Basic idea is to build extenstion t oclassic Battleship game

1939: BATTLEFLEET

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1. OVERVIEW
2. GAME OBJECTIVES
3. GAME CONTROLS
- 3.1. Main combat screen
- 3.1.1. Combat map
- 3.1.2. Map Window
- 3.1.3. Report Window
4. UNITS
5. UNIT ATTRIBUTES AND COMMANDS
- 5.1. MOVE
  - 5.1.1. SINGLE MOVE
  - 5.1.2 GROUP MOVE
- 5.2. RADAR AND SONAR RANGE
- 5.3. FIRE
- 5.4. ARMOR
- 5.4. DAMAGE MARKS
- 5.5. REPAIR
6.GAME TURN - ESSENCE OF PLAY
7. PURCHASING / PRODUCTION POINTS
8. TAKING CONTROL OVER ENEMY PORTS
9. VICTORY
10 TROUBLESHOOTING
11. APPENDIX
- A. LIST OF UNITS
- B. RANK LIST
  - B1. United States Navy
  - B2. Royal Navy
  - B3. Kriegsmarine
  - B4. Imperial Japan Navy
- C. LIST OF CAMPAIGNS, MISSIONS AND DEATH MATCH SCENARIOS
- D. List of black&white pictures used in game

The basic idea is to build an extension to the classic Battleship game. Standard Battleship game tends to be very boring after a while. On the other hand, modern naval strategy games are becoming more and more complex and difficult, especially for the player who didn't get his degree in Annapolis Naval Academy. So we tried to put 1939:Battlefleet somewhere in between. The game is a little bit closer to the classic Battleships, and differs from it in the following:

Major differences:

Ships can move
Ships have radar range. ( So you can’t just open fire where do you want. Your ship can find and fire on enemy only around it's own position, like in real )

Minor differences:

Battlefield map can be up to 96X96 big
Player can choose among 27 ship types, 4 submarine types, 5 airplane types, 3 port artillery types
Map contains land and islands, minor and minor ports
Game objectives are various
Game has time limit
Player can purchase new ships/planes during the game

2. GAME OBJECTIVES

Each mission can have one (or two) of the following objectives:

Conquer all enemy major ports
Defend your ports during x turns
Destroy N enemy X-class ships (I.e. destroy 4 enemy heavy cruisers)
Eliminate as many as possible enemy combat (or transport) ships in N turns.
Secure transport convoy of N ships to the friendly port

The death-match scenario has one objective:

Destroy all enemy units ( including ships, planes and artillery)

When playing a campaign, player must achieve at least minor victory in every campaign mission.

3. GAME CONTROLS

3.1. Main combat screen

Consists of Combat Map, Map Window, Unit Window and Report Window.

Main combat screen

Combat map:

- Map Window

- Unit Window

- Report Window

3.1.1. Combat map

Combat window represents the map where all the action takes place. It is a grid with dimensions from 18x18 up to 96x96. Blue fields are water (what a suprise?) and green fields are islands and land. Also, there are minor and major ports, and units, naturally. Enemy units are invisible. They become visible only when player units discover them by radar or sonar. Player can open fire on the visible enemy unit, only if enemy unit is in range of focused player unit.

When player moves all his units, his turn is finished, and all discovered enemy units become invisible again. PC will now move his units (and open fire) to the player units according to the same rules (players units are also invisible and must be discovered by the PC)

3.1.2. Map Window

Map window represents the whole combat map. Quite obvious.

Map Window

3.1.3. Report Window

Player will get various messages in this window. New contacts, damage, types of fire taken from enemy, coordinates of destroyed units etc.

Also, above Report Window you can find:

Stand Button - focused unit will make no move
STR/TAC button - switch from tactical (default) combat map to the strategic combat map. (player can't make any commands to the units when combat map is in STR mode. Main purpose of this mode is to allow better view on what is happening on the map.
HQ Button. Press when decide to visit HQ window.
Repair Button. Player can repair his unit when the unit is in port or it stands close to the Auxillary Ship Class.

Report Window

You are playing 4th turn.

