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- │ Warlords II │
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- ║ Game By: SSG Number of Disks: 2 @ 1.44 ║
- ║ Released By: Razor 1911 Size Installed: 5.5 megs ║
- ║ Release Date: 7.8.93 Cracked By: N/A ║
- ║ Docs Typed By: Factory Doc Released By: PWA ║
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- Installation Notes:
- Like the .NFO file says, you need to install this game from
- disks. Unless you want to take the time to change the textfile
- that's used in the install, you can't install from the HD.
- There is no copy protection, so no need to copy a .EXE file
- from the orignal disks.
-
- Starting:
- You'll need about 600K to run the game with a soundcard. The
- game says to use war2.bat to run the game, but this doesn't
- work for some reason. So run install.exe, and then type
- warlord2 to start the game. I believe a mouse is required.
- When the game starts up, you'll see a row of menu headings
- and four options below them. You can't do anything with the
- menus, so select one of the options below them.
- I highly suggest using the tutorial scenario under
- [Scenario]. It explains the game fairly well, as well as I
- could explain it in fact. The rest of this file is written
- assuming that you have played the tutorial.
- Select [Begin] once you have selected your scenario, or if
- you have selected [Random Map]. Unless you have selected the
- tutorial, you will be presented with a screen of eight
- characters. This game does allow for eight different players
- (locally) and you can turn them on and off by clicking on on
- the box that says either human or off. Either a character is
- off, played by a human, or played by a computer. To the left
- is the difficulty level, begin game, and return to main menu.
- Below you can load saved options or select a leader. Now you
- will being the game.
-
- Display:
- This is pretty self explanatory. The large map is the map
- where you move around. The icon will change to various things,
- from feet for movement to a sword to do battle. Below this is
- sort of your inventory. It tells you how much gold you have,
- and how many castles you occupy. At the top right is a smaller
- map used to move around with. Below this are the controls for
- the game (explained later). And at the top are menus and a
- display of all the player's crests and who's turn it is.
-
- Game Play:
- Note: Whatever I have left out in this file can probably be
- found by clicking the right mouse button on whatever you need
- help on. Usually this will tell you what the item does. Of
- course the basic idea of this game is to conquer all of your
- enemies' castles. Basically, you just move you character
- around and battle other castles, and go into ruins to collect
- items. Hopefully, you were able to accomplish the basic idea
- in the tutorial. If not all you need to do is approach a
- castle, and get the sword icon to come up and click. The game
- does battle for you. To search a ruin, "land" on top of the
- ruin and select Search under [Hero] to search it.
- Most everything on the menus are reports. Everything else is
- pretty much self explanatory. However, there is one option I
- want to explain. Under [Game] is an option called Shortcuts.
- This allows you to actually assign many different options to
- four of the icons in the control panel. This is a really nice
- feature because if you don't have any use for what's selected
- for the icon, you can change it. Use the right mouse button to
- see what all the different options are.
-
- Miscellaneous:
- Well, hopefully I've explained everything else not already
- included in the game. This game has a great online help, and
- most everything vital is covered. There are a ton of options,
- and it seems like you can do pretty much anything that you
- would want to do in this type game. I had thought about not
- even doing docs for this game at first, but there were several
- things I couldn't figure out at first. Thus I figured someone
- else might have trouble on the same things. If you need more
- help though, I can be contacted on The Rising Sun and several
- other PWA sites. Feel free to leave me mail for help.
-
- Keys/Menus:
- [Game] [Order] [Report]
- Settings - Alt X Fight Order - I Army - A
- Shortcuts - Alt U Move All - M City - K
- New Game - Alt N Disband - Q Gold - G
- Save Game - Alt S Signpost - X Production - N
- Load Game - Alt L Resign - R Winning - W
- Load Map - Alt Z Diplomacy - D
- Save Map - Alt M Quest - =
- Quit - Ctrl Q
-
- [Hero] [View] [History]
- Inspect - , Army Bonus - O City - H
- Plant Flag - F Items - T Events - E
- Levels - U Build - B Gold - I
- Search - Z Cities - C Winners - Y
- Production - P Triumphs - L
- [Turn] Vectoring - V
- End Turn - Alt E Ruins - .
- Stack - S
-
- Select the next army group - Enter
- Quit current army group, and get the next group - Esc
- Group all armies - Space
- Move between army and its destination - Tab
- Center current army group - Home
- Move army group along its path - End
- Deselect current army group - Del
- Cancel current movement path - Backspace
- Hold to switch icons for moving/selecting - Ctrl
- Hold to obtain city/ruin icon - Shift
- Hold to bring up icon to define army movement path - Alt
-
- Icons:
- Moves to play area where you click - Magnifing Glass
- Moves army to area selected (land) - Legs
- Moves army to area selected (water) - Ship
- Obtains city info. dialog - Castle Tower
- Drags play area around - Hand
- Selects group of army;
- Double Click: Selects whole army stack - Target
- Ruin info. dialog - Ruin
- Begin battle with enemy - Sword
- Military Advisor (to obtain this, hold down
- the shift key when the sword is shown) - Bubble w/ ?
- Movement path for army - Long Arrow
- Like the sword, but doesn't start war (??) - Heart
-
- Quick Review:
- This game has decent sound, great graphics, and superb
- scrolling. The idea for it, although it has unique features,
- has been used many times before: Conquer All. I rate it a
- 82/100.
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- -Factory -=PWA=- [07.9.93]
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