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- Peoples General Demo v1.0
- 7/7/98
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- Peoples General (c) 1998 by Strategic Simulations, Inc, USA
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- System Requirments:
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- Pentium 166
- 32 MB of Ram
- 2MB SVGA with DirectX 5.2 support
- DirectX support Sound Card
- 8X CD-ROM Drive
- Quicktime 3.0
- Windows 95
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- Installing the Peoples General demo:
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- To install the People's General demo, locate and open the
- People's General demo folder, and double click on the
- setup.exe icon. Follow the setup instructions.
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- To uninstall People's General, go to the Peoples General program group
- (left click Start, then Programs) and double click on the uninstall icon.
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- To run People's General:
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- Open the Peoples General demo folder on your hard disk
- and double click on the Peoples General icon (Peoples.exe)
- to start the game.
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- (Optional) You can create a shortcut for the Peoples General
- demo by dragging the Peoples General (Peoples.exe) icon
- to your desktop.
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- Playing the Peoples General Demo
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- 1. After the cinematic ends, (the cinematic can be bypassed by
- pressing the escape key on your keyboard or by left clicking your left mouse
- button) left click on the "Play Demo" button on the far left of the button
- row near the bottom of the screen. For a brief tutorial on game play, see
- the bottom of the this file.
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- Exiting the People's General demo:
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- To exit the People's General demo, hit the <esc> from inside the main game
- map screen. A game functions box will appear. Select Exit game to end the
- demo.
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- Although you only get a glimpse at what will be available in Peoples General
- from this demo, you can look forward to the full game featuring so much more
- including:
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- Fast-paced game play covering large areas of the Korean Peninsula, Southeast
- Asia, Siberia, Ukraine, and the Ural Mountains. You will be able to choose
- from over 200 task forces from 19 different nations. You will be able to
- choose two different campaigns of 18 scenarios each as either Chinese or
- Western Alliance forces and deploy a dizzying array of modern and meticulously
- researched next generation weapon systems such as the M1A3 and T-99 Main
- Battle Tanks, F-22 stealth fighters, Starstreak Surface-to-Air Missiles and
- many more. You will be able to create your own scenarios using a full featured
- scenario editor and be able to play People's General with 2, 3 or 4 player
- multiplayer action over the internet or a local area network.
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- For more info and screen shots on People's General, please check out SSI's
- webpage at:
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- www.ssionline.com
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- Demo tutorial:
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- To win the Demo, you'll need to capture and hold the cities Suchan (hex 35,22),
- Artem (hex 6,14), and Okeanskaya (1,18)
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- Launch the demo and select the LTH 155mm artillery piece located at hex 12,26
- (you can see the hex map coordinates at the center top portion of the screen)
- Once you have select the artillery piece, move the cursor over the enemy
- infantry unit located in the city of Petrovka (hex 12,22) You'll notice cross
- hairs appear along with projected (estimated) combat losses under the two
- flags. Remember these combat loss numbers are only estimates and you will
- notice some variance in the actual outcome of battle. After you attack with
- your artillery unit, you may click the right arrow button (second from the
- top) to toggle through all units that still may be moved, or you may simply
- left click on another unit to select it. You can see which units can still
- fire by the chrome circle at the bottom of the unit and those units that
- haven't moved yet will have their unit strength shown in black text (the unit
- strength number will turn red after a unit has moved for the turn)
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- Next, try launching and air strike by clicking on the 'Fly a Mission' button
- at the very top of the screen then select Ground Strike and click onto the
- check box at the bottom of the pop-up window. You'll see a jet plane cursor
- that you can move over enemy units to attack. Move the cursor to an enemy you
- would like to attack and left click onto the hex to initiate the attack. The
- other selections in the 'Fly a Mission' screen should be self explanatory.
- Just remember to fly Wild Weasel missions against enemy Air Defenses in the
- area before you attempt any ground strikes. You'll need to consider that you
- have a limited amount of Air Mission points per turn (in the full game these
- points will be dictated by your 'Air Superiority level' for that scenario)
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- To buy new units, select the Requisition Unit button (fourth from the top of
- the screen) You'll notice your total prestige available near the upper right
- corner of the screen. Select a unit to buy (its border will highlight when
- selected) After you have selected a unit, please notice the extra unit
- abilities that you can add on to a unit at the bottom of the screen (Recon,
- Combat Engineer, Air Defense, Bridging, Helicopter, Anti-tank, Combat,
- forward observer, etc.) when you select one of these abilities, you'll notice
- some of your unit statistics will increase. Each extra ability that you select
- for a unit (you may only select two per unit) will cost 30 additional prestige
- points.
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- Exit the Requisition screen and click onto the Deploy Forces button (fifth
- from the top) and place any units that you purchased in the Requisition
- screen. You see dark deployment hexes on the map where you may place these new
- units. You may need to move some units out of deployment hexes before you can
- place your new units.
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- To view information about a specific unit you can right click on a unit or go
- to the Field H.Q. button and scroll through all of your forces. You'll notice
- some units have leaders attached to them (you can see these units on the map
- screen by the star in the bottom right hand corner of the unit icon) Leaders
- give units additional abilities.
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- Move all your units and try concentrating your attacks. When you have moved
- all of your units, click on the end turn button near the bottom of the screen
- and the computer AI player will then move his forces. Remember there are only
- two turns in the demo. Enjoy!
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- 7/07/98 SM
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