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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= L OO RRR DDD SSS OO FFFF L O O R R D D S O O F L O O RRR D D SS O O FFF L O O R R D D S O O F LLLL OO R R DDD SSS OO F CCC OO N N QQ U U EEEE SSS TTTT C O O NN N Q Q U U E S T C O O N NN Q Q U U EEE SS T C O O N N Q QQ U U E S T CCC OO N N QQQ UU EEEE SSS T VERSION 1.0 Copyright © 1991 Jeremy Jones =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Amiga version written by Jeremy Jones Adapted from the Commodore 64 version by Electronic Arts Original game concept by Bill Eberle, Jack Kittredge, Peter Olotka, Ted Schmeckpeper, Trevor Western This Amiga version of Lords of Conquest is FREELY DISTRIBUTABLE. Developed with SAS/C 5.10 © 1990 SAS Institute Inc. PLEASE SEE END OF FILE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAVEN'T I HEARD OF THIS GAME BEFORE? Probably, if you ever owned a Commodore 64. LOC was my favorite C=64 game. After much arm-twisting by my friends who also loved LOC, I decided to try to make an Amiga version. This is my attempt. I realize it is incomplete. The '64 version had a one-player game, random maps, and other things I'm sure I missed. However, I'd love to improve this game, so I'm asking for suggestions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW LORDS OF CONQUEST (LOC) is a war game for two to four players. Players can create their own maps, although hopefully several maps will be included in this release. This ability to play different maps provides almost infinite variation and helps make LOC a very addicting game. Maps are made up of territories. Players begin the game by picking territories. During the game, players will produce resources based on the types of territories they occupy. They then use these resources to build cities, weapons, and boats. Players attack other players using weapons, horses, and boats. Finally, a lord of conquest is proclaimed when either he has all the territories on the map or he has built enough cities to win. All players agree on how many cities can be built to win at the beginning of the game. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- System Requirements: I don't know of any. LOC should work fine on an Amiga with only 512k. Tested on an Amiga 500 under 1.3 and 2.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GETTING STARTED: Put the following files in a directory somewhere: LOC LOC.info attack.snd beep.snd intro.snd repulse.snd LOC.doc (optional) LOC.doc.info (optional) Create the following directories INSIDE the directory where LOC resides: Maps SavedGames Then copy the map files (those ending in ".loc") to the Maps directory. Last, LOC uses a very small font called "loc.font". Copy the file "loc.font" to your FONTS: directory. Create a subdirectory there called "loc" and copy the file "7e" to that subdirectory. NOTE!!! LOC USES THE ARP.LIBRARY! If you don't already have the arp.library, copy "arp.library" to your LIBS: directory. That should do it! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, let's get to the game... SOME BASICS: The entire game is controlled via the mouse using the gadgets on the right of the screen and the pull-down menus. Also, players will need to select territories from the map. When the game asks for this, simply point to the desired territory and click the left mouse button. Often, functions such as building and shipment may be aborted by clicking on water instead of a territory. The main functions of each phase are shown on the strip on the right side of the screen. The pull-down menus are used to access functions that are available during all phases (except Save Game, see below). SELECTING A TERRITORY: When LOC needs a player to select a territory, it displays a thin window at the top of the screen with a message about what territory the player needs to select. Simply point the mouse to the territory you wish to select and click the left mouse button. MAIN MENU: The main menu presents you with four basic operations: BEGIN A NEW GAME: Does what it says. LOAD A SAVED GAME: Also does what it says. MAP MAKER: This starts the map maker. Use this if you want to build your own maps for later play. QUIT: Ends the program :) OPTIONS MENU: Once you select BEGIN A NEW GAME, the options menu is displayed. Here, all players decide on what type of game is to be played. NUMBER OF PLAYERS: There can be 2, 3, or 4 players. CITIES TO WIN: This selects the number of cities that may be built to win the game. Players can choose 3 through 9 cities to win, or NONE. If NONE is chosen, a player can only win the game by conquering all territories. RESOURCE ABUNDANCE: Players can select Low, Medium, or High. This decides how many resources there will be on the map. High has the most, Low has the least. Games with high resource abundance generally move faster than those with low resource abundance. ELEMENT OF CHANCE: Players can again select Low, Medium, or High. This controls the chance that a random event will occur. (more on this later) PLAYER