Well bearing in mind the age of stw.
Dial up should allow you to play. (its not like its half life 2)

And i know how some people who play online games are. they can be nasty and vendictive to a person just becous they slowed the game a Little.
BUT dont worry about that.. most of the people left in the stw community (Isnt that many) Are a freindly bunch. So you wouldnt get insulted about your connection speed. (well not malishiously with intent to hurt any way)

As for testing.
im not sure what you mean but..
if you mean how did some people find out, the diferent effects of weather and stuff on diferent units excetera.
We usualy do tests in game.

Lan is a fave as you dont need people online who are willing to come help.
but Single player custom battles are also used.
You can Also edit/Modify STW quite easily with little to no knowlage of hex.
So you can easily set one unit's moovment speeed to 0,
and give the AI that unit.
That way the Ai wont rout or be able to attack you or Simillar. Whilst your doing your test(s).


As for the page unit stats page.
It took a few hours.
id say more than 1 less than 4.
hard to tell really though. as to make the thing work properly from my web page I had to edit all the other pages to add a link For the unit stats page,
and that also took time.

Any way Im glad you may get use of it,


P.S

Did it take very long to open?

it has Quite a lot of data on it for people on dial up.

P.S.S

Thers also a tech tree page ive made.
that took longer :)