tower defence manual

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Tower Defence 1.0 ManualBy Fuggles


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Table of Contents

Introduction........................................................................................................3Installation Instructions ......................................................................................3

Game Play Instructions.......................................................................................3

Turret Descriptions.............................................................................................6

Important Note On Saving Your Game...............................................................8

Creating Your Own Tower Defence Maps ..........................................................9

Thanks..............................................................................................................10

Appendix Weapon Statistics ..........................................................................11


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Introduction

Welcome to the Tower Defence for Dawn of War: Dark Crusade (DC)! This is a mod

by Fuggles for DC and when installed will appear in the Game Manager.

Installation Instructions

To install Tower Defence, you will need to ensure that the files are in the correct

location, although note that the .zip archive will be correctly structured if you simply

extract to the default DC directory.

Tower defence folder into C:\ProgramFiles\THQ\DarkCrusade\

The .mod file into C:\ProgramFiles\THQ\DarkCrusade\

The tower defence maps, consisting of a .tga, .sgb and .SCAR into

C:\ProgramFiles\THQ\DarkCrusade\DXP2\Data\scenarios\mp.

Map loading screens into

C:\ProgramFiles\THQ\DarkCrusade\DXP2\Data\scenarios\mp\loading

I am presuming that you have used the default install and that the directories exist. Ifthis is not the case, then you will have to put them in the corresponding location and

also create directories where needed.

Once the files are in the correct locations, simply load up DC and select Tower

Defence from the Game Manager on the front menu.

When the game has restarted, select Skirmish and then load a Tower Defence map.

Have Tower Defence as your only game option (except you can have Game Timer

and No Malice if you so choose), ensure that fixed positions are on and then go forglory!


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special rounds thrown into the mix, and you will receive warning at the end of the

previous round if the next one is unusual.

To trigger the next wave of creeps, move your Farseer from the red beacon to thewhite.

If your stock of lives reaches zero, then the game is over and your score will be

displayed.

At the end of each wave you will receive a bonus to your gold and score supply which

is dependent on the amount of gold you have in stash and the rate of interest you have

currently.

When the map loads, your bonesinger is assigned to the key 1, your Farseer 2 and

your aspect portal 3 for convenience (single player only).

Note that you can sell your turrets by selecting them and pressing 'Delete'. You will

not get the full value back, but it's better than nothing.


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Turret Descriptions

Basic Turrets

At the start of the game you have access to the three basic types of turret:

Scatterlaser The cheapest tower you can buy. The scatterlaser is a rapid fire, low

damage turret. It has a medium range and can shoot at both air and ground targets.

Upgrading the scatterlaser increases its range and damage.

Vyper The vyper missile turret is a slow firing, medium damage turret. It has ashort range, but the missiles that it fires explode on impact, inflicting blast damage to

the surrounding area. The viper can only shoot ground units. Upgrading the viper

increases its range, damage and missile blast radius.

AA Missile Turret The missile turret is a medium firing, medium damage turret. It

has a high range, but can only shoot at air targets. Upgrading the Missile turret

increases the range and damage of its missiles.

Advanced TurretsThese turrets can only be unlocked by purchasing the relevant research at the aspect

portal

D-Cannon requires Warp Portal research

The D-Cannon tears open a warp rift around its targets. It has a slow rate of fire, a

medium range and can attack ground and air units. The warp rifts cause high damage

and has an area of effect. Upgrading the D-Cannon increases the damage it causes per

shot.

Gauss Cannon - requires Magnetic research

The Gauss Cannon uses magnetic pulses to fire projectiles at massive speeds. It has a

slow rate of fire, medium range and does extreme damage. It can only attack ground

units Upgrading the Gauss Cannon increases the damage it caused per shot


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Malicious Turrets

(Multiplayer Only)

My idea of multiplayer turret defence is twofold:

1) Survive

2) Get more points than everyone else

Now...whatever happens, if you both survive then a winner will be declared based on

points. So... the question is what can you do to maximise your chance of victory?

The most obvious thing to do is to place turrets in the other player's half and stealtheir creep points by killing their creeps. This benefits them as it means that they are

more likely to survive however it is a slight gamble for you, as you are spending less

money on your own half.

