hehe, that'd be even more awesome. That'd make for a hell of an MMO. Though it would have to be free to play. You'd have to earn rank so you could command more and more men... start off at like squad leader, then platoon leader, then company commander, then battalion commander, etc. That'd be freakink awesome. I guess it wouldn't need to be an MMO, just something with persistent stat tracking. Have 2 - 20 people connect and build two opposing armies that then fight it out over large swathes of terrain. That'd be hot.

As for treason being an option...

You know it wouldn't take a motnh before I attack B company in the back and steal their equipment.

haha, you're a bastard.

Then again, the brito-italio duo would start off on opposite sides, then treason, create their own army and backstab everyone. And take their med kits.

And block their own way to the plane with fire and then get raped by a tank and smoker...wait this metaphor isn't working anymore.

lol - Makes me think though, a 5 way WW2 RTS coop could consist of:

Me with my light infantry / recon platoons: Spotting enemies and generally checking shit out before it comes to our main forces.

O'cram and satis sharing infantry companies: Maybe Satis leading the weapons platoons since ocrams lag may be risky when handling mortars and MG's.

Rinox leads the logistics company: Skanking, requisitioning, (using-to-his-own-benefit) materials, equipment and captured enemy weapons / inventory. Plus, he's close to medpacks that way.

Peltz - Armoured company: Since he had a tank fetish in MoW.

*mental orgasm*

Yea, i'll man the tanks for sure.

Mosin Nagant .. Derf will love it.

Haha, yeah pretty sweet but the magazine-weight-thing was already in play and some servers completely disabled kill messages (which I loved not for realism but for immersion):

"BLAM!... shit, I'm not certain I got him... but we NEED that trench... Ah well." *charge forward and pray no one pops their head out of the trench*

Shogun 2 demo out

http://store.steampowered.com/app/34330/

I played through part of it, and it's so hard to say if the game's going to be good or not. At least so far, the demo is so 'do this', 'do that' that you don't actually get to play, you're just following directions. I did about 30 minutes of that at lunch, then quit to go back to work. I may pick it back up again and finish the demo, but I hope it actually lets you do something.

You're also limited to a total of 3 actual battles in the demo... you have to auto-resolve the left. Wtf kind of lame ass demo is that? To me, the strategic part is just so you can manipulate your battles into what you want. Those are the true focus (for me).

Dammit I got excited about the Shogun demo then realised you need Steam. FFS. I assume you're gonna be required to have Steam for the full game? If so, I'm out of buying that.