NVIDIA style crowd rendering using SKINNED INSTANCING possible with Unreal 4?

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Was living in a cave! Came out yesterday and what do I read? Unreal has given FULL source code access. I am majorly impressed.

I am working on a wargame (18th century, vast number of units, akin to Rome -Total War).

In my day job I do some math modelling for a tech company. I program in C++ too. I have done some graphics and AI programming in the past.

I am seriously considering this engine ( since it gives C++ source code access.)

*Can Unreal 4 do crowd rendering using LOD meshes + skinned instancing as described below?

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch02.html

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/SDK/10/direct3d/Source/SkinnedInstancing/doc/SkinnedInstancingWhitePaper.pdf

Thanks in advance for the answers.