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IRON RAINBOW SOFTWARE ---- WARGAME SIMULATIONS ---- presents WWII Version 5.04 (For general release) by Richard P. Allen and John E. Trybus A Major Revision, Copyrights 1987, 1990 DISCLAIMER: THIS SOFTWARE AND MANUAL ARE SOLD "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. BECAUSE OF THE VARIOUS HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS INTO WHICH THIS PROGRAM MAY BE PUT, NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PUR- POSE IS OFFERED. THE USER ASSUMES THE ENTIRE RISK OF USING THE PROGRAM. ANY LI- ABILITY OF THE SELLER WILL BE LIMITED TO PRODUCT REPLACEMENT OR REFUND OF PURCHASE PRICE. REGISTERED USERS If you are not a registered user, doing so entitles you to the current version of the game, complete documentation on disk, and other game screens. The CAMPAIGN program, for building new campaigns, or modifying existing ones, and the WWLOG program, for reviewing past game results will also be included. LIMITED PLAY If the game you have is not a registered version, there is a limit to the number of transactions you may execute (from the Main menu only, auxiliary menu actions are not counted). When the limiting count is reached (usually 50), play will cease, and you will have an opportunity to save the game in its present state. Then you will get a last look at the STATUS report before a screen display giving the source for program purchase. If you want to become a registered user, send your name and ad- dress, disk format preferred (3.5" or 5.25"), and $20.00 to either of the following; John E. Trybus Richard P. Allen Box 560 8746 Baltimore Lexington Park, MD 20653 Ft. Lewis, WA 98433 1. Introduction OBJECT OF THE GAME: Your mission is to make a beach landing on the map (beachheads only), then to move from the beach and capture the Main enemy HQ after securing the area (i.e. clearing the area [5h X 3v matrix] of all enemy units). As an alternative you may wish to try a totally airborne assault on the objective, in which case you could get a maximum of 25 Paratroop units, no reserves, and a maximum of 40 bombing missions. With the Air Mobile HQ, you can capture main HQ, then you must prevent recapture by eliminating all enemy units. The risk is that Paratroop units, although very mobile, tend to be over- matched in battle with ground forces. DOCUMENTATION This represents the current complete document as intended. All significant features are documented. However, certain features of the play are only hinted at, while a few others are not mentioned. This was done to enhance the challenge. If you are a registered user and want a copy of the missing information, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to John Trybus or Ric Allen at the addresses given when you enter ctlF2 from the main menu, or as they appear above in this docu- ment. 1 2. System and Installation 2.1.System Requirements An IBM PC or compatible running under MS-DOS or PC-DOS 2.1 or greater. The game has been tested on a PC/XT and an AT without prob- lems, also a Z-248 and a 386-based system. This version is designed for use with any display unit, with emphasis on being functional for non-graphic B&W terminals. If you have a graphics terminal, there is a limited use of color, but no graphics. A fully graphics-oriented version is in the making. One double sided floppy drive and a version of PKUNZIP.EXE is all that is necessary. A hard disk or two floppy drives make for conven- ience. It is possible to get all the necessary programs and maps on one double-sided, 5.25" floppy of 362K capacity. Load the program by typing "WWII". 2.2. Release Disk Files Your floppy should contain the following files; Registered: Unregistered: WWII.ZIP WWII.ZIP consisting of; consisting of; WWII.EXE WWII.EXE CAMPAIGN.EXE IWO.PIC WWLOG.EXE SIC.PIC NOR.PIC NOR.PIC IWO.PIC WWII.DOC BAT.PIC READ.ME ANZ.PIC SIC.PIC (As new campaigns are developed, the list of .PICs included may vary to some degree) DOC.ZIP consisting of; WWII.DOC, including a TOC and INDEX, and the CAMPAIGN and WWLOG documentation READ.ME 2 2.3. Installation For your own protection, make a copy of the release floppy, store the original, and use the copy to install WWII on your system. HARD DISK: Create the directory for the game. Any directory name is suit- able. Make that directory current. From the C: prompt, key in; A:PKUNZIP a:*.zip The files as listed above will be unpacked into your directory The game may be started by typing in "WWII". The documentation may be printed by typing in "PRINT WWIIDOC.PRN". FLOPPY DRIVE: Make two copies of the release disk. With the first copy in the drive, key in, from the A: prompt; DEL DOC.ZIP {to free space on the disk} PKUNZIP WWII *.EXE *.PIC the game, the map files and the map building program will be unpacked on the disk. Next, delete the file WWII.ZIP. You now have room on the disk to store new maps and "saved" games. With the second copy in the drive, key in; DEL WWII.ZIP {this will be your document disk} PKUNZIP DOC.ZIP the documentation, about 45-50 pages, plus table of contents and index is now available to print or browse through. 3 3. An OJT Start-up The game presents a bar menu at the top, offering; "New.Campaign" "Old.Campaign" "Help" "Quit" Move the highlight bar with the keypad and press Enter, or key the boldface letter (N for New, O for Old, H for Help, Q for Quit). F1 may also be used to call up the Help display. ESC will also give you a choice of exiting the game. Many situations provide a call-up Help screen, activated by F1. When the game comes up, hit F1, read the box, go from there. You'll be fighting the enemy in no time. One of the easier campaigns to try while you're learning is IWO. 4 4. Start up SCENARIO: You are the Supreme Allied Commander and you have to capture enemy Main HQ in the campaign you have chosen. The day has arrived, the weather is generally clear, and your forces are ready to go. Your intelligence is adequate, and you have a good guess as to where the opposing forces are arrayed in depth against your invasion. After establishing a beachhead, (perhaps more than one) you will move across enemy country, fighting and bombing, using artillery and armor to make headway, building roads and bridges, clearing mines, establishing HQ units with their supplies, sometimes sending paratroops behind enemy lines to gather intelligence. Time will work against you. Enemy paratroops and airstrikes will work against you. Keeping your units too bunched together, or too isolated, will work against you. That you are the invader will work against you. The make-up of your forces can work for or against you. Experience will be the best teacher. An Allied victory will not come easy. Or cheap. You have a maximum combined total of 65 units and bombing missions at your disposal, the standard force makeup being 30 infantry, 10 armor, and 10 airborne, 5 artillery, 5 Engineer and 5 bombing missions. However, you may choose the composition of your force, and whether you want an initial invasion force of 12 or 25 units, the larger number allowing two-front invasions. You must establish a beachhead and place an HQ (2 HQ's if you selected TWO-FRONT INVASION) before you can land forces other than the original invasion force. Reinforcements come in increments of 10-15 units every time you place a new HQ unit, up to the number of units available. You are free to use your bombing missions whenever and wherever you choose. You must then fight your way to main enemy headquarters and cap- ture it to secure a victory. Some of the enemy, meanwhile, will be attacking your units and your HQ's. Others will lie in wait for your attack. NOTE: More detailed explanations of the rules and characteristics of the game are found in section 7. (REFERENCE). 5 4.1. Starting a Game The opening screen provides the game identification and a simple bar menu at the top of the screen. The cursor is positioned on the first choice, which is to start a new game. Hitting Enter will cause display of a pulldown menu offering four choices; DIRECTORY, RANK, HELP, and QUIT. 4.2. Directory Choosing DIRECTORY (by cursor position or entering the letter 'D') allows you to specify a Directory or SubDirectory which contains the campaign maps (.PIC extension). Default is the current directory. 