.BATTLE COMMANDS

.Summary
There are several different ways to do battle in Island Empires. The main idea
behind doing battle is, in most cases, to defeat your opponent.  Each opponent
may have several islands developed and cannot be eliminated  in one turn.  For
this reason it might be more stratigic to damage more than one island  instead
of eliminating just one. Smaller Empires with only one island can, however, be
destroyed and should be.  Part  of  winning  Island Empires  is  that you must
destroy 3 Islands. When in the battle phase of the game there will be an extra
line above the command line which gives you  some brief information about your
opponent such as Ruler's Name, Size of Fleet,  Number of Castles and Number of
amries. In order to destroy their Island you must destroy all their castles.

During any of  the  following battle phases you  will  have the opprotunity to
abort or retreat. You will see a prompt that says |Hit X or ESC to RETREAT!| and
buy doing so you will suffer some damage which is proportional to  the precent
of strength you have lost.


.Attack Shipyards
This is  where, if you're  lucky, you  can capture  ships and goods  from your
opponents fleet. When you use this methode it will be your fleet against their
fleet.  You must make it through this phase  of  battle in order to proceed to
the other phases

.Attack Castle
This allows you to keep your fleet off  shore and utilize your  cannons to try
and destroy your oppenents castle(s) or try to inflict enough damage that they 
will have to spend several  days rebuilding it. This command will do the  most
damage, but is the hardest to survive. You MUST have a fairly good  size fleet
and be willing to lose some resources in the process.  If you destry ALL their
castles you will take over the island.

.Attack Armies
This is the hand to hand combat phase and is used to cripple the enemies army.
This will destroy Kights as well as  Soldiers and make it even more  difficult
for the enemy to rebuild the empire.

.Return Home
This will allow you to sail back to your island that you started from.

.Help Viewer Commands
As a standard, our Windowed Help File Viewer will accept the following keys to
navigate besides the ones listed on  the bottem stat line. These commands  can
only be used if you are in the |Doorway Mode| from your terminal program.

|PAGE UP| - Same as [P]revious - Moves up one page at a time.
|PAGE DOWN| - Same as [N]ext - Moves down one page at a time.
|CURSOR UP| - Same as Scroll [U]p - Moves up one line at a time. 
|CURSOR DOWN| - Same as Scroll [D]own - Moves down one line at a time.
|HOME| - Same as [F]irst - Moves to the top of the help file.
|END| - Same as [L]ast - Moves to the bottom of the help file.
|ESC| - Same as e[X]it - Exits the help file viewer.

