GALACTIC CONFLICT TIPS AND EXTRA INFORMATION TORELLIAN TACTICS: THE TORELLIAN EMPIRES MAIN MISSION AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS CONFLICT IS TO CONQUER AS MANY PLANETS AS POSSIBLE. HOWEVER, TORELLIA KNOWS ABOUT YOUR FLEET AND THEY ARE DETERMINED TO DESTROY IT. THUS, MOST TORELLIAN FLEETS ARE IN SPACE SEARCHING FOR YOUR FLEET TO ATTACK IT. FORTUNATLY FOR YOU, TORELLIA HAS NO ADVANCED FLEET COMPUTER AS YOU HAVE. NEXT AS A RESULT, THE TORELLIANS DO NOT KNOW WHERE YOUR FLEET IS, THE REASON WHY MOST FLEETS WILL SEEM TO WANDER AIMLESSLY ABOUT SPACE SEARCHING FOR YOU. THE TORELLIAN FLEETS HOWEVER DO BOTH SEARCHING AND MOVING INTO THE ALLIED AREA OF THE STAR SYSTEM IN THE SAME MOVEMENTS. YOU WILL SOON NOTICE THAT THE TORELLIAN FLEETS SLOWLY MOVE INTO THE ALLIED AREAS. IF A FLEET APPEARS TO RAM INTO AN ALLIED PLANET, THAT MEANS THE TORELLIAN INVASION FLEET HAS ATTEMPTED A MAJOR INVASION, AND THIS CAN LOWER YOUR OVERALL SCORE. TRY TO KEEP AS MANY TORELLIAN FLEETS AS POSSIBLE AWAY FROM ALLIED AREAS! NEXT ALSO, UNKNOWN TO YOU, THERE ARE MANY TORELLIAN RAIDING FLEETS IN SPACE SENT TO RAID VITAL ALLIED PLANETS AND CRIPPLE THEIR SUPPLE LINES. YOUR FLEET COMPUTER CANNOT TRACK THESE FLEETS BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO SMALL, USUALLY CONTAINING 10 TO 20 FIGHTERS. THERE MAY BE MANY OF THESE FLEETS IN SPACE AT ONCE! THEY CAN ATTACK AN ALLIED PORT WHILE YOU ARE THERE GETTING SUPPLIES! NEXT PLAYING TIPS: IN ATTACKING AN ENEMY FLEET, IF IT IS FAIRLY LARGE DONT ATTACK IT! YOU MIGHT DESTROY IT, BUT IT COULD MEAN SEVERE LOSSES FOR YOUR FLEET! INSTEAD, FOLLOW IT A WAYS AND EVERY NOW AND THEN ATTACK IT. THE REASON FOR THIS IS THAT OCCASIONALY THESE FLEETS WILL RELEASE RAIDING FORCES, SO THE ENEMY FLEET WILL HAVE LESS SHIPS AFTER IT RELEASES A RAID. BEWARE! AFTER A RAID, REMNANTS OF THE RADING FORCE MAY RETURN TO A FLEET, ADDING MORE FORCES TO THAT FLEET! NEXT IF YOU ARE LOW ON FUEL AND FOOD, ITS BEST TO GET FOOD. YOUR FLEET CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT FUEL, BUT IT CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT FOOD! ALSO REMEMBER THAT MANY TORELLIAN FLEETS CARRY SUPPLIES OF FOOD AND FUEL THAT IF YOU ATTACK IT SUCCESSFULLY, YOUR TROOPS MAY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET THESE PRECIOUS SUPPLIES BEFORE THE SHIPS WERE BLOWN UP! IF YOU NEED SHIPS BADLY AND A PORT COMMANDER GIVES YOU NOTHING (AND A PORT CITY HASNT BEEN ATTACKED YEY), FLY TO ANOTHER PORT CITY ON THE SAME PLANET (THERE ARE ABOUT 5 PORT CITIES ON EVERY PLANET) AND TRY AGAIN! NEXT TRY TO DESTROY AS MANY TROELLIAN FLEETS AND SATELITES AS POSSIBLE. YOUR SCORE WILL BE RAISED, FOR THIS IS THE MAIN PART OF YOUR MISSION (DEFEAT THE TORELLIANS). SMALL FLEETS ONLY ABOUT HALF YOUR SIZE ARE THE BEST TO ATTACK, FOR IN THESE CASES YOU WILL HAVE A 2 TO 1 SUPERIORITY AND WILL USUALLY NOT LOOSE VERY MANY SHIPS, FOR YOUR FLEET WILL OVERWHELM THEM. (OCCASIONALLY A FLEET MAY PROVE VERY STUBBORN AND YOUR LOSSES MAY BE A LITTLE HIGHER). ATTACKING A TORELLIAN FLEET THAT IS ABOUT AS STRONG AS YOU (OR EVEN STRONGER) COULD PROVE DISASTER! NEXT MANAGING YOUR FORCES AND SUPPLIES, KNOWING WHEN AND WHERE TO ATTACK, AND KEEPING WITHIN RANGE OF SUPPLY SOURCES ARE VALUABLE PART IN TRYING TO MASTER THE SKILLS REQUIRED IN GALCTIC CONFLICT. AVERAGE PLAYING TIME: ABOUT 1 HOUR REQUIRES ATARI COMPUTER WITH AT LEAST 48K, DISK DRIVE, ONE JOYSTICK. THEEND