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KKND Electronic Documentation

MANUAL – TABLE OF CONTENTS

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

COMMAND REFERENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

EARTH: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

BASIC STUFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Game Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Your Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Plundering the Land: Oil, Resource Units, and You. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Tech Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Know Your Control Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Ordering things Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Makin’ Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Fixin’ Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Veteran Units: The Wonders of Shell Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Inﬁltration: The Inside Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Tech Bunkers: The Untold Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

SURVIVOR BUILDINGS AND UNITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Survivor Buildings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Survivor Infantry and Warriors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Survivor Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Survivor Defensive Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

EVOLVED BUILDINGS AND UNITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Evolved Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Evolved Infantry and Warriors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Evolved Vehicles and Animals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Evolved Defensive Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

MULTIPLAYER MAYHEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Setting up a Multiplayer Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Playing a Multiplayer Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

CREDITS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

TECHNICAL SUPPORT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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L Use the left mouse button to:

Select Units Left-click on a single unit or drag a selection box around a

number of units.

Determine Unit Click on a unit to see its Status bar (hit points, etc.). Status

MOVE UNITS Click a map point while a unit or group is selected to move the

unit(s) to the map point. If your unit(s) are able to reach the selected point, they will comply.

ATTACK Click an enemy unit/building while a unit or group is selected

to attack that target. To force an attack on your own units or buildings, hold a while clicking on your unit/building.

: Use the right mouse button to:

FAST SCROLL In the game, right-click and drag to scroll rapidly over the map. DESELECT Right-click on the map. Right-clicking also cancels the

“Information (?)” command.

CANCEL Right-click on a production button to cancel production currently PRODUCTION in progress.

KEYBOARD COMMANDS

Menu Controls

✵ To go back one menu screen, press s. ✵ To move forward/back through option buttons, press t / st. ✵ To select the highlighted option, press e. ✵ To pause and access the Main menu during a game, press q.

NOTE: Keyboard menu controls don’t work when the game’s paused.

Gameplay Controls

✵ To assign units to a Group, select the units that you want to group then press

c + 1 – 0 at the top of the keyboard.

✵ To select an assigned Group, press the assigned number key (1 – 0). All

units within the Group are selected.

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EARTH: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?

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THE PAST

It’s unclear who threw the ﬁrst stone, but in any case it was a big one with “Warning—Nuclear Device” plastered all over Lots of warheads rained down from the heavens following the ﬁrst, and within a week little was left of humanity. A few stragglers stayed alive on the surface, while others scuttled underground at the ﬁrst hint of nuclear war and were spared the initial effects. But most of the population turned to ash (although it must be pointed out that they saved on cremation fees), leaving two “races” of “people,” the Survivors and the Evolved.

THE SURVIVORS

The Survivors stayed underground for 60 years, eating recycled food that made Soylent Green look like haute cuisine. But it wasn’t the tin can dinners that drove them back to the surface. It was a lack of the resources needed to run their rapidly decaying technology. The war had destroyed most machines, and those left over were cannibalized to create life-support systems. The Survivors managed to hold on to the technological know-how to create just about anything; all they needed was resources. And maybe some time in the sun. A military community, the Survivors now want to take the surface and “Wipe the tainted land with the freakers’ ﬁlthy, stinkin’ dead hides.”

THE EVOLVED

When the sunblock ran out, the living folks on the surface mutated pretty badly. These people, eventually calling themselves The Evolved, had to battle mutated beasties and plants and even though they eventually tamed some of these critters, they still didn’t have too good a time. Their mutant warrior brains didn’t quite cook in the intensiﬁed sun, but sautéed lightly in their natural juices. The Evolved came to believe that the ﬁery destruction was caused by angry gods, The Scourge, who punished humans for doing forbidden scientiﬁc and political things. If the Evolved see the Earth returning to former methods of leadership, well... they won’t be too pleased at all. And they’ll try to stop it. With force.

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THE PRESENT

Ever since the ﬁrst Survivor popped his blinking head above ground, there’s been trouble. Survivors want to reclaim what they believe belongs to them, the true humans. The Evolved want to stop the Survivors for the sake of the planet, for to continue on their path would be to bring down an even less forgiving Scourge. So there is war. And war needs war machines, and war machines need oil. Oil is the basic and rare commodity. You got oil, you got power. Simple. Whoever wins the war wins the near-barren land. Not much of a prize, but there ain’t much else to win.

