I found a pretty highly rated site with a 10 Meg limit called mail2world.com They have over a thousand different mail2[country] extensions and my new web [email] address is frogman@mail2usa.com. I can collect my [other] email with a pop server on the mail2usa account as well. I checked a couple email rating sites and this one was the highest approval rating at 96%.

The Wizard Towers (which are built in cities and are upgradeable) act like a network or web, allowing your wizard to extend his influence into far-away lands... You use your Heroes and armies to conquer lands beyond the reach of your wizard, build/capture a Tower, and "voila!", the Wizard can start acting on the new area.

The big fun occurs when two cities within range of each other each have Towers belonging to opposing Wizards... (which will occur often when empires collide, especially since you can build new cities if one isn't available to you)... This is when things get really nasty... and fun.

Wizards are definitely NOT front-line units, and anyone who tries to use them as such, will be sitting around watching the game unfold for the rest of people who still have empires. Additionally, Heroes themselves have been tweaked for greater balance. While they are still your most powerful combat units, they are no longer nearly as able to take on large groups of enemies on their own, especially at lower levels.

"One of the problems we ran up against in the old campaign, however, was because we started with the Halflings as a beginning race, we found that many folks had a hard time winning the very first few scenarios. I think we've taken that into account this time, and with the Tutorial and Campaign we currently have, we don't start you with a weaker race immediately, though we do try to create the feeling of building and growing and getting stronger, we leave the Halflings til a bit later, allowing the player to become more familiar with some of the less subtle elements of the game first, and then challenging them with a race whose focus is less upon military achievement."

Founded in 1998, GodGames was supposed to be an indie publisher fueled by some of the best and brightest developers, pumping out triple-A hit after triple-A hit. But the reality was something quite different, in part because of a lack of financing and a strange brew of games that never really delivered on the promise of making GodGames the Rolls-Royce of publishing labels. While there were certified hits such as Railroad Tycoon 2, other games like KISS: Psycho Circus and the Blair Witch Trilogy seemed to be a far cry from the blockbuster and seminal games once promised to be GodGames' mainstay.

"I just dropped in support for Voice Chat into our network code, so you'll be able to babble at each other freely if you wish."

"Zoom levels are adjustable, and make use of hardware filtering to smooth the gfx...
The gfx in AoW2 are done in a similar style to AoW1, some pre-rendered (like units), and some hand-drawn (like trees and portraits). There has been very little change in the way we create our graphics; they're just bigger, with more details, and more frames of animation... People w/o 3D cards lose a few fancy features; filtering would be one of those."