4.3. Rank Selection There are three play levels; Private, Captain, or General. For now, it's sufficient to know it's easier to win at the lower ranks. There is also a Quit selection. This will return you to DOS. Having selected a rank, you will be presented a box asking for the name you want to play under. 4.4. Name of player (1-12 chars) Any character or combination of characters is acceptable. The first character, if a letter, will be capitalized. This name will be stored in the LOG record whenever you choose to make a LOG entry, or whenever game conditions dictate a LOG entry to be made. Its purpose is simply player identification. If you hit Enter without entering at least one character the game will cycle until you do enter at least one character. Following the NAME entry, you are presented a "Welcome aboard message, with a playback of the RANK and NAME you've chosen. 4.5. Campaign Selection Next, you are presented a list of all files in the directory that have the .PIC extension (up to a maximum of 30, at present), although the extension does not appear in the list of names. At the bottom of the screen you can enter one of the letters A through F, or Q. A through E will give you one of the five major campaigns, as follows: A - Normandy, B - Iwo Jima, C - Sicily, D - Bataan, E - Anzio The appropriate campaign map will be displayed immediately. If, however, you choose F, you will be asked to key in the name of the campaign you want (but don't key in the extension .PIC). If you mis- spell the name, you will have another chance to enter the correct name. That campaign map will then be displayed, then partially overlaid with the UNIT SELECTION box. Choosing Q will return you to DOS. 6 4.6. Unit Selection Box You may choose the composition of your invasion force at this point. The maximum number allowed is 65. To request the default force, when asked the number of Engineer units wanted, enter 98. Your campaign will be assigned the following composition force, that is; 5 Engineer units 10 Paratroop units 5 Airstrikes (Bombing missions) 10 Armor units 5 Artillery units 30 Infantry units, and you will next be asked if you intend a two-front invasion (see below). 4.7. Two-front Invasion Having selected your invasion force, you are asked in the same box if you plan a two-front invasion. Answering 'N' allows you 12 units for the initial invasion, after which you must be able to position your first HQ to land additional units. Answering 'Y' allows 25 units to invade, but no more will be allowed until the placement of your second HQ 7 5. Order of Play 5.1. Initial Troop Landings All ground units (Armor, Artillery, Infantry, Engineer) on the initial invasion, that is, before an HQ has been placed, must land on beachheads. The Paratroop units, of course, may be placed anywhere on the map. Prepare to POSition units by entering either 'P' or 'F6' from the main menu. A box at the bottom of the screen will offer these choices; F3/I - Intell F1 - Help F4/Q - Quit (Quit POS, not the game) F7/G - Position Ground Forces F8/P - Position Paratroops, If you are positioning Paratroops, signaled by entering F8 or P, simply move the cursor to whatever coordinates you want, then hit F8 or P again. A unit designator ('P') will be placed on the map. (Warning: If you place the unit in a mine field, there may be casualties, depend- ing on your rank. If Positioning ground forces, signaled by entering F7 or G, move the cursor to the appropriate coordinates and hit F8 or P to choose that location. You will be asked the unit type to place, as follows; F5/A - Armor (A) F6/I - Infantry (I) F7/R - Artillery (R) F9/E - Engineer (E) An appropriate unit designator (A, I, R, E) will be placed on the map provided you have units of that type still available. Once in place, use Intell (F3 or I) to reveal any hidden enemy units or mine fields in the vicinity. When done Positioning (or, if you've positioned your entire ini- tial force, you are automatically returned to the Main menu), hit F4 or Q to return to the main menu. If you have placed Artillery units, you may want to go the MOVE function (F5 or M), or use F7 to fire Artillery on the enemy before the battle starts. NOTE: It is sometimes useful to hold several units of your initial invasion force in reserve until you see how the battle is going, wheth- er there is heavy mining for the Engineers to work on, etc.. 5.2. Pre-Invasion Bombing Missions An Allied airstrike can be used both before any battles have taken 8 place (Day 0) and at any time after. If you send in a bombing mission on Day 0, the Battle phase will not automatically begin when the mis- sion is done. At any other time, it will trigger the Battle phase. Hitting enemy troops with bombs will usually cause casualties, on occasion wiping out a unit entirely. Units on coordinates next to their HQ will be much less vulnerable. If you drop bombs directly on the enemy HQ, the bombing mission will be terminated immediately. Dropping bombs on mine fields will sometimes detonate the mines. If you drops bombs on your own troops (friendly fire), they too, will suffer casualties. 5.3. Battle Once you have positioned your invasion force or have completed troop movements after D Day, and you are done with your artillery shelling, the next required step is to do battle. This is accomplished by hitting F10 or B. If it is beyond D Day+0, there is another way to initiate battle. Perform a bombing mission. Immediately after, the game will go into the battle phase, starting with enemy maneuvering, then, possibly, sending an airstrike and/or airborne assault (see below) at your troops, then, wherever your units are next to an enemy unit, execute the battle phase. In the present edition of the game, searching for opposing units in contact starts at coordinates 1,1, proceeds down each column in turn to the end of the screen, performing the battles in that order. After the battle phase, a limited amount of unit resupply may take place, and you are returned to the Main Menu. 5.4. Enemy Airstrikes Prior to the battle phase, the enemy will often send out recon- naissance missions to look for available targets for airstrikes and/or paratroop drops. You will see a brief warning of such activity on the screen. An airstrike may or may not follow. When no more air activity is sensed from a particular enemy HQ, there is another brief 'All Clear' display on the screen. It is recommended you guard your lightly armed units and HQ's with your fighting units. If the enemy initiates a paratroop drop, then after the drop and the subsequent battle, the paratroop units will travel overland back to their original HQ, where they will become available for another air attack. 5.5. Maneuvering And Artillery Use Units may move once during any given 'Day', within their specific movement capabilities, although the MANEUVER function may be entered and reentered many times during one 'day', until there are no more units to move. How a unit can accomplish its move and how the move is monitored varies according to RANK. (SEE MANEUVERING/(MOVE)) If you move an Engineer unit into a minefield, they will be un- harmed, and will clear the mines. Other unit types will suffer casual- 9 ties. Hit F5 or M from the Main Menu to initiate maneuvering. If not sure what to do next, hit F1 for on-line Help. Place the cursor on the unit you wish to reposition, hit F7 or U (the unit designator disap- pears), move the cursor to the new position, hit F8 or M to finish the move of that unit. You can get an intelligence report by hitting F3, a unit status report by hitting F5. F4 or Q will take you out of the MOVE function for that unit. When you have repositioned as many units as required, the maneu- vering phase ends. Any combination of units may be moved during the movement phase, and every unit is entitled to move once during the phase. Firing artillery barrages also takes place during this phase. Hitting F6 or F will load for a barrage, after which you position the cursor on the target (within a 4X4 matrix of the artillery unit). Hitting alt-F6 or F fires the barrage, which falls in a diamond shape around the aim point. At random intervals the artillery spotter may announce the barrage to be falling on coordinates other than those ordered by the commander. If you fire on your own troops (friendly fire), they will take casualties. Firing directly on enemy HQ's is an effective way to reduce the enemy's air assets. Artillery, like bombs, can also be used to detonate mine fields. 