Arsenal of Democracy

Double click on the installer to start the installation install. Introduction Simply follow the on-screen dialogs to install the game. Welcome to the Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game Manual . Th ismanual uses the original Hearts of System Requirements Iron manual as its starting point and I wish to credit and To play Arsenal of Democracy you will need to meet thank the original (unknown) author. I have tried in a short the following minimum requirements: amount of time to collate the vast amount of changes Pentium III 800MHz, Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP and incorporated into this new game. I thank the developers for Vista/Windows Seven x86/x64, 128Mb to 2Gb RAM their misplaced trust and confidence in me. Any corrections, (depending on your operating system requirements), 900Mb errata, and updates to this manual may be included with free hard drive space, 4Mb video card DirectX compatible subsequent game updates and/or posted in the Forums. (8Mb or more recommended); DirectX compatible sound Any mistakes are mine alone. Clifford Andersen card, DirectX 9.0 or higher. Arsenal of Democracy is a new standalone game based on Paradox Entertainment's award-winningH earts of Keeping Up To Date Iron I,I where you will guide your nation to glorious victory Paradox is deeply committed to its customers and in (or ignominious defeat) in the World War II era. Developed my experience their product support is almost unparalleled by BL-Logic, a development studio made up by fans of the in the gaming industry. The developers read (and frequently Hearts of Iron series and active members of the modding participate in) the discussions on the public forums and will community. Arsenal of Democracy is the ultimate World War often implement some of the best player-requested features II simulation and is described by Project Leader Lennart or enhancements post release. They also make minor Berg as “Hearts of Iron II on steroids!” tweaks or alterations to existing features and squish the With several Grand Campaigns, numerous Battle occasional bug that had previously escaped detection. Scenarios, multiplayer capability, and your choice of the Game updates and other information are announced first in more than 70 playable countries that spanned the globe at the on-line Forum at www.paradoxplaza.com under the the time, Arsenal of Democracy will give you hour upon Arsenal of Democracy heading. hour of challenge and entertainment. This is a highly complex grand strategy game, not a Launching the Game historical simulation or FPS. With AoD's nearly limitless Click Start> Program Files> Paradox options and exceptional depth comes a comparable learning Entertainment> Arsenal of Democracy> Arsenal to launch curve. It may take some time to become familiar with its Arsenal of Democracy. This will open a launcher applet that richness and its multitude of controls, so don't be surprised displays news and information. It also allows you you if your first few campaigns end in disaster. There is no register the game, check for updates, select a mod to play, "right" or "wrong" way to play AoD, and no sure way to and start the game. The opening movie for AoD (and most win. You'll probably find that the lessons you learn in your Paradox titles for that matter) tends to launch a little more early defeats will be just as valuable as any that you later slowly than some games because Paradox leaves a large gain through victory. Use those experiences and don't be number of files in simple text format to make them easily afraid to experiment or save the game and then try a modifiable by users who might want to tweak unit values, variety of alternatives. write their own events, or even construct new battle While the manual will familiarize you with most of scenarios on their own. This gives the game immense the ins and outs of Arsenal of Democracy, the most valuable flexibility, but it also means that those files must be resource of all is the Paradox public forums. You can usually compiled when the game loads.get the answer to any question you might have about the Note: you may experience some issues if the Bink game in a matter of hours (if not minutes), It's also a place Player (a small program used to play the opening movie) where tips and strategies are exchanged, where people does not correctly release resources on your system when it from around the world will arrange multiplayer games, finishes playing the opening movie. If you suspect that you where you can read about others' AoD experiences (or post are experiencing this problem you can easily resolve it by your own), and where new battle scenarios and user game going to the main folder where you installed AoD and modifications will often be developed. This is also where renaming the avi folder to avi_old. This will disable the you'll find Paradox's latest post-release enhancements opening movie and take you directly to the Main Menu on available for download and a large number of FAQ's and launch. other resources. Registration Installation Procedure Why you should register: when you register the game you are allowed full access to the Tech Support, Bug Arsenal of Democracy is a digital download only game. Go to your favorite online game store, register/login, purchase Reports, Multiplayer and User modifications sub-forums and download. If possible make a copy of the file as backup. Registration is also required to install updates!(DSL/Cable with TCP/IP protocol installed) or a connection Getting Started to a Local Area Network (LAN) to play AoD in multiplayer mode. LAN: This connection is established automatically For Beginning Players by searching for any hosted games on your LAN. Either click If you're new to Arsenal of Democracy and Paradox "host" or select a detected game and click "join". games I would recommend that you begin by reading the GameRanger: This technology allows players of Game Manual section: Key Concepts, and then work your AoD and other games to easily connect and interact with way through the tutorial scenarios. These will introduce you each other in a friendly environment without the network to the most important parts of the interface and get you up problems usually associated with multiplayer games. and running fairly quickly, though they focus mostly on Valkyrienet: This is a service provided at no "how" to do something, not "why". Once you're more charge by Paradox as both a meeting place for players and comfortable and have done a bit of your own a connection handler to make it easier to host or join experimentation you'll probably want to come back to the games. AoD also allows the host to set a password that other sections where you will find detailed descriptions of all guests must enter to be able