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what is so sad is that my wife(that's the nice name i give her) and i were cleaning out my "junk" and came across my original B&W copy of the game(3.5 hard disk, original instruction, box with good corners, near mint condition everything) and we(she made me) throw away my copy due to the fast moving screen, didnt of think of checking online to fix this, i'll download the game soon

what's next? my baseball cards and guns...

i don't think so

It was awesome. I still remember the best strategy for this: split your armys into archer and non-archer. Then you atack with your archers enemy groups of knights and barbarian and leave before they reach, and so on and so for. Eventually, move your melee armies to smash the weakened enemy :bleh:

ahhhh... old times live for ever!

[LondiniumGirl]

I LOVED this game when it was first out, had at sea also... and decided to go surfing for it.

I'm only so-so with computers, so when I found it on an old 5.25 inch disk last week I couldn't figure out how to get a win 98 machine (the only one I could lay my hands on with a 5.25 DRIVE) to read the disk!

I'm gonna go surfing some more and see if I can find at sea... I do recall that archers were a key to winning battles with forts, if you don't have archers when going up against a fort get your guys up REALLY CLOSE really fast, as the archers weren't good at shotting straight down... then you had to figure out up and over... but it kept people alive!

Archers rocked from in the forts!

Damn I can't wait to play this again!

I have a little question.......... How to move a unit?! i click "move" but nothing happens

[The Fifth Horseman]

Tried clicking the destination afterwards?

Hello fellow gamers !

Please note new address for the AAOW fans http://purl.oclc.org/net/aaow

A forum is also included.

Cheers.

what are the keys or conrols to this game?

[Triggerhappistani]

Hi folks. This was my first game on a shiny, new IBM PC XT. I still have the original game, manuals and the XT. I guess now I have to have a garage sale.

Game Controls:
Cursor Movement: 1, 3, 7 and 9 move at an angle. 8, 4, 2 and 6 move along x/y axis

When cursor is not over a squad:
View shows areas of strengths and weakness & total number of troops on each side.
Time sets the speed of the game.
Surrender quits the game.

When cursor is over a squad:
Size shows types and troop numbers in a squad.
Info shows condition and food supply & lets you change marching speed.
Move traces the exact path the squad will take.
Formation lets you change your squad's formation.
Join lets you move troops between two squads, if they are close together.
Detach lets you split a squad (useful if forts are set to train troops).

When cursor is over a squad at time of Encounter:
Zoom lets you take command of the squad in battle.

In battle:
The following commands are preceded by Squad, Archer, Barbarian, or Knight:
Attack - Move forward and attack the enemy (archers will shoot from where they stand).
Forward - Move forward.
Backoff - Move backward.
Retreat - Flee.

Archers are strong against Knights. They will also defend fort walls.
Barbarians are strong against Archers. They have no weapons and move quickly.
Knights are strong against Barbarians. They are slow.
Spies can see twice as far as other troops. If the game is set so the enemy is seen always, they will come into the game as Barbarians.

Ok anyone know the answer to this question. I am trying to create new campaigns but the default is to a floppy drive and I haven't had one of those on a computer in some time. Anyway I can change that designation to a C Drive?

[_r.u.s.s.]

i tried to go to "ye olde options shoppe" (damn i love that name) but it seems that you can only use floppy drive for the new campagin.

so, for example, use dosbox to emulate one

mount a <directory which will be new floppy drive>

example
mount a c:\games\aaow\floppy