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The Operational Art of War saga will be back soon, and we can finally tell you when!
Are you ready to get back on the battlefield? The 16th of November TOAW IV will bring you in the middle of the the most important conflicts of the last hundred years.

From The Great War to the Cold War, through World War II, [/b]The Operational Art of War IV will let you experience the profound changes that warfare had seen during the 20th century, giving you the chance to re-write history or create your own scenarios with the game editor!
Your army needs you!

A great new! What will be the start price? It´s for preparing money to purchase this great new game.

Great!!!

great

Excellent news. I first bought the game in 1999 and have played versions II and III since that time. It is great you continue to maintain it after almost 20 years!

How do I place my order and when?

Is it coming out on steam?

No there is no Steam release planned at this time. We may look at adding it to Steam some time next year.

Drat...I will buy it on release anyway but steam is just so much less hassle

@#$%^&*!!!! My 12-year-customer 30-day discount coupon will have expired by then! Rotten luck!

But at least we have a release date!

Many many thanks to the development team.
I ‘ve bought all versions of TOAW, and I play the game nearly everyday.
Still the best wargame ever published for me.

Awesome news, and not long to go either now [:D]

I've been eyeing this one for a long time now, and time to get back into some proper war-gaming. I love hex/counter-based games, but a lot of them have such a huge scope, like the entire eastern front, just too many units, I prefer the small or mid/battle sized scenarios it looks like there's a lot of that - perfect for me.

Can't wait, hope not too many bugs <fingers crossed> [:)]

ORIGINAL: Rayak
Many many thanks to the development team.
I ‘ve bought all versions of TOAW, and I play the game nearly everyday.
Still the best wargame ever published for me.

You're more than welcome. It's a labor of love. I went to War in the
East when it came out but soon tired of the same situation over and
over and came back to TOAW because of the variety of scenarios.

ORIGINAL: stian
I've been eyeing this one for a long time now, and time to get back into some
proper war-gaming. I love hex/counter-based games, but a lot of them
have such a huge scope, like the entire eastern front, just too many units, I
prefer the small or mid/battle sized scenarios it looks like there's a lot of
that - perfect for me.

I haven't stopped to count the number of scenarios available but I know there
are entire web sites that have available scenarios and they number close to
I'm thinking 1K or so.

Here's the link to Rugged Defense. They have lots of scenaros. Free.
http://www.the-strategist.net/RD/news.php

EDIT: Um.....so some of the scenarios you find at Rugged Design are for
most all versions of TOAW ( I, II, III, COW, etc. ) and might not be
balanced anymore because of the new version being released but at least
you can bring the scenario up to TOAW IV standards is to open the
scenario in the editor and save it ( I use the same name for the filename ).
That will associate the equipment list data into the scenario file itself
and then the equipment list isn't needed anymore. Unless you want to edit
the equipment used. Then just save it again. Fixed.

ORIGINAL: stian
Can't wait, hope not too many bugs <fingers crossed> [:)]

It's impossible to find ALL of them but we've been working on this bad
boy for a looooooooong time now. It's more ready than it's ever been.

awesome but...

Awesome, it is great to hear from Baghdad Bob on this matter, thanks Silvanski !

This just in from BB - The Development Team has committed suicide and the floors at Matrix Games run red with their blood !

ORIGINAL: Muso

The Operational Art of War saga will be back soon, and we can finally tell you when!
Are you ready to get back on the battlefield? The 16th of November TOAW IV will bring you in the middle of the the most important conflicts of the last hundred years.

From The Great War to the Cold War, through World War II, [/b]The Operational Art of War IV will let you experience the profound changes that warfare had seen during the 20th century, giving you the chance to re-write history or create your own scenarios with the game editor!
Your army needs you!

Though I have purchased the last several versions, struggled with the game approach and ultimately removed each from my hard drive ..... still intrigued with the approach/concept .... count me in ..... hoping to get a pbem with a veteran to help me over the initial hump.......

hoping to get a pbem with a veteran to help me over the initial hump

send me an email:
fulkersonlarry60(at)gmail(dot)com

Hohohohoho, that´s very nice. Looks like Christmas has come earlier! Let´s us go back to the Battlefield. Congratulations to all staff members and mainly to Ralph, you all deserve our claps.

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

might not be balanced anymore because of the new version being released

This is not entirely true. Many of the new game enhancements can be turned off as some could be in TOAW III. Of couse whether or not a scenario is 'balanced' is highly dependent on the skills of the players. This has been true of war gaming since I can remember.

ORIGINAL: Waltz

Is it coming out on steam?

One word. Workshop. Or is it two words. Work shop. In any event something that is long overdue.