TOAW III

[KG_RangerBooBoo]

Hi Bear,

Good question, because COW 1.04 was quite good already.

I'm attaching the "what's new" file, which gives a pretty comprehensive list of changes & improvements.



But I'll add a few comments of my own. For me, two of the improvements are major, the rest are "nice to have".

1. Scenario editors are no longer limited to 500 events in the event engine, they can go to 1,000. This is a huge improvement; for example, Daniel McBride is in the process of completely redoing Braunschweig, to take advantage of this.

2. The database is now editable, with the edited .eqp files importable into any scenario, by simply placing a folder in the correct directory. This is much more important that it seems at first glance; for example, it allowed the design of a company-level Market Garden, where the artillery ranges could be adjusted to the new scale....ie, 10, 15 or whatever hexes, rather than just two or three.

Of the many other changes, some of my favorites are the ability of the designer to limit the number of rounds of combat, to avoid early turn ends (truncated combat pulses); the new flanking rules; the greatly improved PO; and the ability to not only stop the combat replay, but even to play it back, one move at a time, to get a second look at what just flashed by.

Last but not least, the anti-cheat prevents infinite replays to obtain an ideal result, and has greatly improved the gaming experience for everyone! (Not to mention, the win/loss ratio for some of us!)

It's a great leap forward, much more than just one more patch.

Plus they are still working on updating TOAW III and ACOW 1.04 is as good as it's going to get.