Leylines Game Manual

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Contents

ABOUT LEYLINES 3

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 4

GETTING STARTED 5

Game Options 6

Playing the Game 7

Using the Keyboard 8

CREDITS 9

LEGAL STATEMENT 10

FINALLY… 11

About Leylines

As a powerful wizard, you start by ruling a small nation as you plot to take over the world! Rule over seven diverse races, from the spider-riding Dwarves to the decadently corrupt Regency, and from shapeshifting Theria to the nomadic Goblins. Explore a vast fantasy world, expand by building more cities, battle the armies of rival wizards, and cast earth-shattering enchantments to ensure your victory.

Leylines is a 4X turn-based strategy game of exploration and conquest. Features include:

 Fast gameplay that avoids micromanagement.  Seven unique races, each with their own tech tree. Not just the same units with slightly different stats. Over 180 units in total, including summons and customizable hero units.  Over 90 diverse spells. Clone enemy units, deploy ghosts to reduce enemy morale, cast tidal waves to move ships around, and use illusion to disguise your units as something else. Or blow up things with fireballs and earthquakes.  Tactical terrain. Jungle and mountains are impassable to most units, and desert will damage them. Build watchtowers and explosive traps on the map, and use your magic to move mountains.  Atmospheric soundtrack.  Local multiplayer support.

System Requirements

 Windows Vista or newer  Intel or AMD CPU  256 MB RAM  DirectDraw or DirectX compatible card  DirectX Version 9.0  100MB free disk space  DirectX compatible sound card  Mouse, keyboard or gamepad

Getting Started

Once 'Leylines' is installed, you can run the game by opening the directory where the game was installed.

Once in the game folder, double click the Leylines icon. This will open the game to play.

The Main Menu screen has a number of options to choose from as shown in the screenshot below.

Game Options

The game's resolution can be configured from the title screen, by selecting the 'Options' button. The options available are shown below:-

To play in a window, uncheck the full screen option. A number of screen resolution options are also available for selection.

Volumes for sound and music can also be adjusted using the slider bars.

Click 'Accept' when you have finished making your changes, and the game will update accordingly.

Playing the Game

To begin a new game, from the main menu, select Campaign. The World Map will then appear. The first realm available is the Intro realm, which contains many tips on the game's UI and how to manage various aspects of the game.

Select the number of players (if playing a multiplayer game), and whether splitscreen mode should be used. Then choose your portrait, race, flag design, and magic spheres before beginning the game.

At the beginning of each game you will be prompted to name your cities before you are given control to move units around.

Once you conquer a realm, new realms will open up for you to expand into. Each realm has different characteristics and a specific ruler to defeat. As you conquer more realms, more options for your race and magic spheres become available.

Using the Keyboard

F1 through to F5: switch tabs

ENTER: Select units

SPACEBAR: Move selected units

1 through to 6: Select a unit from a group

Shift + 1 (etc): View unit stats

To click any buttons accompanying any messages, press the first letter of the word on the button (for example, to press the 'Next' button, use 'N')

Use arrows to navigate across map tiles and make selections.

ESC is used to exit tabs or close popups (note, the default tab is the main map).

Use ESC on the main map to bring up save/load/quit options.

Note that when playing in splitscreen mode, mouse is available for one player, while the other player must use the keyboard (or gamepad).

Credits

Game Design Thanks to Pieter Simoons Aceron Acora Marie Antoon Artwork Joseph Austin Ed Baumgarten Elissa Ng Natacha Choquet Dan Cortopassi Soundtrack Maartje Dekker Nikolas Sideris Jeroen den Dekker Gerben Dirksen Tactics and AI DR David Gervais Vincent van der Goes Alan Groening Eelke de Jonge Additional Art Sergio Martinez Vladislav Nachev Jim McIntyre Cris Catellani Mr. Mindcry Willem Jan Palenstijn Translation Luz Piazuelo Lorraine Purviance Yanira Santana Viera Erik Range Vic Sagerquist

Daan Schrama Isaura Simon Laurie Stanley Nekot the Brave Arthur Zonnenberg

Legal Statement

'Leylines' is not open source. You may not obtain, use, or alter any art, animation, sound, music, or other resources from the game for the purpose of making another game or making derivative works. You may not obtain, use, or alter any code used to program the game.

Finally…

Thank you for downloading and playing ‘Leylines’. We hope you enjoy playing it as you explore and conquer its various realms and races.

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