Crown of Ardania, The

1987 GLAUG

Manual
INTRODUCTION The Crown of Ardania is a fantasy war game which combines the strategies of Risk and other such games with the completely new aspect of MAGIC! The game is played on a map which has 16 territories. The object is to be the sole ruler in the land by conquering all other opponents so that you occupy all territories. There can be up to four players. Each player takes on the role of a mage of great power who is battling to become the King of the magical land of Ardania. Each player commands troops in each of the territories he or she controls. These troops are made up of soldiers, knights and wizards. Soldiers are the average fighting number. Knights are more more knights you ability. main fighting force in Crown of Ardania (CA). They are men. They have no special strengths except for their shear powerful, skilled fighters and thus aid you in battle. The have in a territory the better that territory's fighting

Wizards benefit you in two ways. First, like knights, they help you in battle. But Secondly, and much more importantly, they generate the power (in the form of spell points) that you use to cast your spells. The more wizards you have, the more spell points you will generate each turn. In addition to troops, there are three other components to the game which are very important: food, gold and spell points. As mentioned above you acquire spell points from your wizards (5 per wizard) at the beginning of each turn. You acquire gold from your territories in the form of taxes. The more territories you own, the more taxes you will be able to demand from your peasants each day. However, the terrain of each territory also plays a part in how much gold you will be able to get, more on this later. Food is also produced by your territories. depends on each territory's terrain. The amount of food produced

STARTING A GAME If you have not already done so, see the READ_ME_FIRST file, which should have accompanied the game, for instructions on installing and booting Crown of Ardania. Once you have started CA, after a delay (while CA loads itself and all of its data files) you will be presented with the opening screen. There will be a long elaborate introduction. You can skip this introduction by pressing the SPACE BAR at any time. After the introduction you will see the map of Ardania appear. The game begins by each player entering their name. Each person should note what color wizard they are, so that they know which territories they own. There can be up to four players. If there are less than four playing, simply press return when CA asks for the name of the next player. With the 1MEG version you can also have the computer play any of the four players by typing COMPUTER as the name of the player. The Computer Player's name will be its color, Red, Green, Blue or Purple. There can be from 0 to 4 computer players. If you would like to see a demo of the game, make all four players the computer and it will play itself. There is no computer player in the 512K version. After the players have entered their names, the computer will ask if you want to use the FAST game or NORMAL game options. You need to click on the option to use. NORMAL GAME - with the NORMAL game option, each Player is randomly given one territory at the start of the game, 40 soldiers, 8 knights, 2 wizards, 10 spell points, 100 food units and no spies.

