I play GW primarily on my laptop, which is admittedly a high end machine. We had to get a new video card for our desktop to bring it up to speed, but it's been doing pretty well with it. You can't do that obviously for a laptop, which is why I bought an overpowered one so it would play games for a year or two before becoming defunct...
You can run the same copy of GW on any number of computers, but you can't log in on the same account or someone gets kicked automatically. My brother bought a friend's (who didn't like the game wtf?) account and has been playing the game that we installed on my CD there ever since. Hasn't been any problems yet. AND you don't need the CD to play, yey.
As for the henchmen, I've found them much more reliable than many random party members in the past. I'm a noob, but I grasped the whole stick together thing about three seconds into my post searing career, yet I party with level 12's and they run amok, and then return with packs of Charr chasing them and get the whole party outnumbered, or decide to take their own route and end up getting separated and so forth. On the other hand, Stefan the Meatshield hasn't failed to stay by my side on a mission yet.
Still, competent humans are the best allies you can have, you just need reliable people...
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