You are short with production points (PP=0)

Map cursor is on x:17, y:8

4. UNITS

You control the following units:

Unit Type		Unit Class	Remark
Ships	Combat Ships	Fleet Carrier Heavy Aircraft Carrier (Medium) Aircraft Carrier Light Aircraft Carrier Fast Aircraft Carrier AntiSub Carrier Escort Carrier Fleet Battleship Heavy Battleship Battleship Battlecruiser Fleet Cruiser Heavy Cruiser (Medium) Cruiser Light Cruiser Heavy AntiSub Cruiser AntiSub Cruiser Escort Cruiser Fleet Destroyer Heavy Destroyer (Medium) Destroyer Light Destroyer Frigate Corvette Torpedo Boat Patrol Boat	( AntiSub Carrierl can not attack planes )
Ships	Non-Combat Ships	Heavy Transporter (Medium) Transporter Light Transporter Heavy Auxiliary ship Auxiliary ship Light Auxiliary ship	Can't open fire Don't have radar range Auxillary ships can repair other ship types
Submarines		Fleet Submarine Heavy Submarine (Medium) Submarine Light Submarine	Invisible to the units without sonar
Airplanes		Strategic Bomber Heavy Bomber Bomber Long Range Naval Naval AntiSub Naval Long Range Fighter Fighter	Static. After the end of a turn plane returns to the base (AntiSub Naval can not attack planes)
Port Artillery		Heavy Port Artillery (Medium) Port Artillery Light Port Artillery	Static.

5. UNIT ATTRIBUTES

Every object (ship, airplane or harbor artillery) has the following attributes:

MOVE
RANGE (radar and sonar range)
FIRE
ARMOR
DAMAGE MARKS

UNIT WINDOW

Unit type and name:

Attributes:

Enemy unit attributes

Damage marks

Radar range

5.1. MOVE

Number of move points. Object can’t move in one turn more fields that is it's speed attribute.

5.1.1. SINGLE MOVE

When ship/plane gets focus (blinking blue square), you can move it (right click) to the any field with move mark on it (black dot).

Single move

Heavy Cruiser (CH) is in focus( blinking blue square).

Unit has 3 move points so it can be moved to the any

location marked by black dot

5.1.2 GROUP MOVE

You can move group of ships simultaneously. Very effective for lazy players. Click left button, hold it till ships you plan to move are in rectangle. All ships are now select (all have blue square) and ready for move. Right click to the destination.

Group move	1. Group is marked.

	2. Group will be moved to the selected destination according to each unit's move points.

Note: You can select destination for group move anywhere on the map. ( there are not move marks on the fields). However, any ship sleeted for group move will move according its speed attribute in destination direction. (I.e. AL Light Aircraft Carrier has speed attribute 4; selected destination is 10 fields away from ship current position; AL will move only 4 fields in destination direction)

5.2. Radar and sonar range

Every ship/airplane after move phase turns on it's radar/sonar. Fields around ship/airplane become visible (light blue color). Sonar has different blue color. Every enemy ship in that range becomes visible and can be hit.

Radar and sonar range

After moving, CH Heavy Cruiser turns on it's radar.

Radar range is represented by light blue squares on the map.

Every enemy ship in that range becomes visible.

CH discovers 2 enemy ships: Destroyer and Cruiser.

CH can open fire on them.

Restrictions:

Only aircraft carrier type (AF,AH,AC,AL,AA) and airplane types (BS,BO,NV,FT) have radar that can discover enemy planes on land/island fields.

Only ships/planes with sonar (CA,DH,DE,DL,FR,CO,NA) can detect enemy submarines.

Submarines can't detect harbor artillery on land/island fields.

After finishing turn (move and fire phase) all detected enemy ships becomes invisible, except detected enemy planes and harbor artillery (because their position can’t be changed)

5.3. FIRE

Fire represents number of fire points (hits) per turn

After moving, ship can open fire on visible enemy object. (right click to enemy object).
Enemy object must be in ship radar/sonar range.
Number of fire shots depends on unit's fire attribute.

I.e.

DH Heavy destroyer has fire attribute 2, so it can fire 2 times per turn, if it finds proper target. Enemy object subjected to your fire, loses its armor points by one, for each fire shot. If enemy's armor becomes zero, object is destroyed.

