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Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

An excellent game that details the operational art of war. A bit hard to get used to when you come from the Doom generation, but after a while it becomes intuitive. Go out and wargame!

Its alright

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 42
Date: June 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The Stratagy is very good but graphics are pretty bad.

Unsatisfactory - A complete Failure of a game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 21
Date: April 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is overrated by the few who play it. If you want a more fun game check out the panzer campaigns or the modern
campaigns by hps simluations.

The Operational Art of War has a terrible interface, terrible game play, even worse support.

If you have XP dont waste your time or money. Incompatible.

This Game is NOT Fun

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: August 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

All right. This game is way to complex to be even mildly entertaining. If you can get through one turn--and actually know what you're doing--you've done better than me. The game is hard to follow, hard to understand, and pretty near impossible to enjoy. It's just a poor product.

There is really no strategy involved

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: April 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game offer a tremendous amount of options on how to play the game, but offers very little overall strategy. There is really no way off truely developing an effective strategy. Units that provide artilery are basically non-effective. Air units seem to get crushed by other air units of equal strenght. Lacks any pre-battle set-up options. Does offer some interesting battles, and plenty of information. A little hard to truely understand. Would be better if there was a tuitorial installed.

Exciting Total Management of Warfare, Yet AI ...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This has been the most challenging strategy games I played so far. For human player side, its weight on logistics and balance between the overall control vs. local concentration, and tradeoff between occupation of strategic locations(either defined by the score or simply indeed by the battle condition) vs. destruction of enemy forces(/conservation of friendly forces) --- is very well designed and applausible. The only setback I felt is the AI of my computer opponent: it is too conservative and hence easy to be outflanked(and then be encircled and destroyed if you have locally superior force). The game is still challenging but that comes from the management of your own resources as I mentioned before. I would appreciate a better AI. (for example, the AI of Close Combat II - A Bridge Too Far was good and aggressive.)

Real wargaming

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OK, so it's not TacOps. But this is operational, baby. Everyone thinks of "Steel Panthers" when someone says "I like old-style wargaming". Steel Panthers is great if you like to micromanage. But if you're into the history and the fluid movements of blitzkrieg and don't want to just fight Stalingrad but see if you can actually tell your generals "don't go to Stalingrad... go straight to Moscow first and foremost!", then you will love this game. Some of the scenarios developed are phenomenal. You can play the entire WWI and WWII on an operational level if you want. It's slow, but people do it. They literally spend years playing each other via Play-by-Email. If all you've ever played are RTS, then step up to the bigboys and see what REAL strategy is all about. It's in your head, not in your how quick you can twitch'n'jerk the joystick.

For all those dusty Avalon Hill games on your shelf...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

That you bought and never got to play because none of your friends could understand why it would be fun to spend 20-30 hours refighting the breakout from St. Lo. TOAW brings back the strategy of turn-based games as opposed to whack-a-mole stuff like C&C.

Not for everyone; as Steven Wright said, "One mile equals one mile" when you play this game. Defend the Korean peninsula and you'll feel like you spent three years playing the scenario. But if you remember those Avalon Hill wargames, this is definitely for you.

Outstanding Military Strategy Game...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

For those who like serious military strategy games this is the one for you. I have played numerous titles and to date, have found this one to be the best.

Talonsoft Operational Art Of War PC Strategy Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Played all versions of this game, hard core gamer for many years, even now on win XP I still have e mail games going! SUre, you can argue about flaws in the game or debate the database, but go the web (wargammer.com) to find 100's of scenero's to play. I have not touch a board game in so long, Century of war has replace them - with no cat to knock counters over!Yes, this game works on XP pro without problem - go get it!

MGL

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