Rik81

I was wondering, too. But then i discovered, the PBEM players are still waiting to finish downloading their first turn... </font>

Each time I try to start this mission I get the dreaded "Microsoft has encountered an error and must close."

G;ad ot does for you, for me, not so good.

(from Steve's post above) "The problem we have with the popup menu is that in RealTime it is impractical. In fact, I never used the popup menu in CMx1. Always keys. Our beta testers originally complained about both RealTime and the Command interface. They are now firm believers in it. Why? Because they took the time to see if we were right to change what was instead of assuming we were wrong. OK, at first they assumed we were wrong but they stuck with it anyway " The comment about RealTime making the right-click menu impracticle makes a lot of sense to me. OTOH--I don't play RT. Consider adding it to WEGO play. However, I can see that would be a LOW priority, if even possible. After playing some more, the most annoying thing for me is having to stick the mouse cursor in the upper corners to get the camera view to "rotate". Not a smooth enough control there. Any suggestions?

A Request: Please could you provide "tool tips" for all the stuff down in the UI? It would really be helpful.

Check the hotkey window. There's a key doing just that, albeit I can't remember which one from the top of my head. </font>

Another suggestion: In the CM games I frequently would like to focus on an enemy unit in watching the replays. That is still possible here of course, but what is missing is the rapid map rotation. I believe CM used the "/" key to flip the map end for end. AFAIK we now have to hold down the RMB and rotate the map around. Could we have the "/" restored? A real time saver.

My earlier post referenced the "tutorial battle". I now have looked at the first battle of the Training Campaign, and voila! I can see. However, I can't drive worth a bean flip, lol. Back to the manual I guess. There has to be a way to CANCEL an order and re-issue it. (I play WEGO, no RT stuff for this old man.) BTW a little gripe: A "tutorial" or a "training" battle ought to have some "on-screen, in the game prompts." I know they warned us to have the manual handy, but at the moment I only have the pdf. When my snail mail copy arrives I am hoping they have a nice printed manual.

Fast and beautiful graphics? I am obviously doing something wrong. I am not getting those beautiful pictures we saw in the video's they released. I get the blue and red icons to click on and give orders, but I don't know how to focus the replays to see the action. Some one give me a clue please.

Thanks for the quick reply. Will go try that. BTW, I pre-ordered mine about 3 weeks ago.

In trying the licensing thing, it asks for Order ID. My original e-mail when I order, did not have anything called ORDER ID. It did have a thing called Order Number. I've used that to no avail. Why can't I just put in the License Code directly?

Okay Matt -- your asked.

Thx (I think ) That makes sense, however, it would be nice if there was someway to "skip" ahead to it.

In the DEMO there was one "battle" along with the tutorials. In the game, I can't find that particular battle. Where is it hiding? :confused:

Maybe I was lucky, but no problems with the download, took just a little over 1 hour.