RESTRICTIONS

Submarines can’t open fire at enemy harbor artillery.
Ships/planes without sonar can’t open fire at visible enemy submarines.
Only aircraft carriers and airplane types (except AA, NA) can open fire at visible enemy airplanes on ground.

5.4. ARMOR

Armor is object’s strength. During enemy fire, armor points gets low. When it’s get to zero, object is destroyed. The blue or red label up every object represents armor points.

5.5. DAMAGE MARKS

Damage marks determinate the type of damage unit suffered in previous turn. Damage might be caused from:

airplanes and aircraft carriers (plane image)
surface ships (ship image)
submarines (periscope image)
port artillery (artillery image)

5.6. REPAIR

Auxillary ships (XH, XS, XL) have ability to repair other ship types ( planes can't be repaired). Ship can be repaired if: (1) Ship hasn't moved yet; (2) Ship is next to Auxillary ship or it is in friendly controled port; (3) Ship is damaged.

By clicking on REPAIR button, ship's armor will be increased by 1, 2 or 3 points, depending of Auxillary ship type (XH: 3, XS: 2 points, XL: 2 points). Ship's armor can't exceed initial armor of that ship type. I.e. if Destroyer (DE) has current armor of 4 points, Heavy auxillary will repair it for only 1 armor point (because initial destroyer's armor is 5 points).

Ship can also be repaired in any friendly control port by 2 armor point.

After repairing, ship can't move, turn on it's radar or open fire till the beginning of next turn.

Auxillary ship can't repair itself (but 2 Auxillary can repair each other)

6. GAME TURN

Example of game turn.

Game turn 1
	Player turn	(In this example player has only 2 ships)
		Player moves ship No 1 Ship No 1 discovers no enemy Disappointed player moves another ship, shipNo 2 Ship No 2 discovers enemy Sub. Player is very proud. Player happily opens fire to the enemy Sub Player has no more units, so PC will automatically start it's turn
	End of player turn
		All discovered enemy ships become invisible. Visible fields (light blue fields) discovered by player radar become unvisible again
	PC Turn
		PC manage units the same way as player does. All player units are invisible to the PC So PC must find them using the same method as player When PC uses all it's units, that will be the end of PC turn.
	End of PC turn
		All discovered player's ships become invisible to the PC.
End of game turn 1

Each turn consists of move and fire phase. After one unit is moved, it turns on radar or sonar so unit's surround becomes lighted with light blue fields. Any enemy object becomes visible in that area. If unit discovers enemy object, it can proceed to the fire phase.

Unit fires at enemy by right clicking to the target.

After all your units finish move and fire phase, all enemy discovered units become invisible (except the planes and port artillery; their position is fixed). You can find their approximately position by the red marks on the map. Enemy will now prepare his turn. He will move and open fire to the player units according to the same rules (players units are also invisible and must be discovered by the PC)

So, when enemy opens fire on your unit, you won't see the enemy ship which is opening fire ( but you'll know which type of ship it is, if you carefully read the report window ). If you decide to punish that action, you'll wait your turn and try to discover that ship.

7. PURCHASING / PRODUCTION POINTS

You can purchase ships and planes during the mission. Do that in the purchase window. You must have some production points (PP) to do this.

You'll earn PPs during the mission. When you destroy enemy unit, your PP amount will raise accordingly to a destroyed unit's value (25% of units value, or 15% in death-match scenarios). I.e. if you destroy enemy's aircraft carrier, you'll earn 0.25*140=35 production points.

When conquering enemy port for first time, player receives 15 production points for minor port or 30 pp for major port.

BAD NEWS: if enemy destroy your unit, that will cost you some PPs (15% of unit's value), accordingly to a destroyed unit's value.

RESTRICTIONS

Some missions have restrictions concerning the type or number of ships/planes that you can purchase.

Types of restrictions are:

1. Factories under attack (You cant purchase any ship/plane in this mission)
2. Storm ocean (You can’t purchase subs in this mission)
3. Bad airfields on islands (You can’t have planes on islands or land in this mission)
4. Bad weather (You can’t purchase planes or carriers in this mission)

TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS

Also, if you don’t control any port, you can’t purchase any planes.

