Spheres of Power

The war they thought would never happen .... the 3rd World War

It left the world devestated and created an apocalyptic climate disaster

The only way humanity could survive was to create giant power spheres around the world to protect themselves

For a while, the peace lasted, but then the old feelings of mistrust between East and West re-emerged

Once again, the world was thrown into conflict .....

It is your role as Commander to use your power and defeat the enemy

On loading you will be presented with a screen of options

OPTIONS SCREEN:

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 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

MAIN GAME SCREEN

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 icon

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

Touch the "End the current day" bar to end the current day and progress quicker

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

These will be added to your level of power indicated in the bar below this control

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)

When your target cursor enters a sphere, details of the sphere will be displayed and Options you can control

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 to create new unit types each day as follows:

Armoured Units, Mechanized Units, Special Forces, Repair Units, Snipers

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 day 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 convert an enemy sphere into a neutral sphere, but it will lose all its power

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

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 additional units.

 These include:

Factories in which you can invest to add more fire power and hull strength to your next unit build

Power Plants, which will add an additional 1000 power to your own power at the end of each day

To protect the above from the enemy you can also build Bunkers and Pill boxes

Bunkers target Armour and Mechanized units

Pillboxes target Special Forces and Militia

These are fixed units which cannot be moved so are good to defend factories and Power Plants

Building any unit will advance the day time by 1 hour and all units will respond and engage if within range

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 part of your power to upgrade the unit up to its maximum value

The next unit builds will then be built to these levels of fire power or hull strength

Greater fire power will enable you to destroy the enemy more quickly

Greater hull strength will enable your unit to absorb more hits from the enemy

Touching a friendly unit will allow you the option to set it to Guard its position, or roam around to find the enemy

Touching an enemy unit will let you know which of your units it can target as follows:

Assassins target your capitol (reducing your power) and your snipers

Special Forces target your Capitol (reducing your power) and your Specials 

Militia targets your snipers and mechanized units

Mechy units target your armd and mechanized units

Armour targets your buildings, and your armd units

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