5.6. Post-Invasion Unit Positioning After you have placed at least one HQ (and the first one must be within 3 spaces of a beachhead), units may be placed on land within a 8h X 4v matrix of any HQ, or on any beachhead. The paratroop units may be placed anywhere, as above. Mines are a danger, as noted above under MANEUVERING, but when an HQ is placed, all mines within an 8h by 4v matrix are automatically cleared. 5.7. Placement of Headquarters Once your initial invasion force (12 or 25 units) has been placed on the map, the only way you can add additional units is by placing an HQ. The basic rules of placement (as applied to a regular HQ); a. the first HQ you place must be within 3 spaces of a beachhead. b. an area 5h X 3v must be clear of enemy units ('secured area'). c. that same 5h by 3v area must be free of any other allied HQ. d. placing your HQ on the enemy's HQ captures that HQ and elimi- nates that HQ's airstrike capability. The number of airstrikes that enemy HQ had at the time of capture is added to your inventory. The enemy paratroops assigned to that HQ are considered 'captured'. e. any of your units within 8h by 4v will be brought up to full 10 strength. Artillery units will be resupplied. f. new units may be placed within that 8h by 4v area. g. If the area is not secured, you will not be permitted to posi- tion the HQ, a message to that effect will appear on line 25, the tally of times you tried to position an HQ in an unsecured area will increase by 1 (5 such tries and you lose the game), and you will be returned to the main menu. h. the object of the game is to capture the main enemy HQ. 5.8. The Game Status Report Use this report to keep informed (F8 or T on the Main Menu) on the status of your campaign. It tells you the score, the number of units you have in various stages, the number of enemy units, losses, bombing missions, artillery barrages, etc. The top left section, labeled ' -Status-', gives a condensed status of your campaign. It supplies the following; a. D-DAY + - how many days into the campaign. Each BATTLE phase is counted as one day. b. RATING: the score (some versions show two scores - the left hand score is the old, original computation, the other is the new. If there is only one score, it represents the new.) c. UNITS ACT/RES - How many units you've already placed / how many more can be placed without adding a new HQ to the map. d. ARTL - number of artillery barrages currently available, number of enemy units eliminated with artillery fire, number of barrages fired since game beginning. e. AIROPS - number of bombing missions used, number still avail- able (check this after capturing an enemy HQ), number of enemy units eliminated by bombings. f. HQ: number of HQ's you've placed, number of your HQ's captured by the enemy, number of times you've tried to place an HQ in an unse- cured area. Many of the other sections are self-explanatory. Some are an expansion of the data listed above. See the REFERENCE SECTION, STATUS REPORT for details. 5.9. Miscellaneous ACCESSING DOS - Hit alt-F3. Enter a command or transmit with no characters to return to the game. DISCARDING THIS GAME AND RESTORING A SAVED GAME - Hit alt-F2 and follow instructions on the screen. DISCARDING AND STARTING A NEW GAME - Hit alt-F5 or N, follow instructions on the screen. 11 HELP - Hit F1, alt-F1 or ctl-F1 for various help screens. RECOGNITION CHART - Hit F2. SAVING A GAME FOR LATER PLAY - Hit alt-F4 and follow the instruc- tions on the screen. You will have the options of continuing play or terminating after the save. 12 6. Resuming A Previously Saved Game By Menu The opening screen provides the game identification and a simple bar menu at the top of the screen. The cursor is positioned on the first choice, which is to start a new game. Position the cursor on "Restore Old Game", then hit Enter. A pulldown menu offers three choices; DIRECTORY, GAME TO RESTORE, HELP. Choosing DIRECTORY (by cursor position or entering the letter 'D') allows you to specify a Directory or subDirectory which contains the saved games (.WWS extension). Default is the current directory. To keep the same directory, hit Enter without entering a directory name. You are then returned to the pulldown menu. Select "GAME TO RESTORE'. You are presented a list of all files in the directory that have the .WWS extension (up to a maximum of 30, at present), although the extension does not appear in the list of names. At the bottom of the box, you enter the name of the game (without the .PIC extension) to be restored, or Q, if you decide to quit the play. By Run Time Parameters WWII {name.WWS} {pathname} WWII name.WWS - to go directly to the 'restore game process', read in the given saved game, and execute. or WWII name.WWS pathname, if the named .WWS is not in the default directory 13 7. Reference 7.1. Allied Forces --------------------------------------------------------------------- ALLIED FORCES STANDARD UNIT UNIT MOVEMENT DEFAULT ID STRENGTH FACTOR ASSIGNMENT A ARMOR 5 5/2 10 I INFANTRY 4 3/2 30 P AIRBORNE 2 10/5 10 E ENGINEER 2 4/2 5 R ARTILLERY 2 4/2 5 (Artillery units start with rounds for three barrages) chr(226) HQ N/A N/A N/A chr(241) MOBILE HQ N/A N/A N/A The second number in the 'movement' column is the movement factor for a unit which has been reduced in strength to '1', due to combat. The movement factor as well as the strength are returned to normal after resupply takes place, when the unit is within the support area of an HQ [8h x 4v]. There are two ways to keep informed on the condition of any unit and its surroundings. One is to place the cursor on the unit and hit F3 or I from either the Main Menu or the Maneuver Menu. See INTELLI- GENCE REPORT, below. The other way operates only from the Maneuver Menu. With the cursor on the unit in question, enter F5. You'll get a short report as follows; /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |US pos: Col: 27 Row: 14 In support: TRUE | |US str: 4 Intel reports: 0 Armor 0 Airborne 0 Infantry in your sector!!| \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/ It tells you the unit coordinates, whether the unit is within the influence of an Allied HQ (TRUE or FALSE). The second line gives the unit strength and how many enemy units are within a 3h X 3v matrix. If you're moving a unit and it touches your HQ (except, sometimes, when the unit also contacts an enemy unit in the same move, the odds are that the RESUPPLY will not take place), it will be resupplied as follows; 14 All - unit strength restored. for Artillery units; Private - 3 rounds, can keep moving Captain - 2 additional rounds, must halt General - 1 additional round, must halt 7.1.1. Airstrikes When you call for a bombing mission (F9 or A), you will be asked to confirm the order, then requested to place the cursor at the coordi- nates at which you want to start bombing, then hit alt-F9 or B. Then you are asked the direction of the bombing run. Bomb runs can be in any of the 8 main compass point directions. When a bomb run is called for, you will be asked to specify the direc- tion of the run using the keypad. Treat the keypad as though you were looking at a compass, i. e., '8' is North, '2' is South, etc. The bomb run will start at the point you have placed the cursor and will drop in a 3 X 6 pattern from there, in the direction specified. e. g. bombing East from cursor, it happens like this; ****** B***** ****** bombing SouthWest, like this; *B* *** *** *** *** *** , etc. Following an bombing mission by the Allies, the day count ad- vances, the enemy maneuvers its units, and the day's 'Battle' starts. Direct hits on mine fields will destroy some mines. Hits on structures will cause changes in the display but play no part in the game. Bombing can destroy bridges and roads. When this happens, the terrain under the bridge becomes the character for river. An enemy unit next to this area may rebuild the bridge, or conversely, destroy bridges, depending on which way he's going and the stage of the game. Without rebuilding, or having Allied engineers build a bridge, neither Allies nor enemy can pass through. Bombing missions leave various disfiguring blots on the landscape, but there can still be an enemy unit hidden under the debris, which may also attack in that guise. Sometimes, heavy bombing of an area will create impassable areas. 