Land Air Sea Warfare Help File

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Land Air Sea Warfare is available for Mac, iPhone, Windows, Windows Mobile.

Contents

• Introduction
• Game Play Tutorial
• Advanced Game Play Topics
• Units, Buildings, & Technologies
• Research Points & Labs
• Elite Units
• Landscape Types
• Victory Conditions
• Game Play Tips
• AI Settings
• Menu Settings
• Mac OSX Notes
• User Mod Notes
• Mobile Game Settings
• Version Changes

Introduction

Command a force of thousands of units into strategic warfare in this real time strategy game.  You are challenged to construct an epic war machine and use it to become a dominating world power.

Land Air Sea Warfare features a random map system so every game you play is unique and poses new challenges.  Transport units into the fight, mow down forests to clear a path to the enemy, build walls to defend your position, track tread marks left by enemy tanks to their base, hide under trees for an ambush attack, these are just some of the unique game play elements available.

Expand your city with over 100 structures and units to choose from.  As your empire grows you can research technologies to guide the focus of your strategy.  Dominate on all types of terrain, send aircraft to bombard the enemy to weaken its infrastructure, control the shores with a naval fleet of ships and subs, and transport in lands units such as tanks and humvees to clean up and finish the job!

Build vehicles and aircraft to take control of the land and air including tanks, jeeps, trucks, helicopters, jets, VTOLs, turrets, and more.  After each battle detailed statistics are displayed showing the how the tides of war changed for each player.

Game Play Tutorial

You can activate this help page by using the ? button on the screen or the 'H' keyboard key.

Headquarters
When the game begins you will see your headquarters. The Headquarters is the most important building in your base because it is where you gather most of your metal ore, which is used to create buildings and units. Your headquarters automatically mines ore and you can upgrade it to mine more ore and increase its armor.

Selecting Units
Select your headquarters by clicking on it. You will then see information about your headquarters, such as how much ore it is mining, its armor status, and how much ore storage you have.

Mini Map
The mini-map is an overview of the landscape showing the location of units, resources, trees, and water. Click in the map to view a location. You will notice the map is black in areas you haven't discovered yet.

Default Build Menu
To see the default build menu, you must unselect all units, to do this right click anywhere on the screen, or press the C key (for CLEAR selection). You will now see the Engr, Bldg, Dfnse, and Mega tabs.

Command Area
Click on icons in this area to build new structures and units. Notice there are several tabs to select. The tabs shown depend on what unit is currently selected as you saw when the Headquarters was selected.

Resources
Resources are consumed as you build units and buildings. Your primary resources are metal ore displayed in blue, and power displayed in yellow. Your headquarters will automatically mine metal ore.

Power Units
Power is required for most buildings and some units. As your base expands it will need a lot of power. You will have to build power generators to create more power.

Build a Power Unit
Create a power generator by selecting the Engr tab (visible when you unselect all units), then click on the Wind Turbine. Click on the landscape to place the Wind Turbine and start building it. Notice you can only build in areas you can see.

Unit Types
Notice there are different kinds of power plants. The Power Cell can only be placed on land, and the Wind Turbine can be placed in the air, you can tell this by the icon background. Some units can only be placed on land, sea, air, or underwater.

Buildings
After you build a couple Wind Turbines you will have enough power to create a factory to build offensive units. To see which factories you can build unselect all units by right clicking or pressing the C key. Now select the Bldg tab.

Build a Factory
There are three types of factories for land, air, and sea units. To build a factory select the Bldg tab, and click on a factory icon. Place the factory on the landscape to start construction.

Build Offensive Units
Wait for your factory to finish being built. Now select the factory by clicking on it, select the Units tab, and then click an icon to build a unit. You will see a blue progress bar over the factory indicating the build progress.

Building a Force
You will need to build many units to defeat the enemy. Select your factory and click on a unit icon several times, this will queue units to be built.

Moving Units
After you have several units built you can engage the enemy! The enemy is located somewhere on the map building a force just like you are.

Selection
To select one unit click on it. To select multiple units click and hold while dragging your cursor over the area containing the units you want to select.

Moving
To move units, first select the units you want to move, and then click where you want them to move to.