8. TAKING CONTROL OVER ENEMY PORTS

Major or minor ports becomes friendly controlled by moving ship to the port field (any ship except submarine, transport, auxillary or airplane type)

When conquering enemy port for first time, player receives 15 production points for minor port or 30 pp for major port.

9. VICTORY

You are victorious when you achieve the following:

TYPE OF MISSION	VICTORY
Conquer all enemy major ports	All MAJOR enemy ports must be under your control (blue color)
Defend your ports	At the end of last turn all yours MAJOR ports must be still yours
Destroy N enemy X-class ships N-number of enemy ships you have to eliminate X-ship class (Destroyer, Cruiser, Light Submarine etc)	Till the end of last turn you must destroy given number of enemy ships
Eliminate all enemy combat (or transport) ships, planes, subs and port artillery units in N turns
Secure transport convoy of N ships to the friendly port	Till the end of last turn you must put your transport ships in the given port

CAMPAIGN

You must be victorious in all missions in a given campaign

DEATH MATCH

You must destroy all enemy ships, planes and artillery till the end of the last turn

FREE HUNT

You must destroy all enemy ships, planes and artillery till the end of the last turn

In Free Hunt scenarios major victory is disabled, so player can achieve only Minor Victory or Victory

10. TROUBLESHOOTING

Game stops on first (intro) screen. Bad luck. Program was designed for resolution 800x600 with 256 colors. Resolution change is done automatically, but in some cases, with exotic o/s settings, resolution change should be done manually. In Windows screen settings change screen resolution to 800x600x256 colors and start program again.

Slow screen scrolling in main tactical window. Low memory. Save the game, exit the program and start program again.

Error messages (Windows XP+Northon AntiVirus ver 8.07.17>). Try to disable Northon Antivirus and contact 1939BF [email protected] .

APPENDIX

A. LIST OF UNITS

	Type	Mark	FIRE	ARMOR	SPEED	RANGE	SONAR	PRICE (in PP)
1	Light Transporter	TL	0	3	3	0	No	/
2	Transporter	TR	0	4	2	0	No	/
3	Heavy Transporter	TH	0	5	2	0	No	/
4	Light Submarine *	SL	2	3	3	1	No	50
5	Submarine	SU	3	4	2	1	No	55
6	Heavy Submarine	SH	3	5	2	1	No	60
7	Fleet Submarine *	SF	3	6	2	1	No	65
8	Patrol Boat *	PB	1	2	2	0	No	25
9	Torpedo Boat *	TB	2	3	3	0	No	25
10	Frigate	FR	2	3	2	0	Yes	35
11	Corvette	CO	2	4	2	0	Yes	40
12	Light Destroyer	DL	2	4	4	1	Yes	45
13	Destroyer	DE	2	5	3	1	Yes	50
14	Heavy Destroyer *	DH	3	6	3	1	Yes	55
15	Fleet Destroyer *	DF	3	5	4	1	Yes
16	Escort Cruiser *	CE	2	5	2	2	No	55
17	Anti-Submarine Cruiser *	CA	2	6	3	2	Yes	65
18	Heavy Anti_sub Cruiser *	CS	3	6	3	2	Yes
19	Light Cruiser	CL	2	6	4	2	No	75
20	Cruiser	CR	3	7	3	2	No	80
21	Heavy Cruiser	CH	4	8	3	2	No	90
22	Fleet Cruiser *	CF	5	7	4	2	No
23	Battlecruiser *	BC	3	8	4	3	No	105
24	Battleship	BB	4	10	3	3	No	105
25	Heavy Battleship*	BH	5	10	3	3	No	120
26	FleetBattleship *	BF	5	9	4	3	No
27	Escort Aircraft Carrier *	AE	2	5	2	4	No	95
28	Anti-Submarine Air. Carrier *	AA	2	6	3	4	Yes	110
29	Light Aircraft Carrier	AL	2	6	4	4	No	130
30	Fast Air Carrier *	AV	2		5	4	No
31	Aircraft Carrier	AC	3	8	3	4	No	140
32	Heavy Aircraft Carrier	AH	4	8	3	4	No	150
33	Fleet Aircraft Carrier *	AF	5	7	3	4	No	165
34	Fighter	FT	2	5	5	1	No	74
35	Long Range Fighter *	FL	2	5	7	1	No
36	Anti-submarine Naval *	NA	2	5	5	1	Yes	80
37	Naval	NV	2	6	5	1	No	85
38	Long Range Naval *	NL	2	6	7	1	No
39	Bomber	BO	3	8	6	2	No	95
40	Heavy Bomber *	BH	4		7	2	No
41	Strategic Bomber *	BS	4	8	6	3	No	105
42	Light Coast Artillery	ArtL	2	2	0	1	No	/
43	Coast Artillery	Art	3	3	0	1	No	/
44	Heavy Coast Artillery	ArtH	3	4	0	2	No	/
45	Light Auxillary Ship	XL	0	4	3	0	No	70
46	Auxillary Ship*	XS	0	6	3	0	No	90
47	Heavy Auxillary Ship*	XH	0	8	3	0	No	110

