Is the 3.4 patch still on testing ?

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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Ralph,

At least you made the iPad actual useful for once! (you can tell I'm not a big fan of Apple [:D])

But in all seriousness that is pretty awesome. I've been pretty disappointed with games on my Motorola Droid and the iPhone for that matter. I know the iPad is more powerful/bigger but I never thought people would be able to convert complex hex wargames to it!
I'm not a fan boy either, it's my first Apple product since the Apple II. They wanted $1000 to develop on a Mac, and I could develop on a PC for $100 (not that I hold a grudge, or that they're doing the same thing for iPod development or anything.

Just so everyone know, this isn't TOAW running on an iPad, it's using some remote desktop software on the iPad to connect to a Windows laptop running TOAW. I've done some work to make sure that TOAW works reasonably well with a touch interface. Developing this on the iPad would take at least $1000 for tools, and 6-12+ months for a simple port, and that work would be specific to the iPad. I'd be able to sell maybe 100 copies at $10 apiece, if I'm lucky. There are some tools coming out that may reduce the development time, and I'll look at it again once they're out.

I DO hope that other people take a look at how it plays on the iPad through remote desktop. I think that you actually could port a complex wargame to the iPad/Android/Windows 7. The biggest advantage that the iPad has is the larger screen. If you tried playing on an iPod, I suspect that the scrolling would be intolerable.

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Ralph,

At least you made the iPad actual useful for once! .../... I never thought people would be able to convert complex hex wargames to it!
Soon we'll see commuters on the subway playin' TOAW on the iPad[:D]
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Soon we'll see commuters on the subway playin' TOAW on the iPad[:D]

Yea that will happen only when people stop coming into my room in college and seeing me play wargames and asking "Is that Risk?" [:D]

That's how we roll, though. Always been niche, always will be niche.
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Soon we'll see commuters on the subway playin' TOAW on the iPad[:D]

Yea that will happen only when people stop coming into my room in college and seeing me play wargames and asking "Is that Risk?" [:D]

That's how we roll, though. Always been niche, always will be niche.
That reminds me of the time I stopped in the student union on the U of A campus to get a coke outta the machine one time and came across a group of guys sitting around a huge table with a map in the center and some cardboard pieces on the map at various positions and they were saying to each other things like:
"I'm attacking the troll with my sword, plus 2, and my mace, plus 4, with a handicap of plus 5."
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Soon we'll see commuters on the subway playin' TOAW on the iPad[:D]
Yea that will happen only when people stop coming into my room in college and seeing me play wargames and asking "Is that Risk?" [:D]

That's how we roll, though. Always been niche, always will be niche.
Things go in waves. For a while (way back when) wargames (Steel Panthers, Panzer General, TOAW, others) were king on the PC. Before that it was RPGs (Wizardry), Before that, it was adventure games (Zork, etc.) I'm not saying we won't always be a niche, but we can definitely be a bigger niche.

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ORIGINAL: Bamilus...people ...seeing me play wargames and asking "Is that Risk?" [:D]
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<<I'm going to have to have any translations by about May 31st in order to package them.

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<<I'm going to have to have any translations by about May 31st in order to package them.

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Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick...........
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I smell a TOAW 4 presentation at E3. [:D]
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God bless you if you're right (and Ralph ofc) [:D]
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This guy's uncanny resemblance to my grandfather never fails to creep me out. [X(]

Desert, if I had a grandfather that looks like that I'd be creeped out too!!!!

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I love Baghdad Bob!

As a new player I've been holding off on TOAW3 for a bit until this new patch comes out so I don't have to relearn anything. Glad to see it looks pretty close though.
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Well.. let the man have the last word[:D]

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This guy's uncanny resemblance to my grandfather never fails to creep me out. [X(]
Actually, it was the helmeted baby that creeped me out.

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Keep them coming. Each one has me laughing. [:D]
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Keep them coming. Each one has me laughing. [:D]

Yeah, he's a lot more fun than "reality" is these days. [:)]
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