would be cool

[dmagnusson]

Something that would be cool in TOAW would be coop LAN support
like playing Barbarossa and 1 guy commands 1 army group , and the other other another one
aA little bit like in World in Conflict.

[pionier]

yes this would be great, together against the ai

[Zaratoughda]

Well, if you want to assign one army group to one person and one or more to others, you would first have to have a chain of command in TOAW so you can assign HQs and their command to specific players and.... right now TOAW doesn't have that (well, other than in the counter colors which just gives you two levels of chain of command).

And, what I am talking about here, in TOAW terms, is just the ability of a formation to contain 'other formations' (e.g. sub formations) in addition to the units that formations contain now.

With this, if you click on the sub-formation in a formation it would take you to the formation display for the sub formation instead of the unit display that you get when you click on units.

Would also need a 'higher level formation' button to go up a level, and probably a pointer in a formations record to the higher level formation, and of course the functions in the editor for scenario designers to assign formations to the higher level formations.

But, not THAT big a job as I see it but.... things like this are not happenning, and why should they? Matrix is not pulling in any funds for doing things like this and so only 'limitied' support is provided. Ralph has only limited time to support TOAW, probably has a RL job (or multiple ones) that have the higher priority.

Whatever,

Z

[golden delicious]

ORIGINAL: dmagnusson
like playing Barbarossa and 1 guy commands 1 army group , and the other other another one

It's been done through PBM.

Good luck getting more than a couple of TOAW players in the same physical location for a LAN game. Even assuming you could have everyone moving their peices at once, Force 2 still has to sit and wait for however many hours for Force 1 to take their turn.

A non-starter. Perhaps some development to make PBM multiplayer more practical.

[Jeff Norton]

Code is OLD, guys. He's done some modernization, but there are limits.

Ralph has managed to tinker with the code as best as could be expected, but LAN play would wait (IMO) until TOAW IV arrives.

I'm not putting cold water on this, I'm realistic on the current capabilities, and know the future version will be great.