Mudshark: i would love to help. my wisdom on SE4 strategy probably is not as good as some others, but i tend to do OK. what you should use is the old forum thread from this server on PBW tactics. i dont remember the exact title, and cant find it off hand with a search, but it was a very exhaustive list of SE4 strategy contributed to by all of the top players, and everyone generally agreed that it was everything you need to know to fight the good fight.
as for modern military strategy, this is a good starting point:
http://call.army.mil/
edit: Tesco Samoa - i dont think MRTG is exactly what he was asking about. more like projections on how much bandwidth to expect to use based on similar sites experience. the answer would be something like: more outbound than inbound, so hosting it over an asyncronous home line (ADSL) would be a bad idea. other than that, its not only about the number of hits, but how much data you have to send on each hit. thus, simple graphics and text with a plain design would take alot less bandwidth than flash animations and big pictures everywhere. I am sure that a bulletin board and reference library would probably use less than a megabit if you kept it simple.
although 'sure' and 'probably' dont belong in the same sentence, i wanted to give Growltigga more ammunition with wich to admonish US citizens for bastardizing his language.
[ 09 January 2002: Message edited by: Puke ]
edit2: how about less than half a megabit if it was kept simple, and that with heavy trafic loads. I would be suprised if the entire shrapnel website used a megabit, and the bulliten Boards here probably use under a quarter. you could always ask the local web guru. I know some very high traffic, graphic and media intensive sites (read: porn) that peak at about 3 megabits, and thats peak for a very large operation.
[ 09 January 2002: Message edited by: Puke ]