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echo  QUICKSTART TUTORIAL
echo  12/22/92
echo
echo  An Engagement
echo  =============
echo      The simplest situation you can play is the scenario that pits the
echo  British battleship Prince of Wales against the German battleship
echo  Bismarck. To get started playing Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic
echo  1939-1943 quickly, just play along with the following directions.
echo  These introduce you to the major features of the tactical levels of
echo  the game.
echo
echo      After the opening routine finishes, select "SCENARIO" from the
echo  "CHOOSE GAME" menu, then select "GERMAN" from the "CHOOSE SIDES"
echo  menu.  "LOAD" the first Engagement offered, "Gunnery Practice: The
echo  Bismarck Toe-to-Toe with the Prince of Wales." If you want some
echo  background on this Engagement, read the description on p. 28 of the
echo  manual.
echo
echo      The first station you see is the Flag Bridge, with its large map
echo  dominating the center and left of your screen, and the Ship Control
echo  Area on the right. The game is automatically paused when you get to
echo  this point (as indicated in the upper left of the map), so feel free
pause
echo  to take a minute to look around.
echo
echo      First of all, take a look at the map. In the center you see a
echo  blue line with a white tip and a red square around it. That is the
echo  currently active ship, the Bismarck You can tell this by looking in
echo  the upper right of the screen, at the top of the Ship Control Area
echo  where the Name Plaque shows the name. Or, you can move the cursor to
echo  the box containing the "N" in the upper left portion of the map frame
echo  (fourth one down), and click the left mouse button. This turns the
echo  name filter on, and the ship's name is displayed next to the icon on
echo  the map. The other boxes with letters in them are other "filters"
echo  that turn on and off other kinds of information. We'll check out a
echo  few others in a bit.
echo
echo      Before we do, though, take another look in the upper left of the
echo  map. Above the word "Paused" you see that the time of day is 8:15 in
echo  the morning (the game uses a military clock, so 8:15 in the evening
echo  would be 20:15 hours), and the speed of play is at 1:1 (x1).  This is
echo  "real time"; one second on your watch equals one second of time
echo  simulated in the game. If at some points the action seems too slow
echo  for your taste, you can speed the game clock up by selecting the
echo  "SPEED" item of the "OPTIONS" menu on the menu bar.
echo
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echo      "What menu bar?" I hear you cry. Why, the one you call up by
echo  pressing the right mouse button. Do this, move the cursor over the
echo  "OPTIONS" menu, and click with the left mouse button. You should now
echo  see the various items you can select here, the game "SPEED" among
echo  them.  However, it's probably better to take things slow at this
echo  point, so click the right mouse button again to get rid of the menus
echo  without selecting any item.
echo
echo      Looking back at the map, there are two other items of interest
echo  right now. First, in the lower right is a number. This shows the wind
echo  speed. If the wind speed is greater than 0 knots there would be an
echo  arrow associated with this number. These are useful because a strong
echo  wind can affect the accuracy of your gunnery. If you are firing at
echo  long range perpendicular to the wind direction, your shells tend to
echo  drift in the direction the wind is blowing. If you are firing into
echo  the wind, the spray it whips off the waves degrades your gun's
echo  accuracy in less predictable ways.
echo
echo      The second thing to look for on the map is the grid, the square
echo  mesh superimposed on the blue of the water. You can turn it on and
echo  off using the "G" filter in the upper left of the map frame. Go ahead
echo  and try it!, but leave it on for now. Each line is 10,000 yards from
echo  its neighbors. Since battleships can fire about 40,000 yards, the
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echo  grid makes it easy to tell whether an enemy ship is in range.
echo
echo      You may wonder, "Where is the enemy ship?" The easiest way to
echo  find it is to zoom the map out, so that it shows a larger area of
echo  ocean. You can do this by pressing the up arrow in the very upper
echo  right of the map frame. You can tell that the map has been zoomed out
echo  because the grid lines are closer together. They are still 10,000
echo  yards apart, so the area of ocean displayed has gone from 70,000 x
echo  70,000 yards to 140,000 x 140,000 yards. And there, about 20,000
echo  yards south of the Bismarck, lies the Prince of Wales. You can tell
echo  it's British by its color, and you can tell it's the Prince of Wales
echo  because it says so right there on the map (you did leave the name
echo  filter on, didn't you?).