FAST GAME - with the fast game all of the territories are randomly given to players so that each player gets the same number. Note that if there are three players, there will be one empty territory leftover. Also, a random number of soldiers, knights, and wizards are placed on each territory. Each Player starts with 100 spell points, large quantity of food, and some spies. After you have selected which type of game, if there is a computer player, you will be asked if you want to see the computer players moves (1 MEG version only). If you select YES, you will see everything the computer player does just as if it was a human player. If you select NO you will only see the computer player select menu options. Not being able to see what the computer player does increases the difficulty of the game. It also speeds up the game quite a bit. TERRITORIES & TERRAIN The land of Ardania is divided into 16 territories. Territories are IMPORTANT You should own as many as you can at all times! To own or occupy a territory you need to have at least 1 soldier,knight or wizard in that territory. If you ever move all of your troops out of a territory (or they are all killed) that territory will become "free". Free territories are indicated by their brown color. Anyone can take a free territory by simply moving troops into it. It should be noted here that the term TROOPS refers to all three classes of men which you can control: soldiers, knights, and wizards. It does NOT simply refer to soldiers. The terrain of each territory plays a very big factor in the game, and should be kept in mind when playing CA. There are four types of terrain: Flatlands, Swamps, Forests & Mountains. Each has its own effects, advantages and disadvantages. FLATLANDS - There are only two territories in Ardania which are flatlands. They are both very large and have a large population. Therefore, each of these territories will usually yield a large number of recruits each day. However, the people who live here are extremely poor so you will not be able to get much in taxes from them. The flatlands make very good farm lands and produce large quantities of food. However, the flatlands are very hard to defend! SWAMPS - There are fewer people in the swamps so you will not get as many recruits from here. But they are slightly richer people. The swamps are fairly good food producers and somewhat easier to defend than the flatlands. FOREST - There are still fewer people in the forest territories. But they can make up for their lack of number with gold. Plus the forests are fairly easy to defend. But, the food production is a bit lacking here. MOUNTAINS - There are very few people in the mountains. But the few who are there are extremely rich due to the extensive mining. And while mountains produce very little food, mountain passes are very easy to defend! TURNS AND PHASES The game of CA proceeds in a series of turns. (In the game, each Turn is refered to as a 'day'.) Turns are divided into two Phases: The Movement Phase & The Action Phase. The Movement Phase preceeds the Action Phase in each turn. There is a unique set of play options in each of the different phases. Each phase is divided into "player turns", one for each player. During your turn, you can take as many moves as you like. Your turn does not end until you select DONE. Note, there are some option which will prematurely end your turn. It is specifically stated in the description of each of these options that they end your turn. The order in which players get to take their turn in any given PHASE is determined by the computer. Thus it is important to remember, even if you get to go first in the movement phase, you might not go first in the action phase! The computer, much more often than not, will allow the LOSING player to go first and make the winning player go last. But DO NOT depend on this! If some players are of ABOUT equal "strength" it is somewhat random as to what order those players will get to take their turns. TAXES & RECRUITS At the start of each Movement Phase each player receives his/her taxes,

recruits, food and spell points for that day(turn) as his/her player turn occurs. First, you are asked how much in taxes to demand from your peasants. Your advisors will suggest an amount which is consistent with the wealth of the peasants in the territories you own. You should choose wisely here. If you take more than your advisors suggest, your peasants will be upset because they are being over taxed and you will get little or NO recruits for that day. If you take less than what your advisors suggest, your peasants will be overly grateful and you get more recruits for that day. If you take exactly the suggested amount you will get a "fair" number of recruits. Note that the extent to which your peasants are angered or pleased about the taxation depends upon how much over or under the suggested amount you demand. For example if you take only one gold piece more than what your advisors suggest, your peasants will not be overly angered. However, if you take twice the amount that your advisors suggest (the maximum you can ever ask for) your peasants will not be happy, to say the least, and you will probably get very few recruits! At the beginning of the phase, a scroll will appear over the map of Ardania asking you for the amount you demand. Type in the number of gold pieces you demand and press return. After you have taxed your peasants you will be told how many spell points your wizards have generated for you this day and how much food your territories produced. (CA will wait for you to click on continue). Next, you will be told how many recruits have joined your army and be asked to which territory you wish to assign them. You must assign your recruits to a territory WHICH YOU ALREADY OWN. You cannot assign them to an empty territory. To assign your troops simply click on the territory you wish to place them in. FOOD & REST Also at the beginning of each Movement Phase you will be warned if your troops have become overly fatigued or if you have run low on food and your troops are starving. You should be very aware that both of these situations can be very serious! FOOD Each and every member of your army must have one food unit each day to survive. If you begin to run low on food and cannot feed your troops they will begin to perish! The worse your food situation is, the more troops that will die from starvation. You should keep a close eye on your food supply! REST As you select options in the game, your troops become more and more fatigued. Afterall, it is not easy running from territory to territory fighting all types of battles. You will be warned if your troops start to become fatigued and if you do not take a good rest, they will eventually become so fatigued they will begin to die! Also remember, fatigued troops could not possibly fight as well as troops which are well rested! MOVEMENT PHASE During the Movement Phase there are nine options which you can select to do. Most of these you can do repeatedly without ending your turn. However, there are some which you can do only once each Movement Phase. The Movement Phase options are: I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. MOVE TROOPS VISIT A TERRITORY ADVERTISE FOR TROOPS REST (DONE) VISIT TREASURY HIRE SPIES CAST A SPELL ALLOCATE SPIES BUY FOOD