* Only in 1939: BattleFleet registered version

B. RANK LIST

LIST OF RANKS PLAYER CAN ACHIEVE IN 1939:BATTLEFLEET

CO- Commission Officer
NCO - Non Commission Officer
Scenario ranks: from Lieutenant (Junior) to Recruit
Campaign ranks: all ( 1CO-28NCO )

B1. United States Navy

1CO Ernest King
2CO Chester Nimitz
3CO William Halsey
4CO Raymond Spruance
5CO Thomas Kinkaid
6CO Fleet Admiral
7CO Admiral
8CO Vice Admiral
9CO Rear Admiral
10CO Commodore
11CO Captain
12CO Captain (Junior)
13CO Commander
14CO Lieutenant Commander
15CO Lieutenant (Senior)
16CO Lieutenant (Junior)
17CO Ensign
18CO Midshipman
19NCO Chief Warrant Officer
20NCO 1.st Warrant Officer
21NCO 2.nd Warrant Officer
22NCO 3.rd Warrant Officer
23NCO Chief Petty Officer
24NCO Petty Officer 1. Class
25NCO Petty Officer 2. Class
26NCO Seaman
27NCO Seaman Apprentice
28NCO Recruit

B2. Royal Navy

1CO Sir Arthur Cunningham
2CO Sir Bertram Ramsay
3CO Sir Dudley Pound
4CO Sir James Somerville
5CO Sir John Tovey
6CO Admiral of the fleet
7CO Admiral
8CO Vice-Admiral
9CO Rear-Admiral
10CO Commodore
11CO Captain
12CO Captain (Junior)
13CO Commander
14CO Lieutenant Commander
15CO Lieutenant (Senior)
16CO Lieutenant (Junior)
17CO Sub-Lieutenant
18CO Cadet
19NCO Chief Warrant Officer
20NCO 1.st Warrant Officer
21NCO 2.nd Warrant Officer
22NCO 3.rd Warrant Officer
23NCO Chief Petty Officer
24NCO Petty Officer
25NCO Junior Petty Officer
26NCO Seaman
27NCO Ordinary Seaman
28NCO Junior Seaman

B3. Kriegsmarine

1 1CO Dr. Erich Raeder
2 2CO Karl Donitz
3 3CO Gunther Prien
4 4CO Gunther Lutjens
5 5CO Otto Schultze
6 6CO Grossadmiral
7 7CO Admiral
8 8CO Vizeadmiral
9 9CO Konteradmiral
10 10CO Kommodore
11 11CO Kapitan zur See
12 12CO Fregattenkapitan
13 13CO Korvettenkapitan
14 14CO Kapitanleutnant
15 15CO Oberleutnant zur See
16 16CO Leutnant zur See
17 17CO Oberfahnrich zur See
18 18CO Fahnrich zur See
19 19NCO Stabsoberbootsmann
20 20NCO Oberbootsmann
21 21NCO Stabsbootsmann
22 22NCO Bootsmann
23 23NCO Oberbootsmannsmaat
24 24NCO Bootsmannsmaat
25 25NCO Matrosensobergefreiter
26 26NCO Matrosenhauptgefreiter
27 19NCO Matrosengefreiter
28 19NCO Matrose

