My review for TOAW3 @ ACG website

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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My review for TOAW3 @ ACG website

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My review for the game is finally being posted at ACG, I would also like to thank Siberian Heat(Brian King),whom I alias with,for providing me with assistance and advice all this while,comments on my review would be appreciated:
http://www.armchairgeneral.com/articles ... e=1&cat=59
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Thanks for the well-balanced review. I disagree on the severity of your comment on the lack of TCP/IP play, but that's because I know how excruciatingly boring it would be to watch me play a turn, in real time...[:D]

TCP/IP play might be useful for extremely small scenarios, where it might only take 15 minutes to finish a turn, or perhaps in a tutorial/learning situation where one player is trying to teach another the finer points of how to play. However, to make that work well, a chat client would need to be integrated, and a whole bunch of recoding done to the engine. Not a relatively fruitful expenditure of programming resources at this point in time, I'm afraid. However, it might be something to consider in a "from the ground up" redesign of the game.

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Agree about the real time playing, does not fit this model of ugo igo too well.. I really like the larger scens and playing pbem works
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ORIGINAL: liuzg150181

My review for the game is finally being posted at ACG, I would also like to thank Siberian Heat(Brian King),whom I alias with,for providing me with assistance and advice all this while,comments on my review would be appreciated:
http://www.armchairgeneral.com/articles ... e=1&cat=59

Well done. I hope you'll give your review a "review" in a few months, as features are added via updates. The plans, at least, are exciting.
My TOAW web site:

Bob Cross's TOAW Site
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