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Back in March i posted my Admin config made for AMX modded clanwar servers . It had a great success, but many players complained that their war servers have Admin mod installed and not AMX mod and they would like a config for Admin modded servers also.

Today i took the time and rewrote the config to fit Admin modded servers. I made 2 versions so everyone can use it:

1) Config for Admins with RCON access

This includes absolutely all settings and variables. You need to have at least 72,400 access to be able to use this config(admins with access below 72,400 can’t use RCON commands.

Remember! You need RCON access to use this config!

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// Made by Tom of www.thaslayer.com
// Wait Aliases
alias wait4 “wait; wait; wait; wait”
alias wait8 “wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait”
alias wait0 “wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait”
alias wait16 “wait8; wait8″
alias wait1s “wait0; wait0; wait0; wait0; wait0; wait0; wait0; wait0; wait0; wait0″
alias wait3s “wait1s; wait1s; wait1s”
alias wait2s “wait1s; wait1s;
alias wait4s “wait1s; wait1s; wait1s” wait1s”
alias wait5s “wait1s; wait1s; wait1s; wait1s; wait1s”
alias “wait5″ “wait; wait; wait; wait; wait”
alias “wait6″ “wait5; wait”
alias “wait10″ “wait5; wait5″
alias “wait110″ “wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10″

// Clan-war Settings
alias set “wait4; admin_rcon mp_fadetoblack 0; wait4; admin_rcon mp_maxrounds 0; wait4; admin_rcon mp_roundtime 1.75; wait4; admin_rcon mp_startmoney 800; wait4; admin_rcon mp_freezetime 10; wait4; admin_rcon mp_autoteambalance 0; wait4; admin_rcon mp_freezetime 10; wait4; admin_rcon mp_limitteams 0; wait4; admin_rcon mp_buytime 0.15; wait4; admin_rcon mp_c4timer 30; wait4; admin_rcon mp_friendlyfire 1;”

// Knife Round
alias knife “set; admin_rcon sv_restart 1; wait1s; admin_say 1st RESTART; admin_say Teams prepare for KNIFE round; wait1s; admin_rcon sv_restart 3; wait1s; admin_say 2nd RESTART; admin_say Teams organize tactics; wait4s; admin_rcon sv_restart 5; wait2s; admin_say 3rd and Last RESTART; admin_say Leave your weapons/bomb at start point;”

// Game Start
alias start “set; admin_rcon sv_restart 1; wait1s; admin_say 1st RESTART; admin_say Teams prepare to start; wait1s; admin_rcon sv_restart 3; wait1s; admin_say 2nd RESTART; admin_say Teams organize tactics; wait4s; admin_rcon sv_restart 5; wait2s; admin_say 3rd and Last RESTART; admin_say The Game is ON, GL & HF both teams; wait3s; admin_say [Admin config made by Tom of www.thaslayer.com]”

// Warm Rounds
alias warmup “wait4; admin_rcon mp_fadetoblack 0; wait4; admin_rcon mp_maxrounds 0; wait4; admin_rcon mp_roundtime 1.75; wait4; admin_rcon mp_startmoney 16000; wait4; admin_rcon mp_freezetime 5; wait4; admin_rcon sv_restart 1; wait1s; admin_say Warm round. Loosen up!”

// Restart Rounds
alias rr “admin_rcon sv_restart 1; wait1s; admin_say Round restarted”

// Binds to ease your job :)

bind F8 set
bind F9 knife
bind F10 start
bind F11 warmup
bind F12 rr
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//Made by Tom of www.thaslayer.com

2) Config for Admins(simple version)

Alright,so this is the simpliefied version of the config, some variables were removed, because you can only use them if you have RCON access. So if you have access below 72,400 download this config.

Use this config if your access is below 72,400!

