sam, i have a bunch of 10-15 friends who run their own Teamspeak server and play a lot. i'll IM you next time we're going to play! (i've never played before. i hope i like it)
Ha. You should totally DL Desert Combat - it's pretty amazing, especially if you want to vicariously live out our more recent conflicts. Only trick is you'd have to have only 1 "Opposition" player for ever 28 "Coalition" players to make it realistic.
also, after you finish the game, shut it off, and go to bed, you have to deal with little individual computer soldier deathscreams every five minutes for the next three days.
I'm looking on eBay right now for parts for a second computer and a game server...I'm going to start a private game network If I ever get a server working...