I. MOVE TROOPS This option allows you to move any number of your troops from a territory you own to another territory you own OR to an empty territory in order to take that territory. First you must select one of your territories to move troops FROM then select a territory to move troops TO. The two territories you select MUST be adjacent. You can then move as many troops as you like between the two territories. Note, however, if you move all of your troops out of a territory that territory will become free for anyone else who wishes to take it. Moving Troops TO AN EMPTY TERRITORY ends your turn. However, you can move troops between territories you already own as much as you like. THE TROOPS ALLOCATION REQUESTER: When ever you need to move or allocate troops in CA you will be presented with the Troops Allocation Requester. This requester looks something like this:

FROM << << << 100 10 5 CANCEL

-> soldiers knights wizards DONE

TO 10 0 1 >> >> >>

To allocate the troops to be affected by whatever option you are currently in, you can click on the numbers to the right to move troops over ONE AT A TIME. Or you can click on the numbers to the left to move troops back one at a time. Likewise, You can click on the double arrows ( << , >> ) to move troops over or back TEN AT A TIME. When you are finished allocating your troops click on DONE. Or, if you no longer wish to take this action, you can click on CANCEL. Whenever you are presented with the Troops Allocation Requester, a second smaller scroll will always appear telling you what you are allocating troops for. II. VISIT A TERRITORY This game option does NOT actually have an entry in one of the Movement Phase or Action Phase menus. You activate this option by simply clicking on any territory you wish to visit. It is possible, when playing CA, to keep the number of troops you have on each territory fairly secret from the other players. In fact this can be an effective strategy to follow. In this way you can "hide your numbers" or fool the other players into believing you have more troops than you actually do. Because of this strategy the Visit A Territory option can be used in two ways. First, if you forget how many troops you have on a territory you can use this option to see what you have. Second if you hire spies (more below) you can spy on an enemy territory and find out how many troops your opponent has there. III. ADVERTISE FOR TROOPS Just as in the real world, ADVERTISING WORKS! Using this option, you can increase the number of recruits you will get the next day by paying advertisers to recruit for you. You can pay as little or as much as you like for this advertising. But keep in mind no matter how much you pay it is only for advertising ONE day. You will get your recruits from this advertising at the start of the next day and that's it. To get more recruits (over what you would normally get) you will have to advertise again. One hint: Also as in the real world, good advertising is not cheap! IV. REST (DONE) As stated in the FOOD & REST section, if your troops become overly fatigued they will begin to perish! To prevent this you must give your troops a good rest. To truely rest, you must select rest as the VERY FIRST option in a phase. This is stressed by the fact that this option will only say REST in the menus of the two phases if you have selected no other option. As soon as you select an option other than rest, this option will change to say DONE. In otherwords, in order to rest your troops you must do nothing but rest for an entire phase! You can rest both during the Movement Phase and during the Action Phase. Resting during the Movement Phase is only a very light rest and will do little to actually relieve the fatigue of your troops. However, it will impress the locals that you are kind to your troops and you may get more recruits the next day. Resting during an Action Phase is a good rest and will relieve the fatigue of your troops quite well. However, if you have pushed your troops to the point of dying from fatigue it may take more than one Action Phase rest to get them totally back to normal. Resting always ends your turn. If you do other things in a phase besides rest, this option becomes the means by which you end your turn. When you are finished with your turn select this option (DONE). V. VISIT TREASURY If during the Movement Phase you need to find out how much gold, spell points, food, spies or troops you have, you can use this option. You can also use this option to find out how much gold and spell points an opponent has if you hire some spies. As with troops it is a good idea to keep the amount of gold and spell points you have under wraps as best you can. VI. HIRE SPIES As mentioned above, if you hire spies you can find out some very important

things about your opponent.