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//Made by Tom of www.thaslayer.com
// Wait Aliases
alias wait4 “wait; wait; wait; wait”
alias wait8 “wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait”
alias wait0 “wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait”
alias wait16 “wait8; wait8″
alias wait1s “wait0; wait0; wait0; wait0; wait0; wait0; wait0; wait0; wait0; wait0″
alias wait3s “wait1s; wait1s; wait1s”
alias wait2s “wait1s; wait1s;
alias wait4s “wait1s; wait1s; wait1s” wait1s”
alias wait5s “wait1s; wait1s; wait1s; wait1s; wait1s”
alias “wait5″ “wait; wait; wait; wait; wait”
alias “wait6″ “wait5; wait”
alias “wait10″ “wait5; wait5″
alias “wait110″ “wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10; wait10″

// Clan-war Settings
alias set “wait4; admin_fadetoblack 0; wait4; admin_maxrounds 0; wait4; admin_roundtime 1.75; wait4; admin_startmoney 800; wait4; admin_freezetime 10; wait4; admin_freezetime 10; wait4; admin_buytime 0.15; wait4; admin_c4timer 30; wait4; admin_friendlyfire 1;”

// Knife Round
alias knife “set; admin_restart 1; wait1s; admin_say 1st RESTART; admin_say Teams prepare for KNIFE round; wait1s; admin_restart 3; wait1s; admin_say 2nd RESTART; admin_say Teams organize tactics; wait4s; admin_restart 5; wait2s; admin_say 3rd and Last RESTART; admin_say Leave your weapons/bomb at start point;”

// Game Start
alias start “set; admin_restart 1; wait1s; admin_say 1st RESTART; admin_say Teams prepare to start; wait1s; admin_restart 3; wait1s; admin_say 2nd RESTART; admin_say Teams organize tactics; wait4s; admin_restart 5; wait2s; admin_say 3rd and Last RESTART; admin_say The Game is ON, GL & HF both teams; wait3s; admin_say [Admin config made by Tom of www.thaslayer.com]”

// Warm Rounds
alias warmup “wait4; admin_fadetoblack 0; wait4; admin_maxrounds 0; wait4; admin_roundtime 1.75; wait4; admin_startmoney 16000; wait4; admin_freezetime 5; wait4; admin_restart 1; wait1s; admin_say Warm round. Loosen up!”

// Restart Rounds
alias rr “admin_restart 1; wait1s; admin_say Round restarted”

// Binds to ease your job :)

bind F8 set
bind F9 knife
bind F10 start
bind F11 warmup
bind F12 rr
//™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™
//«««««««««««¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤Admin mod powered Clan-War Server Admin CFG(no rcon access) ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤»»»»»»»»»»»»
//Made by Tom of www.thaslayer.com

Usage Instructions

You can copy/paste any of the codes above to notepad and save it as userconfig.cfg or any name.cfg and place it in your counter-strike folder.

If you are using steam the counter-strike folder is located at Steam installation location\SteamApps\your steamID\counter-strike\cstrike

Remember if you save the file with an other name than userconfig.cfg then you will have to execute it from console before usage.

To use one of the settings in the config(restarts,configurations,etc) you normally should write the name of the setting in the console(ex: warmup for warmup settings). To ease your job even more i binded the settings in the config to F(F8,F9,F10,F11) buttons which aren’t used in counter-strike. This means that just by pressing one of the buttons you can restart the rounds/start the game/knife round/warmup round. Cool eh?

Alright, this about wraps it up, enjoy the game! ;)

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As you know i was on a holiday in Greece, in it’s eastern part to be more precise between 11 and 22 july.

The price for the holiday cost 215Euro(338$) and it included transportation and the hotel room(2 star hotel). It’s a pretty reasonable price, and its a lot cheaper than going to the sea here in Romania, and a lot more beautiful and cleaner(the beaches here are filled with lots of mess).

The transportation was by bus, 22 hours there and 20,5 hours back. This made me hate riding the bus, and i sweared that if i’ll ever go on a trip outside Romania(except Hungary) i’ll take the plane or go with car(depends on distance).

At the borders the guys from customs came up the bus checked the ID’s and let us through. We had 3 bus drivers and a guide, each of the drivers drove 6 hours staright with about 120-140km/h. The bus stopped every 3 hours so people can go to use the toilet, and o buy water/food. We mostly stopped at gas stations and restaurants.

You have no idea how our morale jumped up when we first spotted the sea in Greece, we were like “we’re finally here!” .

