Prepare for War ! Theatre of War is Nearing Completion!

After months of additional work and development using the combined expertise of the makers of IL-2 Sturmovik and the creators of the Combat Mission series, Theatre of War is nearly ready for the international release by Battlefront.com.

The amount of significant changes, tweaks, new game options and improvements that have gone in recently is staggering. Below is just a short list of the most important 20+ items that have been addressed in the past few months.

1. Visibility and engagement ranges have been substantially increased to realistic levels.

2. Hand to hand combat for infantry has been added (abstracted visually).

3. Restrictions to the use of captured vehicles and equipment has been added. Now only soldiers with suitable skills can use captured equipment.

4. Heavy artillery and light mortars were added as off-map support.

5. The infantry to armor ratio in all missions has been substantially increased.

6. Relative spotting indicators for each individual unit have been added.

7. The campaign has been changed to now allow advancement to the next mission despite defeat in a previous mission.

8. Fire on the move for vehicles with good enough crews has been implemented.

9. Delayed detonation and real-world physics for hand and anti-tank grenades have been added.

10. Enhanced physics modeling for all large caliber shells have been added.

11. Better burst duration modeling for automatic weapons added.

12. Infantry movement rates on various ground surfaces have been improved.

13. Realistic physics for vehicle movement (usage of gears, throttling etc) have been added.

14. Targeting for all units has been improved, it now depends more on target visibility, target movement status and firing mode.

15. Various tweaks to vehicles and equipment: model sizes, damage calculations etc.

16. Improved morale calculations.

17. New missions have been added.

18. Heavy air-bombers were removed from close air support role.

19. The delay for air and artillery support has been increased to realistic levels.

20. Unit path finding has been improved.

21. Recon airplanes added into the game.