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American Conquest
Version 1.46
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Welcome!
Thank you very much for buying this game!
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-> Game installation<-
To install the game, please follow the instructions below
1. Put the American Conquest CD in your CD-ROM drive
and close it.
2. If the AutoRun option of your CD-ROM drive is
activated, the installation program will start
automatically. If not, just start the program setup.exe
in the main directory of your CD by double clicking
on it.
3. Follow the instructions of the installation routine.
4. Enjoy American Conquest!
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1. System Requirements
1.1 Minimum system requirements.
Pentium II 450 MHz or similar
64 MB RAM
Operating Systems: Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Windows XP
Video board supporting DirectDraw
SVGA Monitor supporting 1024x768
DirectX 8.1
Sound card
1,300 MB of free disk space
1.2 Recommended system requirements
Pentium III 1 GHz or similar
128 MB RAM
Operating systems: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 or Windows XP
Video board supporting DirectDraw.
SVGA Monitor supporting 1024x768
DirectX 8.1
Sound card
1,300 MB of free disk space on your hard drive
2. Game Launch
After installing the game, find the American Conquest icon in
Start Menu/Programs/American Conquest and double click on it
to run the game. It will take a few seconds to start the
Intro movie and, afterwards, the Main Menu.
3. Playing the Game
Select Single Player/Campaign to play one of the game missions available.
Before starting, you can set a level of difficulty, ranging from easy
to impossible. When you have made your choice, simply hit
the Start button - the left one in the lower right corner.
Select Multiplayer in the Main Menu to start a multiplayer game.
Here you can choose to play via LAN or Internet, create or join an
existing multiplayer game. In the settings screen you can change
the options (choose nation, colour, set alliances with players,
starting options and more). When all the settings are done, click
the Start button. After all players have hit the Start buttons,
the game host has to click the Start button to start playing.
4. Quick Start
4.1 First steps
1) Select all peasants and build a mill.
2) Select all peasants and construct a dwelling.
3) Select all peasants and build a fort.
4) As soon as the wheat is ripe (simply move the
mouse-cursor over the field - when it changes
to a sow symbol, the wheat is ready to harvest),
send all the peasants to collect crops.
5) After the food stock has started growing,
select your dwelling and recruit some peasants.
6) When the new peasants are ready, let them build a storehouse.
7) Select peasants and click on a nearby forest
to have them chop wood.
8) As soon as you have stored 800 food, upgrade your
agricultural technologies in the mill.
9) Build 5 more peasants, and build a gold mine
(European nations need a blacksmith before!)
10) Build 5 more peasants, and build a coal mine.
11) Build 5 more peasants, build a stone and iron mine.
4.2 First troops
1) Build several peasants.
2) Select and send them into the fort (right-click on the fort)
3) When peasants enter the fort, you can recruit
military units here by clicking on the correspondent icon.
4.3 Protect your city
1) When you have your first troops built, ensure your buildings
are protected: Select the troops and, holding Ctrl,
left-click on a building your troops have to enter.
2) As long as a building contains troops, the enemy cannot
capture it. Besides, units positioned inside are very effective
in defending the building. Instead of regular troops, you can
put peasants inside, but they are much weaker in defence
than military units.
NOTE: When a building is producing or researching (for example,
units are being built), it cannot defend against offenders.
In case of an attack, press "suspend production" button
located in the right upper corner of building interface!
3) As the number of your troops grows,
try to protect all your buildings.
4.4 Increase mining
1) Select a mine.
2) Press an upgrade button; up to 7 upgrades are possible.
3) Send new peasants in the mine.
4) Repeat this procedure for each mine.
4.5 Research
1) Construct a town centre (academy). The major part
of improvements is done here.
2) Click on the icon of an improvement you want to research.
NOTE: A building is not defending during an upgrading process!
4.6 Train your army
1) Under each unit icon in fort and fortress, there are
attack and defence upgrade buttons. Develop the upgrades
to considerably increase your troops' parameters.
Other improvements to increase the parameters can be
found in your town center.
5. Hot Keys
Constructing buildings
C town hall
D dwelling I
B fort/barracks
K fortress
T storehouse
N mine
H church
F shipyard
E trade post
Y mill
Recruiting units
Y archer, mounted archer
S harquebusier, slingman, shooter, mounted shooter,
dragoon (17th century), shaman, priest
D dragoon 18th century
N musketeer
Z fusilier
P pikeman, halberdier
T tomahawk thrower, blowtube warrior, spearman
R rider
Upgrading
N upgrade at mine
Y upgrade at mill
Unit commands
S stand ground
V cancel stand ground
D disable attack
E enable attack
P patrol
G guard / cancel guard
A attack
Formation commands
R infantry column formation; cavalry wedge formation
K infantry square formation; cavalry column formation
Z infantry rank formation; cavalry rank formation
F reinforce formation
G group / ungroup
V dismiss formation
Ctrl +
Rightclick: better alignment of units. This function provides
a better view, e.g. of the location of
several unit formations.
Unit selection
Z select all units of one type on the screen
Ctrl+Z select all units of one type on the map
Ctrl+A select all your units
Ctrl+B select all your buildings
Ctrl+S select all your ships
Quick access to units
Ctrl + assign a unit / group of units to a number,
(1 to 0) for quicker access. Subsequent pressing the
assigned numbers will instantly select
the correspondent units. With pressing
the spacebar, you move to the unit’s position.
Game Information
I shows a window with game information (like diplomacy)
U shows a window with information about selected unit
Q show impassable zones
O toggle transparency mode
TAB toggle information on unit morale and combat damage
Trade Post
Shift + resource amount button multiplies the amount by 100.
Screenshots
F11 take screenshot