Spies can be very useful AND important to have.

Spies work in the following way. First, you must hire them to do a task for you. Spies cost one gold piece each to hire. After you have hired spies, you can use them in one of three ways. Each of these options takes a certain number of spies to complete the task. After this, these spies have satisfied their debt to you and will leave your service. You must then hire more spies to do another task. Note that you can hire a surplus of spies and use them as needed. The three uses for spies are with the Visit Territory, the Visit Treasury and the Combat options. To use spies with the Visit Territory option, you simply click on an opponents territory. If you have enough spies, you will be told how many troops your opponent has on that territory. It takes five spies to spy on an opponents territory. If you select Visit Treasury and you have spies, you will be asked if you wish to visit YOUR treasury or if you want to spy on an opponent. Spying on an opponents treasury takes 10 spies. Probably the most important use of spies is during combat. combat will be discussed in the COMBAT section below. Use of spies in

VII. CAST A SPELL Magic is the one thing which gives CA its twist. And, magic is very important in the game. Your strategy should include the CAREFUL use of it. Magic in Ardania exists as spells which you, as a great mage, can cast. Casting a spell costs spell points, which are generated by your wizards. The greater the power of the spell the more spell points it costs. There are three important things to remember about spells. First, with few exceptions, spells are cast on a TERRITORY not on the troops in that territory. The spell will last for its entire duration regardless of WHO occupies the territory. Second, Spells can be cast on ANY territory! Lastly, the duration of a spell begins during THE TURN YOU CAST IT. Example, a Magic Sword lasts for 2 turns: the turn you cast it and the next turn. Below is a list of the Movement Phase spells, including cost and duration of each. SPELL COST(sp pts) Detection 3 Magic Swords 5 Magic Shields 10 Fear 10 Magic Hammers 15 Magic Traps 15 Teleport 20 Dust to Gold 25 Gold to Dust 50 * = instantaneous - = special, see text SPELL DETAILS DETECTION - Some spells' effects last for several turns. The detection spell lets you find out what spells are currently active on the territory you cast it upon. MAGIC SWORDS - Magic Swords cause the weapons of whatever troops are in the affected territory to become enchanted. This allows the troops to ATTACK better in combat. Magic Swords does NOT aid in defense of a territory. Note that Magic Swords is a low level spell. It will not make an outstanding difference in battles. But it could give you that extra edge! It should be noted here that only ONE spell of a given type can be cast on a territory at any given time. That is, only one Magic Swords can be cast on a territory. Casting a second Magic Swords on the same territory would have no additional affect except to extend the spells duration. Example, if you cast a Magic Swords on a territory (duration 2 turns), then immediately cast a second Magic Swords on the same territory, you now have a territory with a Magic Swords which will last four turns! You CAN cast two different spells on the same territory. For example, you could cast a Magic Swords AND a Magic Hammers on the same territory and have both spells in effect and their effects will be additive! MAGIC SHIELDS - This spell enchants the armor of the troops in the affected territory helping them to defend. It has no effect during attacks. (NOTE: attacking and defending will be discussed in detail in the combat section.) FEAR - This spell causes the troops in the affected territory to be afraid of whoever they are facing in combat and to fight poorly against them. This DURATION(turns) * 2 2 2 3 * * *

