I absolutely loved A&A 98 and still will fire up the vm just play it. Even found it on an abandonware site that plays pretty good on win7 64 boxes. So when I saw a yt video of this new version, I was so excited. Unfortunately that excitement has turned to disappointment. First is movement, particularly blitzing. Trying to get a tank to blitz the right countries and in the right order seems to take forever before it finally registers correctly. In 98 it was so easy, grab a tank, drop on first country, then the second. Here if you drop it on the first, it's done. So you are supposed to hover over the first but it seems like that it is very finicky as to where you actually hover it. I don't know, it seems to be too difficult to do the blitz the I am asking it to. Especially when the countries are side by side. If they are in a line I have no trouble. Second I know that if a plane can not land after the turn it is lost. Well in my current game I have a plane that can not land and the game will NOT let me continue and the plane does not get lost. I just have a big warning that says "land the plane". No matter what I do the game will NOT continue. I have to be missing something but the help just says "if you can't land the plane it will be lost". Sooooo loose it already. Even amphibious landings seem to be not natural and confusing. Also I really miss being able to customize the rules. People have also echoed the automatic defense. So far I have not had an issue with it but I understand their issues and that it should also be fixed. To summarize, IF they fix the issues and bugs and add just a little bit more. Then it would be totally worth the cost. Until then only buy if you are a fan of the series and are willing to deal with the bugs and other problems.
