games-pc master of orion ii-battle at antares User Manuals

Table of Contents

• Introduction

  2
• 1: Requirements and Installation

  3
  • The Technical Stuff

    4
  • Installing the Game

    5
• 2: The Universal Menu

  7
• 3: Beginning a New Game

  9
  • Galactic Setup

    10
    • Difficulty

      11
    • Galaxy Size

      11
    • Galaxy Age

      12
    • Starting Civilization

      12
    • Number of Players

      13
    • Tactical Combat

      13
    • Random Events

      13
    • Antaran Attacks

      13
  • Race Selection

    14
    • Alkari

      15
    • Bulrathi

      15
    • Darloks

      15
    • Elerians

      15
    • Gnolams

      15
    • Humans

      16
    • Klackons

      16
    • Meklars

      16
    • Mrrshan

      16
    • Psilons

      17
    • Sakkra

      17
    • Silicoids

      17
    • Trilarians

      17
    • Custom

      18
      • Colonial Production

        19
      • Combat and Espionage

        20
      • Governments

        20
      • Special Abilities

        23
• 4: The Galactic Command Interface

  27
  • Help and Quit

    28
  • One Versatile Map

    29
    • Zooming

      31
    • Ending Your Turn

      31
    • The System Window

      32
    • The Fleet Window

      32
  • The Game Panel

    33
  • Status Indicators

    36
  • Management Buttons

    37
    • Colonies

      37
    • Planets

      40
    • Fleets

      42
    • Leaders

      43
    • Races

      44
    • Info

      46
• 5: Star Systems

  47
  • Your Home World

    48
  • Star Color

    48
  • Planets

    49
    • Size

      50
    • Mineral Richness

      50
    • Gravity

      51
    • Climate

      51
  • System Specials

    53
• 6: Managing a Colony

  55
  • Creation

    56
  • The Colony Screen

    57
    • System Overview

      58
    • Yield

      58
    • Population

      59
    • Now Building

      61
    • Colony View

      61
  • Building Stuff

    62
• 7: Research and Development

  65
  • Categories

    66
  • Application Types

    68
  • The Big List

    69
    • Construction

      69
    • Power

      76
    • Chemistry

      80
    • Sociology

      83
    • Computers

      85
    • Genetics

      89
    • Physics

      93
    • Force Fields

      98
  • Weapons Upgrades

    103
    • Miniaturization

      103
    • Modifications

      104
• 8: Ships

  107
  • Building Ships

    109
    • Designing Your Own

      110
    • Refitting Obsolete Ones

      116
  • Controlling Fleets

    116
  • Crew (Ship's Marines)

    117
• 9: Mercenary Leaders

  119
  • General Abilities

    120
  • Command Abilities

    121
  • Administration Abilities

    122
• 10: Combat

  123
  • Getting Into a Fight

    124
  • Strategic Combat

    125
  • Tactical Combat

    126
    • The Battle Map

      126
    • Moving Ships

      130
    • Using Weapons

      131
    • Damage

      134
    • Attacking a Planet

      135
    • Boarding Actions

      136
  • Invading a Colony

    137
    • Orbital Assault

      137
    • Ground Combat

      138
    • Assimilate or Be Destroyed

      139
• 11: Managing an Empire

  141
  • Imperial Policy

    142
    • Government

      142
    • Taxes

      144
    • Freighters

      145
    • Command Rating

      145
    • Morale

      146
  • Diplomacy

    147
    • Audiences

      148
    • Treaties

      150
    • Tech Exchanges

      151
  • Espionage

    151
• 12: The End of the Game

  153
  • Winning

    154
  • Score

    155
• 13: Multiplayer Galaxies

  157
  • Starting Out

    158
  • The Sequence of Events

    161
  • Real Diplomacy

    162
• Credits

  163