User Guide

DUNE 2000 11
HOW TO PLAY
DUNE™ 2000’S BASIC INTERFACE
The interface for DUNE™ 2000 has been designed to allow maximum control of your units
and structures with little effort. If you are familiar with the Windows environment (point
& click, etc.), then you can play DUNE™ 2000 with ease.The mouse will move your pointer
around the screen, and depending on what you click on, you can order units, build
structures, attack, repair and perform a variety of other commands.
As a general rule in DUNE™ 2000, left-clicking confirms orders, changes modes, or selects
units and structures. Right-clicking pauses and cancels actions, modes and selections.
SCROLLING AROUND
To scroll the main viewing window around the battlefield, move the cursor to the edge of
the screen. The cursor will become a solid white arrow and the view will scroll in the
indicated direction. If you’re at the edge of the battlefield, a universal “no” slash will appear
over the arrow indicating that this is as far as you can go.You can increase or decrease the
scroll rate from the game controls menu.
ORDERING YOUR TROOPS AROUND
To get your units to act, select a unit by left-clicking on them.Then move the cursor to the
desired point on the battlefield where you want the unit to go. If the cursor is over a
potential target, it will change to one of the targeting cursors. Left-clicking at this point will
cause the unit to attack the target if it is in range, or move towards it and attack it when it
gets in range.
Otherwise, it will move the unit to that location, unless it is impassable (e.g. a cliff), in which
case it will get as close as it can to the target. Some terrain is passable to infantry, but not
vehicles. If a vehicle is told to move to this terrain, it will get as close as it can to it, but
infantry will actually move onto it.
To cancel out of move / attack mode (or any mode), right-click and the unit will be
deselected.Although no longer selected, the unit will retain its orders, so it will continue to
follow its last command.To stop a unit from moving, select it again and redirect it to a new
location, or press the ‘S’ key to make it stop.
NO MOVE
CURSOR
MOVEMENT
CURSOR
SELECTION
CURSOR
SCROLL
ARROWS
CAN’T SCROLL
ARROWS