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I can help a bit...Your motherboard determines what CPUs you can upgrade to. You can't upgrade a PII to a PIII; this requires a completely different motherboard and processor; though you should be able to use most (if not all) of your current components on a new motherboard. Check Fionn's thread for others suggestions on graphics cards. Mostly, the best advice is, how much money you have to spend and stick to name brand components. I'd seriously consider the AMD line; good performance at a lesser cost; leaving more funds for other components; just check for compatibility issues with other components (they seem to be very few to consider).

'Grouping' is not in the beta-demo. Also, no more beta demos. We have to wait for the Gold

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Yo MadMatt, Do I detect some people here who don't check your "almost" nightly masterpieces

Just to try to help clarify #1 a bit better...There are not "campaigns", they are Operations. You make a large map, and play out battles on portions of it...depending on how you do, is what part of the map you play the next battle...maybe the same, maybe a portion of the old part plus some new, maybe all new... #3 The last couple of times this came up, Modern CM is a few years down the road. If I have it right, East Front, then North Africa/Italy, then the early part of WWII in Europe. Maybe have the last two in the wrong order.

Bear in mind, if I remember correctly, the North Africa theater will also include Italy and such of the Medterrain(sp) area.

Yes...I had this question too...think I remember Charles saying it was only a Beta-Demo problem...that in the final release any arty can indirect fire...

"And Another One Bites the Dust"

I hear ya Look for me Friday evening and over the weekend... CoC is a good game if you are with at least a handful of players you can count on and enjoy playing with. I've been playing it, off and on, since before there were any Regiments. I too, wish for more varity in maps. One thing that has changed, is that, in the Open Rooms, one side can no longer have more than 1 more squad per side than the other(game won't let anyone join til someone has joined the other side)...As far as distributing expirence points, most of the time, the CO will do right; tho givng out weapons is more of a problem since the CO wants to survive, so he will give heavier weapons to people he knows. The developers lean heavily toward the Regiments. The Open Games are for learning the interface, (such as; assigning sub-commanders, giving out weapons and points), and learning to control your units, then joing a Regiment. I would like the Open Games restructured so that resources are 'automated' based on the player's performance during the game. The Regiment Games are firmly established enough to fulfill the more individual control on distribution of resources.

Howdy chasd You can go to Products (in above heading), then scroll down to line with "our Purchase Policy" to get the info. Basicly you'll send an email to battlefront.com and they'll reply with the info you need. Also, please note, all CAPS is 'yelling' when posting

Same as Boris, looking through AH and ran across it...then Lt_Stahler told me BTS had moved to this site (a month or so after the site got started), like most of you, been here ever since I found it

That bogus post might haunt us for a while, by newer or infrequent vistors starting new posts referring to it...????

I second that question...Was just talking to an opponent this morning along the same lines...wondering if 'things' I was doing in the beta-demo would be reflected in the final version...

It's already been stated, no to all...One thing to keep in mind for Operations, you 'need' to keep crews alive for both points and for them to possibly recover their damaged equipment or receive new equipment for the next or a later battle. I know there's a lot of posts, so maybe someone else can summerize what other decisions went into this...

Sort of on this topic : Am curious if anyone knows if there is a difference in a tank's main gun shooting at a specific target in a building and targeting the building itself...what I'm getting at is, does the main gun shot's bring the building down (while shooting at the Inf) the same as if the main gun is specificly(sp) targeting the building itself?

43 (pushing 44) with 4 grandkids who frequently distract me while trying to concentrate on playing my games Wouldn't give them up for nothing (not even CM

Correct in 3 BETA demo scenerios That is all for the time being...

Ran a Stug down the 'left' side in one battle...it bogged down 2 times before it made it to the road...took 2-3 turns each time to 'break-free'...had a Stug, in another game, bog down just to the left of the church, and it stayed that way for a number of turns, until it changed to 'immoblized'...

***- would you like descriptions of the ***scenarios and operations provided on the ***CD to be printed in the manual? For me, such things as the above; an 'index' with a summary is all I would need (so I would 'know' to look at the CD for such info). Don't know if I can explain this clearly; How many men, rifles, AT weaps, Lt MGs, etc for each type of platoon/company of Infranty per 'name'. Example : US Engineer, US Recon etc, (ain't even going to try to spell some of the German types My thinking is for DYO type...If I just see 'Recon' squad when trying to add units to a map, I won't know how many men or how they are armed in order to decide which units I want to use.

Thanks, MadMatt for re-producing Steve's comments...Must of been buried in a post I didn't think I 'needed' to read You're doing good

If I understood the posts about the game being shipped, BTS was going to email those of us who pre-ordered asking if we wanted the 1st version or wait for the included TCP/IP version. Has this process been done or is it still pending? Fionn's post about his email list 'burping' made me wonder about this

Hey "Master Gloater", as soon as I finished posting here, I sent you an email. Are you getting slow in your old age?

I'd be very interested in the Meta-campaign...I very much enjoy 'large' campaigns. Would be interested in more detail when available. I'm not a 'ladder' person, but there are a lot of players who are.

Chain of Command is good...a lot of waiting for Regiment games...Also, there's a very bad resource leak...You'll have to keep an eye on your resources and reboot you computer every 3 or 4 games or so...

I have no problem with the scrolling...it provides information that I find interesting.