15 Bombing missions are sometimes aborted due to bad weather, al- though the day count will still advance and the enemy ground troops will maneuver and 'Battle'. Sometimes coordinates other than those you specified by cursor position are used for bomb runs, about which you can do nothing except watch. If you bomb your own troops, there will be losses. 7.1.2. Armor These are the main fighting units along with Infantry. They can move 5 spaces at a turn, have a force value of 5 and are also used to protect Engineers and Artillery units from air attack. They can also stand guard duty to protect HQ's. 7.1.3. Artillery These units can move 4 spaces at a turn, are lightly armed, gener- ally should be protected, and are important to the overall battle effectiveness of your forces. To initiate an artillery barrage, go to the 'Move' menu by hitting F5 or M (or, with the cursor on an artillery unit, from the main menu, hit F7). Place the cursor on an artillery unit (R), hit F6 or F. You will be asked to position the cursor on the target (within a 4x4 ma- trix) and hit alt-F6 or F to fire the barrage. Firing artillery produces a diamond-shaped hit spread, like this; * *F* * where the 'F' is the aim point If you fire artillery on your own troops, there will be losses. Careless key handling can cause your unit to shell itself! Direct hits on minefields will destroy some mines. Use the Intell screen to be sure. Artillery leaves various disfiguring blots on the landscape, but there can still be an enemy unit hidden under the debris, which may attack in guise. Artillery barrages, at times, will be fired using coordinates other than those you ordered. Artillery shelling of an enemy HQ - this is one way to reduce enemy airstrike and airdrop capability. If you're moving an artillery unit and it touches your HQ , it 16 will be resupplied as follows; Private - 3 rounds, can keep moving Captain - 2 additional rounds, must halt General - 1 additional round, must halt All - unit strength restored. (Except, sometimes, when the unit also contacts an enemy unit in the same move, the odds are that the resupply will not take place.) 7.1.4. Engineers Engineers (SeaBee's, if you prefer) are valuable, can move 4 spaces at a turn, are lightly armed and very busy. They; Defuse mines. If you move them into a minefield, the unit will defuse the mines, but will be required to stay at that sector one day - any other unit type risks destruction in the mine field. Build roads through the mountains. If you move an engineer to a mountain, you have a chance to build a road or back away. Unit will stay on that sector for one day. Build bridges across rivers - same as for mountains - one day to build a bridge (which can be bombed out or blown with artillery - although it's not easy or quick to do so. Engineers may be needed to overcome terrain and mine problems to allow ground units to get at the enemy around main HQ, depending on the campaign configuration. 7.1.5. Infantry These are the main fighting units along with Armor. They can move 3 spaces at a turn and have a force value of 4. 7.1.6. Paratroops An auxiliary fighting unit, they can move 10 space at a turn, have a force value of 2, and are particularly valuable for reconnaissance. 7.2. Battles This phase is controlled by the computer, and is initiated by hitting the F10 or 'B' key anytime the Main Menu is up. Any Allied unit in contact with an enemy unit will be involved in battle with that unit. The computer will resolve all battles based on the strength point value of the units and a random percentage factor. Battles with units not visible will also be resolved, the winning unit either being left on the map in the case of the Allied units, or being revealed, permanently, on the map in the case of the enemy unit, in any event the losing unit is removed from the map. The winning unit's strength is decreased by one strength point to simulate depletion of it's man- power and supplies. (This will only affect the unit directly in combat 17 with the enemy, signified by blinking of the cursor under the battling units). At the close of a battle between two units, a display on line 25 gives a running total of all battles, as well as the winner of the most recent battle, along with the relative strength of the involved units. The relative strength is based on the total strength of all Allied units in contact with the enemy being fought, and the total strength of all enemy units in contact with the Allied unit being fought, for example, (where the character I represents Allied Infantry, A is Allied Armor, i is enemy Infantry, a is enemy Armor, p is enemy Paratroop): I ip Aa Aa The relative strengths in the above examples would be: U.S.<9> enemy<7> U.S.<5> enemy<16> strength - (I = 4, A = 5) (a = 7) (A = 5) (i = 5, p = 4, a = 7) (Assuming all units are fresh, and this is their first battle.) Having a relative strength greater than the enemy is a definite advantage, but due to the use of a random number in deciding all bat- tles, you may still lose the battle. This helps to simulate the oppos- ing commander's ingenuity in the deployment of his resources against long odds. However, if you have an overwhelming advantage in strength, you will win that battle, regardless. For Privates, you need a 2-1 advantage, for Captains, 3-1, for Generals, 4-1, keeping in mind this means strength, not number of units. During the battle phase you are also told on the 25th line if you are in the resupply influence of any HQ unit on the map. If so, the strength of the unit is effectively increased and may affect the out- come of the battle, generally in your favor. 7.3. Understanding the campaign map TERRAIN FEATURES: Some of the maps are approximations of original battle scenes. Others are entirely fictional. On the screen you will encounter the following features and obstacles. (Characters may appear differently on different systems. Use F2 with the game active to demonstrate the characters for your system.) enemy infantry looks like this: chr(234) enemy armor like this: chr(232) enemy paratroops like this p Hidden units look like this Rivers /,\,chr(177) Beachheads chr(176) Ocean chr(178) Mountains # 18 Allied HQ chr(226) Allied Mobile HQ chr(241) Enemy HQ chr(127) Towns, runways, etc. various characters Impassable areas chr(247) ( At times, repeated bombing will make an area impassable) Movement on the map is affected in the following ways by the various obstacles. Feature or obstacle Identification Effect on Movement alpha chars .............Location names........No effect /,\,chr(177) .............Rivers................Need bridge to cross. (Note: narrow rivers may be forded by moving diagonally.) chr(176) .............Beachheads............where units must land for invasion chr(178) .............Ocean.................can't enter '=' .............Bridges, Roads........only way to cross wide rivers or mountains. chr(247) .............Impassable area.......can't enter '#' .............Mountains.............Impassable until Engineers build roads. '*' .............Enemy mine field......Hidden, until moved into. Action on unit depends on Rank. '?' .............Objective.............Only an HQ unit can be placed here. various chars ............Cities, structures..........None bases, bomb damage, artillery