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BASIC STUFF

This section tells you everything you need to know to get up and running. Or killing. Whatever. Unless you’re one of those smart ass kids who beats everyone at every game without ever cracking a manual, you probably should at least skim this section before getting started.

GAME SETUP MENU

When you start intro. Use it to start a new game, load a saved game, join a multiplayer game, and other stuff.

NEW GAME Strangely enough, this starts a new game. When you start a new

LOAD GAME Access previously saved games. Scroll through the list using the

PLAY MISSION Replay a mission that you’ve previously completed. The button at

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game, you get to choose the side you’ll play as. Click on either the Survivors (the underground, militant, “normal”-lookin’ folk) or the Evolved (the above-ground, tribal, mutated-lookin’ folk). You’re sent to the ﬁrst mission brieﬁng for that side, then it’s game on!

on-screen arrows, then click on the game you want to continue. Click LOAD to proceed.

the top toggles between the Survivor missions and the Evolved missions. Select the mission you want and hit OK.

(KKND for short), the Main menu appears after the

HIGHLIGHTED OPTION (DUH)

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MULTIPLAYER GAME Enter the hugely fun arena of multiplayer gaming, where you get

to blow your friends to garden fertilizer. See on p. 29 for details on how to bring out your inner bastard.

QUIT Exit the game and return to your operating system.

Multiplayer Mayhem

YOUR OBJECTIVE

You are briefed in detail before every mission via your mobile communications system. The overall objective is to

a) Build and maintain your troops, buildings, and vehicles by ﬁnding and extracting oil to

power your base, then b) Obliterate the other side. We’ll ﬁrst discuss the gettin’ of the oil, then go onto an explanation of tech levels in the

game, using your control panel, controlling your troops, making units, and stuff like that.

PLUNDERING THE LAND: OIL, RESOURCE UNITS, AND YOU

Everyone wants oil. It fuels things, lubricates things, keeps pasta from sticking, and can give you that “no-fuss” hairstyle that every post-apocalyptic swinger wants. But how do you get it?

Oil reservoirs lie underground, and can be tapped at certain points where the earth’s crust is weakest. The reservoirs vary in how much oil they hold, but they all look the same on the surface—a bubbling, gooey puddle.

MOBILE OIL DERRICK

With a Machine Shop (Survivor) or Blacksmith (Evolved), you can build a Mobile Oil Derrick. Send this unit out a-huntin.’ When an available tap-in point is uncovered on the ground, order your derrick to sit on it. The derrick converts into a monstrous Oil Rig and starts bleeding the Earth dry. A small display appears above the unit, indicating how much oil remains in the seam, as well as the rig’s hit points, number of contained defenders, and all that good stuff.

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NOTE: Once the Oil Rig is constructed, it can no longer be moved.

RESOURCE UNITS

Oil is converted to Resource Units when it’s taken to a Power Station. Resource Units (R.U.) are the basic units of the game, funds allowing you to create more units, repair existing ones, and possibly even buy a European sedan and take an interest in dressage and small, rat-like dogs.

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OIL TANKERS

Oil Tankers haul your oil from Rig to Power Station. As a special offer, you get a free Oil Tanker with each Power Station you build. At higher Tech Levels (see below) you can build additional Oil Tankers to speed up the oil gathering process. Newly created tankers travel to the nearest tap-in point, unless directed otherwise. They then travel between the two constructions until the oil seam has dried up, after which they head back to base and complain about the sudden lack of job satisfaction. The same tanker can be used for other Oil Rigs.

TECH LEVELS

Tech Levels determine the level of technology you can create in a mission. The more complex the vehicle, animal, or unit, the higher the tech level required before it can be made useful. There are two types of Tech Levels: Global and Local.

GLOBAL TECH LEVELS

The folks with fully developed craniums are constantly working at improving existing technology and creating new technology. As you progress through the missions, these people get more ideas. Their results are represented in the complexity of units, buildings, and vehicles you can potentially build at that time. What you can actually build at any particular moment is determined by ...

LOCAL TECH LEVELS

When you ﬁrst construct a building, it exists at its lowest tech level. It can produce only basic units, vehicles, whatever. Buildings can have their own tech level increased to the maximum allowed by the current global level, and can then produce more complex units. This is made possible through the use of a Research Lab or Alchemy Hall.