spell affects both attacking and defending. You should bear in mind that if you use this spell in an offensive way, and you attack and take the territory BEFORE the duration of the spell has expired, the troops you move into that territory will be affect by this spell! MAGIC HAMMERS - Like Magic Swords this spell enchants the weapons of the troops in the territory this spell is cast upon. However, Magic Hammers is a more powerful version of the spell AND it affects both attacking and defending. It also has a longer duration. MAGIC TRAPS - This spell causes traps to be set in the territory it is cast upon. For a detailed explanation of traps see the LEAVING TRAPS option in the combat section. TELEPORT - Using this spell you can teleport troops from one territory to another. This is the only spell which cannot be cast on just any territory. You can only use this spell to move YOUR troops from a territory you own to another territory you own OR to an empty territory. You cannot teleport an enemy's troops. The Teleport spell works very similar to the Move Troops option except that the territories do not have to be adjacent. This spell is very useful if you get blocked into a small area of the map by your opponents. DUST TO GOLD - This spell is cast on yourself and NOT on any particular territory. While you could cast this spell on an opponent, that would not be the smartest of moves. This spell is greatly affected by the number and terrains of the territories you occupy. This spell allows you to create gold from the dust of the earth. And it requires a great deal of dust. Because of this, dusty territories such as the flatlands or the mountains will create much more gold than the wet swamps or the forests. But keep in mind that this spell is very unpredictable. And just because you have flatlands or mountains does not mean you will rake in the gold. GOLD TO DUST - This spell is cast on a player However, you still need to select a territory will be affected by the spell. When you cast of that players gold will be instantly turned and not on a territory. to indicate which player this spell on a player, ALL to dust and be worthless.

VIII. ALLOCATE SPIES This option will be explained in the combat section. IX. BUY FOOD If your territores are not producing enough food to support your troops, you will need to buy food. You can buy food at a rate of 3 food units for each gold piece. ACTION PHASE There are seven options in the Action Phase. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. ATTACK A TERRITORY CAST A SPELL BUILD FORTRESS REST (DONE) SUMMON DRAGON VISIT TREASURY VISIT TERRITORY

I. ATTACK A TERRITORY This is by far the most important option in CA since attacking and taking territories is how players overcome their opponents. While the mechanics involved in attacking a territory are fairly simple the factors affecting combat are numerous and complex. A few of these factors are given in the COMBAT section below. COMBAT Combat in CA is based on the principle that there is an Attacker and a Defender in each battle. The attacker is the active player who selected the option and is threatening to take the Defending player's territory. The Attacker selects one of his territories to attack from (the attacking territory) AND an opponent's territory to attack (the defending territory). These two territories must be adjacent. The attacking territory is the territory that the attacker can draw his troops from to create an attacking army which then moves into the defending territory and engages in battle. The defending army is made up of ALL of the troops on the defending territory. If the Attacker wins he/she claims the defending territory as his/her own and the troops which remain alive in the attacking army are placed there as that territory's occupants. The Attacker cannot move any more troops there until the next Movement Phase. One thing the attacker should remember is that fighting battles is very draining on troops and that the attacker's troops will be building up fatigue at a much greater rate then normal. Also, this fatigue will affect the ability of the army to fight. If at any time the attackers army is defeated the defender remains owner of the defending territory. Note that the Attacker can never loose a