damage 7.4. Choosing Your Forces When asked to choose your forces, the first unit type you select is Engineer. If you enter '99' you will be assigned 5 units as the default standard, then you will be asked to select the next unit type. If you instead entered '98' you would be assigned the default for each unit type, and then asked whether you want a two-front invasion. If, however, you enter the value '98' at a later point in the selection process, the computer will assign the standard values to each type until the assignment totals the 65 maximum. For example, say, after entering '2' for Engineers, '3' for paratroops, 20 for bombing missions, then entering '98' for Armor units, then the assignment would 19 proceed this way; 10 Armor units, (the default) 5 Artillery units, (the default) 25 Infantry units, (to bring total to 65) for a total of 65 units, with the 5 fewer Infantry units, the 3 fewer Engineer and 7 fewer Paratroops making up for the extra 15 bombing missions. If you enter the value '99', you will be assigned the default value for the current unit type only (as displayed in the box), provid- ed there are that many units still to be selected. Then you will be asked how many units of the next type are wanted. Any other number entered, provided it is less than or equal to the number remaining to be selected will assign your campaign that number of the type in question. You might consider experimenting after learn- ing the basic game, for example, choosing 25 bombing missions, 25 paratroop units and the remaining 15 units from among the other types. Or perhaps 65 bombing missions and you can try to bomb the enemy into submission. 20 7.5. Commands From Main Menu FUNCTION KEY TABLE ----------------------------------------------------------------- With Alt With Ctl F1 HELP HELP HELP F2 RECOGNITION CHART RESTORE GAME --- F3 INTELLIGENCE DOS ACCESS DISPLAY RELATIVE SPEED F4 REFRESH SCREEN SAVE GAME DISPLAY RELATIVE CHALLENGE F5 MANEUVER NEW GAME SPEED UP MESSAGES F6 POSITION --- SLOW DOWN MESSAGES F7 ARTILLERY FIRE --- --- F8 STATUS REPORT --- --- F9 BOMBING MISSION --- RAISE CHALLENGE F10 BATTLE --- LOWER CHALLENGE 7.5.1. Airstrike/Bombing Mission Initiate a bombing mission by the Allies. See above under ALLIED FORCES. 7.5.2. Artillery Fire With the cursor on an Artillery unit (R), fire a barrage. See above under ALLIED FORCES. 7.5.3. Battle Command Start the days battle. See BATTLES, above. This sequence may also be initiated following bombing missions by the Allies. See above under ALLIED FORCES. 7.5.4. Brief Report Enter S. You will be asked whether you want a Brief or In-Depth report. The In-Depth report (Enter I) is the same as STATUS REPORT, described elsewhere. Enter B for Brief. This is a sample of the report contents: /---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |Wins 15/Axis 17 Units used:20 avail:25 / Axis Units left: 66 HQ tries:0 | |Your score is: 9700 Today is D-day + 5 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ It shows how many victories you've had, the number of enemy victo- 21 ries, how many units you've positioned, how many are still available, how many enemy units are still in the battle, how many times you've tried to place an HQ in an unsecured area. Line 2 gives the current score and 'Day'. 7.5.5. Challenge See below, DIFFICULTY OF PLAY. 7.5.6. Cursor Positioning Move to different coordinates using the keypad (such as before doing a 'POSITION', or HQ locate, or 'MANEUVER'. Line 25 provides a display of the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the cursor. After positioning the cursor where you wish, hit F4 or Q to return to the main menu. 7.5.7. DOS Access alt-F1 brings up the alt-F HELP screen. alt-F3 saves the campaign screen, exits to DOS, allows other program execution. On transmitting a blank line, the screen is restored and play continues. 7.5.8. Help Shows a list of all commands available from the Main Menu. 7.5.9. HQ Position See HQ PLACEMENT, below. 7.5.10. Intelligence Report With the cursor on an Allied unit or HQ, hit F3 or I. Two dis- plays of an area 5h X 3v around that unit will reveal hidden enemy units and minefields, and give the battle strength of all units within the area. If the cursor is not on one of your units, or your HQ, the display is blank. This facility can also be used in "FIRE", "MOVE", or "POS" mode, where hitting F3 will provide the Intell report. Hitting any key will remove the report from the screen. See INTELLIGENCE REPORTS, below. 7.5.11. Log Game Score Save current score and details to file WWII.DAT. If the file WWII.DAT doesn't exist, the program will create it at log time. Auto- matic logging takes place if you win or lose, but no logging takes place otherwise. You can choose to save current status at any time by keying 'L'. The file WWII.DAT is processed by the program WWLOG. See Appendices. 22 7.5.12. Message Delay See DIFFICULTY OF PLAY, below. 7.5.13. Maneuvering/(MOVE) Each units may move once during any given 'Day', within its' spe- cific movement capabilities. The rank at which you are playing will affect the way you can move a unit. It also affects casualties taken when you move into a mine field. (SEE BELOW) Hit F5 or M from the Main Menu to initiate maneuvering. Place the cursor on the unit you wish to reposition, hit F7 or U (the unit desig- nator disappears), move the cursor to the new position, hit F8 or M to finish the move of that unit. You can get an intelligence report by hitting F3, a unit status report by hitting F5, or, if an Artillery unit, you can initiate a barrage by hitting F6 or F. F4 or Q will take you out of the move function for that unit. When you have repositioned as many units as required, the maneu- verings phase ends. During or following maneuvering, you may need to use your artillery to soften up the opposition. Following that, you may wish to execute a bombing mission, keeping in mind that the bombing mission is automatically followed by the Battle phase. Any combination of units may be moved during the movement phase, and every unit is entitled to move once during that movement phase. The BATTLE phase must be executed before a unit may move again. Firing of the artillery units also takes place during this phase. Hitting F6 or F will load for a barrage, after which you position the cursor on the target (within a 4X4 matrix of the artillery unit). Hitting alt-F6 or F fires the barrage, which falls in a diamond shape around the aim point. At random intervals the artillery spotter may announce the barrage to be falling on coordinates other than those ordered by the commander. If you fire on your own troops (friendly fire), they will take casualties. Firing directly on enemy HQ's is an effective way to reduce the enemy's air assets. RANK and MOVEMENT, RANK and MINES; After putting the cursor on a unit to move, hitting F7 or M, then, If a PRIVATE; you can move the cursor anywhere within the range of movement for the unit. It's possible to move the cursor several times around that area until you decide where to position the unit, or until you contact an enemy unit. There are other liberties of movement a Private may take. Experiment. you will get a warning message that you are entering a mine field. You have a choice of backing away or continuing on. If you continue on, the mine field will detonate. IMPORTANT: Regardless of RANK, if the unit you move into a mine field is an Engineer unit, they will be unharmed, and will clear the mines. 