The place we went to is called Nei Pori, and its a town built specially for tourists which was built about 15 years ago, so all youl’ll find there is restaurants/souvenir shops/hotels/stores. The town lies at 45 minutes distance from Thessaloniki and at the poles of Olympus mountain.

Here are some pics of Nei Pori:

The holday was great, especially thanks to the guys and girls we met on the trip, it turned out that we knew some of them, every night we made home cooked food and drank vine/beer.

Me and my girlfriend bought a subscription to a restaurant near our hotel. The breakfast + dinner for a day cost 10euro(about 15$) for a person, and it was well worth it, because the food was great.

I noticed that almost all stores/restaurants are owned and operated by families, starting with granddaughter to grandparents everyone works there and manages something.

We were on 2 trips, one to Olympus mountain and one to Athens:

Olympus Mountain

We went on the trip because it was pretty cheap, 10euro(15$). We got on the bus at 9AM and got back to the hotel at 3PM. They took us up to 900meters height where they gave us 30 minutes to take pictures and look around.

From where we went to visit Zeus’s bathtub where a spring well filled up the depressions between the 2 mountains and legend says that Zeus went there to take baths with the nimfas. As you will see the water is crystal clear and it’s channeled down to the nearby town’s drinking water. We stopped at a well and drank some water also, and it tasted great.

From there we descended to a Greek-Catholic monastery(or temple) where to enter the temple both men and woman had to have clothes which covered their shoulders and knees, if you had short clothes you could use a long dress/pants from the entrance. Taking pictures inside the temple was forbidden(nobody was watching over you, but you don’t want to mess with God do you?).

Athens

“You can’t go to Greece and not visit Athens” this was the slogan of the tourism office which organized the trip to Athens. The price was 30Euro(about 50$) and it included transport and a guide who spoke in hungarian.

Athens Harbor

Lots and lots of huge passenger ships were docked there, we saw 5 Vodafone yachts passing through…a yacht like that costs “just a bit” more than a car,lol.

Acropolis

BLAH! The Acropolis(that big mountain which has all those fancy old buildings blows! All the buildings are being restaurated since 1983 and as you’ll notice on the pics almost every building is filled with iron ladders. I paid 12Euro(~20$) to go up that mountain…i don’t regret it because now people can’t pick on me saying that i was in Greece and i didn’t visit the almighty Pharteon(biggest building). The guide said that if we steal a rock from up there and we are caught we will get a 1000$ fine and 7 days in prison. LOL, for a damn rock.

Parliament of Greece

I talked to the supervising soldier(the one with the green beret in the pictures) and he said that the soldiers guarding the parliament have to stay there 1 hour without moving(similar to the guys at Scotland yard in UK) and they are wearing a design of clothes which was worn in the revolution by the freedom fighters. Every hour the soldiers are changed in a very cool dance type mode. I couldn’t resist not taking a pic with one of them.

The Battle at Thermopylae

If you saw the Movie 300 than you know what i’m talking about. The only difference is that in the real story 300 spartans and 700 soldiers from Thessaloniki fought against 1,7million soldiers in the Persian army.

Bulgaria

On our way to greece we slept while we passed through Bulgaria. On our way back it was daylight so we had the chance to check it out. I know that there are rough conditions in Romania, but compared to Bulgaria it’s like heaven. Bulgaria has some very cool bridges(mostly the only thing i liked from there). All pictures were taken from the bus.

Phew, after 2 hours of writing, image selecting, resizing, and cropping i finally got to the end of this post. This post xontains the most important places which i visited, and maybe they will serve as a motivation for you to visit Greece :)

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Yeah, you most probably hate me now for not posting for more than a week, but heck, i’m here now.

Before everything i want to thank Tim, Lorz and Mihaita for posting while i was in Greece. Thanks a lot guys :) .

For the past week i was chilling, and an urgent design job popped in so i took it(extra cash is always welcome). I got back from greece on last Tuesday morning after 22 hours of road back(damn, after this trip i really hate the buses).

Anyway, i’ll tell you guys more about my trip in greece in an other post, this post is to make short intro of what’s waiting for you guys:

My last Wordpress theme, LoveBlog was released on 19th February 2008 after that i promised the release of a free theme but i just didn’t have the time to get it done. So if my last theme was released in february, and my promise was that i’ll release a free theme every month it means that i owe you guys 6 themes(March, April, May, June, July, August). Phew…thats a lot of work.

