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The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/21/2017 1:53:05 PM   
Daniele

 

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Status: offline 		Few wargames of the past have reached a legendary aura like The Operational Art of War. The incredible flexibility of the editor, the massive number of playable scenarios, the quality of the AI, made Norm Koger’s latest effort an operational wargame with unsurpassed standard.

No surprise that the recent announcement of a new chapter in the series captured the interest of many wargamers out there.

But as the saying goes “a picture is worth a thousand words”, a Live Stream is definitely better than 1000 pictures, and applying this rule, we are happy to announce that next week on Tuesday 27th we will be taking a look at The Operational Art of War IV LIVE!

Agrippa Maxentius will play some of the scenarios available in the game, including Iwo-Jima and Korea 1951 and show-off the different strategies, the features, the key innovations and more.

We will stream Tuesday 27th at 11 am CEST / 3 pm GMT / 5 pm CEST and for the first time ever, we will be live simultaneously on our official Twitch Channel, Youtube Channel and Mixer Channel at the same time.



Twitch

Youtube

Mixer



You absolutely cannot miss this chance.

Get more information about The Operational Art of War IV on the official Product Page.



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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/22/2017 3:24:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		Nice! looking for to it.

PS: Had to google it to find out wth Agrippa Maxentius is

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/22/2017 11:28:48 PM   
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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/23/2017 1:50:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		Have been waiting for this day forever
When do we get to play the beta? :D

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/24/2017 10:53:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		Was unsure about the time. I'm interpreting as 1100 US Eastern time (EDT), 3PM GMT, 1700 Central Europe. Yes?

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/26/2017 9:14:55 AM   
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ORIGINAL: fastfrank

Was unsure about the time. I'm interpreting as 1100 US Eastern time (EDT), 3PM GMT, 1700 Central Europe. Yes?


Yes

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/27/2017 1:02:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		Excited, just not the biggest fan of Agrippa. The Iwo Jima scenario should be fun to watch.

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/27/2017 7:34:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		Finally some new features and gameplay dynamic were shown. The streaming was very interesting. Day one buy for sure!

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/28/2017 2:52:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		Watching it right now. Some notes:

-The tool tip is back. Is there a key to toggle it or acts just the same as before?
-I see there are now disabled/destroyed/damaged categories in the combat report. Nice.
-We get to see the new combat planner, much improved.
-What do the two top left buttons do?
-We finally got an ETA from Ralph himself

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/28/2017 8:51:12 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Meyer1

Watching it right now. Some notes:

-The tool tip is back. Is there a key to toggle it or acts just the same as before?
-I see there are now disabled/destroyed/damaged categories in the combat report. Nice.
-We get to see the new combat planner, much improved.
-What do the two top left buttons do?
-We finally got an ETA from Ralph himself



On the tooltip, first of all it is important to mention that the old "3D" graphics you could see on the tooltip and on the battleplanner are going away: they have already been replaced with the new terrain graphics on the latest beta build, but since it was just fresh off the presses, we did not use it for the stream.

Otherwise, the tooltip's delay (in appearing) is adjustable in the game settings and right now we are looking for the sweetspot setting for it. :) But if you just don't want it, you can set a very high delay and you'll never see it appear.

Top left buttons: the button with the yellow flags (which while presently look the same, has a different function to the flags on the right-hand panel - those end the turn) switch between different views:
-normal view (default)
-review battles, where you can see icons for battles that happened
-PO (AI) view where you can review the AI settings for your units. This can be useful when you are playing a big scenario and you wish to hand over some of your formation to AI control.

The grey arrow-ish button toggles on and off a number of buttons dealing with the UI, letting you hide or show the different panels that by default are visible on the right side of the screen.

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/28/2017 6:02:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for doing this! Looks way cool, can't wait to be able to buy it. Keep up the good work lads and lassies!

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/28/2017 10:39:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hi,

I hope you put this video on YouTube for us to view that couldn't watch the livestream.

Thanks!

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/28/2017 11:41:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		re Meyer1 comment, what did Ralph say concerning ETA?

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/29/2017 12:07:41 AM   
Meyer1

 

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Tamas

quote:

ORIGINAL: Meyer1

Watching it right now. Some notes:

-The tool tip is back. Is there a key to toggle it or acts just the same as before?
-I see there are now disabled/destroyed/damaged categories in the combat report. Nice.
-We get to see the new combat planner, much improved.
-What do the two top left buttons do?
-We finally got an ETA from Ralph himself



On the tooltip, first of all it is important to mention that the old "3D" graphics you could see on the tooltip and on the battleplanner are going away: they have already been replaced with the new terrain graphics on the latest beta build, but since it was just fresh off the presses, we did not use it for the stream.

Otherwise, the tooltip's delay (in appearing) is adjustable in the game settings and right now we are looking for the sweetspot setting for it. :) But if you just don't want it, you can set a very high delay and you'll never see it appear.

Top left buttons: the button with the yellow flags (which while presently look the same, has a different function to the flags on the right-hand panel - those end the turn) switch between different views:
-normal view (default)
-review battles, where you can see icons for battles that happened
-PO (AI) view where you can review the AI settings for your units. This can be useful when you are playing a big scenario and you wish to hand over some of your formation to AI control.

The grey arrow-ish button toggles on and off a number of buttons dealing with the UI, letting you hide or show the different panels that by default are visible on the right side of the screen.

Thanks.

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/29/2017 12:10:22 AM   
Meyer1

 

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ORIGINAL: Chuck B

Hi,

I hope you put this video on YouTube for us to view that couldn't watch the livestream.

Thanks!


It was in Slitherine youtube page... but not anymore

I have it on my PC, I guess I could upload it but maybe is not what the developers want. (PM me)


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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/29/2017 12:11:53 AM   
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ORIGINAL: fastfrank

re Meyer1 comment, what did Ralph say concerning ETA?


There you go




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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/29/2017 8:27:47 AM   
Daniele

 

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Status: offline 		Hi, the video should be available again!
Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb2rA6YZSa8&t

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/29/2017 5:18:28 PM   
fastfrank

 

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Status: offline 		Darn, I hoped I had missed a substantive hint. Thanks for the quick reply

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 6/29/2017 11:40:52 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Daniele

Hi, the video should be available again!
Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb2rA6YZSa8&t


Thanks - will watch it later tonight, looking forward to it!

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 7/4/2017 5:28:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		So could it release this year? Or is it more probable next year?

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 7/4/2017 11:59:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Not sure they would YouTube and stream a full seven months before release - but what do I know?

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RE: The Operational Art of War IV gets a Live Preview! - 7/5/2017 9:27:39 AM   
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ORIGINAL: rosseau

Not sure they would YouTube and stream a full seven months before release - but what do I know?


I would agree with you if they streamed every week, so my guess is that the release is several months away. I hope I'm wrong though :)

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