territory UNLESS the attacker places ALL of the attacking territory's troops into his attacking army. In this case, whether the attacker wins or loses, the original attacking territory becomes a free territory! THE MECHANICS OF ATTACKING This section describes in detail how a battle is carried out. The first thing the attacking player must do after electing to attack a territory is to select a territory to attack FROM, then a territory to attack. The attacker will then select his/her ATTACK MODE. After the attacker has selected an attack mode, the defender will select his/her DEFENSE MODE. There are five attack modes and six defense modes. These attack and defense modes should be selected in secrecy! So while the attacker is selecting his/her attack mode the defender should turn away from the screen and visa-versa when the defender selects a defense mode. The attack and defense modes are discussed in detail below. After the battle modes have been selected the outcome of the battle will be resolved. Note that certain combinations of attack and defense modes will NOT result in any actual fighting. If fighting does occur, the players simply sit back and watch as their troops perish in the onslaught. The winner is the player who has troops surviving at the end of the battle. Note that it is possible for BOTH armies to be completely destroyed in the melee. If both armies are destroyed then the defending territory becomes a free territory. FACTORS WHICH AFFECT COMBAT Besides the attack and defense modes selected by the attacker and defender, there are many other factors which can affect the outcome of a battle. Several of these factors are listed here. Terrain - The terrain of the DEFENDER'S territory plays a big role in combat. As mentioned above in the TERRAIN section, the terrain of a territory determines how difficult or easy that territory is to defend. Only the defender's territory is considered in combat because the attackers are thought to be rushing into the defending territory. Spells - The spells cast on both the attacking AND defending territories are considered for combat. The spells cast on the attacking territory affect the attacking army and the spells cast on the defending territory affect the defending army. The affect that spells have on the battle are discussed in their respective sections. Fatigue - How fatigued the armies are will affect how well they can fight. The more fatigued an army is the worse it will fight. Fortresses - A fortress built on a defending territory will help the defender greatly. Fortresses on the attacking territory have no effect. Troops - Aside from the number of soldiers in an army the number of knights and wizards dictate that army's strength. ATTACK & DEFENSE MODES The first three attack modes and the first three defense modes are all simple battle strategies to use in actual fighting. All other battle modes are special actions that can also be done in a combat situation. BATTLE STRATEGIES The three attack strategies are: Sneak Attack - The attacking army is silently entering the defending territory in an attempt to surprise the defender. Normal Attack - The attacking army is marching in formation into the defending territory hoping their number and battle skills will be sufficient to win. Ferocious Attack - The attacking army is rushing forward in a berzerking rage. The three defense strategies are: Ambush - The defenders are in hiding, waiting to surprise the attacking army as it enters the territory. Stand Ground - The defenders are in formation ready to take the attackers head on. Counter Attack - The defenders, in a wild burst, rush forward in hopes of catching the attackers off guard. Below is a table which shows how these battle strategies correlate to each other to determine which side has the advantage. This table was constructed to be fair not necessarily to make sense in a real life battle situation. However, with a little imagination the entries in the table can make sense. For example, attacking ferociously has the advantage over a defenders ambush because the attackers rush in surprising the

defenders before they can hide. E - Even, no advantages, strategies cancel A - Attackers advantage D - Defenders advantage DEFENDER: Attacker: Sneak Attack Normal Attack Ferocious Attack AMBUSH E D A STAND GROUND A E D COUNTER ATTACK D A E

OTHER ATTACK MODES SPREAD RUMORS - This is a total fake out. You can select this option if you want to only pretend you are attacking your opponent. While you can't take a territory using this mode, you can reap some benefits from it. If the defender does not realize you are bluffing and plans a defense anyway his/her troops will become disgruntled and the defender will get very few recruits next turn. Because the defender was a poor general. You, on the other hand, will look very good and may get extra recruits. These bonuses and penalties can be quite large if the defender does something really extreme such as retreats from the territory. Keep in mind though, there is an 'It's only rumors' defense mode. SEND BANDITS - You may, if you have the money, choose to hire bandits and rogues to fight for you. This way, you do not have to endanger your own troops in combat. However, you cannot take a territory with hired warriors. If your hired army wins they will simply leave the territory unoccupied. Bandits are used mostly to chop away at the opposing army's troops. Bandits can be hired at one gold piece each. Keep in mind that these are not the greatest fighting men. They will be at a natural disadvantage. OTHER DEFENSE MODES LEAVE TRAPS - Leaving traps is a way of retreating but at the same time take one last stab at the enemy. With this mode, as your troops retreat from the territory they setup dangerous traps. Then when the enemy enters the territory they will set off these traps causing a significant number of the attacking troops to perish. Note, if the traps are not set off by the attackers (such as when the defender leaves traps but the attacker spreads rumors), or if magic traps are set, the traps will remain until someone moves INTO the territory. Moving out of a territory does not set off traps. Keep in mind that it costs gold pieces to build these traps, 25 g.p. to be exact. If you do not have 25 g.p. then leaving traps will automatically become a retreat! You WILL NOT be told that you do not have enough gold. And, you will NOT get the chance to change your selection. IT'S ONLY RUMORS - If you are pretty sure that the attacker is only spreading rumors (such as when your spies tell you), you can select this option and turn the tables on them. If they really were only spreading rumors then you will look like a great general and may get a significant number of extra recruits. And your opponent will look foolish and get a penalty to his/her recruits. However, if the attacker really wasn't spreading rumors your troops will be confused and unprepared when the invaders rush in and many of them will die before they can regroup well enough to fight. RETREAT - If you are hopelessly outnumbered, you do not have enough gold for leaving traps, but you want to save your troops, you can retreat. When you retreat (OR leave traps) the computer will ask you which territory you wish to retreat to. If you do not own a territory ADJACENT to the defending territory your troops will simply be killed in hostile enemy lands! USING SPIES IN COMBAT If you have hired spies you can allocate some of these spies for use in combat using the ALLOCATE SPIES option in the MOVEMENT PHASE. It is important to remember to do this in the movement phase before the Action Phase when you actually need the spies or you are out of luck! There are two things you need to allocate spiesfor, offense and defense. Offensive spies will help you when YOU attack a territory. They will not help you when you are ATTACKED. If you have offensive spies, when you attack, these spies may tell you what defense mode your opponent selected and you will get a chance to change your attack mode accordingly. Note however, in a tense battle situation it may be difficult for spies to survive the dangerous task assigned them or for them to tell exactly what the opponent's field movements actually mean. Thus, there is the