Research Lab/Alchemy Hall

Building a Research Lab (Survivor) or Alchemy Hall (Evolved) gets you the groundwork for increasing Tech Levels. It really is the ﬁrst step towards a more advanced you.

Increasing Tech Levels

To increase a building’s tech level, left-click on the Research Lab/Alchemy Hall, then move the cursor over the desired building. If the building is upgradable, the cursor changes to four white research arrows. Left-click on the building to begin research. When the “Researching” icon pulses at full color, research is complete and the Tech Level of that building increases by one.

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NOTE: You can only advance one building at a time. Note also that if the

building cannot currently be advanced any further, a “No Advance” cursor (a red circle with a line through it) appears. The symbol is a bit like a “No Smoking” symbol, only it means “No Thinking.”

FURTHER NOTE: You can also upgrade the tech level of your Repair Bay/

Menagerie using the method described above. Doing so makes for faster and cheaper repairs on vehicles and/or animals.

Canceling Research

If you wave the cursor over any building currently being researched, the cursor becomes a “Research Cancel” cursor. Click this on the building to stop the research, but beware—you lose all Research Units that were spent in this latest round of upgrading.

KNOW YOUR CONTROL PANEL

The on-screen control panel is active throughout each mission, sitting snugly to the right of the main gameplay screen. Positioning the cursor over these buttons for about one second brings up text showing that button’s name.

RADAR MAP RESOURCE UNITS AVAILABLE

RESOURCES BUTTON RADAR BUTTON OPTIONS INFORMATION CREATE INFANTRY/WARRIORS CREATE VEHICLES/ANIMALS CREATE BUILDINGS

COOL CARNAGE AND STUFF

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RESOURCES

Toggles between displaying how many Resource Units you own, and...well...not displaying them.

RADAR

The Radar button toggles an overview of the mission area on/off. The basic map, showing uncovered terrain and your own units, is activated when you upgrade your Outpost or Clan Hall to Tech Level 2. Upgrading the Outpost/Clan Hall again allows the Radar to display enemy units also. Left-clicking in this miniature map is a quick way to move the main display to an area you wish to look at, but note that you can’t select anything on this smaller map, nor can you order anything about.

OPTIONS

Accesses the game and access this menu.) From here you can elect to access further options (sound and mouse), Load Game, Save Game, Restate the current Mission Brieﬁng, Return to the current game, Restart the current mission, or Quit to the Main screen.

1.To save a game, click SAVE GAME in this Options menu. Scroll up and down the list of

numbers (using the on-screen arrows) until you reach the save game slot you wish to

use, then click on that slot position.

2.Click the SAVE GAME button, then type in a name for this slot. Hit e, and the game

is saved. ✵To overwrite an existing saved game, select its slot then click SAVE GAME.

3.To get back in the action, select RETURN TO GAME.

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Options menu. (You can also press qduring gameplay to pause the

INFORMATION

Clicking this button turns the cursor into a question mark. But not only that, it also allows you to ﬁnd a unit’s name just by passing the cursor over it. Right-click to cancel this function, and remember that left-clicking on a unit shows its health, tech level, etc.

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CREATE INFANTRY/CREATE WARRIORS

Accesses a ﬂy-out menu of all available Infantry/Warriors (if you own an Outpost or Clan Hall).

✵To begin training, left-click a ﬂy-out button. When the button’s progress bar is full, the

new unit pops out of the relevant Outpost/Clan Hall.

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✵ To schedule production of multiple units, keep clicking. Up to nine units can be scheduled

to be produced automatically, one after the other. Queue more than nine units and pro-

duction enters inﬁnite mode, where units continually produce until resources run out or

production is canceled (right-click the button). ✵ To cancel the production of one unit, right-click on the button. To cancel queued units,

keep right-clicking. You get back any unspent Resource Units. When you own multiple Outpost/Clan Halls, you get multiple columns of ﬂy-out menus. Each

column is color-coded to match the color bar on the side of the relevant building’s status bar.