Next month(August) i will “pay” my debts and i will create and release all the 6 themes i promised. Along the themes i will release 3 cool plugins which will very probably come in handy to almost every wordpress user.

I just want to get back into schedule, because starting with september most probably theme releases will be delayed for a few months, because i have to continue my studies, but i’ll try to stay on track.

Thanks for sticking with me,
Tom

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The Dark KnightWOW! I saw this movie on the weekend. I am not a real big Batman fan but this is a great movie and probably the best of the series. Heath Ledger made an excellent Joker with his funny jokes, insanity and just the darkness of his character that wasn’t shown in Jack Nicholson’s version of the Joker. Everyone knew that Ledger was behind the makeup but he did such a good job of acting as the Joker, you really thought it was someone completely different then Ledger. IMO it is Ledgers best work and unfortunately its was his last. One of my favorite parts of the movie was towards the beginning and it shows how dark this Joker is, he went into a room that was filled with mobsters, drug lords and other hooligans who were having a meeting. He was playing with a pen on the table and said “How about a magic trick? I’m going to make this pen disappear.” He grabbed one of the hooligans and slammed his head right onto the pen, therefore it disappeared and yes it was magic. lol It was evil yet funny at the same time. All I wanted to do was watch the Joker and forget about what Batman was doing cause the Joker was that much more interesting. Christian Bale did a good job as being Batman but the only thing that kind of bothered me was his voice when he was Batman, it was a little too raspy like he was forcing it. Overall it is a fun movie to watch and even Batman was a little darker then the rest of the movies in the series. If you haven’t seen it yet and like Batman or action flicks then go and see it, you won‘t be disappointed.

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This post was guestblogged by JoeDirt aka Mihaita.

Ever since i was a little boy i liked Max Payne. My favorite game was Max Payne, my idol was Max Payne. I wanted to be this Video Game person. A few year later, when i heard that Take two announced Max Payne 2, i was shocked, but happy in the same time. My favorite game had now a continue! I got Max Payne 2 for a friend who had internet. In those days i only had dial-up, and it was pretty hard hard and expensive to download a full game. Anyway… i loved Max Payne 2. It was awesome! It had everything you’ll ever want from a video game.

A few month ago i read in a IT magazine a article: “Take two announced Max Payne 3″.  I shouted out loud: “YES! Max Payne 3 is coming!”, My brother looked at me saying “WTF?!” lol. Unfortunately, Max Payne 3 will appear in 2009 :(. But, until then, Max Payne the movie will be in cinemas from 17 October 2008 (USA). Oh, i can’t wait! here’s the movie trailer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JboQmDIdKWs (from the trailer, the movie looks exactly like the game , you can see the same dark and cold alleys, the same winter nights, the same action and adrenaline)

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This entry was guestblogged by lorz.

Yesterday I had the occasion to play GTA 4 on a brand new PlayStation 3 console. And I was stunned by the quality of the game, no PC game can be compared to a console one, especially GTA 4. Graphics are brilliant, I haven’t noticed any bugs in about 3-4 hours of playing, the sound has an exceptional quality, especially when you play the game on a 5.1 surround system.

From the start of the game, I noticed that Niko Bellic (the main character) doesn’t have the same Superman abilites like Carl Johnson from GTASA. This guy can’t turn around in a fraction of a second and can’t switch his guns instantly, by spawning them in his hand. Also, at a noticeable speed, if you hit a pole or wall or something, you are thrown through the windscreen. Also, the police heat-system has changed, you get rid of the cops if you run away from the heat zone. The bigger the killings, the bigger the heat zone.

I found the game a little bit difficult, compared to GTASA. I had a mission to rescue Niko’s cousin from a warehouse, I almost did it after the third attempt but at the end I stepped with the car onto a sort of mine.

What is also missing from the game: the countryside. GTA 4, like GTA 3, doesn’t have any countryside, only a big city. (But GTA 4 has a very very big one, compared to GTA 3).

