[The demo is] a stripped version compared to the Videos I have seen. The regiment in the Demo was pretty good in Size but then its was a 3000 man Regiments and we know alot of regiment were not anywhere near that level most of the time.
The demo has 3 tutorials, two of which are small battles to allow you to learn to control the troops. It also contains two large battles, GrandChamps and Montebello. These should give you lots of troops to look at.
The Orders screen in neat and its NOT for the casual gamer for sure, but it does feel pretty good on the delay of orders, controls are a little reversed for me, I think I would have had the Zoom go in the other direction
There is a lot of information in the interface, and it looks very complicated at first. But you don't have to understand everything to play, and you'll learn what everything means in time. The first time I played Montebello, I did it with full difficulty and the only thing I really understood was how to give orders and the Strength, Morale and Fatigue bars on the unit info card.
What do you mean about the Zoom going in the other direction? The normal zoom is very wide angle, and the closest zoom is about what you would see with your naked eye if you were on the battlefield. The first thing I do when I go to 3D view is zoom in as far as possible in F3 and F5 views. The F6 view gets adjusted according to what I'm watching.
OOB is interesting but I dont think I have the option to modify in the demo.
When you're on the battlefield, you can reassign units from one corps to another, either before the game starts or while the battle is running. There are limits to how many units a corps commander can have under him (you can see the number of slots in the bottom row in the 3D view) and a corps commander can only handle about 5 or 6 artillery units.
How is the AI enemy in the full game, is this game better for MP or is SP AI good?
The full game AI was no different from the demo when it was released. It's been improved since then.
A lot of people only play MP or PBEM. I generally only play single player, and while the AI isn't finished, it puts up a very good fight. I've even managed to lose the tutorial battles a couple of times, and this was after playing for a while. Multiplayer battles are good, even over dialup or a satellite connection with terrible lag. And they don't use a lot of bandwidth.
Any questions, feel free to ask. Don't let the interface overwhelm you. Press the TAB key to make it disappear or bring it back. And good luck!
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