echo
echo      We have met the enemy, but he is not ours. Yet, anyway. Before we
echo  unpause the game so the ships can start blowing the stuffing out of
echo  each other, let's explore a bit further and form a plan of action.
echo  The first question is whether the two ships are within range of each
echo  other, which we can learn by turning the "M" filter on (on the left
echo  side of the map frame, remember?), which displays two circles showing
echo  the maximum range of each ship's big guns. No question here, both
echo  ships are well within range of the other. Turn that filter off, and
echo  try the next one down, the "S" for the secondary armament. Here's
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echo  something interesting! The Bismarck is just within range of the
echo  Prince of Wales' secondaries, but our secondaries have a somewhat
echo  greater range. Since the British ship has ten main guns to our eight
echo  (albeit 14" against 15"), we can gain some advantage by moving a bit
echo  farther out so that our six port-side 5.9" guns can harass His
echo  Highness while his 5.25" popguns can't touch us.
echo
echo      Okay, so how do we do this maneuver? It's time to look at the
echo  Ship Controls on the right side of the screen. First of all, check
echo  the Control Mode Selector, to make sure it's set to "M", for manual
echo  control (if it's set to "A", or automatic mode, none of the controls
echo  below have any effect; the computer is in complete control of the
echo  ship until you switch the selector to "M" ["No, I don't think that's
echo  a good idea, Dave. I really think you should reconsider, Dave. Daave,
echo  oi dooond theengk eu shuud ...  ]).
echo
echo      Whew, that was close. Anyway, now that you have control of the
echo  ship, the question is what to do with it. First of all, you want to
echo  make sure that the main guns are targeted on the Prince of Wales, so
echo  when you unpause the game your gunners will begin firing their guns
echo  immediately.  Move the cursor over the upper box below "Main Target"
echo  and click. A dialog box appears at the top of the map, listing the
echo  "Pr Wales". Point and click on that, and look for two things. First,
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echo  the name of the enemy ship should appear in the box right below "Main
echo  Target", and second, a diamond should appear around the enemy ship on
echo  the map. (If these don't happen, click on the box below "Main Target"
echo  again and be careful in pointing and clicking on the "Pr Wales".
echo  There are no points for sinking "NO TARGET".)
echo
echo      Next, you should set up the maneuver that brings you out of the
echo  enemy's secondary gun range. You can do this by using the "Course"
echo  controls a little above the "Main Target" control you just used. Find
echo  the number "270" with the arrows pointing in either direction away
echo  from it and click on the right arrow. The number will change to
echo  "271", which means that the Bismarck will alter its course just to
echo  the north of west (remember, 270 is due West, 180 is due South, and
echo  90 is due east, and 0/360 is due North on a compass). Since this
echo  brings us out of range only ever so slowly, keep clicking on that
echo  left arrow until it reads "300" (if you overshoot, use the left arrow
echo  to bring the number back down). This course should bring the Prince
echo  of Wales' guns out of range quickly, while still keeping it within
echo  the range of fire of the Bismarck's secondary guns.
echo
echo      One final thing before you unpause the game. Click on the right
echo  arrow under "SPEED" until the number reads "30". There's no point
echo  poking along.
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echo
echo      Now you're ready for the action to begin. Click the right mouse
echo  button to get the menu bar, click on the OPTION menu, and choose the
echo  item PAUSE GAME. Note that in the future you can also pause and
echo  unpause the game by pressing the hot key combination Alt-P.
echo
echo      Almost immediately, you will hear the sound of gunfire, but not
echo  much else will happen. This is because the main guns have fired, and
echo  the shells are in the air. At 20,000 yards, it takes some time for
echo  them to reach their target. To get a better view of the action, let's
echo  go to the main gunnery station. Click the right mouse button, then
echo  click on the STATIONS menu, and then on the MAIN GUN item. As soon as
echo  you see the new screen hit Alt-P to pause the game for a minute.
echo
echo      As you look at this station, note the small version of the map in
echo  the upper right corner. Since it looks pretty crowded, press twice on
echo  the down arrow in the upper right of the frame, which zooms it to
echo  about the right level. Checking out the overhead view at the bottom
echo  of the station you can see that the main guns are pointed south,
echo  which is good, since that's where the enemy is. On the other hand,
echo  there's nothing to be seen in the binoculars in the upper right. The
echo  reason is that they're pointed due north, directly away from the
echo  Prince of Wales. You can see this from the bearing readout above (it
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echo  points to "0"). Fortunately, the director has already targeted the
echo  Prince of Wales, as you can see by its name in the lower portion of
echo  the binoculars, so click on the black "L" just to the left of the
echo  outside view, and when the "L" changes to white, the binoculars
echo  automatically center on the enemy ship. (This automatic lock is a
echo  handy feature, but it may cause you problems in future games with
echo  multiple enemy ships to watch. The left and right arrows on either
echo  side of the outside view normally swing the binoculars to the left
echo  and right, but not when the lock is on. Keep this in mind when you
echo  have to move between two or three enemy ships in other scenarios!)