possibility that your spies will not give you any response. Or if they do, it will be an incorrect answer. To overcome this problem, you can set more spies to the task. In fact the more spies you allocate to offense, or defence, the better your chances that you will get a response and the better the chance that that response will be correct. The opposite of offensive spies, deffensive spies aid you when you are attacked by telling you what attack mode your opponent has selected. Keep in mind that after you have selected your defense mode, if the attacker has spies he/she will get to reselect his attack (if his spies give an answer), but you will not get a second chance! This can make selecting a defence mode quite tricky, but, "that's the way the battle is fought!" Finally, spies allocated for attack and defence will remain active until they are actually put to use. That is, offensive spies will not actually leave the players service until the player makes an attack. Likewise, defensive spies will not leave until the player is attacked. Until the player is envolved in combat these spies will remain turn after turn. Also, the spies do not leaveuntil the END of the Action Phase in which the spies are used. So if, for example, a player is attacked twice during a phase and that player has defensive spies, those spies will be a benefit for BOTH attacks. Then the spies will leave the players service at the end of the phase. The player should then consider hiring more spies and allocating new defensive spies during the next Movement Phase. II. CAST A SPELL (Action Phase) There are eight additional spells which can only be cast during the Action Phase. Here is a list of their costs and durations. SPELL Wall of Ice Wall of Fire Lightning Strike Summon Army Plague Demote Anti-Magic Shield FIRESTORM COST 20 20 30 30 40 50 50 200 DURATION 3 1 * 4 * 3 *

WALL OF ICE - This spell creates an impenetrable wall of ice completely encircling the territory you cast it upon. No troops (yours or anyone elses) will be able to move in or out of this territory, except with a teleport spell. Nothing can destroy a wall of ice before its duration has expired except for a FIRESTORM spell! WALL OF FIRE - Although this spell has a very short duration (the turn you cast it), it is a very good defensive spell. This spell creates a searing wall of flames surrounding the territory. ANYONE passing through these flames will be burnt! Keep in mind that this spell lasts only during the Action Phase in which you cast it. So if you are the last player to take his/her turn during the Action Phase casting this spell would be foolish. However, if you are the first player to take his/her turn in the Action Phase (which possibly means you are losing) this can be a very effective defense. LIGHTNING STRIKE - This spell does serious damage to a single territory by destroying a significant number of the SOLDIERS there. The larger the number of soldiers in the territory, the more effective the spell. SUMMON AN ARMY - This spell instantly creates 100-200 soldiers on the territory in which you cast it. Keep in mind, however, that you must feed all of these men you are suddenly conjuring into existense. PLAGUE - This spell causes a horrible unknown blite to descend upon a territory. This blite causes several bad effects: troops will die the territory will produce NO food it will produce less gold the wizards on the territory will produce NO spell pts - in their weakened state the troops there will not be able to defend the territory very well All in all, not a good situation to be in! DEMOTE - This spell instantly removes the special fighting skills of all the knights on a territory reducing them to mere soldiers. ANTI-MAGIC SHIELD - This spell, when cast on a territory, will cancel any attempt by your opponent to cast a spell on that same territory. It does not affect any spells which you attempt to cast on that territory. Anti-Magic Shield, however, only has a 80% chance of stopping a FIRESTORM spell. This is due to the shear power of the FIRESTORM.

