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Lets use Warhammer 40k as an example, because some of you know about it. The Tau, use plasma weapons, so I want my Tau to use plasma weapons. Eldar are known for being fast and agile, so I want my Eldar to have engines over armor. Things like that as an example. Just to clarify, the Tau also use Missiles (Crisis suits & Broadsides) & Railguns (broadsides again & Hammerhead gunships). Most Tau capital ships are outfitted with ion cannons, railguns & r

@ Ostsol see if you can track down a game called 'Nexus: the Jupiter Incident'. Space combat without resource collection! It was originally going to be 'Imperium Galactica 3', but got dropped & then picked up by another company. unfortunately the the 4X component was scrapped, but the ship combat that was left was excellent IMHO. Damn pretty too! well worth a look if I understand what you are looking for correc

I'd like to add my vote for some form of mulitiplayer. I only play mulitiplayer over a LAN due to being stuck with a very slow dial up connection. Maybe I'm just getting old but I still remember sitting around with friends playing board games until the wee small hours having an absolute ball. You had no optiion then but to wait for your turn. I still enjoy sitting around playing the occasional board game with friends, but spend fa

ooh yeah. I second that! Actually there's a few screen that could use a mini map. The planetary screen for one.

I feel your pain! It happens all to often & seems to be becoming more & more common. The number of times I've had to resort to dubious cracks & fixes to get legitimate retail games I've bought to run is quite ridiculous! Once, quite a few years ago now, I had problems with Mechwarrior 4 refusing to run & feeling just a little bit masochistic I rang the Microsoft help line for assistance. After numerous phone calls over a two day

I'm having the same problems. Got the "invaild URL" for a few attempts & now am only getting "Invalid Account". Anyone know what's going on?

I think it was MOO2 that you could recruit spys, and then either assign them missions in the enemy states (steal tech, sabotage, et cetera), or use them for counter espionage to block the action of enemy agents in your turf. There was even a chance that they would get caught and then the empire you sent them to would know it was

Going purely by games that have had the longest air time: Star Control - Megadrive (I think it was called something else in the USA, as was the megadrive console) Soul Blade/Calibur - Playstation Dawn of War - PC MoO 2 - PC (at least I think it was 2....was a very long time ago!) Intense but brief love affairs: Neverwinter Nights - PC Warzone 2100 - Playstation & PC Galaxian Moon Cresta - Arcade

Now imagine you had a very big head Not so difficult.... so that the distance between your two eyes was one astronomical unit (the distance between the earth and the

Cheers James! If I do happen to find a couple of spare lives lying about I'll be sure to send one your way! Express post of course!!

Slightly off topic, but is a Parsec a "real World" unit of measurement? If so, exactly how big is one and where does it's name come from ( PAR ts of a SEC tor?)? It's so widely used & yet I've never actually wondered about this before now. I may need to get a life!