Any way to disable startup sequence?

[nemo69]

To get rid of the intro movies, you can select View > Options > Intro Cinematic > Do Not Play. Or, you can add right after your shorcut command line (the target field of the shortcut properties) the -nointro and -nodelay tags. The shortcut target will look more or less like this (provided you've installed the game to its default directory): "C:\Program Files\TalonSoft\TOAW-CW\Opart 300 CW.exe" -nointro -nodelay

As for tips and annoted walkthroughs, there's the TOAW FAQ and several annotated tutorials by General Staff in the Articles section at SZO.

Hope it helps

Marc