23 7.5.14. Position Troops All ground units (Armor, Artillery, Infantry, Engineer) on the initial invasion, that is, before an HQ has been placed, must land on beachheads. The Paratroop units, of course, may be placed anywhere on the map. NOTE: The beachhead area character will vary from one system to the next. Use F2 for a display relevant to your system. The beachhead character is CHR(176). (Hold down the ALT key while typing on the keypad, the numbers 1, 7, 6, to see what it looks like.) Prepare to POSition units by entering either 'P' or 'F6' from the main menu. A box at the bottom of the screen will offer these choices; F3/I - Intell F1 - Help F4/Q - Quit (Quit POS, not the game) F7/G - Ground Forces F8/P - Paratroops If you are positioning Paratroops, signaled by entering F8 or P, simply move the cursor to whatever coordinates you want, then hit F8 or P again. A unit designator ('P') will be placed on the map. (Warning: If you place the unit in a mine field, there may be casualties, depend- ing on your rank. See the Reference section under MINES, also under MANEUVERING.) If Positioning ground forces, signaled by entering F7 or G, move the cursor to the appropriate coordinates and hit F8 or P to choose that location. You will be asked the unit type to place, as follows; F5/A - Armor F6/I - Infantry F7/R - Artillery F9/E - Engineer. An appropriate unit designator (A, I, E, R) will be placed on the map provided you have units of that type still available. The MINE warning, as above, does not apply to beachhead landings, since there are no mines hidden under beachheads. When you move inland, however, mines can be almost anywhere. If the cursor makes contact with an enemy unit, provided the cursor is located on a beachhead, you are required to position one of your units on that spot. A message appears on line 25. As you Position your units, get in the habit of hitting the Intell key (F3 or I) to reveal any hidden enemy units or mine fields in the vicinity. 24 When done Positioning (or, if you've positioned your entire ini- tial force, you are automatically returned to the Main menu), hit F4 or Q to return to the main menu. If you have placed Artillery units, you may want to go the MOVE function (F5 or M), or use F7 to fire on the enemy before the battle starts. NOTE: It is sometimes useful to hold several units of your initial invasion force in reserve until you see how the battle is going, wheth- er there is heavy mining, etc.. 7.5.15. Quit Game (See QUITTING THE PLAY) 7.5.16. Recognition Chart To see how the various game tokens appear on your system, Hit F2. A Recognition Chart is displayed on the left side of the screen. This display is also available from the POS and MOVE menus. 7.5.17. Refresh Screen F4 from the Main Menu causes the campaign map to be rewritten to the screen. 7.5.18. Restore Game From Main Menu, enter alt-F2. A window is displayed giving all the elements in the current directory with a .WWS extension. You are asked for the name to restore. If desired, you can specify another path and name. In either case, do not key in the WWS extension. Enter Q if you change your mind about restoring a game. This will take you out of the game entirely. Run Time Parameters WWII {name.WWS} {pathname} WWII name.WWS - to go directly to the 'restore game process', read in the given saved game, and execute. or WWII name.WWS pathname, if the named .WWS is not in the default directory 7.5.19. Save Game .WWS is the save game extension From the main menu, enter alt-F4. A window is displayed giving all the elements in the current library with a WWS extension. You are asked for a name to save the game under. If you specify a name already in use, the original will be overwritten. You can also specify a directory other than the default. In either case, do not key in the 25 WWS extension. Enter Q if you change your mind about saving the game. 7.5.20. Sound Toggle The game comes up with the sound OFF. To activate the sounds, Enter X - to deactivate, enter X again. (Game sounds are rudimentary and under revision.) 7.5.21. Start New Game - Terminate Present Game Enter alt-F5 or N. You will be asked to confirm the order. If you answer Y, the present game will be abandoned. You are presented with the campaign selection screen. See above, Section 4 - CAMPAIGN SELECTION to continue. 7.5.22. Status Report Has a 'STATUS' or Quick Reference section, upper left corner, which tells you the day, your rating, units active/in reserve, artil- lery rounds available + rounds used/kills, airstrikes used against enemy, total available/kills, Allied HQ's in place/captured, enemy HQ's captured. Much of the data in this block is redundant with other parts of the display, its design being to give a quick look at what's available to the invasion force. The screen provides game, unit and enemy status, units available and units lost by type for Allies and enemy, cause of losses, whether battle, airstrike artillery, mines, or 'friendly fire', counts on roads built, bridges built, mines cleared, your sign-on rank and name, the campaign name, and a report on extent of mining. See Reference Section, below, STATUS REPORT for more detail or, Key in 'R' to display only the upper half of Report. or, Key in 'Y' to display only the lower half of Report. 7.6. D-Day+ Each time you do battle, the day count advances - this is a meas- uring and scoring factor. It is also used in the enemy movement algo- rithm to decide when some units should start moving toward their HQ's. 7.7. Difficulty Of Play (Raise/Lower Challenge) A way to make play EASIER or MORE DIFFICULT - ON THE FLY. Using Ctl-F5 (Less delay) and Ctl-F6 (More delay) keys, you can change the MESSAGE DELAY TIME up and down (to a minimum of 50ms, max of 9999ms). This makes the game only nominally easier or more difficult since the only effect is to leave various messages on the screen for a shorter or longer time. It's handy to shorten message time when you're playing as a Private. Using Ctl-F9 (More difficult) and Ctl-F10 (Easier), you can have a significant affect on the level of challenge. As you raise or lower, 26 the following are affected; battle win/lose percentages depending on strengths frequency of enemy airstrikes as days pass days at which enemy units start for main HQ number of Paratroops and airstrikes available to enemy HQ's number of Paratroop units that can be dropped during one attack range of enemy airstrikes from HQ's the score As you raise or lower the challenge, line 25 will show the chang- ing relative number. Use ctl-F3 to display the current message delay time and difficul- ty settings. You will see something like this; Msg Delay: 0 (relative) Delay: 250ms. Challenge: 0 (relative) Battle delay: 60ms. where the relative msg delay can vary from 8 to -21, the challenge can vary from -19 to +19, and the delay can be 50ms to 9999ms. The battle delay can vary from 1ms to 300ms. The battle delay value, in practice, is this value times 7, which means times beyond 50 to 75 ms will become increasingly leisurely 7.8. Directories At game's end, if you have chosen an ALTERNATE DIRECTORY at start- up time, you will be returned to the directory you started in. If you restart a saved game, at game end you will be returned to whatever directory the player had been in when that game was saved. 7.9. Enemy Forces UNIT UNIT MOVEMENT NUMBER ID STRENGTH FACTOR AVAILABLE chr(234) INFANTRY 5 1 VARIABLE chr(232) ARMOR 7 1 VARIABLE p PARATROOPS 4 Note 1 Note 2 * MINES - - VARIABLE chr(127) HQ - - VARIABLE Note 1 - one when on foot, varies when launching attack from HQ Note 2 - will increase as long as HQ is secure 27 7.9.1. Airstrikes There is an allocation of air assets to each enemy HQ, where main HQ (#0) gets the highest number of paratroop units and airstrike capa- bilities and the greatest strike range. Auxiliary HQ's get fewer troops, fewer strikes, and operate within a smaller strike range. The enemy may launch airstrikes alone, or airstrikes followed by Paratroop drops. After a drop of enemy paratroops and the subsequent battle, the units will travel overland back to their original HQ, where they will become available for another air attack. Normally, main enemy HQ will not use any air assets until its troops begin converging (SEE 'THRESHOLD DAY') on that main HQ. If, however, there is only one enemy HQ on the map, it will have increased air assets and range of strike, and will use its assets whenever the invading forces come into strike range. When an allied unit is 'killed' by an airstrike, the character that replaces the unit is chr(254). Occasionally, there may be a random increase in an enemy HQ's air assets at game start-up. AIR STRIKES AND AIR DROPS BY enemy Whenever air activity is called for by the enemy, a recon is taken for each HQ's area of influence. Depending on the relative strengths, and the types of Allied units within range, either an Airstrike or an Airdrop, or both, or neither, will be executed, provided also, that the HQ in question has resources available. The Airstrike would go first, represented by '*' on a matrix, starting on a particular Allied unit. Any unit hit (including enemy units) will lose strength or be de- stroyed. 