Indeed the use of swastikas is forbidden in Germany for any use except historical. Hitlers name is not, though, but perhaps the makers/publishers of HoI thought the sales of a game could be negatively if this name would appear. If you called a German a "Nazi" it was a very bad insult. (Neo...

Sounds good!

Well, I cannot play without my internet router (fritz box), but until now it never had issues with online games.
I enabled CEaW and the ports 6770 and 6771 in the Win XP firewall, do you think it could help to disable the firewall altogether?

I try to start a TCP/IP game more than 2 full hours now. We double checked IP numbers open ports and so on. Its so frustrating... :( Perhaps its because I have the java patch and my opponent has not? (He tried to install that but it wont work for him) And we play per email without issues, so I dont ...

Thank you for this very quick answer!
Since you mentioned max. effectiveness: Is it possible to have 100% eff. or even more?

What is meant by "efficiency"? The effectiveness of the unit? The quality of the unit? How is the attribute effected? I assume it is increased, but by what? The value of the leadership rating? We learned that efficieny=effectiveness. But I still wonder how the leadership rating influences...

Interesting Article!

For me the game ran perfectly until some days ago when I get the message saved game cannot be loaded because of older version. Then I installed the java fix. Now my saved files can be loaded again but I have the issues described by the other posters, esp. the game runs very slowly. My question: Can...

For me the game ran perfectly until some days ago when I get the message saved game cannot be loaded because of older version. Then I installed the java fix. Now my saved files can be loaded again but I have the issues described by the other posters, esp. the game runs very slowly. My question: Can ...

Does that really work? I tried everything to change the queue, it did not work. (Not sure though if it was 1.06 or still 1.04)