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Peoples General Demo v1.0
7/7/98

Peoples General  (c) 1998 by Strategic Simulations, Inc, USA

System Requirments:

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

Installing the Peoples General demo:

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.

To uninstall People's General, go to the Peoples General program group
(left click Start, then Programs) and double click on the uninstall icon.

To run People's General:

Open the Peoples General demo folder on your hard disk
and double click on the Peoples General icon (Peoples.exe)
to start the game.

(Optional) You can create a shortcut for the Peoples General
demo by dragging the Peoples General (Peoples.exe) icon
to your desktop.

Playing the Peoples General Demo

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.

Exiting the People's General demo:

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.

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:

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.

For more info and screen shots on People's General, please check out SSI's
webpage at:

     www.ssionline.com


Demo tutorial:

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)

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)

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)

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.

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.

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.

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!

7/07/98 SM