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African Desert Campaign Ver 1.5B By Matt Kaufman 19987 Moran Ln Saratoga, Ca 95070 ▒▒▒▒▒▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓────────────── ▒▒▒▒▒▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓───────────────── ▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒───────────────────────── ▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▓▓▓▓▓─────────────────────── ▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▓▓▓▓▓───────────────────────── ▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒───────────═╦═──╦╗─╦──╔══╗──── ▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▓▓▓▓▓───────║───║╚╗║──║─────── ▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▓▓▓▓▓──────═╩═──╩─╚╝──╚══╝──■─ Software Publishing African Desert Campaign Ver 1.5B (C) Matt Kaufman September 1986 Copyright ME Software Publishing General Information In African Desert Campaign there are two armies, the Allied forces and the German. The object of the game is to destroy your opponents army and gain control of the Suez Canal. To begin the game type AFRICA at the DOS prompt and hit RETURN. To skip the title pages press ESC. When the game appears and the loading signal has gone away you may begin. The Allied player gets the first turn, this is indicated by the move indicator. (see screen map) Using the Main Menu To select command use the left and right arrow keys. The menu selection that you are currently on will be high- lighted. When you reach the desired command press the + key. This process can be shortened by simply typing the first letter in the name of the selection (Similar to Lotus 1-2-3) Commands- Move- When it is your turn and you would like to move. Place the cursor on the piece which you would like to move. This is done by using the arrow keys or the < and > keys. The < and > keys automatically move the cursor to your next piece in line to the right or the left; this is extremely helpful and fast. Once this is done press the + key. Now the number of moves you have will be displayed and the amount of supplies this piece has. Each time you move the cursor the number of moves left goes down one and the supplies, in proportion to the amount of attack and defense force, also goes down. If you move your piece over a position containing escarpment "∞", the Nile River "■" or the Suez Canal "║" the number of moves left automatically goes to zero. If you make a mistake you can use the BACKSPACE key to backup or the ESC key to go back to where you started. You can hit ESC again from here if you want to cancel moving all together. Attacking: When you move your piece next to one of your opponents, you have to option to attack him. In order to do this you must still be in the MOVE mode. Type A for attack and the computer will ask you for a direction. After you specify this the odds and results of the battle will be displayed. Attacking takes supplies proportion to the attack factor. If you have 0 supplies when you attack you will lose automatically. If you eliminate your opponent (not in an exchange) you capture their remaining supplies and they become yours. You can only use a piece once to attack each turn. Types of Terrain: There are three types of terrain. First there is escarpment. It is represented by this symbol ∞. When you move into it, it takes away all of your moves left for the African Desert Campaign Ver 1.5B (C) Matt Kaufman September 1986 turn, but when being attacked it doubles your defense factor. Like escarpment, terrain containing the Suez Canal "║" or the Nile River "■" causes you to lose your remaining moves when moved upon, but does not double your defense factor. Next there is the road, represented by small solid circles "·". This is the boundary and you may not move your piece past this line. Finally there are the Fortresses represented by the three horizontal lines "≡". It like the escarpment doubles your defense factor, but does not eliminate your moves left when passing over it. (You need to occupy one of the four Fortresses to receive supplies) END- This ends your turn and turns the game over to your opponent. The move indicator will change to show you whose turn it is. (see screen map) FILE- This lets you save and retrieve a game. You are unable to save more than one game without erasing anything that is already saved. QUIT- This lets you quit the game. If you choose to do so the final statistics will be displayed. VIEW- This allows you to see the details of any piece on the board. The information will be displayed on the view line. (see screen map) INFO- This displays the current statistics for the game. SEPARATE- This lets you one of your pieces on the board into two new ones. This first thing you must do is position the cursor over the piece you want to select using the same method as MOVE command. After this is done a small form will appear in the information box. (see screen map) This shows you how many defense, attack, move and supply points the piece contains. The type line shows what the piece your splitting has while the bottom line shows what the new piece will have. Simply type the number of points for each category and press RETURN. When you are through press +. If you decide to cancel this option press ESC. Once you have determined what the new piece will have, the computer will ask you for the direction in which you would like the piece located. Press anyone of the arrow keys and the new piece will be created. Take into consideration while making your new piece that the more attack and defense point you have the slower the piece will move, without more move points, and the more supplies it will take. (Note: you may only have 68 pieces on the screen at one time.) REINFORCE- African Desert Campaign Ver 1.5B (C) Matt Kaufman September 1986 This lets you add reinforcements to any one of your pieces. Reinforcements are given randomly according to the number of fortresses you control. If you control no fortresses then the flow of reinforcements will cease. Because of this, it is very beneficial to control as many bases as you can. In order to receive reinforcement you must be occupying a Fortress that you have occupied for at least 2 turns. Then you can position the cursor over the piece you wish to add reinforcements to. A form, like the one used in the SEPARATE command, will appear in the information box. (see screen map) Fill this out in the same way that you filled it out in the SEPARATE command and press the + key. African Desert Campaign Ver 1.5B (C) Matt Kaufman September 1986 SCREEN MAP ┌─── Move Indicator Line Move: Allied X 0 Y 0 Round 3 Terrain Nothing ┌─── Command Box ┌─── Information Box ┌────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Move End File Quit View │ Select option using left and right cursor keys │ │ Info Separate Reinforce │ Move a piece/or attack │ └────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ┌─── View Information Line View: Allied X 10 Y 5 Ter ∞ A Pwr 12 D Pwr 5 Supplies 110 Moves 6 ┌─── Map Box ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Mediterranean Sea │ │ │ │ ··│ │ · ···· Suez Canal · │ │ ··· ·≡· ··■ ·· · ≡······· ··· ≡ │ │· ·· ■· · · ∞ · ·≡·· ···· ····· ·· │ │ ■ · · ∞ ∞ · · ∞··· ∞ · ····· │ │ ■ ·· · ∞ ∞ ∞∞∞ ·║· ∞ ∞∞∞ ∞····· │ │ ■ ··· ∞ ∞∞ ∞∞∞ ∞ ║ ∞∞ ∞∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ │ │ ■ ∞∞ ∞ ∞ ║ ∞ ∞∞ ∞ ∞∞∞ │ │ ■ ∞ ∞ ·║· ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞∞∞ │ │ ■ ∞∞∞ ∞ ∞∞ · · ∞∞∞ ∞∞ │ │ ■ ∞∞ · · ∞ ∞ ∞ │ │ ■ · · │ │ Nile R. · · Sanai Pen. │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ African Desert Campaign Ver 1.5B (C) Matt Kaufman September 1986 KEY SUMMARY Cancel Command Numbers for Backup 1 in Arrow keys │ SEPARATE and REINFORCE MOVE mode │ │ │ │ │ ESC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 BACKSPACE 7 8 9 I ┌─────────J K 6 6 Rapid M RETURN + Movement Keys Enter for─┘ │ SEPARATE and REINFORCE 1 2 3 │ │ < > │ Cursor move ───┘ │ to select piece Select ───┘ Key African Desert Campaign Ver 1.5B (C) Matt Kaufman September 1986