B4. Imperial Japan Navy

1CO Isoroku Yamamoto
2CO Osami Nagano
3CO Chuichi Nagumo
4CO Takeo Kurita
5CO Gunichi Mikawa
6CO Joto-Thai (FADM)
7CO Thai-sho (ADM)
8CO Chu-sho (V.ADM)
9CO Sho-sho (R.ADM)
10CO Joto-Thai-sa (Comodore)
11CO Thai-sa (Cpt)
12CO Nitto-Thai-sa (J.Cpt)
13O Chu-sa (Cmd)
14CO Sho-sa (Lt.Cmd)
15CO Thai-i (S.Ltn)
16CO Chu-i (J.Ltn)
17CO Sho-i (Sub Ltn)
18CO Heisocho (MidSh)
19NCO Joto-Suiheicho (C.WO)
20NCO Itto-Suiheicho (1.WO)
21NCO Nitto-Suiheicho (2.WO)
22NCO Suiheicho (3.WO)
23NCO Joto-Heiso (CPO)
24NCO Itto-Heiso (1.PO)
25NCO Nitto-Heiso (2.PO)
26NCO Joto-Suihei (SM)
27NCO Itto-Suihei (1.SM)
28NCO Nitto-Suihei (2.SM)

C. LIST OF CAMPAIGNS, MISSIONS AND DEATH MATCH SCENARIOS

C1. CAMPAIGNS

US NAVY CAMPAIGN ( 15 MISSIONS )
KRIEGSMARINE (GERMAN CAMPAIGN) ( 10 MISSIONS )
ROYAL NAVY CAMPAIGN ( 10 MISSIONS )
IMPERIAL JAPAN NAVY CAMPAIGN ( 7 MISSIONS )

C2. DEATH MATCH SCENARIOS:

US NAVY I
KRIEGSMARINE I
ROYAL NAVY I
IMPERIAL NAVY I
IMPERIAL NAVY II
KRIEGSMARINE II
ROYAL AIR FORCE
ANTIGUA
SILENT HUNT
JAMAMOTO
FREE HUNT JAPAN
FREE HUNT UK
FREE HUNT 3REICH
FREE HUNT ITALY
FREE HUNT MALAYA';
FREE HUNT SUBS

C3. MISSIONS:

ATLANTIC 1943
MYKONOS
ATLANTIC 1941E
JAVA
ALERT
DEFENCE
SINK CRUISERS
LONG CONVOY
DEVIL ISLAND
CONVOY PK30
CIANO'S DEFENSE ( ITALY 1943)
TOKIO EXPRESS
WOLF PACK
SKAGERRAK
CORVETTES
LEUTNANT ZUR SEE
ORANGE PORTS
SAN BERNARDINO
NORWAY PORTS
CONQUER OF ITALY
LAMANSH
PACIFIC RACE
EMPEROR DEFENSE
AIR SUPREMACY
SOUTH PACIFIC
BISMARCK
DRAGOON CARRIERS
INVASION
HEAVY CRUISER
PRINCE OF WALES
NORWAY CONVOY
AZORES TRANSPORT
FRIGATE HUNTS
U-BOATS
GROSSADMIRAL
BATTLESHIPS
HEAVY DUTY
DRANG NACH OST
ATLANTIC ISLAND
LONG CONVOY
TORPEDO BOATS
SIR JOHN TOVEY
NORWAY CONVOY
FRIGATE HUNT
INVASION
PACIFIC RACE
US NAVY SUBMARINES
PATROL BOATS

D. List of black&white pictures used in game

All historical pictures used in the game are in public domain and taken from:

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
MILITARY MUSEUM RESOURCE BEOGRAD

Emperor Hirohito on board battleship Musashi, 1943
Battleship Tirpitz, 1941
Battleship Musashi leaving Brunei, 1944
USS Lexington burning during the Battle of Coral Sea, 1942
Aircraft carrier Shokaku, 1941
Battleship Scharnhorst, 1939
Battleship Tirpitz in the Alta Fjord, Norway
Crew abandoning USS Lexington during Battle of the Coral Sea
Battleship Bizmark, stern view
HMS Repulse leads other capital ships, 1920s
HMS Hood, 1930s
Leaders on board HMS Prince of Wales, 1941
HMS Barham, Malaya and Argus
USS Missouri, 1945
Adolf Hitler & Co. at the launching of the Scharnhorst, 1936
General Umezu, 1945

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