CREATE VEHICLES/CREATE VEHICLES & ANIMALS

This ﬂy-out menu displays a column of Vehicles if you’ve built a Survivor Machine Shop or an Evolved Blacksmith. If you’re Evolved and you’ve built a Beast Enclosure, you get a separate column of animals you can make. Again, multiple creation buildings results in multiple, colorcoded ﬂy-out menus.

CREATE BUILDING

✵ To create a building, click the building’s creation button from this ﬂy-out menu. The cursor

is now a ghostly image of that building when moved out to the main gameplay screen. ✵ Click this image where you want to build, and construction begins (assuming no obstruc-

tions are present). ➤ See

NOTE: If your Outpost/Clan Hall is destroyed, your building creation is

Makin’ Stuff

initially limited to replacing that building.

on p. 10 for more details.

CREATE DEFENSIVE STRUCTURE

Displays a list of Guard Towers available at the present time, which are created in the same way that buildings are created. Upgrading your Outpost/Clan Hall gives you access to higher Tech Levels of Guard Towers. Expecting guests? The Defensive Structure menu may just be for you!

NOTE: You can only have up to eight guard towers at one time. Don’t sit

back and defend—

ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK!

AIRCRAFT MENU

When your Outpost and Machine Shop (for Survivors) or Beast Enclosure and Clan Hall (for Evolved) reach the maximum Global Tech level (only possible in the later missions), all the wonders of the Air Strike become available via your CREATE PLANE or CREATE WASP button. Click the button to access the next button...

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CREATE BOMBER/WASP

Click this button to begin preparations for an Air Strike. When it’s ready (and it takes a little while), the ﬁnal, dastardly button appears below the Aircraft menu button...

DEPLOY AIR STRIKE

Click this button, then click the cursor on your desired target. Your aerial attack squad starts heads toward the target. Sit back and enjoy the screams!

ORDERING THINGS AROUND

The interface is designed to keep mouse bashing to a minimum, as decided by the International Excessive Game Users Collective and the Rodent Protection Foundation.

SELECTING

To select a person, vehicle, or animal, left-click on the unit. The unit’s health bar is displayed. You can click on buildings to see their health and other stats, but they’re much less likely to move if you order them.

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DESELECTING

Clicking the right mouse button deselects the current unit/group.

GROUPING

Hey, we said “Grouping” not “Groping,” so watch those big hands of yours! To simultaneously select a number of units, click and drag a selection box around the desired units. While a group is selected, any unit command affects the entire group.

SAVING AND RECALLING GROUPS

For quick access to different units or sets of units, you can use the “Group Save” feature. After selecting a unit or group of units, press to assign the selected units to the number. To re-select the assigned units, press the number (

1 – .0). Up to 10 groups can be saved and recalled in this manner (’cause there’s

10 number keys, you see).

MOVING

To move a unit or group of units, select it, then left-click on the desired destination. This destination can either be anywhere in the unexposed black area or on any exposed terrain that’s valid. What constitutes valid terrain? Well, something that isn’t a whopping great hole in the ground, a cliff, or an ocean. You get the picture. If the terrain’s invalid, you’ll see the “No-Go” cursor when you point at it (a red circle with a line through it).

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ATTACKING

To make your units attack, select them (singly or in a group) and move the cursor to the desired target. The cursor changes to an attack cursor (four circling, red arrows). Click on the target, sit back, and bathe in the blood of the enemy.

✵ To force an attack on your own unit(s), a-click on your own unit or building.

MAKIN’ STUFF

Building up your bases and troops is what destruction is all about. Some structures exist only to defend other structures, while others exist to produce trained warriors, vehicles, and power.

BUILDING FROM SCRATCH

Some missions require you to choose where to set up your base. You begin these missions with a Mobile Outpost (for the Survivors) or a Mobile Clan Hall (for the Evolved).

To build, select the unit then move it around (the same as for any unit) until you reach the desired campsite. Place the cursor over the unit. If there is enough space for construction, the Deploy icon appears. Click this on the unit, and Bob’s your uncle. Note that you can’t pack up and move the unit once you’ve deployed it. Note also that Bob may not be your uncle, but this shouldn’t affect deploying your Outpost or Clan Hall.

BUILDING AND AREA RESTRICTIONS

When you click on a Building Construction Button the cursor becomes a stippled, ghostly representation of that future building. Move this around to where you want the building to set up. If a red grid symbol appears anywhere over the image, then it means that something is obstructing construction in that spot, so it’s not possible to set up there.

