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[Kobal2fr]

You clearly miss out if you don't upgrade to 1.2, as the game is mondo better with it : lots of fixed bugs, no more inquisitor madmen killing everything left and right, "smarter" campaign AI...

[MStumm]

Why do you need a larger removable drive? at 650mb it should even fit on a usb key.

But I agree that getting the patch is very painful. I am doing it right now in fact. None of the official mirrors work. I tried downloading it three times and it was always corrupted. I found the patch on bittorrent and hope its the official one not leaked.

[Jamie the Shrubber]

Thanks for the info. I meant a USB stick and I'll pick one up this week to transfer it. I've already had to upgrade my DVD drive to install and run it but I'm sure it will be worth it. I found MTW fantastic fun but there were areas I thought could be improved on where the micro-management was concerned and I can already see its been addressed in MTWII.

In MTW I could only zoom in and out of the campagin map using the mousewheel and it seems the same on MTWII. Or is there a way of allowing me to zoom in and out using a keyboard command? This would be very useful because my computer is in the marital bedroom and the loudness of the mousewheel disturbs Mrs Shrubber when I'm burning the midnight oil (as daft as that mght sound). Also, will my saved game be affected when I install the patch? After upgrading will I have to re-start any campaign?

Many Thanks,

Jamie