User Guide

You will learn that there are some situations in which it is not possible to simultaneously select men. For example,if your men
are under enemy fire or if one of the men you are attempting to select is a prisoner.
You will see a red bar next to the face of each soldier in the upper part of the screen.This bar is his health level. It will descend
whenever he is wounded.When it reaches the bottom... your soldier is toast. In every mission there is a man who has limited
medical supplies to increase the health of the team. Each Commando can “suffer” a certain number of wounds. In this regard,
Tiny is your strongest and Duke your weakest commando.
If you click on a soldier who is already selected,you will “deselect him”.To quickly deselect all your soldiers, you can press the
0 (zero) key on the alphanumerical keyboard.
MOVING SOLDIERS
Normally, you will see that the mouse pointer has the shape of a double arrow.This is the movement
pointer and is used to move your soldiers.If you do not see the movement pointer,it is because you are
undoubtedly viewing the pointer that belongs to an active item.To recover the movement pointer,right-
click anywhere on the map screen.
To make the selected soldier or soldiers move somewhere, click with the movement pointer on the
selected destination, and they will walk in that direction. If you double click, they will run there.
When you give a soldier an order that forces him to run somewhere he will only carry it out whenev-
er he is able to. Exceptions to this rule are those cases in which the soldier is carrying a heavy load.
When you give a man a movement order, you can select any point in the mission towards which there
is a possible route, no matter its distance.Your soldier will attempt to follow the best route towards
that point, and avoiding obstacles whenever possible.
HIT THE DIRT AND CRAWL
Your men can lie down on the ground. To do this, click on the commando crawls icon located on the
upper top edge of the screen, or press the C key.The selected men will hit the ground.
A man who is lying on the ground can be moved normally with the movement pointer, except that he
will move by slowly crawling. Commandos cannot fast crawl. If a man crawls on snow or sand, the
tracks he leaves will not be visible to the enemy.
To make a man who is lying down stand up, click on the commando stands icon in the same location
or press the S key.
THE MAP NOTEBOOK
If you click on the spiral notebook that you find on one side
of the screen, you will be able to see an approximate drawing of the mission map.The rec-
tangle represents the area that you can see on screen. The red circles outline your prime
objective(s). The blue points indicate the position of your men, and the red points that of the
enemy soldiers. Click on any zone of this drawing to move
the viewable game area to that zone.
If you click on the folded corner (highlighted green) of the
map notebook, you can access the Briefing Notes screen,
where you can see a summary of the mission objectives from Colonel Smith.
SELECTING SOLDIERS
Before giving any orders to one of your men, you must select him. There are three different ways to do this:
• Left Click the desired commando on the map
• Left Click on his face on the upper edge of the screen.
• Press a numerical key between 1 and 7 in the alphanumerical keyboard.Each key corresponds to one of your men, accord-
ing to the following table:
(Yes, there are “Guest comrades” in some missions -you’ll soon get to know them!)
There are two methods to simultaneously select more than one man:
• Right click on an area inside the game screen and then drag the pointer without releasing the right-click button.This way
you will draw a red rectangle. Release and the men that are inside the rectangle will be selected.
• Click on various faces on the edge of the screen while keeping the CONTROL key pressed.
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