Junker

The Brand Manager LucasArts Germany wrote me "in Germany the Release date is:...". Maybe it is for Europe also. But I do not want to say something wrong or to make you to hope on a wrong date.

There is the Red Squadron in the Game. Look on this picture from the German Games Convention: Red Squadron www.sw-eaw.de

Release in Germany: 17th February 2006. I got a mail from Activision Germany today.

@ DarthMaulUK: Please read my pm. There is a little mistake in your date.

Maybe tomorrow there will be a new Release Date.

And what will happen tomorrow? It is a Thursday, not a Monday. Or do you mean Monday 13th?

On the homepage of the magazine I found the original screens. So have a new look on them. You can see much more details on them now. Follow the link in my first post.

Today in the magazine PC PowerPlay you can find a short preview and some new exclusive Screens. They are very interesting. You can find them here in the news: sw-eaw.de On one of them you can see R2-D2 hacking an enemy turret. After his work the turret will fire on the imperial AT-ST and help you to win the mission.

Balance All RTS made for a good balance and not for realism. I want to have fun in my games online and want to be able to take off large capital ships with some small ones. Especially I have only the small ones left.

In a gaming magazine in Germany (out on 21. December here) they will report about a small mission in their preview. In that mission you have R2-D2, C3-PO and some infantry. Your aim is to capture a small base, take over one enemy turret with your robots and shut down the base shield with R2-D2. When the magazine is out, we will inform you.

First German Empire at War Fanpage with roots to the old Command & Conquer line. (Westwood Fans ) www.sw-eaw.de http://www.sw-eaw.de/images/banner4.jpg http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/banner6.jpg

To the Minimum Specs in the first post: German Min Specs from 9. December. Found at Amazon.de and nbg-online.de www.sw-eaw.de

Thank you Delphi once more to give me the information about the online servers some weeks ago. We think in the multiplayer Q&A of eaw.net will be such a question with the servers. So we decided to make a news only for the german sector. But another side translated it into english... The Community is small and everyone knows everyone.

To Phantom: Proton torpedo: Capital ships and bombers can shoot proton torpedo on hostile goals(targets). While bombers can carry only a small number of it, the capital ships are equipped with a larger number of torpedoes. With a high speed they approach the goal and release themselves a large explosion in the goal. The time between two shots of Proton Torpedos is longer than between shots of a laser cannon. Bomber can fire one or two torpedos at the same time while ships with torpedo pipes can launch some more. This is ment with the discription. I hope I was able to help you. Otherwise ask again.

On the other hand: If you do not want to see any Mon Calamari ships as an Imperial Gamer, so blow up the planets with the Death Star which the Rebels need to produce their Mon Calamari ships.

4.Will the Stormtroopers sliding down from the AT-AT cost anything or are they free? Or is there a limit of how many Stormtroopers you can create from the AT-AT ? May you will remember the Troop Crawler of China in C&C Generals? You get the unit with already infantry in it. In an AT-AT there are 2 squardrons of Stormtroopers. Each squadron has 9 soldiers in EaW. At the Games Convention I was able to unload 2 squadrons of Stormtrooper (but with no rope-animation) and than the AT-AT was "empty". Important for me is the question if it is possible to load other infantry in a empty AT-AT. Maybe a weak hero and bring him very close to the front line. On Star Destroyers we were not able to produce fighters (only Spacestation) or store them on a capital ship.

Nice info about the Death Star.

Number 3. 4) Will large ships be produced out in the open and will we be able to see them slowly be built? What I can say from the Games Convention: Short answer: No. Each big ship came from a point out of the map with high speed and went down to zero speed at your spacestation. Than you was able to mark the ship and command it. The fighters came direct out of the spacestation as I can remember. I think there are some videos showing this. Wasn't it a video of Little B.?

I updated my first post with the Icons and some pictures from the Games Convention on which you can see the Upgrade boxes on the left side. but if you got to build things do you see them being built or are they just materialised when the upgrade is finished? You simply click on the Upgrade you want to have for the next one. It take a bit time until the new Upgrade is "researched". It is like you bild a new unit. Maybe I will find a screen on which you can see the "Research-Status" of a Upgrade. thank you Junker now just make a topic for the pics. We are one Community.

There was the Games Convention in Germany in August 2005 and at the both of Activision they showed Empire at War. There you was able to play it by yourself. I played it several hours and made some pics in this time.

At the Games Convention we was only able to play skirmish on the Ground or in Space. No Galaxy Map. So I'm not able to answer your question.

On sw-eaw.de you can find the first view on the Upgrades in Empire at War. It can be found on this page: Upgrades in EaW This are the Upgrades that I was able to see in the playable demo at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany this year. So it is not sure that I got all of them and it is not sure that all of them will be in the game at least. Maybe Petroglyph changed some of them. Most Upgrades have three steps. Each step shows a plus-sign in the Icon. Here is a list of all Upgrades. For the Icons look on our page: Upgrades in EaW Space-Upgrades http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/2.jpg Armor http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/3.jpg Shields http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/4.jpg Weapon (only fighters) http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/6.jpg Weapon (Ion Cannons) http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/1.jpg Speed http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/5.jpg Resources Ground-Upgrades http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/18.jpg Infantry Armor http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/8.jpg light Armor http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/7.jpg heavy Armor http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/15.jpg Building Armor http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/16.jpg Base Shield http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/1.jpg Speed (Air units only) http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/12.jpg Speed (light units) http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/13.jpg Speed (heavy units) http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/11.jpg Speed (Hover units) http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/9.jpg Weapon (Units) http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/10.jpg Weapon (Base Defense) http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/14.jpg Missile http://www.sw-eaw.de/jpg/upgrades/17.jpg Infiltration (Infantry can infilty enemy buildings) Some pictures with the already bought Upgrades shown as little Icons on the left side on the screen: http://www.sw-eaw.de/galerie/thumbs/196.jpg http://www.sw-eaw.de/galerie/thumbs/222.jpg http://www.sw-eaw.de/galerie/thumbs/203.jpg http://www.sw-eaw.de/galerie/thumbs/232.jpg My english is not the best. For better understanding wait for Little B.

Small Update, but better than nothing.

I think you are right. There is a red box at the ship which is a sign for a hero unit. Saw it in the video of eaw-fr.

You are not able to attack targets on the surface with a VSD in EaW. For this part you have the Orbital Bombardment with X-Wings or even TIE-Fighters.