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Darn! I thought I might weasel something out of 'ya. I'll stay posted to see what develops on this one.

Outstanding news, Bedbug. Thanks for the reply. By the way, are any of those buildings going to be occupy-able? The fact that some are burning/smoking might suggest that they were targets. Or is that just collateral damage?

The game's looking amazing. One question raised by the settings menu screenie: Will players be able to lower the tree transparency radius to a very low level? (i.e., 10 or 20?) If I'm in the woods, I'd like to feel like I'm in the woods, even if that means I can't see very far.

Those rocky outcrops in front of the very mid-century houses in the last screenie --- could be the Shenandoah Valley, could be Pennsylvania, might even be south central Maryland. Could be NoVa, too. But those look like Pennsylvania rocks to me....

Are we looking at Cowpens in the one shown above?

<r>Thanks for the replies, Norb and JohnD. Sounds like the modding community will take full advantage the new mapping possibilities. Given the fact that folks are currently devoting weeks and months to making new maps, a day or two of hard work will be nothing for some of these hard-core landscape a...

Norb,

Assuming this new game will be highly mod-able, how long will it take players to create a map, let's say 1 square mile in size?

Very nice...reminds me of Bohemia. I'll post my Bayreuth Hussars on this side of that hill and try to catch some Austrians or Croat foragers off guard....

<t>This war is quickly becoming one of my favorites--so many possibilities as it was the first true world war.<br/> <br/> I would think that any title covering this war, especially as it unfolded in North America, would have to somehow cover sieges and fortifications, which figure prominently in man...