@Lemur: No sweat. I know you were just trying to keep spammers under control. I wasn't going to publicly out you BTW, I don't think that would have been proper. But I felt the need to at least defend myself publicly. And if I came across as harsh in PM, my public apologies.
Anyway, no blood, no foul. How about we not talk about it again. In my mind it's a nothing.

Back on topic:
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I just put my money where my mouth is. I have previously tried the free low-res app on my ipad/iphone before I started this thread. There was some choppiness, but I thought perhaps livable. Well, I just bought the $9.99 HD app for the ipad. I rebooted into Windows 7 and installed the desktop app. I had to drop my res and run RTW in windowed mode (a minor annoyance)
Nice screen, sound transport is flawless. There does seem to be about a 200ms lag in video feed, but the video feed itself is smooth. No, it's not the greatest thing since butter on toast, but I think it's probably good enough to play the campaign (with battle auto-resolve) in pretty much any TW game, or a Sid Meier Civ game.

I was hoping to post a message gloating about how I was sitting on the couch with my wife and "watching" a movie with her, while secretly playing RTR on the sly via the ipad. Alas, total mission failure.
This is where it fell on it's face; the interface. I could not for the life of me scroll around the map properly. I thought I had it licked by putting the cursor keys on screen, but as soon as I would try to select a city the screen would freak and dump into a random corner. Almost like it's detecting the mouse movement and then that's getting stuck into whichever direction I went. This might just be a config issue and lack of knowledge on my part. If I get it working I'll post back in here and try to make a jeng or youtube video or something, so people can actually see it in action.

I'm sort of envisioning using one's mobile device to put their hotrod desktop gaming rig at their fingertips, literally. If I didn't need to be so mobile I would probably do exactly this. Gaming rig at home running Windows 7, and an ipad for lightweight stuff with the ability to connect to the windows rig.