The Operational Art of War IV

[jomni]

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/product.asp?gid=587

New naval warfare features

The modeling of ships has been improved. Instead of treating ships as a single piece of equipment, like a gun or a squad, they are now treated as complex systems that incur damage in combat. Ships have new armor, durability, accuracy, speed, and agility parameters.
Embarked units no longer employ their own strengths in defense. Naval combat now evaluates attackers' Anti-Naval strengths as individual shots/planes – employing their shell weights to determine armor penetration and resulting damage.
Sea Interdiction can now be employed by aircraft, ships, and coastal guns. Ships subjected to sea interdiction fire counterbattery back (or, in the case of carriers, counterstrikes).
New Supply system

There is now an intermediate supply state that falls between "Supplied" and "Unsupplied". It's called "Overextended". A new parameter called the Overextended Supply Threshold has been implemented. That is the location supply value below which locations are overextended. Units in such hexes will function somewhat between how supplied and unsupplied units function. The result will be that it will be much more difficult for units to press on at red-lined unit conditions from such locations.
Motorized unit movement over improved roads can be set by the designer to be less than one MP per improved road hex (for example, ½ MP per hex). If optioned, this affects supply in that supply lines traced over improved roads will extend proportionately further than over other terrain, like regular roads. Note how this would especially affect desert scenarios.
The limit of 50% unit supply recovery per turn has been lifted.
Other game features

Range Limits: Ranged units can have their nominal ranges player limited. This can be used to tailor bomber ranges to match fighter cover ranges or to make units with multiple range equipment operate within the range of the shortest-ranged equipment. The DBR will reflect the modified range.
Deployment Recovery: Ranged units retain their deployment states after combat and ground assaulters can recover theirs if a planned combat is canceled.
New Bridge Destruction Rules: There is an option to limit bridge hexes (for destruction purposes) to locations where the road feature graphically crosses the river feature.
Combat Report Review. Combat reports are saved in the pbl/sal files for review by both players during their player turns.
Adaptation of Matrix's PBEM++ system.
New Map and Interface artwork

[Jarhead0331]

Awesome! Can't wait to see some screenshots.

[RyanE]

That is great.  Is the product page new?  I don't remember seeing it before.  If its new, does that mean the release is near?

[bbmike]

Another instant purchase for me. 

[jomni]

It's new.  They just announced today.

[Bison]

This might be the first computer game purchase I've made in awhile.

[Steelgrave]

Another instant purchase for me. 

What he said!

[Rekim]

I haven't played TOAW for many years. Primed for the chance to give another go.

[FlickJax]

What I don't get  with these Slitherine/Matrix teasers is they are always reluctant to give screenies etc.

[solops]

TOAW...my all-time favorite game. I look forward to IV, but I hope they have not overdone "Feature and Flexibility" at the expense of playability. Many fixes and vast improvement, regardless. Can't wait.

[chemkid]

What I don't get  with these Slitherine/Matrix teasers is they are always reluctant to give screenies etc.

...better no screenies than some mappacks! right, guys?! they didn't do the mappack trick for a while, right? who's with me?!!

:D

beers!
chem!

[demjansk1942]

I will buy this one even though 3 is still great

[mirth]

I will buy this one even though 3 is still great

+1

[jomni]

Cautiously optimistic.

[spelk]

Do we know if this is a full rebuild ground up or just an evolution of the previous version (perhaps going a bit further than the last UI update on TOAW3)?