WARGAME    documentation
Load and run. Select playing mode and skill level. The map
displayed shows hills (yellow), marsh, water, woods and plains.

The map will be different every time the program is run. Each side
has 6 tanks and 6 guns initially and the pieces will appear at random
on the appropriate sides of the map.
When playing against the computer the player uses joystick number
one or keys WERSDZXC. The joystick fire button or Q is used to enter
fire mode. Use of either the keyboard or joysticks must be decided at
the start of the game and cannot then be altered. When playing another
player use the two joysticks or keys on the left and right of the key-
board. When in fire mode (see below) any key or joystick fire button
must be used for determining direction and range.

The game is won when the three enemy command bases (red) have been
destroyed by gun fire. Each piece, tank or gun, may either move or fire
on its turn.

MOVTNG
 Enter move mode by using appropriate key or joystick motion.
Then move in desired direction using 8 way movement. Tanks move either
4 cells or 6 cells depending on whether or not the fast tank option
was selected initially. Guns move a maximum of 2 cells in both options.
Movement across marsh, woodland or hills is restricted to one cell per
turn and should be avoided for rapid deployment of forces. Movement
across water is not possible.

FIRING 
Enter fire mode by pressing the appropriate key (see above)
or joystick fire button. Then decide on range using the variable
indicator in bottom left-hand corner of the screen. Guns always fire
further than tanks when firing from similar terrain. Range is increased
if a unit is on hills and reduced if in woodland. Hills and woodland
may be fired over. The range of the artillery is also determined by
the initial option selected. This has been incorporated to increase
the variety of games. Note that defensive value increases if a piece
is on a woodland cell when playing against the computer, but defensive
value is increased when a unit is immediately behind woodland when
playing against another player.

After selecting the range factor then decide on direction of fire
by means of the arrow indicator which appears on the firing unit.
Experience will improve accuracy, but note that at very short range
shells may deflect off obstacles. When playing against the computer
the effect of increasing the skill factor is to inerease the accuracy
of the computers fire. After some practice skill level 2 is normally
best for a close contest.

 A unit will be destroyed when directly hit,
- however it is impossible to destroy ones own command bases.
Reinforcements appear at intervals, but the total number of guns or
tanks per side can never exceeed 10.

An important point when playing the computer is that the accuracy
of its fire increases greatly at short range, it is also good to
establish your guns on hills in order to increase your fire power
and watch out for quick breaks by enemy tanks.

This program may also be used in Extended Basic and the range
and direction indicators will operate rather more quickly.


TX SOFTWARE 1983   (Mr Mathews died in 1983 and his programs were
not widely distributed)