echo
echo      (By the way, the same is true of the "C", or center, filter on
echo  the map and the up/down or left/right scroll arrows (triangles) on
echo  the bottom and right of the frame. While the "C" is on, the map tries
echo  to remain centered between the active ship and its target. When the
echo  "C" is off, you can scroll all over the place. For now, just leave
echo  the "C" on.)
echo
echo      You can tell the binoculars' automatic lock-on has worked because
echo  the readout above the binoculars now points to "180". But you still
echo  can't see much out there! Press the down arrow (triangle) just to the
echo  right of the outside view, and you will see the "X1" in the
echo  binoculars change to "X2". This means that their magnification has
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echo  been increased. Sure enough, there in the middle of the outside view
echo  the black dot changes into a ship!  Press the down arrow again, and
echo  the ship becomes larger ("X4"). Two more clicks and you'll see a full
echo  sized ship there. Your enemy awaits.
echo
echo
echo      Before you unpause the game, take a moment to see how your crew
echo  has the gunnery set up. The left hand knob below the binoculars is
echo  set to "BSIDE", which means "Broadside", or that all main guns are
echo  firing together at the same target. Depending on the number and
echo  location of the enemy, you can also set this knob to control the
echo  forward ("FWD") and aft turrets separately. The knob on the right
echo  side is set to "SPOT", which means that the gun crews wait for each
echo  salvo to hit before firing another.  This avoids wasting ammunition
echo  before the exact aim has been determined.  Later, this is switched to
echo  "FULL", so that each salvo will be sent on its way as soon as it is
echo  loaded. The time to reload is given in the readout to the right of
echo  "Ready", while the time left before the salvo in the air hits is show
echo  under "TOT" (for "Time on Target").
echo
echo      Now unpause the game and watch the TOT number count down. When it
echo  reaches zero, you will see splashes around the Prince of Wales, and
echo  you can also see green markings near it on the map. You will probably
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echo  also see splashes near the Bismarck; these are made by the enemy's
echo  shells aimed at you! Immediately, you will hear the roar of your
echo  guns, and see the tongues of flame shoot out from them in the
echo  overhead view. You may also see the burst of flames in the binoculars
echo  as the enemy fires back at you. Watch your TOT count down again, and
echo  also keep track of your reload time. As your director acquires the
echo  target, the right hand knob should switch to "FULL", and your guns
echo  will begin firing steadily. You may begin to score some hits, and you
echo  may begin to suffer some damage as well.
echo
echo      Looking at the overhead view, you will notice that your guns are
echo  begin to point somewhat backwards. This is because your ship is
echo  heading to the northwest, just as you ordered it to. Turn on the "S"
echo  filter if it is not still on, and check how close you are to that
echo  goal. Watch your gunnery and messages about the enemy while you wait
echo  for the Prince of Wales to close the distance between the two of you.
echo
echo      Once the enemy ship has closed that distance, his secondary guns
echo  open up. Pause the game and use the menus to go to the Navigation
echo  Station at this point. You want to turn the Bismarck away from the
echo  Price of Wales' secondaries' range. At the navigation station, switch
echo  the Control Mode (to the left of the ship's name) to "M" for manual,
echo  and then click on the control labeled "BRG" just below the "HDG"
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echo  readout, which should change the letters from gray to red, while the
echo  red letters "RDR" below it change to gray. This changes your control
echo  mechanism from the rudder ("RDR") to the bearing controls, which are
echo  both the compass and the readout with the arrows at the bottom of the
echo  station labeled "BRG". You can use the bearing controls to enter the
echo  exact course you want the ship to turn to, but at this point use the
echo  compass instead. Click on the "W", and the blue line in the compass
echo  points to it; the "BRG" readout changes to "270". Now that we have
echo  closed the gap between the two ships just enough, it is time to
echo  switch back to heading due west. The "HDG" readout of "300" indicates
echo  that the ship is still headed northwest, but once you unpause the
echo  game, it gradually swings to the desired direction.