FIRESTORM - If all else fails NUKE 'EM! This spell will instantly destroy everything on a single territory! It kills all troops, destroys any fortress and negates any other spells which are currently active on the affected territory! BUT BE WARNED! The FIRESTORM spell is so powerful that it is very hard to control. There is a chance that it will backfire!!! Casting a FIRESTORM spell ends your turn. III. BUILD A FORTRESS Building a fortress on a territory can greatly aid in defending that territory. And fortresses are fairly inexpensive for the defensive capabilities they give. They start at about 60 gold pieces to build one on a flatlands. And go up to 120 to build one on a mountain territory. The only thing which can destroy a fortress once it has been built is a FIRESTORM spell. You should take care and defend your fortresses well. For if your opponent should take that territory, then you will have to fight against your own fortress to regain it. IV. REST (DONE) Resting was covered in detail under the Movement Phase Rest option. V. SUMMON THE DRAGON Three times, and only three times during the course of an entire game, each player can summon The Great Dragon to aid in their struggle. The Dragon is extremely chaotic and unpredictable. So there is no way of knowing what type of aid he will give. It could be anything. He could give you more soldiers, knights, or wizards, or all three! He could give you more spell points, gold, or simply a good rest. He may even take an opponents territory away and give it to you with all the troops still there! But whether the dragon gives you something so-so or something great, it will always be good. The dragon will never harm the person who summons him. One thing to remember about the dragon, he is very sympathetic. He tends to give the most help to players who are in trouble, but not always! If The Dragon gives you troops of any kind, he will distribute these troops evenly over all of your territories. This prevents an opponent from immediately destroying all of The Dragon's gift by attacking or firestorming a single territory. Summoning the dragon ends your turn. VI. VISIT A TERRITORY This option is identical to its Movement Phase counterpart. VII. VISIT TREASURY This option is identical to its Movement Phase counterpart. SAVING & RESTORING GAMES It can take a very long time to finish a game of Crown of Ardania (anywhere from four to six hours)! For this reason a method of saving games so they can be restarted later has been included. To save a game you can press the ESC key at any time. To show that you have selected the save option, the word 'SAVE' will appear in the upper left corner of the game map. Then at the beginning of the next turn a small scroll will appear with a requester asking you for a name to save the game under. At this point you should put the disk to which you want to save the game in a drive, then enter a name and press return. You SHOULD include the entire path in the name. Example: OR: df0:MyGame df0:CofAGames/MyGame

Disk number one of the CA set has a directory called CofAGames on it so that you can save games to this disk. WARNING: you should backup this disk before saving anything to it!! Note that saving a game does not end that game. The game will continue as usual after the game has been saved. Thus saving a game is like taking a snap shot of the game at a particular point. To restore a previously saved game, restart Crown of Ardania and type RESTORE as the name of the first player. You will be presented with a similar requester as when you saved the game. You can then type the name of the saved game (including the entire path) to restore that game. The game will then continue at the beginning of the turn which was about to start when you saved it. ENDING A GAME If you wish to end a game before the conclusion of that game, either because you have saved the game or because you are simply tired of

playing, hold down the Right-Amiga key and press the period '.' key. The game will terminate and return you to the WorkBench screen. --By THE MIDNIGHT MANIAC. Edited by PARASITE. For more Amiga documents, visit www.lemonamiga.com