Obstructions could be holes, clumps of trees, cliffs, other buildings, edges of the game map, or other permanent obstructions. They could also be less permanent obstructions— i.e., troops or vehicles—in which case you should cancel the construction icon (right-click) and move the offending troops or vehicles before beginning construction again. If the stippled building icon turns completely red, it means the building is too far away from the others to function. Bring it closer to existing constructions.

Construction begins when the ghostly image is left-clicked on valid ground. The building slowly forms on screen as your Resource Units diminish, and soon it will be a happy building for you and a happy target for your enemy.

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FIXIN’ STUFF

FIXIN’ BUILDINGS

Buildings and Guard Towers take damage from unkind enemies and unintelligent friendlies. When this happens, start hollerin’ for the ﬁxit people. Structure repairs are conducted by either Technicians (Survivor) or Mekaniks (Evolved). Create one of these units, send them in to the damaged building or guard tower, and let them work. This crankin’ wrench icon appears over the structure under repair. When the structure is repaired, the Technician or Mekanik is spent and stays in the building as a useless sack of bones. Fickle bunch, aren’t they? Note that the only cost of repairs is the cost of creating the Technician or Mekanik.

FIXIN’ VEHICLES AND ANIMALS

By creating a Repair Bay (Survivors) or Menagerie (Evolved), you create a healing place for sick vehicles and/or animals. Select a damaged, non-infantry unit, then click the relevant repair station to send that unit in for some TLC.

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VETERAN UNITS: THE WONDERS OF SHELL SHOCK

If a unit has been in enough action, they’ll learn things like “Oh, so bullets can actually KILL you?” and “Oh, so under a tank is a BAD place to be?” These units (people, animals, and vehicles) get some smarts and soon become Veteran units. You’ll know when this happens, because the normally gray health bar will change color, ﬁrst to blue, then to red after you wipe out more enemy.

So what’s so good about a veteran unit? Well, for a start, they’re more accurate when trying to shoot things and get a higher ﬁre rate. And not only that, but veteran people (not animals or vehicles) actually learn how to heal themselves. They have to be still for this to happen, but they’ll get hit points back gradually. Of course, staying still for too long in a war zone is considered by many to be detrimental to one’s health, but that’s just another thing the vets need to learn, right?

NOTE: Veteran status is only awarded when units administer substantial

damage to other combat units. Shooting buildings gives nothing more than immense satisfaction.

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INFILTRATION: THE INSIDE STORY

When buildings are constructed, they come complete with little people inside to defend things. The number of defenders per building is represented on the building’s status bar as the central row of small rectangles.

Depending which side they’re on, defenders fear either the Survivor Saboteur or the Evolved Vandal, because it is the job of these latter intruders to neutralize defenders and destroy the defended buildings.

If intruders outnumber defenders by one, then kaboom! The little intruder kamikazes have succeeded—the building blows up, taking them with it, and you get the full value of the building added to your Resource Units! In the list of buildings in the next section, there is a count of initial defenders per building, as well as other useful info.

TECH BUNKERS: THE UNTOLD STORY

There are rumors that some of the 21st Century technology survived the big war, housed in special bunkers. These are just rumors of course, and this paragraph probably means absolutely nothing, okay? If... y’know... hypothetically... they did exist, then it would be in your best interests to ﬁnd and employ them ﬁrst, right? But they don’t exist, so just forget everything we’ve said.

SURVIVOR BUILDINGS AND UNITS

Even if you’re not playing as a Survivor, it’s a good idea to read this section. First off, you wanna be familiar with what your enemy has to offer. Secondly, the Survivor descriptions tend to be somewhat more complete than the descriptions of Evolved units that duplicate the same function. (On account of saving paper or something.)

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DRILL RIG

This building comes into being when Mobile Derrick is planted. With a huge pump and a whole lot of other scarily Freudian symbolism, it dredges oil from the Earth so you can take it to a Power Station and make Resource Units.

Cost: 1000 HP: 4000 Defenders: 2 Max Tech: 1

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POWER STATION

Power makers. Get some Tankers (you get a freebie with it) to drag some oil into these babies and you’ve got lights, camera, death—and RUs! Power the war machine! Viva la Revolution!

