ANCIENT ART OF WAR    1984 BRODERBUND
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Start:                WAR.EXE
Quit:                 Select QUIT from menu

Your choices are listed at the bottom of the screen. Press the first letter.

Technical:

This game had Broderbund copy protection. A keydisk is required. The supplied TSR
XELOK2.COM is normally used to avoid the keydisk requirement. I have modified WAR.EXE
to remove the protection completely.  FC /B bytes changed:

8AD8: CD 13 -> 90 90           don't try to read floppy
8ADA: 73    -> EB              ignore diskette read error

[The following are NOT CONFIRMED]

Found in APC magazine Sept 1987: Normally you use archers alone to overrun forts.
Here's how to take a fort with fewer casualties. Send two or more groups
(barbarians or knights) with a few men to occupy the enemy archers. Then send in
your regular units so that a fight will take place in the courtyard and not at
the base of the wall of the enemy fort.

The macintosh uses a special formation not normally available to you when it
storms forts. Here is how to use it:
Select Formations from the Special menu. Change the C formation (or another
one you never use), put 7 archers as far forward on the front line as possible,
and 7 barbarians as far back in a line as possible. It puts the archers so
close that they're deadly, and the nimble barbarians far enough away to dodge
enemy arrows. At least half the enemy arrows will be aimed at the barbarians
while all of yours will be aimed at the archers on the wall.
DO NOT use this formation in any other form of combat as it leaves the archers
completely vulnerable with no way for the barbarians to support them in time.