With RTW due out soon I traded my 6 gig 333 MHz Pentium II with 256 MB RAM in for a 80 gig, 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 gig RAM laptop.

Technically my old comp wasnt supposed to be able to run MTW VI MP, but it did.

Problem was that my hard drive wasnt big enuff to hold MTW and STW simultaneously. So with the new comp I loaded STW ME and MTW VI.

And when I fired up Shoggie I was pleasantly reminded of why I got into this whole thing. See I care little for Medieval history, but Sengoku Japan has always been of interest to me.

STW is really a lot simpler and cleaner than MTW. STW does a better job (for me anyway) of immersing me in the period. STW does lack some of the finer points that MTW has.

But. . .

after 1000's of hours of STW play, followed by 1000's more of MTW, going back to STW was quite refreshing and very fun.

I guess the business reality for PC games is that we create, play, then quickly move on to a new creation. So STW MP has dried up, and there doesn't seem to be lot a support for patches and improvements.

STW is still a great game.

ichi