Attacking
To attack, select units and then click on the enemy. You can also move the units near the enemy and they will automatically attack. Some units can only attack certain types of units, such as land, air, or sea. You can see what a unit can attack by selecting it and viewing the info pane.

Main Technologies
There are two main technologies to research at your headquarters to upgrade it. Upgrading your headquarters to Tech Level 2 will allow you to build many new types units and buildings, and increase its ore output and defenses. To upgrade your headquarters select it and click the Tech 2 icon.

Advanced Game Play Topics

Grouping
Usually attacks are carried out by multiple units, to help you coordinate this you can group units together so they can be selected by clicking a group shortcut. To set a group using the keyboard you can set 10 groups using the keys 0-9, to set a group use Shift 0-9, and to recall a group press 0-9.

Mass Selection
To select all units of the same type on the screen double click any unit. You can also add to the current selection by holding Shift, and remove from the selection by holding Ctrl. See the customize controls screen.

Select All Units
You can easily select all offensive units by pressing the T key. Or you can select all land, air, or sea offensive units by pressing the Y,U,I keys respectively.

Right Click the Mini Map
To quickly send units to a location you can right click in the mini map. You can also right click in the mini map to select units or place buildings.

Setting a Building Rally Point
When you have buildings selected hold Shift and click where you want to set the rally point.

Build Another
To quickly build another of the same unit as you previously built, press the D key (for duplicate).

Build Acceleration
You can accelerate the build time of a unit or building by selecting it and pressing the A key. Accelerating the build costs you double. Researching technologies cannot be accelerated.

Mass Building
Some units which you need to build a lot of, allow building several at a time, such as walls and power cells. To build many at a time, click the unit icon, then in the game play area click and drag which will create a line of units.  To build several units at a factory, select several factories by double clicking one of them, then click a unit icon in the command area, a unit will be queued in each factory selected. You can also hold Shift while clicking a unit to queue 5 units at once.

Building Mega Units
To build the most powerful units in the game you must research Tech 3 at your headquarters and build a Spec Mine on a unique resource on the map. Unique resources look like crystals growing out of the ground. Each mega unit requires a specific type of resource to be mined.

Unit Orders
When all units are created their default order is Attack. To change a units standing orders select the unit and then click the unit order icons in the unit info pane, or you can press the O key to toggle through them. If you change multiple units orders at once, all units will be set to the new orders given to the first unit in the selection.

• Hold - Don't move or return fire even if attacked.
• Defend - Don't move but do return fire.
• Attack - Return fire and move and attack enemy units within view.
• Engage - Cancel move orders and attack any new target encountered while en route to a new target.
• Patrol - Continuously move between the current location and the next location given, attack any new target in range.
• Explore - Visit new areas that aren't currently visible.