7.9.2. Armor Enemy Armor has a strength of 7. 7.9.3. Infantry Enemy Infantry has a strength of 5. 7.9.4. Land Mines Some campaigns are heavily mined, others not at all - the STATUS REPORT (upper right) gives a rough estimate. Use the Intell facility frequently as you place or maneuver your units to stay aware of mine- fields. When you place an HQ, all the MINES within the "resupply" (+-8h, +-4v) matrix are CLEARED. Otherwise, use your Engineers. 7.9.5. Maneuvering ALL units are mobile The enemy units are in a defensive posture. This means they will 28 1) Hold their position at first 2) Move a short distance to attack an isolated Allied unit 3) Move to support each other when attacked or threatened 4) Move toward an Allied HQ within range, with the hope of capturing that HQ 5) At certain points in the game the units assigned to a particular enemy HQ will begin to move toward their HQ's, or, if within range of same, will move toward bridges and Allied HQ's, and, if possi- ble, blowing any bridges between themselves and oncoming Allied units. Many of the units have the capability for building bridges, although sometimes, narrow streams can be forded. 6) At another point, other units will begin moving toward Main HQ, also on the alert for bridges, Allied units and Allied HQ's. 7.9.6. Paratroops Paratroops have a strength of 4. How far they move to attack from the air varies according to the HQ they are attached to. After a paratroop drop and any battle action, the paratroops will immediately head back, overland, at the rate of one sector per day, for the HQ from which they came. When a 'p' unit arrives in a sector next to the enemy HQ, the 'p' disappears and the unit is again available for an airdrop. The count of enemy Paratroop units on the STATUS REPORT varies, usually reflecting units on the ground. 7.10. Function Keys. At main menu, F1 offers help. When doing Position, Move, Fire artillery, Airstrike, either Alpha keys or Function keys can be used - check information line at 25. 7.11 HQ Placement This is accomplished by hitting the 'H' key from the Main Menu. Position the cursor to the desired location and again hit the 'H' key. If an area 5h X 3v around that point is free of enemy units, an HQ token will be placed there. Otherwise, the placement will be negated, and the count of attempts to place an HQ within an unsecured area is increased by one. The main menu is then displayed. Following a successful placement, all enemy mines within a 8h X 4v matrix will be cleared. The placement of the Headquarters units is essential in the play to get replacements, resupply and to win the game. There is also a limit as to how close the HQ units can be placed together. An HQ cannot be placed within a 5h X 3v matrix of another HQ unit. In order to win the game one of the first five HQ's units must be placed direct- ly on top of the main enemy HQ. Resupply occurs simultaneously with placement of HQ units. Any U.S. unit in an area 8h X 4v around a placed HQ will be returned to full strength. All artillery units will be issued the full allocation of ammunition (3). 7.11.1. HQ Placement - chr(226) 29 When you position troops before establishing first HQ, all troops must land at beachheads, identified by character chr(176). First HQ placement must be close to beachhead chr(176). Once the first HQ is established, you can land troops at ANY beachhead at any time, or within suitable range on land of the HQ. 7.11.2. HQ - Air Mobile - chr(241) an air-dropped Allied HQ (one per game) that can be placed any- time, anywhere, except on a unit, on mountains, in impassable areas, or in water. It's purpose is to capture an enemy HQ and its air assets. Presence of enemy units or another Allied HQ within the 5h X 3v matrix as above is not taken into account. This is offset by the fact this HQ can't resupply troops, can only be accompanied by Paratroops, enemy troops will come on the march immediately to retake it. Your job would be to intercept and eliminate all enemy troops before they can recapture it. There is no capability for flying in Infantry, Armor, Engineer or Artillery units. These units have to come overland. You can later put a regular HQ on top of this one, provided you have followed all the rules for placement of HQ's. The count of your HQ usage will increase, although the effective result is just one HQ located on that spot. You could also put a regular HQ right next to it - although the purpose is merely decorative. 7.11.3. HQ Captures If you capture an enemy HQ, then enemy units capture that Allied HQ, the enemy HQ is restored. Positioning a unit on an HQ is not allowed, nor will enemy units position on an HQ. 7.11.4. Recapture By Enemy The enemy recaptures their Main HQ. You lose. Allied units on map surrender. Airstrikes are reduced to 0. Unlike the usual losing situation, however, the loss is logged and you cannot continue the play. 30 7.12. Intelligence Reports Gives a 'map overlay' intelligence display based on the Allied unit (or Allied HQ) on which the cursor is positioned. It consists of two display blocks. The example below is from the Iwo Jima campaign, though the repre- sentation here is slightly different from what you would see on your display. The lower case a's represent enemy Armor units, the lower case i's representing enemy Infantry. The Intell display covers an area 5h X 3v around the unit on which the cursor is positioned. On the left is part of the campaign map as seen on your screen. The inserts are the Intell report, and overlay your map on the right side of the screen. ##### ############# ##/------------\ For this example, the | |cursor was on the 'A', an II A ?|########### |Allied Armor unit. The map E I i | |does not show the enemy Eoo |I A a |units to the right. The Ioo ## | E Ia |Intell screens, however, o| i ### |oo a |reveal, in the top screen, -------- #### |Ioo |the location of the units. o | ####\\------------/ o| a / \ / ## The bottom screen reveals | / /------------\strength of the units, both / | |Allied and enemy. / |########### | h / | |If there were mines present / |4 5 7 |they would be seen only in / | 2 47 |the top Intell screen, as ############## |oo 7 |asterisks #####|4oo | The o's represent damage \------------/from bombing missions Hana -F5 , Intell-F3, Quit-F4 31 7.13. Keyboard Entry Any time the instructions call for alpha characters to be entered, you may use either upper- or lowercase, as you prefer. Cursor movement can be controlled by either the numeric keypad (excluding the '5' key), or the number keys at the top of the keyboard. 7.14. Losing if your only HQ is captured, you lose if any 2 Allied HQ's are CAPTURED, you lose Attempting to place an HQ unit in a unsecured area five times. If your Mobile HQ is used to capture an enemy HQ, and the enemy recaptures it, you lose. if you capture Main enemy HQ, and it is recaptured by the enemy, you lose If you use all your assets without capturing Main enemy HQ, you lose. 7.15. Quitting The Play There are several ways to quit play. In most cases, you will be asked to confirm that you do want to quit. Some of the ways are; from Rank pulldown menu Position the cursor with the keypad and hit Enter, or key in "Q", which will take you out of the game. from Campaign selection menu Entering Q will take you out of the game immediately. from Main Menu enter "Q". you will see a box providing choices; Enter 'Y' to quit Enter 'L' to log the results, then quit Enter 'C' to return to the play "Q" (or F4) is also used to quit many actions, such as POSITION, MANEUVER, FIRE, etc. F4, however, does not initiate the QUIT action from the Main Menu. 7.16. Rank As A Game Factor The rank at which you are playing will affect both movement and the dangers of mine fields. 