I couldn’t play in multiplayer, ’cause my friend didn’t had a internet connection plugged to his PS3. However, I’m now thinking how can I get some $$$ fast so I can buy a console too, because, even though the game is released on PC, it will always have performance issues.

To sum up, I personally think that GTA 4 is the best videogame, and will continue to remain on top until another GTA will be released.

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Guest Blogged by Tim Garcia

Well Slayer mentioned that I like to upgrade my PC every three weeks but I wish I only could do that. lol Pretty much as soon as you get a new upgrade it is out of date within a few weeks but luckily most products are not able to use the newest technologies that are out there so that gives current products a fairly long shelf life. I am always looking to see what upgrades are out there and I mostly look at Tiger Direct and Newegg to see what is new and check out the prices.

Here is my current configurations of my PC’s and wanted upgrades.

Current System: Main PC (Built system December 2007)

  • OS: XP Pro 64bit
  • CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X@ Dual Core Processor 6400+ Black Edition
  • RAM: 3 Gigs OCZ Reaper Dual Channel 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz
  • Video Card: 2 SLI XFX GeForce 8800GT XXX 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 Alpha Dog Edition
  • Motherboard: MSI K9N SLI Platinum AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard
  • Hard Drive: 2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB Hard Drive - 7200, 16MB, SATA-300
  • Power Supply: OCZ/GameXStream /700-Watt/ATX/120mm Fan

Wanted Upgrades:

  • CPU: AMD Phenom X4 9850 Quad Core Processor
  • HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750GB Hard Drive - 7200RPM, 32MB, SATA-300

Current System: Secondary PC (Built Approximately 2003-04)

  • OS: XP Pro
  • CPU: AMD Athlon 1050.0 MHz
  • RAM: 1.25 Gigs
  • Video Card: ATI Radeon 9500 128MB
  • Motherboard: MSI (not sure which model, too lazy to find out).
  • Hard Drive: Multiple Maxtor hd’s. Max size of largest hd is 40GB

Wanted Upgrades:

  • CPU: Replace with Main PC CPU
  • RAM: I have 1 gig of OCZ Reaper available
  • Video Card: XFX GeForce 8600 GT XXX Video Card - 256MB DDR3 (maybe)
  • Motherboard: MSI K9N SLI-F Motherboard
  • Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB Hard Drive - 7200, 16MB, Serial ATA-300
  • DVD Drive: Lite-On 20x LH-20A1L DVD±R with 12x DVD-RAM with Lightscribe
  • Power Supply: ThermalTake/PurePower/600-Watt/ATX 2.2/120mm Fan

I am a big believer in AMD, MSI, XFX and Seagate products. CPU wise, Intel makes some good CPU’s but they are overpriced IMO. I think gamer’s prefer AMD over Intel and that is because the frame rates are usually higher then Intel CPU’s and that is what matters when you are playing a game. If you want to overclock your CPU then AMD is the way to go, depending if you have a good cooling system, motherboard and power supply. I haven’t overclocked my system much because I really don’t need to; there really is no game out there that my system can’t handle. I know that these upgrades that I chose are not all top of the line but like I said before, products have a good shelf life and I am getting quality and value at the same time. It will be awhile before I could actually get all the upgrades but the longer I wait the more prices will go down.

If you have any suggestions or anything else then please leave a comment, I would appreciate any feedback.

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This entry was guestblogged by lorz.

Some of you may have already found out, but for those who didn’t, deviantART has reached version 6.

Their layout is improved: a new front page design with quick-loading thumbnails and an effective search, the new footer with polls and news, a new site navigation (in my opinion this is their big improvement) and a new message center (but some of you may notice a delay in appearance).

Something that I don’t like: their banner rotating system! Even if you don’t browse the website, it keeps loading on the same page different ads. I find it really unnecesarry. And also, I don’t like the ads that appear while surfing their website.

Although they have a great community there, the administrators are a little bit greedy by placing full page ads while browsing the website. But all in all, they made an improvement to the website and they won’t stop here.

Read more here.

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This post was guestblogged by Mihaita aka JoeDirt.

