[squadleader_id]

This was way back in July 2008...pretty interesting though...

The Australian Defence Simulations Office ( ADSO ) of the Department of Defence has contracted Panther Games Pty Ltd to provide a Defence wide license for the use of their operational warfare simulation, Conquest of the Aegean ( COTA ).

ADF Version COTA Front PageCOTA covers the historical World War 2 battles in Greece and Crete. Its revolutionary design, powerful artificial intelligence and intuitive user interface have seen it win a swag of awards including the Wargamer.com’s Best Wargame 2006 and Best Developer 2006, War Historical’s Wargame of the Year 2006 and CyberStratege’s Laurier d’Or 2006.

COTA will support the Australian Army Military History training program.  Army members can gain a greater understanding of the conflicts through first hand “experience” by undertaking “scenarios” or battles from the Aegean Campaign.

Panther Games president, Dave O’Connor says: “We are delighted to provide COTA under license to Defence and are looking forward to an influx of new players. Use of simulations in military training has increased rapidly, especially here in Australia. There has been a noticeable increase in the awareness of the benefits to be gained from using simulations in training and our company looks forward to further cooperation in this area.”



Source: http://panthergames.com/News/Articles/20080709-001.html

[Pzt_Crackwise]

is there any way to get the game?

[squadleader_id]

It's available from our good friends at Matrix Games  
Along with the previous title in the series Highway to the Reich...

[dj]

The ADF version is the same game licensed for use by the training program?

Interesting article...this was the one game I was interested in buying from Matrix besides future Close Combat releases.  

The Aussies probably are particularly interested because so many Australians were deployed Greece and Crete.

[Therion]

I'd give 60PLN for it .

Anyway, I exchanged my CCMT box for the first part of Airborne Assault. I admire it's mechanics, but I haven't played it much because I'm not really fond of the large scale strategic war gaming.
I prefer playing with a pluton or with a company, battalion is a maximum for me.
Also, I'd prefer something like 1939 or France or some other non-airborne campaign.