steel panthers world at war manual
© 2000 Slitherine Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Strategic Victory - When using this option the player will have Strategic Victory hexes. Players who trust one another, or just don’t feel like using passwords, can opt to click “Exit” instead of saving the game. If you want to pause the game at any time, hit ALT and TAB together and windows will minimize SPWAW and take you to another application or the desktop. A defeat generates no victory points, however. Military Gamer “Combat Net” Network [COMBAT NET] - The release of SPWaW v5.0 will also be the grand opening of our Military Gamer “Combat Net” Network. Take a second to look around the map. •Smoke is now a hindrance to spotting and not a protective “shield.” Heavy smoke screens over 2-3 hexes will block line-of-sight, but the more common effect of smoke is to make it more difficult for the enemy to spot you in the first place. •The computer purchase advantage can now be toggled. •Hedge. These have been adjusted in the various patches based on user suggestions. Now that you’ve learned something about the game controls, it’s time to meet the troops you’ll be commanding. Manual for the Windows 95 point-and-click adventure game, Beavis & Butthead: Virtual Stupidity. This means they will receive the benefit of armor ratings and will no longer take casualties from rounds that do not hit the fortification. •Added a toggle for the asterisk “*” display in the unit information section. Any turn in which theses conditions apply and the AO fails this check, and one side has the preponderance of victory hexes, the game can end before the allotted. Operating System and Hardware Requirements, SPWAW is now a native Windows program that uses Direct Draw and Direct Sound. The current battlefield conditions are displayed when the mouse is pointed on the upper right corner of the combat screen. Units in the hex with a target now receive a special experience check against collateral damage from small arms and machine guns. “Off” means that these boxes will appear at the top of the screen. They add to the base armor after slope has been calculated. Artillery units as well as a few others receive double allocations of smoke. •Morale – “On means that normal rules for morale are in effect with units suffering a readiness penalty from reduced morale. Suppression can go as high as 99 and each time a leader successfully rallies, it is cut in half. Instead of using abstract armor ratings, penetration is now calculated on the basis of the actual millimeters that a round can potentially penetrate, as well as the degree to which the target’s armor is sloped. Most of the commands you’ll issue throughout the game, from moving units to calling in artillery and air strikes, will be given through the buttons on the Menu Bar to the right of the Battle Map. Steel Panthers: World at War Slitherine Ltd., and their Logos are all trademarks of Slitherine Ltd. All other marks and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. As you win (or lose) battles, a map will display each location for you. Now use the Unit Menu to go back to unit A0. This means that a high value will cause units to appear to move slowly from hex to hex, while a low value sends them zipping along the map. The size of icons can be adjusted, with “XXX” (the default setting) being the largest. •“Tank Panic” has been added. T/D effects have been revised based on better curve fitting and a couple new data sets from Combat Leader research. •Historic Ratings – “On” means that when units are generated, their experience levels are created using historically derived tables (so that German paratroopers will tend to have to have higher experience ratings than the poor old Italian infantry). You might even spot the enemy on the map (they’ll also appear as red dots on the mini-map). “Off” means no numbers appear on top of the units. Addeddate 2016-03-31 23:03:56 Identifier STEEL_PANTHERS_WORLD_AT_WAR Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t54f67j3p Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Pages 239 Ppi 300 Scanner A help key (F1) with weather info can be invoked from the battle setup and editor screens. When you start your game it will pass the IP information to the game as well. It also makes icons appear sharper and allows users to a larger slice of the map in the Battle Map. American troops tend to retreat more rapidly than the other major powers, but also rally more quickly. The computer purchase advantage can now be toggled. In the scenario editor, you may choose a very large map by selecting “Custom” map size. Hot Key Only on Map Editor Screen ........................................................................................ SPWaW Game Editor-WaWEd ................................................................................................... Steel Panthers World at War Map Editor..................................................................................... Printing Maps From SPWaW. However, a tracked vehicle may actually breach the wall. Please compress it in a single ZIP file and put a brief description of the scenario in the mail with the following : - Date of battle : The year and month set in the scenario. •Suppression code was rewritten, so that high explosive bombardment via direct fire causes much more suppression against infantry and armor, while indirect fire has more effect in the target hex and adjacent hexes. It will use the flanks and sometimes it will keep a reserve, so watch out. Steel Panthers: World at War also includes a timed play feature, giving each player a specific amount of time to conduct his turn before it ends and his opponent's turn begins. Selective placement allows the user to specify any icon for placement. As with the normal campaign, players choose a core force that is upgraded throughout the campaign. If they do break down, they can occasionally be repaired. Well, we know the enemy is there, and we don’t want him continuing to fire, so we had better take care of him. The wind may shift, changing the direction of smoke and the primary direction of spreading fire. •Sandstone wall - In desert, stone wall is a sandstone wall. In this case, the games will be saved in the “Save” rather than “Email” directories, and no .aux files will be created. Streams and canals now offer cover for all units as do trenches and gullies. •Water Depth. First, turn tank B1 toward the enemy. As with roads, only tracked vehicles may cross or breach them. Scenario designers should pay close attention to this characteristic, as a formation’s ability to advance under fire will be closely related to this attribute. When you’re done with your turn, click the “sideways” arrow button at the bottom of the Menu Bar. The T/D effects have been enhanced, improving the portrayal of low T/D situations that arise when medium and heavy AT round impact lightly armored vehicles. HQ units now have their + sign in parentheses - ie (+) OR for infantry - (6). Note that with the Command and Control on, a unit will not have a movement radius highlighted if its formation has not been assigned an objective. This will make it easier for you to find a unit using the new alt-J feature. A value of 1 to 3 means relatively clear weather, although a 2 or 3 can mean fog, haze or light snowfall. Units ID tags have been added to help find where friendly and enemy units are located. Click on the A0 unit. During game play, there will be a green light on the upper right of the mini-map. They stay in good order until destroyed. •Heavy guns and bombs will now affect units up to 2 hexes away with suppression, and may kill men in adjacent hexes. Commando and partisan units can be assigned targets behind enemy lines during pre-game deployment. All this assumes lots of things, but less things are generalized than before! They will now avoid entering buildings, unless the building has a victory objective. This reinforcement hex is now started on a road hex on the player’s side of the map if possible. We apologize for this and will continue to pursue a solution. The floating pop-out boxes that show unit and map data, as well as combat results, now appear at the top of the screen if the “Floating map text” button is turned off in Preferences. When penetration occurs, each system is checked for damage. The “secondary weapon” of most guns have been removed. In the map editor the name of the terrain shape file set and the file icon are displayed when placing buildings. The program has been tested on systems with as little as 32 MB of RAM. •Rice Paddies – In jungle, crops are rice paddies. Fires may burn out after a while. In 1995, Mindscape, Inc. publishes Steel Panthers on DOS. They cannot be hit by indirect or direct fire, except through the front entrance. So players can more easily spot them for C2 purposes. •The blast power of even small bombs, and the disruption an air attack has on nearby troops, had been greatly enhanced. The effect is wider for units in cover and wider still if entrenched. •A landscape display is now featured in the upper right corner of the Battle Map. If you have the setup file itself on a CD (through a game magazine or some other CD distribution method), then you need about 600 MB to install. Nor do boats and barges. Steel Panthers : World At War; Fred Chlanda's Home Page; SPWaW Manual (PDF format); Scenario Center for SPWAW; Anybody may submit a new custom scenario to ME. Once the turn that has been set begins the victory hex is shown on the map and as long as the value is higher then 19 the AI will attempt to capture these new victory hexes as well. The same applies to the background battle noises soundtrack, which begins randomly between turn one and four, or when the first weapon is fired. A new ricochet tweak improves the depiction of the "critical angle" so ricochet probability will be low below critical angle and ramp up quickly. Appropriate sound effects for the weather are played if that option is enabled in the Preferences Menu. The top one gives you the option to exit the current game and return to the Selection screen, where you can restart or exit SPWAW. There will also be a substantial upgrade to the armor combat model in 5.0 APCR performance has been greatly enhanced, depicting its performance much more accurately. This allows for a more realistic effective armor calculation to be made, one that accounts for the combined effect of vertical and horizontal armor angles, and the ratio of basic armor thickness to shell diameter (expressed by the formula “T divided by D”). After any preliminary bombardment during the designated turn, these make their