Cost: 1300 HP: 4000 Defenders: 2 Max Tech: 1

OUTPOST

Trains and produces all Survivor infantry. Also allows different Guard Towers to be produced at certain Tech Levels. Often begins life as a Mobile Outpost.

Cost: 1000 HP: 6000 Defenders: 3 Max Tech: 5

MACHINE SHOP

This builds all vehicles for the Survivors. It’s the equivalent of the Evolved’s Blacksmith and Beast Enclosure put together.

Cost: 1000 HP: 4000 Defenders: 2 Max Tech: 5

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REPAIR BAY

Repairs Survivor vehicles. You got an Anaconda tank with a squeaky seat? Send it to the Repair Bay for some good old fashioned healin.’

Cost: 1000 HP: 3000 Defenders: 1 Max Tech: 5

RESEARCH LAB

These buildings increase the Tech Level of other buildings. See details.

Cost: 700 HP: 3000 Defenders: 1 Max Tech: 1

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SURVIVOR INFANTRY AND WARRIORS

ASSAULT RIFLEMAN

Your standard gun-totin’ Survivor. Give ’em a gun and a few instructions and hope they don’t die too quickly and clog up the tracks of your tanks.

Cost: 50 Speed: 30 Fire Rate: fast HP: 400 Fire Range: 96 Accuracy: 65 Tech Level: 1

SWAT

Guys in black rubbery clothes with big sticks, getting sweaty and yelling a lot. If it wasn’t a war, you’d swear it was a party.

Cost: 75 Speed: 30 Fire Rate: fast HP: 500 Fire Range: 128 Accuracy: 70 Tech Level: 1

TECHNICIAN

These little wizards can ﬁx just about anything. Send them into any friendly building or tower and they’ll set to work getting it back to full power. For more details, see

11. Note also that these guys are unarmed—protect them!

Cost: 150 Speed: 35 Fire Rate: n/a HP: 500 Fire Range: n/a Accuracy: n/a Tech Level: 1

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FLAMER

Flame-resistant suits give them more protection against ﬁre attacks, which is kinda good considering how many of those ﬁre attacks they start themselves.

Cost: 75 Speed: 30 Fire Rate: slow HP: 400 Fire Range: 64 Accuracy: 50 Tech Level: 2

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SAPPER

Deprived of water-balloon ﬁghts as youths, these Survivors are making up for lost time with grenades. Hurl, kaBOOM! Hurl, kaBOOM! It’s great to be in the army!

Cost: 125 Speed: 30 Fire Rate: slow HP: 500 Fire Range: 96 Accuracy: 90 Tech Level: 3

RPG LAUNCHER

They ﬁre big things from off their shoulders. Vehicles and buildings tend to hate them, but individual folks are less likely to be hit because of a basic accuracy problem that’s probably due to RPG shooters being permanently deaf in one ear.

Cost: 150 Speed: 30 Fire Rate: very slow HP: 400 Fire Range: 160 Accuracy: 75 Tech Level: 4

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SABOTEUR

These dudes are cool. Send them into an enemy building (one at a time) and they will neutralize one defender each. Pour more into a building than there are defenders and they blow up the building and themselves, adding the value of that building to your Resource Units! Lunatics with explosives. What every army needs! You can also send them into your own buildings to up the defender count. Versatile and insane, the perfect combination.

Cost: 100 Speed: 35 Fire Rate: slow HP: 600 Fire Range: 96 Accuracy: 75 Tech Level: 3

SNIPER

What these guys are good at is accuracy—perfect shot, nearly every time. And big damage. They’re good at that too. Oh yeah, and being fairly quick to move around and having lots of hit points. Actually, these guys are kinda good at a lot of things.

Cost: 200 Speed: 35 Fire Rate: medium HP: 600 Fire Range: 160 Accuracy: 90 Tech Level: 5

SURVIVOR VEHICLES

DERRICK

This is the vehicle you send out to an oil site. When you deploy it over an oil tap-in point, it unfolds and becomes an Oil Rig. See p. 4 for details.

Cost: 1000 Speed: 30 Fire Rate: n/a HP: 4000 Fire Range: n/a Accuracy: n/a Tech Level: 1

Plundering the Land: Oil, Resource Units, and You

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TANKER

These drag oil from the Oil Rig to the Power Station. It’s a good idea to protect these vehicles.