Units, Buildings, & Technologies

Research Points & Labs

Elite Units

Landscape Types

Victory Conditions

Game Play Tips

• Building mega units requires a specialized mine to be built on a unique resource. You can see which resource each Mega Unit requires in the unit info pane.
• If you are building a mega unit and the mine related to it is destroyed, production of the mega unit is halted until the mine is rebuilt.
• Researching Secret Agents allows you to see each enemies researched technology and detailed enemy stats.
• You will not be able to see or select enemy units that are not in your visible range.
• Building an Eagle Eye satellite system will enable full view of all explored areas on the map.
• Researching Intelligence Service will give you detailed stats on the enemy such as number of units and buildings. It also gives you exact information on enemy mega unit and nuke construction and deployment.
• Researching UWB RADAR will display each units name by its radar signature and outline building sizes.
• When a mega unit is destroyed any unit within its explosion radius is damaged.
• Usually attacks are carried out by multiple units, to help you coordinate this you can group units together so they can be selected by clicking a group shortcut. Using the keyboard you can set 10 groups using the keys 0-9, to set a group use Shift 0-9, and to recall a group press 0-9.
• Some units which you need to build a lot of, allow building several at a time, such as walls and power cells. To build many at a time, click the unit icon, then in the game play area click and drag which will create a line of units.
• To build several units at one factory, hold Shift and click the unit icon, this will queue 5 units at once. To build several units at several factories, select the factories by double clicking one of them, then click a unit icon in the command area, a unit will be queued in each factory selected. You can also dequeue units by right-clicking an icon.
• To select all units of the same type on the screen double click any unit, you can also add to, and remove from the selection using keys, see the customize controls screen.
• To select all offensive units press T. To select all ground units press Y. To select all airborne units press U. To select all sea units press I.
• When new units are created their default order is Attack. To change a units standing orders select the unit, then click on the order icons in the command area, or press the O key to toggle through them. If you change multiple units orders at once, all units will be set to the new orders given to the first unit in the selection.
• Unit orders are: Hold - Don't move or return fire even if attacked. Defend - Don't move but do return fire. Attack - Return fire and automatically move and attack enemy units within view. Engage - If a new target is found while moving cancel the move orders and attack the new target. Patrol - Continuously move between the current location and the next location given, attack any new target in range. Scout - Travel to unseen locations.
• A rally point is where new units are sent immediately after they are created. When a factory is selected the rally point will display as a small white cross. To change the rally point hold Shift and click where you want to set the rally point when you have a building selected.
• Most of the controls in the game can be issued via the keyboard. These are customizable in the games settings.
• You can tell a unit is cloaked if it has a purple aura around it. Units must uncloak for 5 seconds after firing. The other players cannot see cloaked units in any way.
• You can accelerate the build time of a unit or building by selecting it and pressing the A key. Accelerating the build costs you double. Researching technologies cannot be accelerated.
• The background of the unit icon tells you if a structure can be placed on land, air, or sea. If it is a mobile unit the icon background will tell you where the unit can travel.
• Units have different attack capabilities, some can only attack land, air, or sea units. Some can attack multiple types of units, the unit info pane displays when hovering over a unit icon and will tell you specifics about each unit.
• To quickly create another structure of the same type as you previously created, press the D key.
• You can target turrets manually by selecting them and clicking on a target.
• You can see how much total power is used and produced by selecting a power generating unit.
• You can see how much total storage you have and is used by selecting your headquarters or any storage unit. When your storage usage is over 90% the credits status will change red.
• Build the biggest power plant you can afford as bigger plants produce more power per cost.
• The group status window shows the state of all of your groups. You can select a group by clicking in the window. Small icons next to the health bar show if the group is moving or attacking.
• You can change the current music track during gameplay by pressing ESC and selecting Settings > Music Track.
• Use the mutator setting to change what units are allowed in the game. For example ground units only, no defensive units, no ICBMs, etc.
• Change the Victory Type setting to play different game types such as: Assassination, Arms Race, Team Traitors, All Your Base, and The Mega Project.
• You can gain additional research points by building a Spec Mine, creating a mega unit, defeating a mega unit, or creating an ICBM.
• To quickly send units to a location you can right click in the mini map. You can also right click in the mini map to select units or place buildings.
• You can hold Shift while scrolling the map with the cursor or arrow keys to scroll faster.

AI Settings

Mac OSX Notes

• Because of a graphics library limitation you cannot switch windows when playing fullscreen, if you need to switch windows while playing the game, change the to windowed mode. Settings > Graphics > Full Screen = OFF
• The keys to recall groups are changable, but the keys to set groups 1-9,0 are hardcoded to !@#$%^&*() respectively (these are the keys when you hold SHIFT and press 0-9), therefore, it is recommended that you do not change the keys to recall groups.
  If the SHIFT+Number isn't working there is also another way to set groups. In the games Settings menu click on Controls > Define Custom Controls, and define the Set Group Toggle key, then to set a group when playing, press and release the Set Group Toggle key, then press the # you want the group to be.
• On slower computers, the game defaults to drawing stippled fog of war and not drawing reflections in the water, to force these on you can change the settings.xml file variables called StippledFog to 1 and DrawWaterReflection to 1, you can open the file with TextEdit.
• All game user files for settings, controls, and screenshots are stored in the /Users/username/Library/Preferences/Isotope 244/Land Air Sea Warfare/ folder.
• If you are experiencing low game performance set the game to use a lower resolution (in the games Settings > Graphics menu, the Resolution option), try using a 640x480 resolution.  If that doesn't seem to help you can try lower the settings as explained in the Mobile Game Setting section at the end of this help file.
• If the resolution you want to use isn't listed in the game you can change it manually in the settings.xml file.

Menu Settings

User Modification Notes

Mobile Game Settings

Version Changes

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