Which Game to Get...

[phoenix]

No, the AI isn't really worth it. But PBEM games are easy to find in this forum. Personally, I think the map style changed significantly for the last few titles, and is much, much better now. BPW, Marengo and RBR have fantastic maps (of those Marengo and RBR have, imho, the best maps of all the games in the series), with more detail. There's lots of blank space in many of the maps for the older titles. That's the style, so no criticism, but the later maps look much more appealling to me. Bill Peters, in particular, has done amazing maps for his latter 2 titles. Of the older titles, I think Waterloo has the best maps. The Company level maps in Liepzig are also nice.

As far as graphics upgrades go, I have heard nothing and I seriously hope there will be none. My personal opinion, again, is that these games modded with Phillipe's mods look way better than the upgraded ACW games (of which I have 3) or the upgraded PC games. David (Strela) is doing a really great job improving those titles but the maps still are not as natural and beautiful as those in the Nappy series as modded by Phillipe. If you use Phillipe's mods you get wonderful, natural, less hexy, more realistic maps that are also beautiful to look at and clear in terms of elevation.

It would be nice to get the interface changes, on the other hand.

All in all I think RBR has been the best title I've played.