Power Grab

New industry powers and units added including:

Technology to create launchpads, satellites and force fields

Aviation to create Airfields and bombers

Power to create silos and missiles



On loading you will be presented with a screen of options



Play, this will take you to the main game screen

Difficulty - allows you to make the game more easy or more difficult to win

New game - select Western, Eastern or Random Alliance to generate friendly, neutral and enemy countries

Load Game - load a previously saved game

Save Game - save a game you are currently playing

Turn time - set to None for turn based mode, or set a time between 1 (fastest) and 10 (slowest) for RTS type game

Guide - brings up this guide again

Sound option - to increase, decrease or stop the game sound effects

Quit the game and accept defeat



In the middle of the screen is a spinning world

Each side of the world are gold rotate arrows to pause the spinning and rotate the world slower

Underneath is a double gold rotate arrows to view the full game screen map and the sphere alliances

To return to the spinning world touch again



Touch the World to start the main game screen or press Play



The main game screen has the following indicators and controls

A Build Icon - to enable you to build additional units in friendly spheres

A world map Icon - to enable you to return to the options screen

A time and day indicator

In normal turn based non timer mode touch the time indicator to advance the time by 1 hour

In RTS type game the time will update automatically, to pause and unpause the time update, touch the time indicator



At 21:00, the day will end and additional units will automatically be created, and additional power added to each sphere



Two information bars are in the lower centre of the screen



To the right is a "Harness Power" control, to enable you to harness all friendly sphere power levels



Be careful however, as friendly spheres without power can be more easily converted later on in the game



You must first place your Capitol city in a friendly sphere before the game can start

Touch the world map to scroll around the world

Use this to view friendly spheres (blue), neutral spheres (green) and enemy spheres (red)



Each sphere has:

A regional name

A current level of power

A maximum level of power

A daily charge level of power (this charge is added to the current level of power at the end of each day)

An industry that creates new units each day



You can control neutral spheres by Converting them to friendly, Guarding them with a unit, or investing in them

Each controlling action will add three hours to the time clock

Converting a sphere will enable you to harness its power and build units in the sphere

Investing in them makes it less likely that your enemy will convert them for their own use



You can start to convert enemy spheres into neutral spheres after the 5th day

To convert this sphere into a friend you will then need to invest power into it



All of the above uses certain amounts of your power so be careful you don't go negative and lose the game



Using the Build option in a friendly sphere will enable you to build your units and structures

Building any unit costs you power that is indicated on the screen

Building any unit will advance the time by 1 hour



At any time you can select the unit, and invest in the power by disbanding the unit and reclaiming its value



Selecting a factory will enable you to chose either Fire Power or Hull Strength upgrade mode

You can then select the unit type to upgrade and use your power to upgrade the units next build



Each day the enemy will be building units, upgrading units, and trying to convert neutrals to be enemies, and eventually will convert your friendly spheres



If the enemy converts all spheres to enemy, the game will be lost and you will have been defeated

If you lose all your power by the end of a day, the game will also be lost