Good morning. I just started joining the IRC room, it's really not that much of a bother for me. I use Pidgin, which combines most of the chat programs out there into one screen, including all my accounts that I have created over many years. It can even do IRC! The only thing I don't like is that it is really hard or sometimes impossible to customize the font size.
So, it looks like it would be best for us to start around seven or eight my time ( Eastern) when you aren't working. I can put it a couple or three hours a night maybe without killing myself, but definitely no middle of the night ventures because I get up really early for work.
I don't know what AI war is like on co-op mode, so maybe we do level seven or eight. We could do 10, but that would be grindy, and we would probably lose anyways.
We can Skype or Ventrilo (if you know a good server) while we play. I have no doubt the action will stay high with double the waves meaning probably multiple theaters of war simultaneously.
If anyone else would like to jump in, all are welcome.