echo
echo      Before you resume the battle, this would be a good time to check
echo  for damage. Use the menus to switch to the Damage Station, which
echo  shows the condition of your ship. At this point you should leave the
echo  station on automatic, but return here periodically to keep tabs on
echo  the health of your vessel.
echo
echo      Now go to the Air Ops Station to arm your float plane. Once this
echo  plane is launched (in about 30 minutes) this both improves the
echo  accuracy of your gunnery and reduces the danger of the plane going up
echo  in a burst of aviation fuel from a shell hit. Click on the left-most
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echo  box above the airplane information and illustration, and select the
echo  Prince of Wales to be the target. Next, click on the box just to the
echo  right of the first box (which now should say "Pr Wales") and it will
echo  change from "NONE" to "SHADOW". Press "READY", and the button will
echo  change to "ARMING". Once you unpause the game the crew preps the
echo  aircraft for launch. When the plane is ready, you must come back here
echo  and click on the "LAUNCH" button (the "ARMING" button changes names
echo  on this screen depending on the status of the aircraft). When
echo  launched, the plane circles around your enemy and reports on the
echo  accuracy of your guns.
echo
echo
echo      After resuming play, return to the Main Gunnery screen and watch
echo  the action. You should be able to follow the exchange of gunfire,
echo  while seeing your ship move to a westerly course on the map. You
echo  should eventually see your plane move toward the enemy, and your guns
echo  shift to point off the beam. The two ships will continue to pound at
echo  each other, and you can watch the rhythm of reloading, TOT, and the
echo  gradual expenditure of ammunition. Try moving to the various stations
echo  listed in the menu, and try out some of the other choices listed
echo  there too. Remember that the game pauses while you read the
echo  background material contained in the "BRIEFINGS", so you may want to
echo  sample some of these as well. If you want to become more involved in
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echo  the action, switch more stations to manual (the Damage Control
echo  Station usually requires considerable attention). Or, if you want,
echo  just turn up the speed to "X8". Depending on the fortunes of war, it
echo  should not be too long before one ship or the other slips to a watery
echo  grave.
echo
echo
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echo  An Operation
echo  ============
echo      To help get you started quickly with the Operational and Campaign
echo  level games, this tutorial walks you through the first portion of a
echo  sortie by the battleship Bismarck.
echo
echo      After the introductory routine finishes, select "CAMPAIGN" from
echo  the "CHOOSE GAME" menu, the select "BRITISH" from the "CHOOSE SIDES"
echo  menu, and then click "Next" to "LOAD" the Operation named, "Operation
echo  Rheinubung: the Bismarck Sets Sail." If you want some background on
echo  this Operation, check out the description on p. 39 of the manual.
echo
echo      Once again, as the game begins, you see a large map, but this one
echo  is on the wall of the Admiralty building. Since the game is paused,
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echo  you should take this opportunity to become acquainted with the
echo  displays and controls before the action starts.
echo
echo      Looking at the map, you can see that it encompasses the entire
echo  North Atlantic. Surrounding it are the familiar controls in the
echo  frame: the scroll arrows on the right and at the bottom, the zoom and
echo  unzoom arrows in the upper right, and the filters in the upper left.
echo  Don't bother with the scroll and zoom controls at the moment -- they
echo  work like the ones on the tactical map -- but the filters are worth a
echo  look. Three are already selected: "B", "C", and "T", which stand for
echo  Bases, Convoys, and Task Forces. Click on "B" a few times and see how
echo  the squares turn on and off; these are yours and the enemy's bases.
echo  Do the same with "C", and you can see where your convoys are and how
echo  they're represented. The same goes for "T", although you may not see
echo  much happen. There is a Task Force already in Gibraltar, which is the
echo  British (red) base in the lower-right side of the map, between Spain
echo  and Africa. The Task Force is the bright red "T" against the darker
echo  red of the square representing the Base.
echo
echo      When you toggled the Bases on and off, another set of icons
echo  toggled as well, the "P"s in the ocean between Greenland, Iceland,
echo  and Northern Scotland. These are Patrol Zones, areas where the Royal
echo  Navy keeps ships constantly on station to intercept any German
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echo  raiders trying to move through these gaps into the North Atlantic
echo  shipping lanes.  Together, these four elements -- the Bases, Task
echo  Forces, Patrol Zones, and Convoys -- are the primary elements of your
echo  command. They contain individual ships, of course, and you will often
echo  move vessels between them, but they are the units with which you
echo  mainly work. You will almost always want to keep all three filters
echo  on.
