What is GWA?

Welcome to the Global War Aid (GWA) version 1.0!  In a nutshell, GWA
provides a means by which owners of Avalon Hill's Advanced Third Reich and
Rising Sun play over the Internet.  Opponents send Emails back and forth,
attaching turnfiles, which contain everything from country forcepools to
unit positions, and various recordkeeping.  These turnfiles are loaded into
the program, where the player views and navigates through a graphical
representation of the map and various dialog boxes which aid in play.
Thus, instead of the tedious (and often error-prone) method of manually
typing in a unit representation, it's hex coordinate, and where it moved
to, GWA allows a quick, error-free alternative with the simple click of a
mouse.

GWA assumes you already own Advanced Third Reich and Rising Sun, and are
familiar with the rules.  There is no artificial intelligence computer
opponent, and no on-the fly screening of movements to assure legality (for
example, you can plop a submarine in Bucharest or move an infantry unit
nine hexes if you wanted to).  There is no online rulebook.  GWA is, for
all intents and purposes, a "virtual board".  It makes Internet play more
like face-to-face play.  Fortunately, there are many features available in
GWA that aren't available in face-to-face, such as:

Automatic hex control and supply indication
Automated forcepool additions
Automatic strength-count capabilities for combat
Visibly traced naval paths
Graphical representation of territorial control
User-definable units of any kind
Integrated "newspaper" for press reports
Invert/Uninvert units with the click of a mouse
No more misplaced or erroneously recorded unit positions

Your little nephew never decides to chomp on the Italian fleet, a tidal
wave of beer never engulfs Pearl Harbor, your pet cat Tabby doesn't snooze
on Army Group North, and the evil Counter Goblin never sneaks in to take
the British 13th back to his lair forever.  Also, airlines normally
disapprove of people taking a fully-loaded Rising Sun and/or Advanced Third
Reich mapboard as carry-on items, whereas a laptop computer can do both.

Originally developed to solve the frustrating problem of keeping a reliable
and easy-to-use Play-By-Email (PBEM) template for my own purposes, GWA grew
quickly as it's popularity among the PBEM community increased.  What you
are using is the amalgamation of a simple idea with an immense amount of
suggestions, requests, and changes input from such individuals as Bruce
Harper, Markus Kaessbohrer, Peter Backgren, Phil Jones, Erik Juel Anderson,
Greg Wilson, Bill Humphrey, Jay Tingley, Will Thomas, and many, many others.

For more information such as release dates, beta test possibilities, or
pricing, contact Chris Goldfarb (cgoldfarb@earthlink.net).