<t> Thanks for your responses....I do NOT recall hitting either the hotkey or the menu item (I couldn't, since the game had frozen...not just TOAW but the entire XP operating system, forcing me to reboot)(!!). But--I was able to figure out that somehow the game had gone into invisible mode. One of ...

I've been having some problems with scenarios (native to the official Matrix release)(In this case Operation Blau) with freezes--after the latest one I restarted TOAW and all of the units were gone--vanished. I rebooted (WinXP), same problem.
Any guesses.
dogface

I know this is elementary--but how does one properly download scenarios?

Sticks in the back of my mind there's an admonition to put files in the correct folders so the game's files aren't overwritten...or some such.
Thanks!

<t> I agree with Hank. I've been playing these games since the Avalon Hill days--pre-computers--and while I think there is great elegance to TOAW, the algorithms seem to have run amuck in the electronic versions. The response re Rommel was cavalier--HE certainly wasn't playing a game! But WE are ...

<t> Question about the PO...on the opening move of Operation Barbarossa (for example) the Germans wipe out just about all of the USSR troops--it seems to fight battles continuously. If I try to replicate that, I can't make nearly that much progress---what am I missing here about fighting battles ...