I would rather wonder how this will help make the game better overall. Well, maybe if it works out, we'll get a slightly better balance of factions and units, but in the final, who will be interested in the competitive scene in a few months? If a battle comes out, then no one will play skirmish, because it just doesn't have as competitive potential as a battle.
If we got some better combat instead, because the current one is *****. And it would also like servers, because without them you do a balance for a few people, because most prefer to stay on the warband.