$20 for Special Forces? No way.

[Polemists]

All I can say is don’t get it from Steam if you want the SF Edition. Get it some place else for a bit less, but with Steam I think you are supposed to get the game up to 3 days early…I guess that is ok if you don’t want a hard copy.

Firstly it's hard to be "What a great advantage I get the game a month late and 3 days earlier." I mean after a month delay it will be hard to convince yourself your getting the game early come March 20 something.

I'd like to see this game playable without a cd, I mean every other developer is doing it, why not CA/Sega.

The units will most likely be tossed around, since they arn't on mutliplayer I don't see any method or check CA has to block the eventual possibility that people will hand this stuff out outside of the game. There will probably be a activation code, but those things never last.

I'd say most people are better off just buying it from one of the websites/stores and getting one exclusive unit, and not dealing with the steam hassles.

[Fondor_Yards]

What he means by 3 days early is that 3 days before you can pre-download it, so that on the day it's out all you need is a 5-10 minute unlocking and bam your playing at 12:10.

[Husar]

Eh, that you need the Steam version means that you cannot buy a normal ETW in a store and then get the elite unit pack from Steam. If I'm not mistaken all addon packs on Steam work that way.

It's "only" 10 EUR here, alone or together with ETW, since ETW is quite not so cheap at 50 EUR already, I am not very eager to spend 60 just to get those 6 units, although they do look pretty nice.

[Fisherking]

It's "only" 10 EUR here, alone or together with ETW, since ETW is quite not so cheap at 50 EUR already, I am not very eager to spend 60 just to get those 6 units, although they do look pretty nice.

If the German version is that much I suggest you order it from the UK! Mine was under €40 for the SF edition.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

If one of those special units would've been dancing elephant unit I would've considered buying it!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

- Dancing elephants. Enemy will laugh themselves death and you get easiest victories in the game!!

[Husar]

If the German version is that much I suggest you order it from the UK! Mine was under €40 for the SF edition.

Ah, yes, funny I didn't think of that now, after all I bought almost all my PS3 games from the UK.
Guess I'm just used to buying Steam games from Steam but since the price here is that inflated I guess I will indeed buy it from the UK. That way I also avoid any kind of censorship.

[Azlahn]

Since they only appear in single player you could always just not build them if you are worried about balance. The A.I might use them, but come on, it needs all the help it can get.

Good point :)

Personally I will be buying the game the game off Amazon as I appreciate any step to include some African history in the game (and yes, the Dahomey Amazons were actually real).

The Death's Head Hussars sound cool, but I can't seem to find any screen shots of them.