<hamming mode on>
I'd like to thank everyone that voted for Operations Art of War III.
It's a real honor to be listed among the other great games released
last year,especially when the votes are by a demanding crowd like this
one.
It never would have happened without David Heaths's foresight, James
Mathews pushing the beta team and Danial McBride wrangling the scenario
evaluation team. That plus all the dedicated people that worked on the
beta teams, and all the suggestons from the forums and the newsgroup.
As a thanks, I'm going to share some of what's in the upcoming upgrade
to TOAW 3.1. I have to apologize for it being so delayed, the delay
wasn't planned and is totally my responsibility. There's a chance that
some of these might not make it, but it looks promising. There are also
some nice surprises for the scenario design crowd, and some
miscellaneous Elmer upgrades.
Without further ado, here is...
Something Old.
Editable equipment files, AKA BioEd support. Yes, you'll be able to
convert your old modified equipment files to TOAW III. This is better
support, in that you won't need to modify the executable, but will be
able to read the data in XML format. This means that scenarios like
Lord of the Rings will be playable in TOAW III.
Something new.
Crop circles. Optional range rings for people that can't count above
3<g>. It's handy for people that don't have hex-shaped eyeballs that
can see exaclty where 6 hexes distant is without using a ruler. I've
very quickly gotten addicted to switching between the terrain view and
the crop circle views.
Something borrowed (from SPWAW).
Holding down on the shift key will speed up movement and combat. For
people in a hurry<g>
Something blue.
Elmer tries to have his navy travel in fleets. It's pretty neat to
watch Two weeks in Normandy played by Elmer. He also tends to hang back
instead of crowding right next to the the shore line with his Navy.
Ralph Trickey
TOAW III Programmer
(Hoping to eventually get Oleg to part with his hard-earned money<g>)
eddysterckx.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1st place and winner of the Gold medal for Wargame of the Year 2006 :
> Conquest of the Aegean : 100 points
> 2nd place and Silver medalist : Birth of America : 75 points
> 3rd place and Bronze medalist : The Operational Art of War 3 : 27
> points
>
> Honorable mentions go to :
>
> 4) Take Command - 2nd Manassas : 18 points
> 5) Air Assault Task Force : 14 points
> 5) Dominions 3 : 14 points
> 7) Distant Guns : 12 points
> 
Hearts of Iron - Doomsday : 9 points
> Air Campaigns of WWII - Defending the Reich : 9 points
> 10) Gary Grigsby's World at War - A World Divided : 6 points
> 10) Red Orchestra : 6 points
>
> Congratulations to the winners - I'll send the winning developers a
> message with their prize logo - may it feature proudly on their
> website, they've earned it.
>
> http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4124492&a=32319414&f=
>
> A thank you to all participants both for their input in points and in
> giving the motivation for their choice and as promised : Arjuna will
> provide one lucky winner with an autographed boxed copy of the upcoming
> Panther Games title : Battles from the Bulge
>
> I've already received confirmation from Mr. Beretta that he has
> received my password protected result file in which every participant
> was given a random number, so now it's up to Mr. Giftzwerg to post a
> number between 1 and 37 inclusive right here :
>
> The complete result file is of course available to all upon simple
> request - just mail me.
>
> Greetz,
>
> Eddy Sterckx
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