Do you see the Green und Blue number down the portaits of the currently selected unit/squad?
The 1st one is for the HP (0= dead), and the second for the moral (0= your units will fight poor and die easily). There are units in the game (and you can upgrade your suqads with weapons which will...) .... break the moral of a squad. This is something completly new in the Real-time stretagy genre.
Yes, squads, you heared right. You control not single units, you control whole squads, (like Space Marine= 4 Squads after they landed on the planet (no stupid "producing" of human units), and you can send new units to a squad by clicking on the button with the 2 '++', shown on the right side of a screenshot.
This is also something new to the r.t. strategy genre.
Your units will fight while they are walking (this is something new too), and it depends on what surface they are how well they are protected against gun/tank fire. In craters, they are more protected (you can see this on the a shield symbol above their heads), as in open terrain or even water (water based defense decreases will be symbolized by an outlined shield symbol).
Tomorrow, I'll talk about the story!
PS: The hardware, yeah.... you need at least a P4 with 2,6Ghz and a Radeon 9600XT (9800Pro recommended) and 1024Mb RAM. For EAX 3 Soundeffects you'll need a Sound Blaster Audigy 2, ZS/ Platinum.
The games comes on 3 disc together with a Manual and a technology-tree wall-chart in a DVD case (German version). It make use of the Securom copy protection technology.
