Your comment is as clear as a fine diamond.

And you told : "and people even asked CA if they planned to change it in patches etc." So what did CA answer to that?

I don´t have a tight grip on the term "Hardcoded". It seems to mean that noone in the community is able to change anything "hardcoded".
But the CA is surely capable of upping the soldiermax a bit.

I read a little preview of "The Barbarian Invasion", and the only thing mentioned concerning units is, that there will be more units. Not a word about bigger units. That is a bit dissatisfying.

My system specs are:

1.) Cpu Athlon 64 3000+

2.) 512 Mb ddr400 Ram

3.) Radeon 9600XT

Is it my RAM that causes the slideshow on the battlemap, even if the reinforcing armies are still not participating?