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Yes, that's right, Talonsoft has gone the Sierra route and rereleased a game that originally suffered from severe bug infestation. Basically it's all the original East Front scenarios, the campaign disc, and 50 new scenarios upgraded with the advances found in West Front. East Front II is not a sequel, but rather a 'gold' edition.

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A full campaign runs 100's of hours.Ignore the fact that there's a Roman numeral in the title. To say it gets complicated is understatingР”В«adly. Other brigades to keep the peace or enemy units will spring up. You have to keep garrisons especially in captured counties and can attach MPs as well as In campaign you have a whole trade and diplomacy level with hiddenР”В¬argo ships and escorts that can be disrupted by enemy units, you have to run patrols and anti-sub warfareР”В®ven aerial sweeps. You can limit the game to a battle or go for the campaign where nations develop tech to gain access to unitsР”Р„nd doctrines to boost unit capabilities. You have sea units and transport and air units and in the right conditions you can drop paratroops or marines You have a world map of 'county'-size areas and multi-level zoom on it. Possible 1 attached brigade and leader (with skills/traits) fighting in continuous action. You have generic divisions of different types with HOI2 is not a details game though there are realism mods. It makes HOI2 battles look like beer and pretzels. Note the site that review is from - StrategyInformer. I only have the original, this 3rd version is much improved. Now, Matrix Games together with Norm Koger and a new design team bring you the definitive release of this unsurpassed operational wargame РІР‚вЂњ The Operational Art of War III. A masterpiece of flexible design, it allows you to play and create any battle from the entire 20th Century of warfare and up to the modern day.

Norm KogerРІР‚в„ўs The Operational Art of War is a legendary title among wargamers. Have you ever tried Hearts of Iron or HoI2? The Operational Art of War is IIRC another Talonsoft with that boardgame view. Dunno when EF came out, IР”Вidn't see them till later.

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The first really good PC versions I saw were the Panzer General and then Steel Panthers series.

The SPI issues, cheaply made games but good content and a focus on how the games worked. My first Avalon-Hill was Panzerblitz but the best was the Squad Leader series. Saw it and pulled out his Avalon-Hill Battle of the Bulge he couldn't get anyone to play. The magazine (rather it was a magazine with game) in a plastic bag at a mall bookstore - and I was hooked. In 72 I got a Simulations Publications Inc game, a paper map, counters and rules in

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In fact I still play with a good mate online we use play by email and a game can last a long time as you only have a turn when you are free for a beer and a think. Wow, as a kid I loved the old board games, this game was an early extension of them. * Battles can either be fought on 3d maps using 3d icons, or else through the use of a more traditional 2d board game style of counters and maps.

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* Players can either fight single battles or else fight in a series of linked campaign battles against the AI. * Hundreds of new unit types for almost every country to include Cossacks, operational trains, Chinese Junks and Sampans, river gunboats, captured equipment, siege mortars, river ferries, German landing barges, sea going warships (for the Baltic), amphibious tanks, mine clearing tanks, and dozens of pre-war models and prototypes. * Not only can traditional Allied versus Axis be played, but scenarios can be created depicting an early Soviet/Western Allies confrontation, not only in Europe, but also in the Far East. * For West Front: Bulgaria, Nationalist and Republican Spain, Croatia, Iran, Iraq, Albania, Brazil, Ethiopia, and the Soviets (pro-ally and anti-western). * For East Front: Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and a Soviet force pool that can attack Allied Nations. * For Rising Sun: French Indochina, the Netherlands East Indies, Thailand, Nationalist and Communist China, and the Soviet Union. Users can now use the Rising Sun and West Front map editors to create maps from all five major climate zones. * Complete Unit, Map, and Scenario editors allows users to create battles from scratch.