32 RANK and MANEUVERING, RANK and MINES; After putting the cursor on a unit to move, hitting F7 or M, then, If a PRIVATE; you can move the cursor anywhere within the range of movement for the unit. It's possible to move the cursor several times around that area until you decide where to position the unit. You can move your units over each other, or over the enemy, anywhere within the unit's range, e. g., 5h x 5v (because armor has a range of 5) for armor unit If the cursor is placed in a sector touching on an enemy unit, your unit will be locked into moving to that position. you will get a warning message that you are entering a mine field. You have a choice of backing away or continuing on. If you continue on, the mine field will detonate. Regardless of RANK, if the unit you move into a mine field is an Engineer unit, they will be unharmed, and will clear the mines. RANK AND ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES Sign on as a Private; approximately an 11% better chance than Generals of winning a battle. - as a Captain - a 5-6% better chance than Generals enemy Air resources The enemy air force and Paratroops aligned against you vary ac- cording to the Rank at which you play, by HQ, occasionally by a random factor. The higher your rank, the more resources and greater strike range the enemy has. However, if there is only one HQ, the enemy air assets at Main HQ may be increased. The strike range is also increased. 7.17. Scoring The score provides a relative measure of performance. The object is to take your objective with the highest score possible. You start with 10,000 points and will gain or lose points based on how efficient your assault on the objective is. You gain points for every battle you win, and you lose points for every battle you lose, as well as for using the bombing missions, and for placing HQ units. Also factored in are; days since D-Day, Artillery usage, 'Friendly Fire', losses to Minefields, etc., etc. Ideally, if you can take your objective with only one HQ, not use any bombing missions, and don't lose any battles, you will get an excellent score. (However this is highly unlikely, except for a lightly defended objective very close to a beachhead.) In some releases, two versions of scoring are given on the STATUS REPORT - the left hand score is the original method, on the right is the new. Some scoring factors; If you capture Main enemy HQ, bonus 2500. If you kill all enemy units, bonus 2500. If you play as Private, penalty 4000. 33 If you play as Captain, penalty 2000. Bonus for making the play more difficult, penalty for lessen- ing the challenge. 7.18. Status Report: Use this report to keep informed on the status of your campaign. It tells you the score, the number of units you have in various stages, the number of enemy units, losses, bombing missions, artillery bar- rages, etc. The top left section, labeled ' -Status-', gives the following; a. D-DAY + - how many days into the campaign b. RATING: the score (some versions show two scores - the left hand score is the old, original computation, the other is the new. If there is only one score, it represents the new. c. UNITS ACT/RES - How many units you've already placed / how many more can be placed without adding a new HQ to the map. d. ARTL - number of artillery barrages currently available, number of enemy units eliminated with artillery fire, number of barrages fired since game beginning. e. AIROPS - number of bombing missions used, number still avail- able (check this after capturing an enemy HQ), number of enemy units eliminated by bombings. f. HQ: number of HQ's you've placed, number of your HQ's captured by the enemy, number of times you've tried to place an HQ in an unse- cured area. The next section, to the right, provides a count of each type of unit - how many you've already placed on the map, how many have been lost in action, how many remain in reserve. To the far right is the count of enemy units and how many have been eliminated (not always completely accurate). Also mine condi- tions. The next block down contains the player's name, the campaign name, the name under which you've saved this game earlier in the play, if applicable,, the name of the restored game, if applicable, and the number of actions taken from the main menu. The third section down compares allied and enemy strength. The numbers, in order, represent; 1. number of units already placed 2. number currently active on the map 3. number already lost in action 4. total number still in reserve 5. total of 2, 3, and 4. For the enemy forces, no figure is given for 1 or 4, since all enemy units are committed, none in reserve. NOTE: the count of enemy Paratroop units includes only those units currently on the map. If a unit is attached to HQ waiting for action it is not included in the count. There is no way to know the actual count of Paratroop units or airstrikes available to the various HQ's. The two cryptic labels to the far right are; Rel Sp = Relative Speed or Message Delay explained in section 7 34 under DIFFICULTY OF PLAY The last section recaps how allied and enemy units have been eliminated. (FrFi means Friendly Fire). /---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | -Status- | Com't Lost Res: | Act: Lost | | D-Day + 0 | Armor : 0 0 10 | Armor : 63 0 | |Rating: 10000 [ 10000]| Infantry 0 0 30 | Infantry 65 0 | |Unts Act/Res. : 0/ 25 | Para 0 0 10 | Para 2 0 | | Artl [ 0]- 0: 0] | Artillery 0 0 5 | Mines- L. to Med. | | AirOps < 0/ 5-- 0 > | Engineers 0 0 5 | | | HQ: 0/ 0 [0] | (Bridges: 0 Roads: 0 Mines Cleared: 0) | /---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | CO: Gen. Patton Campaign: SICILY | | Save=[ ] Res=[ ] (Tcnt= 1) | | ========================================================================= | | US:Com't/Act/Lost/Rsrv/Tot/Max : 0/ 0/ 0/ 25/ 25/ 60 (Rel Sp: 0) | | Ax: Act/Lost/ /Tot : 130/ 0/ /130 (Rel Df: 0) | /---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |US lost to: Enemy action: 0 AirStrike: 0/ 0 Mines: 0 FrFi: 0 | |Ax lost to: Allies action: 0 AirStrike: 0/ 0 Artillery: 0: 0Rnds | \---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ 7.19. Threshold Day The 'Day' enemy units will begin moving toward Main HQ for a showdown in force. Depending on Allied forces landed, this day can vary. If you raise the Challenge factor, this day will be affected. 35 8. Hints WINNING AND LOSING Ways to definitively lose the game; try to place HQ in unsecured areas too many times (as in the original version), or you have no troops and no air support left. However, it is very easy to find yourself unable to win for lack of enough ground units to battle enemy units close to enemy main HQ (it's not necessary to capture all enemy HQ's in order to win, only Main). not capturing main HQ with one of your first five HQ's. Win or lose, you will be asked if you want to quit. Thus, you may capture main HQ and win, then keep playing in a mop-up mode and lose or win that phase. END OF GAME At end of game, the STATUS REPORT, as in the F8 or T command, above, will be displayed for a last look before signing off. There are three skill levels in the game, Private, Captain, and General. Some of the invasion campaigns are easier to win than others. Start with an easy campaign until you are familiar with the play of the game. Anytime you make a mistake or do something the game recognizes as illegal you will get a message somewhere on the screen, usually boxed, often on line 25 and will provide various simple sounds as a warning. The 'X' key is a sound toggle. It is advisable to save as many Paratroops as possible to use throughout the play so that they can be 'dropped in' behind enemy lines. There are areas on some of the screens that the only way you can get more than a one on one battle is to use an air assault. Armor units are also good to have near the end of your assault on the objective, so use them sparingly. Keep your units as spread out as possible, as this reduces chances of an enemy airstrike. Isolated units will attract the enemy. 36