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Fun things to try - 8/17/2010 11:45:12 PM

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I wanted to help people understand the effects of terrain. To do this, I made the space bar hide the units and bring them back. They're also the main driver behind the tooltips. They were the only place I could think of that I could put the terrain effects, and having the little picture of the terrain also helps. Since the spacebar does that, a logical extension (I don't remember stealing this one from anywhere) is that pushing the space bar hides most dialogs.

The combat dialog now also allows you to assign direct artillery. That lets you optimize attacks more easily since it also shows very rough odds.

Turn down the volume of the music and actually listen to the sound of the units moving. This one was purely for fun, but you should be able to hear the units moving from left to right. That's right... TOAW is now in Stereo<grin>.

The whole right click moves thingie is mainly so that I can play with my iPad or with a touch screen. Playing with a touch screen is about as close to a boardgame on a computer as you're going to get. If you're a bit caual, then not having that intimidating menu pop up each time works nicely.

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RE: Fun things to try - 8/17/2010 11:48:03 PM

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And clouds. You can now turn on clouds, but still see the units underneath when doing air plotting.

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RE: Fun things to try - 8/18/2010 2:24:11 AM

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Not only those things. You've given the scenario designers a lot of new toys to play with too. It's like looking under the Christmas tree and finding loads of presents to open.

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RE: Fun things to try - 8/18/2010 3:45:36 AM

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Turn down the volume of the music and actually listen to the sound of the units moving. This one was purely for fun, but you should be able to hear the units moving from left to right. That's right... TOAW is now in Stereo<grin>.

That's hilarious. Going to turn on my sound effects again to try this one. :D

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RE: Fun things to try - 8/18/2010 3:12:47 PM

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Ralph I have not found a complete explanation of the terain popup info. What does AT 200% and INF 100% or somthing like that stand for? Thanks. You've done a great job.

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RE: Fun things to try - 8/18/2010 8:27:59 PM

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How do you play with an iPAD?

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RE: Fun things to try - 8/19/2010 1:40:14 AM

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Ralph I have not found a complete explanation of the terain popup info. What does AT 200% and INF 100% or somthing like that stand for? Thanks. You've done a great job.

It's changed a bit for the production release.

AT is Anti-Tank
Inf (Will be AP) is AntiPersonnel (or Infantry)
SP Is Supply
Fort is fortification level.

AT and AP are Percents. The Tank equipment in Bocage will get a benefit of 200% against anti-tank fire, and a benefit of 300% against anti-personnel fire. This is only part pf the equation, so you won't see a 200% reduction in casualties.

Supply is the number of supply points you'd regain in that turn.

Fortification is the fortication level of that hex which impacts how quickly a unit can go to entrenched and fortified.

I forgot to put them in the XML file for this release, they should be there for 3.5.

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RE: Fun things to try - 8/19/2010 2:05:07 AM

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How do you play with an iPAD?

First, I need to add the usual disclaimers, do this at your own risk, I'm a trained professional, I'm not liable if UFOs come down, etc, etc, etc.

I'm pretty sure that Windows XP and 7 versions above the home version allow you to Remote Desktop into the PC (RDP) The first thing to do is to turn on allowing remote desktop in. Since this will allow someone else to look at your computer, please make sure to take the normal security precautions. For windows 7, just type 'Remote Desktop' into the box you get below the program listings. For XP, it's hidden in the control panel on the system application, I believe.

I use an RDP client called Jump or iTap. There are a couple of other ones out there, if you type RDP into the app store, you should find them. You might play with the one 'lite' version I saw up there, the price is right for that one (free.) I haven't tried it, but I'll try it later and see how well it works.

The other two are more expensive (check the prices first) I find that Jump has the advantage that holding your finger down does a right-click, which is very, very handy. iTap seems to be faster, although the right mosue click is more clumsy and after the latest patch, I've had problems connecting to my PC using it.

That's it, you aren't running TOAW on your iPad, you're running it on your PC and forwarding the desktop image to it. I find it's great for me for relaxing on the couch, etc.

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RE: Fun things to try - 8/19/2010 4:18:11 AM

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Got you...going to school for programming online with the Univirsity Of Phoenix, but there classroom boards run in flash...so I do the "remote desktop" thing to I can do my homework anywhere where I have my iPAD...so I know exactly what your talking about now...

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RE: Fun things to try - 8/19/2010 4:24:14 AM

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Cool, let me know how you like it and what software you're using.

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