Labels:text | newspaper | screenshot | black and white | printing OCR: available to the unit. Clicking on any of these is equivalent to a command to the loader to load a particular shell. When the shell is selected the icon clicks in (like a button) and when it is loaded the icon lights up. Once a weapon is fully loaded, the pointer becomes a set of sights when moved over the 3d display. Clicking at a particular point on the landscape leads to the shell being aimed at that point. The five H.E.A.T Icon available weapon types, from left to right, are: HEAT - a high explosive anti-tank round; SABOT - an armor-piercing tungsten shell; TOW - a high-range anti-tank missile, and note in particular that this may only be fired when your vehicle is STATIONARY: SABOT Icon SMOKE - a smoke grenade which allows enemy vision to be obscured; MACHINE GUN - which is always available to the player and has an 'infinite' number of rounds. - Most platoons will not have all weapon types available (for instance, the MI Tank does not carry TOW missiles). If a weapon is not available then that particular icon will not be displayed. Once the platoon has no more loaded shells of a particular type there will be a delay before it is possible to use them again, TOW Icon according to the re-load times of your weapons. MAP QUADRANTS The major capability on the quadrant map screen is to alter the movement and formation of any platoon. Smoke Icon There are two ZOOM icons represented by magnifying glasses. Clicking on the UNIT 1 upper zoom icon magnifies the resolution of the map. Clicking on the lower zoom icon demagnifies the map. The full width of the map in miles is displayed as a Machine Gun Icon number between the two zoom icons. You may scroll the map in any direction by locating the pointer over the map and depressing the right select button. The map will then scroll at a speed and direc- tion relative to the position of the cursor from the centre of the map. In order to Zoom Magnify Icon move your platoon you have to provide in- Map Quadrant Screen formation about the destination and the speed of the platoon. Place the pointer over the map, locate the desired location to which you wish to move to, and press fire. A crosshair will be left on the screen which shows the end point of the current movement. Now go to the slider bar and set the desired speed of travel. You may do this either by clicking on the arrows at the top or bottom of the slider bar, to increase or decrease the platoon speed Zoom De-Magnify Icon respectively, or by clicking the pointer at the point on the stider you wish the bar to reach. The current 7
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