.TacOps can be purchased directly from Arsenal Publishing at 1-800-247-1877.
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"Contact Front! All Units Engage!"
At last, you're ready to order your forces into battle. You've carefully positioned your tanks, infantry, and attack helicopters. You've emplaced minefields and registered your artillery. You have air strikes only minutes from the battlefield. You have only to give the command to attack.
TacOps is the most detailed and realistic simulation of contemporary and near-future tactical combined arms operations available today for the personal computer. Designed by I.L. Holdridge, a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, the level of detail built into TacOps allows the program to keep track of individual vehicles, infantry teams, and rounds of ammunition. Yet, TacOps is remarkably easy to learn and play.
Key Features:
* Solitaire play against a sophisticated computer opponent
* Two-player play on a single computer, on a network, by disk, by e-mail, and by modem
* Modifiable scenarios featuring a wide range of challenging real-world missions
* U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps unit templates for creating two-player scenarios
* 70 different types of units and 70 weapon systems
* Easy-to-use point-and-click interface
* On-line unit database and digitized weapons photos
* Realistic weapon sounds
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The TacOps demo differs from the commercial version primarily in the following ways: Some background music has been deleted and most of the photo data base has been deleted to reduce the size of the demo. The commercial version has a photo for almost every unit and weapon in the game, the demo version only has a few. The commercial version also provides a second set of photos optimized for black and white Macs. The demo version can not save a game in progress.
The demo includes only a very simple tutorial scenario with only a handful of units. The commercial version includes about 30 scenarios and about 30 scenario variants. Almost all of the scenarios included in the commercial version have far more units in play. Several have several hundred units per side.
The Computer Opponent or Artificial Intelligence has been disabled for the tutorial scenario.
The demo includes only one map. The commercial version includes a dozen or more. Many of the commercial scenarios feature a map that measures 6 kilometers by 15 kilometers (in scale terms). The 6x15 map provides plenty of maneuver room to replicate multi hour engagements involving hundreds of units on each side.
This demo was finished some weeks before the commercial version. The commercial version may offer additional features and appearance and combat resolution may differ slightly based on final testing.
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This demonstration program may be freely copied and distributed, to include placing on a public BBS, as long as the original copyright notices and original program functions have not been altered. Copyright 1994, I.L. Holdridge. All Rights Reserved.
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TacOps can be purchased directly from Arsenal Publishing at 1-800-247-1877.