Cost: 600 Speed: 35 Fire Rate: n/a HP: 3000 Fire Range: n/a Accuracy: n/a Tech Level: 3

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MOBILE OUTPOST

When deployed, this becomes an Outpost. Kinda like a mobile home, but instead of cute little rugrats, you eventually pump out homicidal military killers. Well, actually, it’s not all that different, is it?

Cost: 300 Speed: 20 Fire Rate: n/a HP: 6000 Fire Range: n/a Accuracy: n/a Tech Level: n/a

DIRT BIKE

A quick two-stroke dirt bike. Not heavily armed; probably best used for reconnaissance. The rider uses a submachine gun, but only for self-defense (no, really...).

Cost: 250 Speed: 80 Fire Rate: fast HP: 500 Fire Range: 160 Accuracy: 70 Tech Level: 1

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4X4 PICKUP

A quick vehicle for getting around town, picking up the kids, doing a spot of shopping, and maybe blowing mutants clean off the land with its 50 caliber machine gun.

Cost: 350 Speed: 70 Fire Rate: fast HP: 800 Fire Range: 160 Accuracy: 70 Tech Level: 1

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ANACONDA CLASS TANK

Okay, it doesn’t look much like a snake, but if you try telling that to the gunners inside, you’ll register pretty high on metal detector tests pretty quickly, if you get what we mean. Big tank, big bang.

Cost: 850 Speed: 45 Fire Rate: very slow HP: 1600 Fire Range: 192 Accuracy: 75 Tech Level: 3

ALL TERRAIN VEHICLE (ATV)

“Get around, get around, I get around, I’ve got six wheels and a very big gun.” When you can go just about anywhere and kill just about anything with a huge stream of deadly and environmentally unsound ﬁre, you don’t need your songs to rhyme.

Cost: 500 Speed: 60 Fire Rate: very fast HP: 1200 Fire Range: 192 Accuracy: 70 Tech Level: 1

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ATV FLAMETHROWER

Not satisﬁed with a regular ATV? Well, how about if we rip off the standard cargo hold? Still not happy? Well, how about an enormous fuel tank and a long range ﬂame thrower? Still not happy? Well, there’s just no pleasing some people.

Cost: 550 Speed: 55 Fire Rate: medium HP: 1200 Fire Range: 192 Accuracy: 50 Tech Level: 2

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BARRAGE CRAFT

You get yourself a hover truck, take off that useless “cargo” bit on the back, and strap on a killer-death ripple-volley, 6-shot missile launcher. Keep on truckin’!

Cost: 1000 Speed: 30 Fire Rate: fast HP: 1800 Fire Range: 240 Accuracy: 80 Tech Level: 4

AUTOCANNON TANK

The rotational turret on this machine was designed by the Grim Reaper himself. Doesn’t go too fast, but anyone who tries to race it is going to come in last…dead last.

Cost: 1200 Speed: 30 Fire Rate: very fast HP: 1700 Fire Range: 224 Accuracy: 70 Tech Level: 5

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SURVIVOR DEFENSIVE STRUCTURES

GUARD TOWER

Your standard well-armored protective tower. Basically, a big machine gun on stilts.

Cost: 500 Fire Rate: fast HP: 1200 Fire Range: 144 Accuracy: 90 Tech Level: 2

MISSILE BATTERY

Fires three missiles off in quick succession, then ducks inside itself to reload.

Cost: 1500 Fire Rate: slow HP: 1800 Fire Range: 256 Accuracy: 90 Tech Level: 3

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CANNON TOWER

A twin-barreled 125mm cannon built from concrete, so you know it’s good. It hits hard, and offers better protection than one of those “house equipped with alarm system” signs.

Cost: 2500 Fire Rate: med. HP: 2400 Fire Range: 256 Accuracy: 90 Tech Level: 4

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EVOLVED BUILDINGS AND UNITS

EVOLVED BUILDINGS

OIL RIG

Like the Survivor Drill Rig, this is a means of getting the Earth Blood from Mother Earth. You take it to a Power Station and get Resource Units too, but this doesn’t sound nearly as spiritual as all that “Earth Blood” stuff.

Cost: 1000 HP: 4000 Defenders: 2 Max Tech: 1