NAMES: If nothing is entered here, default player names are "Player 1", "Player 2", etc. Once everything has been decided, click on the OK gadget. Next, a map must be selected. LOC uses the standard ARP file requester for all it's file operations. Select a map and click on OK. You will then be presented with the map menu. If you want to choose another map, click on "Load New Map". If the map you have chosen and it's resource placement are satisfactory, click on "Use This Map". "Redistribute Resources" randomly redistributes all the resources on the map. "Exchange Two Resources" allows you to exchange the resource types of two different territories, including territories with no resource. Simply click on one territory and then another and their resource types will be switched. It is usually necessary to do this several times in order to avoid maps which are unfairly weighted on one side because of the random placement of resources. Once all players agree that the resource placement is fair, click on "Use This Map". The game then begins by each player taking turns choosing territories to occupy. RESOURCES: Here are the five resources types and rough descriptions of their symbols: COAL: :. IRON: I WOOD: ! GOLD: :-: STABLE: \|/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLAYING THE GAME: An LOC game is made up of years. Each year has different phases that occur in succession. Random events may occur which prevent certain events from happening in a given year. These phases are as follows: 1. DEVELOPMENT: In the development phase, players build weapons, cities, and boats using their resources. Since players begin the game with no resources, the development phase is skipped in the first year. Costs are as follows: WEAPON: Either 1. One coal and one iron or 2. Two gold CITY: Either 1. One coal, one iron, one wood, one gold or 2. Four gold BOAT: Either 1. Three wood or 2. Three gold Each territory can have at most one horse, one weapon, and one city. Boats can obviously be built only on territories that touch water. The maximum number of boats a territory can have is dependent on the amount of "shoreline" the territory has, with a maximum possible number of 9 boats. 2. PRODUCTION: In this phase, players produce resources based on the types of territories they occupy. One resource is produced for each type of territory occupied, except cities where two are produced (see CITIES). With stables, a horse is produced on the stable if no horse is already there. If there is already a horse on the stable, then a horse is produced on a territory that is adjacent to the stable and occupied by the same player. This "branches out" until all territories reachable by the stable have a horse on them. 3. TRADE: Players are able to trade resources with each other in this phase. This includes the ability to trade horses. If a horse is selected for trade, the previous owner is allowed to select which horse to trade, and the new owner selects where to place the new horse. Trade is not available on two player games. 4. SHIPMENT: In the shipment phase, each player is allowed one shipment. Shipment allows you to move any combination of horse, boat, and weapon from one territory to another territory. Boats can move to any other territory that is owned by the same player and has a free space in the same body of water. Boats can pick up a weapon and or horse if one exists on the same territory. Horses can move two territories in any direction, provided those two territories are owned by the player who wishes to move the horse. Horses can pick up a weapon if it is on the same territory as the horse or if it is on a territory adjacent to the horse's territory. Weapons moved alone can move one territory only. The shipment phase also allows you to move your stockpile. Simply click on "Move Stockpile" and select a new territory for your stockpile. STOCKPILES: Each player designates one territory for their stockpile. All the players resources (except horses) are stored here. If this territory is taken over by another player then that player gets ALL the resources in the stockpile. 5. ATTACK: This is the most important phase. Each player gets two attacks per year. The object of an attack is to take over another player's territory. In an attack, there is an "Attack value" and "Defense value". If the attack value is greater than the defense value, (depending on the degree of chance) the attacker conquers the defender's territory. If the values are equal, there is a 50/50 chance of winning. The attack and defense values are calculated as follows: 1 point for every territory involved. This includes the territory being attacked and all territories adjacent to it. 1 point for every horse involved. 2 points for every city involved. 