echo
echo      Before you begin giving orders to them, however, there are a few
echo  other filters worth examining. Specifically, the "S", or Search
echo  filter, shows the range of air searches from each base. As you can
echo  see, by May, 1941, the entire northeastern section of the ocean was
echo  pretty well covered, but if the enemy breaks out, there is plenty of
echo  ocean down south for him to hide in. And remember, the searches are
echo  most effective near the center of a circle, and become less useful
echo  towards its periphery. Again, by May, 1941, the immediate area
echo  between Greenland and the UK is pretty well covered, but even the
echo  hinterland south of Iceland and west of Ireland is less well
echo  patrolled than it first appears.
echo
echo      Turning off the "S" and turning on the "A" filter shows you a
echo  number of much smaller circles. These depict the range of shore-based
echo  attack aircraft. Any ship venturing within these circles quickly find
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echo  itself at the center of a swarm of angry aircraft. Avoid these places.
echo
echo      Okay, now it's time to assess the situation. Since the Germans
echo  will be coming out of the North Sea, there's no point viewing the
echo  whole North Atlantic, so click on the Zoom-in (down) arrow in the
echo  upper-right of the map frame one time, which zooms your view in on
echo  the area from Norway in the upper-right to Germany in the
echo  lower-right, with the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Normandy coast
echo  between in the middle. It is through here that the Germans must move.
echo  (The English Channel between southern Britain and the European
echo  continent is guarded by mine-fields, coastal craft, and airplanes,
echo  symbolized by the colored blotch on the water. Similar defenses guard
echo  other areas of the map, with the color of the blotch indicating who
echo  is defending, and thus implying who will be hurting if they enter.)
echo  We'll come back to this close-in view later, for now, zoom back to
echo  the original view of the whole North Atlantic.
echo
echo      Begin by checking on your Patrol Zones. To check on all ships
echo  assigned to patrol duty, call up the menu bar by clicking on the
echo  right mouse button, click with the left button on REPORTS and select
echo  the PATROL POOL item. This brings up the Patrol Pool Report, showing
echo  that five cruisers are currently available for patrols. Two each are
echo  assigned to the western and central gaps, and one supplements the air
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echo  patrols and strike aircraft covering the east. Click on "EXIT" to
echo  return to the map.
echo
echo      To get another view of the patrol situation, click on the
echo  left-most Patrol Icon itself. This brings up the Control Display for
echo  the Greenland-Iceland gap. Since two cruisers is plenty for the
echo  moment, there is no need to make any adjustments, but this is where
echo  you can specify more or fewer craft of each type in future games, and
echo  where you go to take ships away from the zone in an emergency.
echo
echo      Returning to the main map, it's time to get down to business. You
echo  know that the Bismarck is about to sortie, so it would be good to get
echo  some of your ships at sea. The question is, where are they? Go to the
echo  menu and call up the ALL SHIPS report, and you will see that most of
echo  your battleships are at Scapa Flow (with some at Gibraltar/Force H),
echo  while many of the lighter craft are already at sea, but are committed
echo  to patrol duty and escort service.
echo
echo      The question now is, "Where is Scapa Flow?" Hit "EXIT" to return
echo  to the map, and turn the "N", name, filter on. Now you can see Scapa
echo  Flow, conveniently located at the entrance to the North Sea. Click on
echo  the square icon, and you move to the Base Overview Display. At the
echo  top you can see that the base has 10 Swordfish ready to attack if the
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echo  Bismarck should stray within range, and 10 Catalinas with which to
echo  search. In the middle of the screen is the long list of ships based
echo  here, and at the bottom are the buttons used to undertake various
echo  activities.
echo
echo      At the moment, you want to get a Task Force under way, so click
echo  on the "FORM TF" button (the others let you add ships to the Patrols
echo  and Escort Pools or send ships into repair). The screen now divides,
echo  with the ship list on the left and a blank list labeled "NEW TF" on
echo  the right. To begin forming the new Task Force, click on the
echo  battleship Hood (a BB), and it will jump from the left-hand list to
echo  the right. Click again on the Prince of Wales (BB), the Kenya (CA, a
echo  cruiser), the Electra (DD, a destroyer), and the Aschates (DD), and
echo  leave the rest.
