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Norm Koger's The Operational Art of War III is the next game in the award-winning Operational Art of War game series. TOAW3 is updated and enhanced version of the TOAW: Century of Warfare game series. TOAW3 is a turn based game covering operational warfare from 1850-2015. Game scale is from 2.5km to 50km and half day to full week turns. TOAW3 scenarios have been designed by over 70 designers and included over 130 scenarios. TOAW3 comes complete with a full game editor.

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Care to comment on it...I want to buy, just want to see what peoples reactions are before I type the card number in.
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Mellow Greetings Judge Dredd:
 
Since I was one of the beta testers I was offered a free copy of TOAW III and one other Matrix Game title ( I believe ) and the only one I wanted was TOAW III.  I don't play anything else now-a-days and nothing else compares to TOAW.  It's that good.
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Start typing those numbers, Judge. It's smooth sailing, and there are soooooooo many scenarios to pick from.
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What amount of turns can be expected from a scenario? I.e, I've seen a screenshot showing scenario's covering the landings at Normandy - can you have a scenario that covers the advance into France as well? Can scenario's be as big as, say, Barbarossa?

Finally, what sort of scale can be simulated - are we talking about anything from squad to division?

That's most of my random questions covered! [:)]
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Scale goes from platoon upward... And I mean all the way to corps and beyond.
 
And yes, there are huge scenarios. D-Day to VE-Day, Barbarossa, Case Blue, the war in the Med... It's all there!
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Answer to all your question is yes [;)]

Scale is Platoon to Army, 2.5km to 50km per hex, some scens are really short, others are beyond sanity,
probably one of the biggest scenario is FitE, 3800+counters, 300x300 map, 405 turns at 10km/hex
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Cheers guys.. sounds good to me! [:)]
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No I'm not playing at the moment thanks to those stupid #!&@* at Mastercard. I just had to get that out, I feel much better now , maybe
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I have it. Bought it on sight as I want to support Matrix and the author.[/align] Playing usa civil war now. Not entirly sure whats newer and better than my old version. [/align]Guess I have to print out the pdf [/align] [/align] [/align]
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Hmm, I can't buy it.. keep getting the 'we are sorry your order cannot be processed' message. No idea what's going wrong here. Tried 2 different cards, neither work. I've bought plenty of games before and never had a problem [&:]
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Got it now...now just to get those few extra lines of code done before I.....ooooh...bugger!
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Banquet,

You can e-mail us at support@matrixgames.com with your order info and we can follow up with DR to figure out what's going on there. Other orders are going through fine, so it's likely something specific to how you are ordering or your browser.

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And yes, there are huge scenarios. D-Day to VE-Day, Barbarossa, Case Blue, the war in the Med... It's all there!

barbarossa? from 1941 till the end (1945+) ..?
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There are several separate Barbarossa scenarios, as well as other big battles, like Case Blue, Kursk, and Bagration. If you're looking for the big, monster East Front scenario, it's Fire in the East, also included, covering everything from 1941 forward.
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email sent, thanks.
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Banquet,

You can e-mail us at support@matrixgames.com with your order info and we can follow up with DR to figure out what's going on there. Other orders are going through fine, so it's likely something specific to how you are ordering or your browser.

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Hmm, I can't buy it.. keep getting the 'we are sorry your order cannot be processed' message. No idea what's going wrong here. Tried 2 different cards, neither work. I've bought plenty of games before and never had a problem [&:]
You got to put payment details in...they won't give it away for free, you know! [:'(]
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ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd

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Hmm, I can't buy it.. keep getting the 'we are sorry your order cannot be processed' message. No idea what's going wrong here. Tried 2 different cards, neither work. I've bought plenty of games before and never had a problem [&:]
You got to put payment details in...they won't give it away for free, you know! [:'(]

Damn, I thought that box was for my 'I love Matrix' message! [:D]
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