3 points for every weapon involved. These also include the territory being attacked and all territories adjacent to it. Boats: Boats add 2 points of defense each, but only if they are on the territory being attacked. A boat adds 2 points of offense only if brought (see BRING FORCES). ELEMENT OF CHANCE: When the element of chance is set on high, there is a small chance that an attack may go the other way. For example, if Attack = 6 and Defense = 5, with high chance there is a very small chance that the attack will be repulsed. In addition, if Attack = 5 and Defense = 6, there is a very small chance that the attack will succeed. The size of these chances diminishes with the distance between Attack and Defense. This is also possible with Medium chance, although the odds are much less. On Low chance, however, there is no chance for an attack to go the other way. BRING FORCES: The attacker may bring one group of forces per attack. The availability of this group is the same as for shipment. Bringing forces adds the same values to attack as above, thus the maximum amount that can be added by bringing forces is 6 (1 for a horse, 2 for a boat, 3 for a weapon). If the attack succeeds, the forces brought stay on the conquered territory. If the attack fails, the forces brought are lost forever! CHOOSE SIDES: If players other than the attacker and defender have influence on the attack, they must decide how to involve themselves in the attack. Players can choose to aid the attacker, the defender, or be neutral. If the player chooses to aid the attacker or defender, his influence is added to that person's attack or defense value. Influence is calculated the same as attack/defense values. FLAGS: The small flags located in the right window indicate what order the players take their turns in the current year. This order rotates one position every year. CITIES: Cities are represented by "ghosting" their territory. Each territory can have at most one city. If the territory's resource is coal, iron, wood, or gold, it is doubled. The resources of all adjacent territories owned by the same player are also doubled. This means that during production, these doubled territories produce two of their resource instead of the usual one. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MENUS: Briefly, here they are: ABOUT: Title screen. COLORS: Changes the player colors. SAVE GAME: Allows you to save the game for later recall. This is available only during the beginning of the year (Development Phase). QUIT GAME: Quits the game and returns you to the main menu. STOCKPILES: Shows the stockpiles of each player. FORCE COUNT: Allows you to check the influence of each player on a specific territory. GAME INFO: Displays some basic information about the game in play. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WINNING: The game can be won two different ways: 1. A player occupies all territories. 2. At the end of a year, a player has at least the number of cities required to win and has more cities than any other player. NOTE: If "Cities required to win" was set to "NONE", players cannot win this way, they must occupy all territories to win. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MAPS: Maps can have between 23 and 60 territories. Each territory can be from 6 to 60 characters in size. When designing a map, it is important to consider how the map might be played. Avoid designing maps with "bottlenecks" where stalemates can occur. A good example of a bad map would be a bar-bell shaped map with one or two territories joining the two large parts. In a two player game, each player would quickly retreat to one side and would be divided in the middle, unable to touch each other. THE MAPMAKER: Users can design their own maps with the mapmaker. Use the mouse to draw a territory. Use the menus to control the mapmaker's functions. Briefly, here they are: Options: NEW TERR: Select this when you have finished a territory and want to start a new one. OTHER TERR: Change the current territory. CLEAR TERR: Erase the current territory and start over. CREATE MAP: This allows you to save the map. LOC will need to make some calculations first, so please be patient. LOAD MAP: Load an existing map. You may then edit or add to it and resave it. QUIT MAPMAKER: Returns you to the main menu. Mode: This is a toggle between DRAW MODE and ERASE MODE. In draw mode, clicking the mouse will add to the current territory. In erase mode, clicking the mouse erases part of the current territory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I hope this is enough to get you started. I will be updating this file as I find things I missed, and hopefully correct some of my terrible grammar. Now the pitch: (*===========================================================================*) I WANT COMMENTS! SUGGESTIONS! COMPLAINTS! DEATH THREATS! WHATEVER! If you really like this game, if you really hate it, etc... WRITE ME. I'd be glad to improve this game. There is much room for improvement: a computer player, a random map generator, etc. It all depends on you. (can you tell I'm desperate for mail?) Now my address: Jeremy Jones 250 Little St., Apt C-201 Athens, GA 30605 And my E-Mail address: jones@castor.cs.uga.edu End of pitch. 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