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- From: edlee@chinet.chi.il.us (Edward Lee)
- Subject: Rampart description
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- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:08:22 GMT
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- In enhanced mode, if you have three cannons or more to lay down, you
- have the option of creating a propaganda ballon out of three
- cannons. What the propaganda balloon does is float out to the water
- over the mode powerful ship before battle and drop leaflets on the
- ship, making its cannon obey you. The balloon then disappears. If
- you have four cannons or more to lay down, you have the option of
- creating a large "supercannon" that will sink any ship with one shot
- and create burning pits just as the cannons on the red ships do. A
- supercannon is most useful against human opponents, I imagine. It
- does not make a significant difference in solitaire play.
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- The VGA version of the game looks a lot like the arcade version, but
- it is noticeably different in play. For instance, the flight times
- of cannonballs are significantly shorter than in the arcade game,
- allowing you to select home castles that are further back from the
- water and to hit more targets in the same amount of time. The behavior
- of the ships is also different; they tend to hang around in the middle
- of the water instead of going for the shore for a landing. When
- wall pieces appear during the building phases, they are sometimes
- not completely on the screen, which can make you waste a little time
- rotating it or moving it to see what it is. New in the PC version
- are houses that dot the land. If you are playing against
- a human opponent, surrounding houses will make a corresponding number
- of catapults appear on your opponent's side. During multiplayer or
- solitaire play, setting a wall piece on top of a house will turn it
- into a catapult (which is undesirable). I found it more difficult
- to build castle walls on the home version than on the arcade game
- since the interface is different, but that may not be true for others.
- I have played it with a mouse, a trackball, and the keyboard, but it
- just is not the same as the big trackball and the positions of the
- buttons on the arcade game. Joysticks are supported by the PC version,
- but I do not have joysticks, so I could not try that interface.
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- -Ed L
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