User Guide

Selecting missions

The Mission Selection screen allows you to

play a single mission on one of the maps

included with the Etherlords program. Each

map has its own objectives and conditions

that must be met to accomplish the mission.

You can select missions using various criteria.

The left panel of the screen lists available

missions. The first four buttons above allow

selecting maps by size, from smallest (on the

left) to largest. The fifth button calls up the

full mission list. The following information is

displayed for each map:

• Map size (from 1 to 4);

• Number of human players / total number of players on the map (on some maps, some players are

controlled by the computer);

• Icons of races present on this map;

• Map title;

• Conditions that must be met to accomplish the mission.

In the right panel of the screen, you can read a description of the mission and select one of 5 difficulty

levels (increasing from left to right). The bottom-right panel allows you to ally with one of the players,

select your flag, and review initial diplomatic status before starting the mission.

To start the selected mission, press the þ button; to return to the previous menu, press <<<.

Load game/save game

Here is where you save your current game or load a previously saved game. There are separate slots

for saving campaign or single-mission games.

In both screens, the left panel contains the list of games. The currently selected game is highlighted in

yellow. Each game in the list has the following information shown:

• Icons of races present in the current mission;

• Name of the game file;

• Date and time the game was saved

The right panel displays a thumbnail picture of the Territory map at the time the game was saved.

Current mission parameters are listed below: the name of the game file and player, the day and week (in

game time), and the number of players on the map. The player’s flag is also shown in the lower corner.

The control buttons at the bottom section of the screen are selected by left-clicking them:

• «Delete»: deletes the selected game;

• «Load» or «Save»: loads or saves the selected game;

• «Cancel»: cancels load/save and returns to the previous

menu.

Saving games