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Laser Squad is a fast-moving, futuristic, tactical wargame for one or two players that accurately simulates many aspects of individual level combat. It will take some time a new player to become familiar with the game svstem, and we recommend that you load the program and go through the first section of this manual which provides you with
Laser Squad, a really nice strategy game sold in 1992 for DOS, is available and ready to be played again! Also available on Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX and ZX Spectrum, time to play a sci-fi / futuristic and turn-based video game title.
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1.5K views 9 years ago. Laser Squad gameplay and mission 1 intro, played with DOSBox. ...more.
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- Part One: Playing The Game
- Part Two: Reference Guide
- Acknowledgements
- Javascript Version
- Java Version
OVERVIEW
Laser Squad is played in a series of game turns. Each player, during his turn, controls a small number of units which represent humans, droids or other creatures. Each unit has its own individual name and characteristics which affect the abilities and activity of that unit. At the start of each game turn each, unit is allocated a number of Action Points (or APs) which are used for performing all activities of that unit such as movement, combat, manipulating objects etc. Once all action points...
GAME SET UP
You will be asked whether you want a one player game or a two player game. If you select the one player option the computer will take control of the second side. You will then be asked what level you wish to play at. The number of levels varies between scenarios and the higher the level the more difficult the computer is to beat. If you are playing with two players then only the player whose turn it is should be allowed to see the screen. Each player now selects equipment and deploys his units.
EQUIPMENT SELECTION
In each scenario you are allocated a number of Credits to spend on armour, weapons and ammunition. The first thing you must do is select armour for each unit. Your units are displayed on the left of the screen and you select armour for each unit in sequence. Use the UP and DOWN controls to select the unit, the RIGHT and LEFT controls to select the type of armour and press FIRE when you are satisfied with your choice. If you select '0' then the unit will have no armour. If you select a number...
UNIT CHARACTERISTICS
Each unit has a unique set of attributes which affect the game in various ways.
WEAPONS AND OBJECTS
There are three basic categories of objects in Laser Squad, weapons, ammunition and other objects. There are three types of weapon, close combat weapons, ranged weapons and grenade type weapons. Most ranged weapons can be used in close combat. Objects can have some or all of the following characteristics:
CLOSE COMBAT CALCULATIONS
The accuracy of close combat is determined by the sum of the following factors: The damage in close combat is determined by the sum of the following factors:
Game design: Julian Gollop Spectrum and Amstrad program: Julian Gollop Commodore 64 program: Nick Gollop Spectrum tape/joystick routines, crunching: Mike Stockwell Scenario design assistance: lan Terry Box Art: Steve Yeowell Box design, graphics and typesetting: Vic and Sharon Rayner, 2 PLUS 2, Harlow. Manufacture and printing: Cosprint Limited, 25...
Overview
This will only work when the lasersquad.org.uk is visited. The game runs in an element in the page, and as such needs focus for keyboard input. If it's not responding, try clicking on it.
Saving and Loading Games
As it's a javascript program that runs in your browser, it's access to your computer is constrained (quite sensibly) by the browser. As such, saving works by giving you the option to download the save-game file, and loading it involves uploading a saved-game file.
Extras
I've kept my version of Laser Squad pretty faithfull to Julian Gollop's origional spectrum version. However this version has an extra features that you can access by pulling up the context menu (On windows or Linux systems you use the right mouse button to do this). My version should remember your preferences between visits to my site (It doesn't use cookies, but instead keeps the data in your browser, and the data never leaves your browser). 1. Selecting 'Briefing' will display the briefing...
Overview
This is no longer supported, maintained, or developed. The compiler won't compile my older java source code any longer. I'm also not sure about the state of the java web browser plugin needed to run it in a browser. That said, it still can be run without a browser. On my Linux system the openJDK runtime still will open it in a window and allow you to play. To do this you will need to to run the command "java-jar LaserSquad.jar". You may need to specify the file path to the java program on som...
Extras
I've kept my version of Laser Squad pretty faithfull to Julian Gollop's origional spectrum version. However my version has a few extra features that you can access by pulling up the context menu (On my windows system you use the right mouse button to do this). 1. Selecting 'Briefing' will display the briefing text for the scenario you've currently got loaded. 2. Ticking 'Sound' will enable sound, and unticking it will turn it off. 3. 'Text Save' only appears when Laser Squad is run directly w...
Applet Parameters
If you run Laser Squad using the command-line then it will automatically search the jar file and directory it's in for scenarios to play. If you're running it using the LaserSquad.html file you may need to alter some of the code of the LaserSquad.html file if you want to play extra scenarios that you have down-loaded and saved in the same directory as the LaserSquad.jar file. Open the LaserSquad.html file with a simple text editor and find the code that runs Laser Squad. It will start with th...
Introduction and gameplay for Laser Squad, Dos PC game produced by Target Games Limited in 1992 - http://www.squakenet.com/download/laser-squad/1623/Watching...
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May 10, 2011 · You control a squad of soldiers and equip them with weapons and play one of five scenarios against an AI sq...more. Laser Squad is a turn-based tactical squad-based sort of thing. Made...
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This site is dedicated to Laser Squad - created by Jullian Gollop over 30 years ago, and yet still as playable today as then. Many of today's games take concepts and elements from Laser Squad which was in turn based on an earlier game - RebelStar.