Hello, i’m Mihaita aka JoeDirt and, like Slayer said, i’m a very big fan of gadgets and mobile phones, but what he didn’t know is that i really like sports. I like to watch sports on TV and i like to play sports in real life, especially soccer, and, sometimes, basketball. I also like to jog, swim and to do physical exercise. But that’s not the point. You’ll see where i’m getting. In my city (and maybe in the hole country, who knows?) people only like to play soccer and basketball. And that’s it! Their is only a small percent who likes to jog, and to swim. I don’t get it? People here play soccer because it’s the no 1 sport, but let’s be honest, we suck at this game. You saw what Romania did at the Euro 2008… When it comes to women handball we are in top 5 world wide, still why don’t we play handball?

When i go jog i ask my friends if they would like to come with me. 99% of them will say: “Dude are you crazy? You want me to wake up at 8 in the morning to go and sweat for noting”. Ever since i was a little boy i liked sports. I don’t know why other people like to sit in a chair, drink beer and eat all day long.

PS: The Romanian Victor Hanescu won the Gstaad tennis tournament after beating the russian Igor Andreev 6-3 6-4 :).

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Orig COH

It’s a game called “Company of Heroes“. It is a RTS game taking place during WW 2 and is based on using resources and capturing strategic points. It has 3 different game modes in which you can play in and they are: Single player campaign, skirmish and multiplayer. Campaign mode is fun and it basically gets you used to all the abilities, units and buildings that the American army has while going against the German army. While you can only play as the Americans in the campaign mode, there is a Company of Heroes expansion pack called Opposing Fronts“. OF adds 2 more campaign modes where you can play as the British 2nd Army or the German Panzer Elite. Although the campaign mode is fun, it limits the use of certain units, abilities, etc. You have to use whatever the campaign is set for, For example there is a campaign in which you are the American’s Airborne squad. You are basically just using the infantry squad and you are not able to build a tank depot in that certain campaign because the only way to get to the location is through the Airborne. So that is the limit in campaign mode but the real fun begins in the other 2 modes.

Skirmish and multiplayer are basically the same thing in which you can pick the Allies(American/British*) or Axis(German Army/Panzer Elite*) and either annihilate the enemy or capture and hold strategic points. In skirmish mode, you go against the computer and you can team up with a total of 3 computer allies against a total of 4 enemy squads. In order to really get to know each army and their special abilities, it is best to play in skirmish mode because it allows you to use what you want in the doctrine that you pick. Each army has 3 different doctrines that you can choose from. The American army you can pick Infantry, Airborne(My favorite Allie doctrine) or Armor doctrine. Infantry is more based on the front lines with artillery support, Airborne is recon with air support that includes recon, fast reinforcement, strafing and bombing runs, Armor is more defensive units that include heavy tanks. The British 2nd Army* you can choose from Royal Artillery, Royal Commandos or Royal Engineers. Royal Artillery includes infantry, standard artillery and mobile artillery in which the Americans do not have. Royal Commandos is kind is similar to Airborne squad except you can drop off small tanks. Royal Engineers is defensive and builds better defensive structures and heavy tanks. The German army you can pick Defense, Blitzkrieg or Terror. Defense doctrine helps fortify own turn and with artillery support. Blitzkrieg is the opposite of Defense, you have a special infantry unit called the Stormtoopers and this doctrine also relies heavily on armored assault vehicles. Terror (my favorite axis doctrine) is a little bit of both but it includes the heavy tank Panther and the fearsome King Tiger tank. The Panzer Elite* has Scorched Earth, Luftwaffe and Tank Hunters. Scorched Earth is filled with bombs, traps and the deadly Hummel 150mm howitzer. Luftwaffe is the anti-tank air support with more defensive options. Tank Hunters is basically that, the best anti tank units. With so many options to choose from in Company of Heroes, each army and doctrine has its own unique units and special abilities.

Add Multiplayer to the mix and you can have an all out war 4 on 4 against either human or computer opponents and can be the most difficult mode of them all.

On a final note, this is the best RTS game i have ever played. It is very realistic, fun, addicting and really requires you to think strategically other then just go out and kill cause that doesn’t work in this game. I really recommend you buy this game if you are into RTS games.

Also if you do not own the original version of it, you can just buy the Opposing Fronts version because it includes the original version as well.

*Requires Opposing Fronts expansion.

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