User Guide
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Gameplay
Your role
It’s up to you to seek out and destroy the laboratories of Upton Julius and his brood… but
you’ll have to get past their armies rst. The lab is the key to the Sigma Technology. Destroy
your enemies’ lab, and it’s all over for them.
To learn the specic objectives of each game scenario, click the Objectives icon
during gameplay.
Preparing for conict
There’s a lot to do before you dare confront Upton’s armies.
SCOUT
Explore the map to nd resources and enemies. Areas of the map are revealed as your units
pass through them. You can also reveal the map using the radar pulse feature of the lab.
GATHER RESOURCES
Resources are used whenever you perform research, build structures or create units.
Resources include:
Coal Gather coal from the piles you nd scattered throughout the land.
Electricity Construct lightning rods and electrical generators to produce the electrical
power you’ll need.
COLLECT GENETIC SAMPLES
(Campaign games only.) Genetic samplings are received as rewards for helping villagers, etc.,
or by sending Rex out to track down and obtain them from the wild animals wandering around.
PERFORM RESEARCH
Use the lab, research clinic, and genetic amplier to research advanced technology. With new
technology you can create new structures, improve existing ones, enhance henchmen capabili-
ties, and create creatures of higher research level rankings. The higher the ranking, the more
powerful the creature.
DESIGN CREATURES
Use the Sigma Technology to design creature blueprints for your armies. The creature chamber,
water chamber, and air chamber draw upon the blueprints to create creatures during gameplay.
See “Creating Creatures” on page 12 to learn more.
CREATE CREATURES
Use the creature chamber, water chamber and air chamber to create creatures. You’ll need
plenty of them to protect your lab and combat enemy beasts.
CREATE HENCHMEN
Use the lab to create henchmen. You’ll need them to gather resources and build structures.
BUILD STRUCTURES
You automatically start a new game with a lab, but you’ll need to build additional structures.
(Not all structures are available for every game.) Structures include:
Resource Lightning rods, electrical generators, and workshops are used for gathering
and storing resources.
Research The research clinic and genetic amplier upgrade technology and enhance
unit abilities.
Defensive Bramble fences, soundbeam towers, and anti-air towers are effective in
slowing attacks.
Unit The creature chamber, air chamber, and water chamber are needed for
creating the creatures you’ll need.