This tactic is at least partially benevolent however... unlike the malice towers.

The malice turrets are a pair of towers purely designed to hinder your 'friends' in

multiplayer. They look identical and have identical tooltips, so initially only the

builder will know what they are (although if you too get confused, look at the choiceof add-on shown in the toolbar for that turret).

But what do they do?

Malicious Gauss Turret - requires Magnetic research

The malicious gauss turret blasts pure bolts of...creep buffing joy...? Every zap from

this bad boy increases the amount of hit points left on a creep. Gosh...having an extra

thousand hit points stuck on right near the exit would suck for someone.

Malicious Starcannon - requires Atomic Deceleration research.

Like the malicious gauss turret, the malicious starcannon is the polar opposite of it's

t t E h t i th i d f th H b th !


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Important Note On Saving Your Game

For one reason or another (well, one reason) if you save when there are no creeps on

the field, your save game will crash out with a SCAR error. For this reason, only savemid-wave. Im looking into it, but its proving tricky to eliminate.


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Creating Your Own Tower Defence Maps

In this section I am going to presume that you know how to use the Dawn of War map

editor and will detail the specifics needed to make a map into a Tower Defence map.

For reference it would be easiest if you opened up the example Tower Defence map

included within the zip.

Markers

You will need 7 markers for a single player map

creepin where the creeps entercreepout where the creeps leave, this needs a radius of around 5.

p1base this needs a radius larger than the aspect portal and bonesinger combined,

call it 20.

p2die this needs a large enough radius to catch player 2s builder and HQ, again, 20

will do.

start1 this is where your Farseer will start. It will need a radius of about 3.

start2 this is where the Farseer goes to initialise the next round. It will need a radius

of about 5.

singerreset this is where the bonesinger will respawn should you do somethingdumb like delete him. Radius of 0.

You can create multiple entrances or exits if you require, although to use them will

require some SCAR modification.

I have used the red and white light to indicate the farseer trigger, but you could use

any item you wanted really.

Units

You will need to place a Farseer belonging to player 1 onto the marker start1.


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Creep gold value

Creep penalty value

Energy allocation

Allow alternating creep entrances and exits

Scheduling of special waves.

Number of waves.

Loading Screen

Completely optional, but if you put a .TGA picture file into the

Loading subdirectory of the mp folder where your maps are stored then this will be

shown when your map is loading.

Thanks

I would like to take this moment to extend my thanks to the following:

Havoc without him there would be no closer to codex towers and this mod would

not have happened

Mdcertainty sorted out the mess my icons had become

ShadowsTalon motivation and testing

Blade44 beta tester extraordinaire

Relic for making Dawn of War in the first place

The most excellent members of Relic Forums who provided help and support in this

project Thanks! Nowgo make maps!!

You for reading this far. Well done, you have continued long after most have fallen!


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Appendix Weapon Statistics

NameScatterlaserUpgrade1Upgrade2Upgrade3

VyperUpgrade1Upgrade2Upgrade3

AA MissileUpgrade1Upgrade2Upgrade3

D-cannonUpgrade1

Cost

5132436

7152642

9203050

5050

Requires Damage369

15

11265275

4070

150400

75175

Range15182026

10151717

30354040

2530

ReloadTime(secs)

0000

2222

2222

3.53.5

Slows

creepsSlowscreepsSlowscreepsSlowscreeps

BlastDamage

SingleTarget

AttacksAir

AttacksGround Special

Upgrade1Upgrade2

Upgrade1

Upgrade2

Upgrade1Upgrade2

Warp Portal Research

Starcannon

Upgrade1

Upgrade2

Upgrade3

50

50

50

50

Atomic Deceleration Research 5

7

15

16

17

20

1

1

1

1

Upgrade1

Upgrade2

10

25


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NameGaussUpgrade1Upgrade2Upgrade3

BiggaTowwaUpgrade1

Cost50505050

RequiresMagnetic Research

Upgrade1Upgrade2

Magnetic, Atomic & WarpResearch

Damage1883767521504

Range20253035

ReloadTime

(secs)3333

Blast

Damage

Single

Target

Attacks

Air

Attacks

Ground Special

200190

30003000

4040

52.5

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