PC Action 1998 October (Bonus)/PCA1098BONUS.ISO/Demos/Dynasty/data1.cab/Program_Executable_Files/Readme.txt

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Peoples General Demo v1.0
8/5/98

Peoples General  (c) 1998 by Strategic Simulations, Inc, USA



System Requirements for People's General:

Pentium 166
32 MB RAM
2 MB SVGA with Directx 5.2 support
8X CD-ROM drive (not required for demo)
28.8 Kbps modem for interent play (not required in demo)
Windows 95 compatible sound card


Installing the Peoples General demo:

To install  the People's General demo, locate and open the
People's General demo Setup folder, and double click on the
setup.exe icon. Follow the setup instructions. After you install Peoplpe's
General, you may delete the Peopledemo_setup folder complete from your
system.

To uninstall People's General, go to the Peoples General program group
(left click Start, then Programs) and double click on the uninstall icon.

To run People's General:

Open the Peoples General demo folder on your hard disk
and double click on the Peoples General icon (Peoples.exe)
to start the game.

(Optional) You can create a shortcut for the Peoples General
demo by dragging the Peoples General (Peoples.exe) icon
to your desktop.

Playing the Peoples General Demo

1. After the cinematic ends, (the cinematic can be bypassed by
pressing the escape key on your keyboard or by left clicking your left mouse
button) left click on the "Play Scenario" button on the far left of the button
row near the bottom of the screen. For a brief tutorial on game play, see
the bottom of the this file.

Exiting the People's General demo:

To exit the People's General demo, hit the <esc> from inside the main game
map screen. A game functions box will appear. Select Exit game to end the demo.

Although you only get a glimpse at what will be available in Peoples General
from this demo, you can look forward to the full game featuring so much more
including:

Fast-paced game play covering large areas of the Korean Peninsula, Southeast
Asia, Siberia, Ukraine, and the Ural Mountains. You will be able to choose
from over 200 task forces from 19 different nations. Besides the mini-campaigns
that are included with People's General, you will be able to choose
from two large campaigns of 18 scenarios each as either Chinese or Western
Alliance forces and deploy a dizzying array of modern and meticulously
researched next generation  weapon systems such as the M1A3 and T-99 Main Battle
Tanks, F-22 stealth fighters, Starstreak Surface-to-Air Missiles and many more.
You will be able to create your own scenarios using a full featured scenario
editor. And People's General can be played with 2, 3 or 4 player multiplayer
action over the internet or a local area network.



For more info and screen shots, please check out SSI's webpage at:

     www.ssionline.com

or go to the People's General web site at:

    www.peoplesgeneral.com



Demo tutorial:
Launch the demo and select the LTH 155mm artillery piece located at hex 12,26
(you can see the hex map coordinates at the center top portion of the screen)
Once you have select the artillery piece, move the cursor over the enemy
infantry unit located in the city of Petrovka (hex 12,22) You'll notice cross
hairs appear along with projected (estimated) combat losses under the two flags.
Remember these combat loss numbers are only estimates and you will notice some
variance in the actual out come of battle. After you attack with your artillery
unit, you may click the right arrow button (second from the top) to toggle through
all units that still may be moved, or you may simply left click on another unit.
You can see which units can still fire by the chrome circle at the bottom of the
unit and those units that haven't moved yet will have their unit strength shown
in black text (the unit strength number will turn red after a unit has moved
for the turn)

Next, try launching and air strike by clicking on the 'Fly a Mission' button at the
very top of the screen. Then select Ground Strike and click onto the check box at
the bottom of the pop-up window. You'll see a jet cursor that you can move to enemy
units to attack. Move the cursor to an enemy you would like to attack and left click
onto the hex to initiate the attack. The other selections to choose from should be
self explanatory. Just remember to fly Wild Weasel mission against enemy Air Defenses
in the area before you attempt any ground strikes. You'll need to consider that you
have a limited amount of Air Mission points per turn (in the full game these points
will be dictated by your 'Air Superiority level' for that scenario)

To buy new units, select the Requisition Unit button (fourth from the top of the
screen) You'll notice your total prestige available near the upper right corner of
the screen. Select a unit to buy (its border will highlight when selected) After you
have selected a unit, please notice the extra unit abilities that you can add on to a
unit at the bottom of the screen (Recon, Combat Engineer, Air Defense, Bridging,
Helicopter, Anti-tank, Combat, forward observer, etc.) when you select one of these
abilities, you'll notice some of your unit statistics will increase. Each extra ability
that you select for a unit (you may only select two per unit) will cost 30 additional
prestige points.

Exit the Requisition screen and click onto the Deploy Forces button (fifth from the top)
and place any units that you purchased in the Requisition screen. You see dark deployment
hexes on the map where you may place these new units.

To view information about a specific unit you can right click on a unit or go to the Field
H.Q. button and scroll through all of your forces. You'll notice some units have leaders
attached to them (you can see these units on the map screen by the star in the bottom right
hand corner of the unit icon) Leaders give units additional abilities.

Move all your units and try concentrating your attacks. When you have moved all of your units,
click on the end turn button near the bottom of the screen and the computer AI player will then
move his forces. Remember there are only two turns in the demo. Enjoy!

SM