========================================================================= TOTAL WAR 1.9 (c) copyright 1991 by Paulo Laureano Santos ========================================================================= The game was created using AMOS 1.3 (c) & 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 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 Joćo Carvalho (for believing in my programing abilities), Joćo 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). ************************************************************************* USE CURSOR KEYS TO MOVE AROUND & ESCape KEY to EXIT! ************************************************************************* CONFIGURATION OF THE GAME (done with the pull-down menus): ---------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL FX: If you want explosions during the game or not. 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...) 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... 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...) 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... NUMBER OF PLAYERS: This one is the only option that has to be selected if you like the defaults of the other options.... GAME: Starts the game... ON-GAME OPTIONS (selected with the buttons bellow the map) ---------------------------------------------------------- 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... CARDS: Shows the cards owned by the current player (if the current player has no cards this button will not work). ATTACK: This option allows the current player to attack a country (this option will not work if you have already fortified any countries). 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... 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... QUIT TURN: This ends the current player turn to play... CREDITS: The address where to send the money to pay for the game and the name of the people who made if... QUIT GAME: Use this option to leave TOTAL WAR during the game. You can also use "CTRL"+"SHIFT"+"C" at any time. HOW "THINGS WORK" IN TOTAL WAR. ------------------------------- 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...). 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. 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 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... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOTAL WAR (c) Copyright 1991 by Paulo Laureano Santos ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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... 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.). 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). You can place TOTAL WAR in ANY public domain library, as long as no more than the price of the diskettes is charged. You can GIVE AWAY as many copies of TOTAL WAR as you wish, as long as nothing is charged. C ya in the next game! PLS