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- TOTAL WAR 1.9 (c)
- copyright 1991 by Paulo Laureano Santos
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- The game was created using AMOS 1.3 (c)
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- Compiled with the AMOS COMPILER 1.0 (c)
- (a very special thanks to Francois Lionet and MANDARIN SOFTWARE
- for the best software I have ever used!)
-
- A game by Paulo Laureano
- Graphics by Francisco Cordeiro
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- I wish to thank the following people for helping to make Total War
- possible: My family (for the patience and the million cups of coffee
- I've taken), Francisco Cordeiro (for the graphics!), Michael Santos and
- João Carvalho (for believing in my programing abilities), João Miranda
- and Jorge Carrilho (for not believing I could do it), Motley Crue (for
- the music I heard while programing), CNN (for the war coverage).
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- USE CURSOR KEYS TO MOVE AROUND & ESCape KEY to EXIT!
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- CONFIGURATION OF THE GAME (done with the pull-down menus):
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- SPECIAL FX: If you want explosions during the game or not.
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- CARD SWAP: You may have the computer swapping your cards without human
- intervention as soon as a player has cards to swap OR you may choose to
- swap cards manually in the game. Sets of cards have different values (in
- armies), 3 canons are worth 5 armies, 3 wood horses are worth 7 armies, 3
- cavemen are worth 9 armies. There is a special bonus of 15 armies if you
- have 3 different cards! If card swapping is automatic, the computer will
- make the conversion of the cards as soon as a set is available; BUT if
- card swapping is manual, you are prompted if you want to swap cards...
- if you do swap the set of cards, everything will look and play as the
- "automatic option"; if you do keep the set of cards in order to get more
- cards you face some risks! Some cards may be lost if you do exchange the
- same set you decided to keep previously because you have reached the
- limit of 5 cards (which by the way is the maximum number of cards you may
- own...)
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- INITIAL AP: If you choose the "automatic" option, the game will begin
- with 3 armies on every country. If you choose the "manual" option, every
- player places is own armies manually before the beginning of the game...
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- FORTIFY: If the "limited" option is selected, you may do only one
- fortification per turn. If the "unlimited" option is selected every
- player can do as many fortifications as he may wish... (the computers
- will play A LOT better with unlimited fortifications...)
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- PLAY FOR: if the option "world" is selected the game ends when a player
- owns all the countries. If the option "mission" is selected, the game
- ends when a player finishes is mission with the same number of turns as
- the other remaining opponents. If all human players are "out" of the
- map, the game will be over...
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- NUMBER OF PLAYERS: This one is the only option that has to be selected
- if you like the defaults of the other options....
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- GAME: Starts the game...
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- ON-GAME OPTIONS (selected with the buttons bellow the map)
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- GAME STATS: Shows some informations about the game... useful to see
- how many cards each player has and to examine each player "power" in that
- moment...
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- CARDS: Shows the cards owned by the current player (if the current
- player has no cards this button will not work).
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- ATTACK: This option allows the current player to attack a country (this
- option will not work if you have already fortified any countries).
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- REPEAT ATTACK!: If the player has enough armies to repeat the last
- attack, this option is just a shortcut to do it. It does not ask for the
- "source" and "destination" like the "ATTACK" option...
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- FORTIFY: After you have attacked all the countries you wanted to, this
- option allows you to fortify a country with armies from another of your
- adjacent countries...
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- QUIT TURN: This ends the current player turn to play...
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- CREDITS: The address where to send the money to pay for the game and
- the name of the people who made if...
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- QUIT GAME: Use this option to leave TOTAL WAR during the game.
- You can also use "CTRL"+"SHIFT"+"C" at any time.
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- HOW "THINGS WORK" IN TOTAL WAR.
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- Attacks are made by 3 attacking armies (max.), if you have 4 or more
- armies in the attacking country... the defending country defends himself
- with all available resources. The computer "calculates by random" the
- result of the battle, taking in account the size of the forces and giving
- some advantage to the defending country. So, attacking a country with
- more armies then those you have for the attack is suicide (well some very
- lucky people might get away with it, just like in real life...).
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- Each turn you have conquered one or more new countries you will gain a
- special card, which may be later on converted into armies... the system
- is rather simple but be warned: if you use the Manual Swap option, each
- time you refuse to swap cards you are in danger of loosing some of your
- cards. When you own 5 cards in your hand, the computer will swap the
- best set for you, if you end up swapping the set you had chosen to keep
- previously, you may(!) lose some/all of the two remaining cards.
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- Available bonuses:
- South America ===== 2 extra armies
- Africa ============ 3 extra armies
- Australia ========= 1 extra army
- North America ===== 4 extra armies
- Europe ============ 5 extra armies
- Asia ============== 6 extra armies
- 10 countries ====== 2 extra armies
- 20 countries ====== 4 extra armies
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- You can only attack adjacent countries, and move armies between adjacent
- countries that you own. Check the file EXTRA.iff for some info on
- adjacent countries and the limits of the continents in TOTAL WAR...
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- TOTAL WAR (c)
- Copyright 1991 by Paulo Laureano Santos
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- Humm... I think thats about all folks... I hated writing this manual
- but I hope it will get you "going" on TOTAL WAR. Anything I left out
- please ask when you register, I will answer your questions as soon as
- possible...
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- Please do not upload TOTAL WAR to pirate BBS's (or BBS's with some
- dubious sections), BBS's that pay ANY sort of fee for the access, BBS's
- in USA or CANADA (this is a PAL version of TOTAL WAR, it will not work on
- those countries!!! I will probably make a NTSC version later this
- year.).
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- Please upload TOTAL WAR to any good BBS without pirate sections, which
- does not charge users for access, in ANY country in the world (except USA
- and CANADA).
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- You can place TOTAL WAR in ANY public domain library, as long as no more
- than the price of the diskettes is charged.
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- You can GIVE AWAY as many copies of TOTAL WAR as you wish, as long
- as nothing is charged.
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- C ya in the next game!
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- PLS
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