1. What is this game about?
In this game you're a king who lives in his castle.
Unfortunately your opponent has also a castle, on the other side of the hill.
Because you don't really like each other and you both have much to much money,
you declared war.
Now you shoot at each other - over the hill - with your cannons.
But with that wind it isn't this easy.
The experienced cannoniers have to find the right angle and the right amount of gunpowder
for making the biggest possible damage.
Aim of the game is, to let the opponents run out of money or to hit their king with the cannons.
2. How does the game begin?
-> hint: Most functions of the game are self-describing .
-> HINT FOR THE WHOLE GAME:
Move the mouse to the border of the window to move the view.
It begins with that the red player (from now on "the red") has to build his castle.
This he does in the following steps:
a) Building the walls of the castle
First, you'll have to build the castle's walls with drawing lines.
You do this with a single click where you want the line to begin,
then again where you want it to end.
attention: Wall-lines only can be begun on the ground or yet existing walls
(in real-life you can't build walls into air, too)
First, you should just draw vertical and horizontal lines.
-> hint: the more straight you draw the lines, the less problems you'll have with stacking later!
Make 4 rooms in this way.
2 big ones (for gunpowder and money) and 2 small ones (for the cannonballs and the king)
-> hint: Just draw multiple ceilings for the gunpowder's room! Not to think what would happen
if it was hit by an evil cannonball!
If you've finished, click on "click here if you've finished"
b) Placing the cannons
Well,now you have to place the cannons.
You should be able to see a slightly transparent cannon.
Move the mouse to the place where you want a cannon and click.
Repeat this so many times until you don't have enough money for another one
(one costs 1000), or you think this would be enough cannons.
(then again, if you've finished, click on "click here if you've finished")
-> hint: cannons have to stay on the ground/the walls.
place them the way, that just their wheels touch the ground/the walls.
c) Placing the gunpowder
Now place the gunpowder in the room you want it to be in:
You should be able to see a slightly transparent gunpowder barrel.
Move the mouse, that you can see the barrel in THE LEFT LOWER CORNER of the room, then click.
-> hint: the transparent barrel must not touch the walls!
You'll see that the computer automatically stacks the gunpowder.
it now goes on with
d) Placing the money
Now place the money in the room you want it to be in:
It works like the gunpowder.
e) Placing the cannonballs
Now place the cannonballs in the room you want it to be in:
It works like the gunpowder.
f) where should the king be?
Now place the king in the room you want it to be in:
It works NOT like the gunpowder.
He has to touch the floor.
And now...
ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
...it's the blue one's turn
here everything works like the red, except that you have to put gunpowder, money and cannonballs
in the RIGHT LOWER CORNER of the room.
I repeat: in the RIGHT LOWER CORNER of the room.
And when the blue player finished, too...
ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
3. The process of the Game
Well, now it's starting really.
From now on the players play alternating.
Basically everything is the same with both.
-> HINT FOR THE WHOLE GAME:
On some things there appears text, when you move your mouse over them.
e.g. "set | shoot"
the thing left of the "|" means what you can do with the left mouse button,
the thing right of the "|" means what you can do with the right mouse button.
Well, it's your turn.
What is to do?
You have several choices:
a) Buy/sell supplies
You can buy cannonballs and gunpowder with left-clicking on it and sell it
with right-clicking on it.
attention: Keep an eye on that you have at least 3 gunpowder barrels!
Otherwise it may not be enugh to shoot!
-> hint: the computer always buys a minimum supply of all, if there isn't anything anymore.
b) Raise/lower taxes
You can raise the taxes with left-clicking the money and lower them with righ-clicking the money.
-> hint: The lower the taxes are, the faster population increases,
what means you'll have more people who each pay less.
The higher the taxes are, the slower population increases,
what means you'll have less people who each pay more.
attention: Never raise the taxes over 30%!
Otherwise your people will make a revolution!
attention: Never lower the taxes under 0% (neagtive, what means you give the people money) !
You'll run out of money immediatly!
c) Researching
You can research (and increase destruction power of your cannonballs with this)
with clicking on your king.
This is worth something, but also costs alot.
d) Repair the castle/sell cannons
Left-click the castle's walls for repairing them.
It works the same way like building the castle in the beginning.
If you've finished, click on "click here if you've finished"
Right-click the castle's walls for buying cannons.
It works like in the beginning, one cannon costs 1000.
If you've finished, click on "click here if you've finished"
e) Shooting!
Now we come to the funny part :-)
Right-click a cannon to shoot it as it is.
Left-click a cannon to set it new.
adjust the angle:
Move the mouse and see how the angle changes.
If you like the angle, click.
adjust the amount of the gunpowder:
Move the mouse away from the cannon to take more gunpowder.
Move the mouse to the cannon to take less gunpowder.
If you like the amount, click.
And now the cannonball flies.
Aaaaand hit?
Nooo scarcely past!
Just do some trial-and-error with angle and gunpowder until you have the best setting of the cannon.
-> hint: look on the wind (you see it down in the middle).
with head wind you have to use more,
with tail wind you have to use less gunpowder than normal.
-> hint: try to hit an opponent's cannon and look what happens :-)
-> hint: try to hit the opponent's gunpowder and look what happens :-)
-> hint: try to hit the opponent's king and you'll win!!
Now it's the other player's turn.
This is going on like this until somone hits the other player's king or someone runs out of money.