Differences with CoW

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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Barbierir
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Differences with CoW

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Hi, I have been playing CoW for some years and I'd like to know what are the differences with the new Matrix edition? What new features?
I searched old posts but couldn't find a list of changes, probably I'll buy it anyway but I'd like to know.
Thanks!
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From their game page:

Incorporates an updated anti-armor combat model, Norm Koger’s farewell gift to the TOAW engine, which allows for hits to be made against weaker side armor.
Enhanced play by email (PBEM) security, to remove exploits which plagued previous versions of TOAW.
Enhanced PO functionality. Substantial improvements made to make the PO, when properly set-up by a scenario designer, play much smarter.
999 events can now be defined within a scenario. That’s twice as many as in previous versions of TOAW.
An attack duration limiter was added, available in the scenario editor, which can dramatically reduce, or eliminate, the frustrating effects of “turn-burning” attacks, which larger scenarios have often had to deal with.
Support added for scenario and era specific graphics, sounds, and music. Ships with several sets of default files, but is “mod-friendly” for those who wish to customize these items in their game.
Revised the manual and help file, to get rid of incorrect data and references going all the way back to TOAW I. The manual is now on .pdf and is searchable.
More Hotkey support was added, as well as several new UI enhancements.
More advanced game options, affecting supply and fog of war.
Turn logging enabled, both graphical and in text, to assist in the creation of “After Action Reports” by players eager to show the community their greatest victories or most embarrassing defeats!
Memory management issues with previous versions of TOAW under Windows XP have been solved. This now allows scenario dumping in the editor that caused previous versions to crash when running Windows XP.
Resource leaks in previous versions of TOAW found and plugged. You can easily run multiple copies of the program, and editor, without crashing.
Better treatment of nuclear attacks.
Several improvements on the combat system, so that low movement rate scenarios play better.
Anti-aircraft fire issues, where ranged AA did not work, and High altitude bombers were immune to AA fire in previous versions addressed.
Over three dozen additional fixes to bugs remaining from previous TOAW versions!
Two terrain tile sets included, the original set and a high contrast version, with easy switch installers to change between the two.
French and German language support
All of the Classic TOAW scenarios from Century of Warfare are included, along with 130 of the best scenario designs of the last 5 years.
... and many more!
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RE: Differences with CoW

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thank you! LoL I searched the forum but hadn't tought to read the game page!
Definitely I'll buy it!


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ORIGINAL: Barbierir

thank you! LoL I searched the forum but hadn't tought to read the game page!
Definitely I'll buy it!
I think you'll find it a great bargain. By the way, that list is the short list. The full list can be found on the WhatsNew, that ships with the game, and was posted in another thread.
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