong of course.