I got my new computer yesterday, cost me a thousand pounds in English money, it's a beast of a machine, intel core 2 duo 6600 2.4ghz proccessor, ATI x1950, 2 gigs of DDR2 ram, the holy mother of all motherboards, it's awesome... And i just played EB with 10,000 men on screen with all the settings on highest, even aliasing, but shadows turned off because they look crap on the battle map anyways, and i have no lag whatsoever, it's as smooth as a babys bottom... Anyway i just wanted to say that EB is so much better now that my armies actually look like armies and not just a large-ish group of men, and the units look so much more detailed now... I notice patterns on the shields of even the crappiest of units like Greek levy phalanxes that i just didn't see before on my old machine...

So i really just wanted to brag mostly and say that EB is absolutely wonderful with a good machine to play it on... And even without a good machine, it's still great.