'It's here, it's here, let the bells ring out, and the banners fly; feast your eyes on it, it's too good to be true, but it's here.' With a little help from Bugs Bunny's genie, I am pleased to announce the arrival of 'The Operational Art of War IV'. TOAW has been with us for almost twenty years. Beat cop steam key. Originally designed by Norm Koger and released by Talonsoft in 1998, this is the fourth (actually more) in the series. The game is a throwback to the times when a gamer would buy the entire battles of Napoleon or Civil War instead of just one or a few. The game shipped with more than 200 scenarios, but the release of new and older ones ported over to the updated engine is growing each day.

These scenarios have been released in just the last few days:Franco-Prussian WarBitter Victory Sicily PO version (AI)Coral Sea 1942 PO version (AI)Bocage Hell - Normandy at 1 km a hexEuropa 1947. 'New naval warfare features.The modeling of ships has been improved. Instead of treating ships as asingle piece of equipment, like a gun or a squad, they are now treatedas complex systems that incur damage in combat.

The Operational Art of War IV is a Strategy game, developed by TrickeySoft LLC and published by Slitherine, which was released in 2018. No FAQs/Guides/Maps - Be the first to submit one! No cheats - Be the first to submit one! No achievements - Be the first to submit the list! Dec 02, 2018  The Operational Art of War IV. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews The Operational Art of War IV General Discussions Topic Details. Dec 2, 2018 @ 6:38pm Game Manual I don't see.

Ships have new armor,durability, accuracy, speed, and agility parameters.Embarked units no longer employ their own strengths in defense. Navalcombat now evaluates attackers’ Anti-Naval strengths as individualshots/planes – employing their shell weights to determine armorpenetration and resulting damage.Sea Interdiction can now be employed by aircraft, ships, and coastalguns. Ships subjected to sea interdiction fire counterbattery back (or,in the case of carriers, counterstrikes).New Supply system.There is now an intermediate supply state that falls between“Supplied” and “Unsupplied”. It’s called “Overextended”.

A new parametercalled the Overextended Supply Threshold has been implemented. That isthe location supply value below which locations are overextended. Unitsin such hexes will function somewhat between how supplied and unsuppliedunits function. The result will be that it will be much more difficultfor units to press on at red-lined unit conditions from such locations.Motorized unit movement over improved roads can be set by the designerto be less than one MP per improved road hex (for example, ½ MP perhex).

If optioned, this affects supply in that supply lines traced overimproved roads will extend proportionately further than over otherterrain, like regular roads. Note how this would especially affectdesert scenarios.The limit of 50% unit supply recovery per turn has been lifted.Other game features.Range Limits: Ranged units can have their nominal ranges playerlimited. This can be used to tailor bomber ranges to match fighter coverranges or to make units with multiple range equipment operate withinthe range of the shortest-ranged equipment.

The DBR will reflect themodified range.Deployment Recovery: Ranged units retain their deployment states aftercombat and ground assaulters can recover theirs if a planned combat iscanceled.New Bridge Destruction Rules: There is an option to limit bridge hexes(for destruction purposes) to locations where the road featuregraphically crosses the river feature.Combat Report Review. Combat reports are saved in the pbl/sal files for review by both players during their player turns.Adaptation of Matrix’s PBEM system.' $39 gets you. 72 cans (12fl.oz) of Milwaukee's Best in WV (at least when I was there), excluding the pills for reducing acid reflux. Now, seriously.

The additional features (see Bob's reference) are more than worth it. As for me, I don't care about the UI; I want the inner works (under the hood?!) to be better than those of its predecessor. Princess on ice toy. And they are. If I compare how the AI acted at my Tutorial '41 and now.woooo! The friggin' bugger even gave me a hard time! And I created the scenario to be a. As for me; I rather skip heartburn after 72 cans of MB's:)'.

To understand my take on the game, you have to know two things. I really have no interest in the North African WWII campaigns at all, and especially the later Tunisia campaign.

I have read about both, but neither, especially the latter, has really caught my attention. For no particular reason, I fired up the 'Kasserine 43' scenario from the first screen.

To be honest I was overwhelmed by the amount of the other scenarios to choose from. I fully expected to play one or two turns and then switch to a WWI scenario. The UI changes and the whole game presentation seems to be different in a new and exciting way for the better. I am now on the eighth turn of 'Kasserine 43' and I couldn't be more engrossed or happier. I have owned every iteration of the game that has been released.

I have also played board wargames since the 1960s and computer ones starting in the very early 1980s. I have not been so engrossed by a pure wargame in many a year, and never by a scenario that I don't even enjoy reading about. So my first fully played through game/scenario about the North Africa campaign is over. The Allies in the end did not have the overwhelming might I thought they would have, but still I was on the defensive. In this day and age where every minute of our lives count, it is still amazing to me that this game pulled me into a historical campaign that I never read about anymore. My gaming is almost always commanded by my reading.

I read about a particular historical campaign, and then open up a game that deals with it. What might get the book publishers happy is that I am thinking of picking up a book about Kasserine. For a game to be able to have that impact, and not the other way around, is pretty amazing to me.