echo
echo      Now click on "ORDERS", and you move to the Task Force Overview
echo  Display, exactly the same Display you would see if you had clicked on
echo  a Task Force icon on the map. This is similar to the Base Overview
echo  Display, showing the aircraft controls at the top (which would have
echo  airplanes were there an aircraft carrier with these ships), the ship
echo  roster in the middle, and the activity buttons below.
echo
echo      Since we want to order this Task Force out to sea, click on
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echo  "PLOT". This brings up the strategic map again, but this time with
echo  some controls on the right side. But the main control is the map
echo  itself. To order the Task Force (the bright red "T" on top of the
echo  darker red square for Scapa Flow) to move, simply point at the map
echo  and click. Specifically, point to a place just below the "V" in
echo  "Reykjavik" in Iceland and click, and a yellow line appears. This is
echo  the path the Task Force will follow.  Furthermore, the number next to
echo  "Waypoint" in the controls to the right goes from "0" to "1",
echo  indicating that one leg of the journey has been plotted. Each Task
echo  Force can be given up to ten waypoints, and if you make a mistake and
echo  want to start over, you just have to click on "CLEAR".
echo
echo      In this case, the move to Iceland should suffice, so click on
echo  "DONE" and return to the Task Force Overview Display. There is one
echo  more thing to do here; in the upper left area are controls for the
echo  Task Force's speed. It is now set for cruise speed, 14 knots, which
echo  is economical, but may not get us there in time if the Bismarck
echo  dashes for the Greenland-Iceland straits. Therefore, click on "MAX",
echo  and the speed should jump to 28.
echo
echo      Before you start the game, there is one other assignment you
echo  should make. Click on the Convoy icon (the flattened "C") to the west
echo  of Ulster, which brings up the Convoy Overview Display. You can see
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echo  that five destroyers are escorting this convoy. To increase your
echo  chances of catching the Bismarck, click on "DETACH", which brings up
echo  the New Task Force Display. This process works just like forming a
echo  Task Force at a base; just click on each ship in turn to transfer it
echo  from the Convoy to the Task Force. Once all five ships have been
echo  transferred, click on "ORDERS" to move to the Task Force Overview
echo  Display, and then click on "PLOT". Point to a position just southwest
echo  of the little island about half-way between Britain and Iceland and
echo  click; this becomes the Task Force's destination.  Click on "DONE" to
echo  return to the Task Force Overview Display, set the speed to "MAX",
echo  and "EXIT" to the main map. Now would be a good time to zoom in again
echo  on the North sea.
echo
echo      You are now ready to unpause the game. Hit Alt-P and watch as
echo  time begins to pass. You will get messages indicating when the enemy
echo  has been spotted and see icons marking their location. You will also
echo  get various messages about the status of your own forces. Turn on the
echo  "M" ("Movement") filter, which shows where you have plotted your Task
echo  Forces to move, and watch as they move toward their destination.
echo  Before much time passes, click on Scapa Flow again and make another
echo  Task Force including the King George V, the Repulse, the Victorious,
echo  the Edinburgh, the Anthony, and the Echo, and plot it to move at
echo  maximum speed to a point in between the destinations of the other two
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echo  forces.
echo
echo      If the Forces reach their destinations without the Bismarck
echo  having been spotted, immediately order Force B (the one with the
echo  Hood) around to off the coast of Reykjavik, and order the newest one
echo  (Force D) to where Force B had been. Now all you can do is wait for
echo  the German to show himself, This he will do eventually, most likely
echo  to one or two of your patrolling cruisers. When he does, order them
echo  to "SHADOW" him, and plot your Task Forces to intercept. Remember to
echo  zoom the map in steadily; what appear to be minor distances at the
echo  higher zoom levels take on a whole new aspect when viewed close-up.
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echo      Once one of your Task Forces intercepts the enemy, the game moves
echo  to the tactical level. If you succeed in sinking the Bismarck, the
echo  game will be over and you will have won; if it gets by, he may well
echo  bag one or more convoys, and at the least you will have to play
echo  cat-and-mouse across the wide North Atlantic. You can still win, but
echo  the struggle will be much tougher. Whatever happens, though, you
echo  should be able to take the lead from here.
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echo  Tutorial written by Ed Bever PhD
echo  Revised for Version 1.1 by Tom MacDevitt
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