way across the map to deposit their troops as close as possible to the assigned locations. Infantry can now only throw smoke one hex away. These are optional and will be disbaled if you click on Reject. You can see how many times your opponent started and ended his turns by hitting the “1” key. •Message Delay – This value determines how long messages, such as combat results, remain on the screen. The new rough tile set will now automatically be used in battles where the terrain is rough. Two new battle types have been added to Desert, Summer and Winter. This is where we begin. •Purchase point values for computer opponent (which start out equal to your base force normal points plus all support points, whether or not you use them) were reduced from x1 for defend, x1 for delay, x1 for meeting, x4 for advance, x7 for assault to x.50 for defend, x.66 for delay, x1 for meeting, x1.5 for advance and x2 for assault. If you create a password, a PBEM game will be created and you’ll be prompted to save the game (password-protected PBEM games must be saved into one of the save-game slots numbered 3-12). No hardware graphics acceleration was programmed and on some systems best. For now, right-click on the AO, or any other unit. Simply right click on the tank and you’ll see Sgt. All new graphics for single hex and multihex buildings have been added that allow European style rowhouses and city blocks to be constructed. The first screen you see after the intro is a ⦠However, your fire won’t be as effective. Fires may now spread to adjacent flammable hexes. Units accumulate suppression points for a wide variety of reasons, from thinking the enemy is nearby, to being shot at or seeing a friendly unit get wiped out. It is still limited, so it tends to rely on speed and numbers to overwhelm. You can’t see him, but you know he is in that patch of woods. Either campaign will now use the default calculated starting points unless the player has changed the starting Battle Points value in the preferences to a value other than "XXXX" for Player 1. •Added a yes/no prompt when pressing the “Load All” button. During 1943, if in Italy, they have a greater chance to opportunity fire at enemy troops than normal. Our Digital Download service sends you a download link to the master game file once your order is complete. •When a player feels his situation is hopeless he can surrender by using the F9 key. Players are numbered 1 through 6 in small yellow numbers with a “P” before them. The new ones are Jungle and Rough. Click on the notepad button in the center of the buttons on the right. But it was developed on a system with 64 MB, so we recommend at least that much RAM. So, climb into the turret and take command. The area that used to contain ads, now contains the more important messages such as combat results. •Swamp/Marsh - A new terrain type, called Marsh can now be evoked in the editor, by selecting swamp. The building selected can be locked in for multiple placement with the “Z” key. Though SP: WAW is based on the Steel Panthers III game system, its unit scale is closer to Steel Panthers I. •Vehicles and guns that have been abandoned no longer have the "+" drawn on them. You also have an anti-tank gun in hex 33, 29. Gamers can set a “Gamer Timer” this will be the amount of time each player has to finish his turn. The Long Campaign allows players to pick one of six armies, and use it in scenarios that begin when that nation first entered the war (1941 for the U.S., for example) and continue until the end of the war. If B1 doesn’t eliminate him or force him to retreat, then bring up your armored car and other troops to finish the job. Marines can dish out firepower at close range. To start the game either double-click on spwaw.exe or use the Steel Panthers: World at War icon found under the Windows Start and Program buttons. If you look on the right side of the screen, you’ll see a list of scenarios and long campaigns. Occasionally units may be able to move an additional hex. This should speed up artillery barrages. running straight at it in clear LOS). Let’s try that. You can clear the darkened area by clicking on the paintbrush button on the Menu Bar, or hitting the “u” key. •Terrain will crater more rapidly than before. So players can more easily spot them for C2 purposes. These include Platoon HQ, Airborne, Elite, Wagon, Horse Team, Bicycle, Heavy Machine Gun, Light Mortar, Leg Forward Observer, Heavy Mortar, Rocket Launcher and SP Rocket Launcher, Special and Guerrilla Forces, Armored Forward Observer Vehicle, Glider, Cargo Plane and Turreted Tank Destroyers. Cliffs may only be placed on slopes and are impassable to all units, except units of the “Special Forces” class and it will take all movement points of the unit to enter, which must begin movement adjacent to the cliff. The four numbers labeled “Shots” indicates how many shots it can fire from each of its weapons. They very seldom surrender. Some weapons can be repaired during the game. Wheeled vehicles can no longer enter hexes with buildings, and the number of building damage icons has increased. Very experienced troops can sometimes “anticipate” a shot and hit the deck before it strikes. •Searching – This value is a multiple in the spotting calculations, with 100% being 1.0. 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