PHM Pegasus Docs By The Dostributor & Chief Justice Broken By: The Psycho Thanx To: Touch Tone and Chief Justice Part I: Getting To Know Your Hydrofoil Preliminary Training: If this is your first experience controlling a Hydrofoil, you may want to sit back and watch a demonstration. Here's how: When you have your computer up and running, you will be presented with a selection of assignments. Each assignment is a mission taking you to various sensitive parts of the world. These are described in detail in Part II of this manual. To watch the demo, select MISSION 0 from the list of nine. As you watch, take note of the two 'view modes' (Bridge and Operations Map) and the features you can control from each. You may want to read Part III of this Manual as you watch the demo. When you feel you are ready to undertake a real mission, press Shift-Q to quit the demo and then select another one. We suggest you start with one of the early missions before attempting the more advanced ones. Part II: Assignments Once you have received basic Hydrofoil training, you will be in a position to undertake the following assignments as part of the TAG task force. Of these eight assignments, the first two are part of your advanced training, and provide you with simulated combat experience. We strongly recommend that you gain proficiency in the first two assignments before you proceed to the more advanced missions. At the end of each assignment you will receive a score and a rank, based on your performance during that mission. Scores are calculated on the basis of five factors, as described below. Note that the actual values will vary from mission to mission, because of the different objectives of each one. For example, in the first assignment (Battle Training), speed and destruction are the most important factors, while survival is not. By contrast, in the fourth mission (A Better Part of Valor), survival is most important, while destruction of enemies is relatively unimportant. Scores: ------ 1. Main Objective: Full points are awarded if the mission is successfully completed; no points if the main objective was not accomplished. Range: 1000 - 5000 points. 2. Enemies Destroyed: Points are awarded for each enemy destroyed. Range: 50 - 500 points. 3. Enemies Damaged: Points are awarded for each enemy hit but not destroyed. Range: 25 - 250 points. 4. Time Remaining: Points for time remaining are awarded only when the mission is successfully completed before time runs out. Points are for each minute remaining. Range: 1 - 4 points/minute. 5. Survival Bonus: Survival points are awarded when the mission is successfully completed or when time runs out, assuming you haven't been blown to shit by the enemy. Points are awarded for each of the twelve sections of the ship that are capable of sustaining damage (six for the hull and six for the systems). Full points are awarded for undamaged sections, half for slight damage (yellow on the damage display), and no points for heavy damage (red on the display). Range 20 - 200 RANKS: Ranks are based on points earned, with different scales for each mission, depending on their relative difficulty. For example, because the training exercise is the easiest of all the missions, you can only advance to Lieutenant, no matter how high you score [Sucks]. More difficult missions, such as Search For Terrorists, allow you to achieve rank of Captain, while the most difficult ones, such as Supply Convoy, allow you to reach the top rank of Admiral [w0w!]. In any case, to achieve the top rank in a assignment you must accomplish the main objective. The ranks, in ascending order, are as follows: Deck Mopper Ensign Lieutenant Commander Captain Commodore Rear Admiral Admiral The Missions: 1) Battle Training: Ten enemy ships will be introduced to your training area off Key West, one at a time. These vessels will range from simple patrol boats all the way to powerful Nanuchka II missile corvettes. This exercise is designed to familiarize you with the PHM and its weapon systems. Objective: Sink all simulated enemy ships. Rank Attainable: Lieutenant Enemy Vessels: Patrol Boat; OSA I, Nanuchks II. Strategy Tips: This is a good learning assignment, Use your gun on the patrol boats, and save your missiles for the bigger ships. 2) Graduation Exercise In this exercise, all the enemy vessels you seen in the first assignment will be coming at you all at once, doing their best to blow the shit out of you. Sinking all the enemy vessels as quickly as possible is more important than surviving undamaged. Objective: Sink all simulated enemy ships. Rank Attainable: Lieutenant Enemy Vessels: Patrol Boat; OSA I, Nanuchka II. Strategy Tips: Get moving right away; you're a sitting duck if you don't. Use you missiles on the more distant ships and your gun on the closer ones. Watch your radar for fast-moving dots approaching your ship. These are enemy missiles. Use chaff to deflect them. (See Part III). 3) Terrorist Attack Approx. eight hours ago, terrorists attacked a seaside resort, killing dozens of vacationers and wounding hundreds. The terrorists were seen fleeing west in various patrol craft. Witnesses estimate seven to ten vessels of varying types, some suspected to be OSA I missile boats, others small patrol vessels. Your mission is to seek and intercept these vessels, and sink them. Objective: Sink all simulated ships. Rank Attainable: Commander. Enemy Vessels: Patrol Boats, OSA II, Zhuk. Strategy Tips: The terrorist vessels are to the west of your starting position and moving rapidly north. Try to cut them off, while avoiding their allies coming in from the northeast. Save you missiles for the OSA class ships. 4) A Better Part of Valor War is brewing in South America. Your PHM is needed there as soon as possible. From your base at Key West, you will need to navigate the dangerous Yucatan Straits between Mexico and Cuba in order to reach southern waters. To accomplish your objective in this assignment, you need only to get PHM to the southern edge of the map. Look out for enemy vessels who will be trying to stop you. Use your SeaSprite helicopter to screen your PHM and help you avoid the enemy, or to help you seek out and destroy the bastards. Objective: Escape with your Hydrofoil off the south edge of the map with as little damage as possible. Rank Attainable: Commander. Enemy Vessels: Komar and the Assad missile boats. Strategy Tips: Keep moving at full speed. Engage enemies at extreme range with your missiles if they are in your path. 5) Search for Terrorists To missile corvettes have unsuccessfully attacked an American base off the southern coast of Sicily. A Sparviero Hydrofoil and an AB 212 helicopter are available to help hunt them down. The mission objective is to sink both attackers (who will be fleeing south) before they escape. They are thought to be fleeing toward Tripoli, and can be distinguished from similar vessels by their course. Although a variety of enemy ships will be patrolling along a line north of Tripoli, remember that the fleeing ships are your main objective! Objective: Sink the two fleeing Nanuchka II class ships. Rank Attainable: Commander. Enemy Vessels: OSA I, OSA II, Nanuchka II. Strategy Tips: Try to avoid the other ships on your way to your objective. Save your missiles for them. 6) Supply Convoy A South American country has been taken over by a dictator, who has succeeded in turning the Caribbean into a war zone. Your mission is to escort a high-speed cargo ship carrying medical supplies and food to a group of refugees. The dictators forces consist of two varieties of a convertible Vosper-Thornycroft ship that comes with either two missiles and a small caliber gun, or just a 76mm cannon identical to your own. Objective: Get you convoy ship to the southern part of the eastern edge of the map. Rank Attainable: Admiral Enemy Vessels: Vosper-Thornycrft 121 ft class Strategy Tips: Conserve fuel by keeping your engine setting at 2 or less as much as possible, sprinting ahead at high speed only when you spot enemies or when you fall behind your convoy ship. Keep the convoy moving at full speed toward the south one-third of the east edge of the map, an use your helicopters to spot attackers before they can get close. Keep your ship between the attackers and the convoy. 7) Surveillance Mission It is suspected that the military equipment is being smuggled to the dictator through an outwardly neutral South American country. A cargo ship has been photographed loading up with tanks and aircraft parts in the Baltic, and is believed to be approaching Nicaragua. Seven ships of similar construction carrying farm machinery and building supplies are also entering the area to provide cover for the arms ship. Your mission is to find all eight ships and photograph them at close range so their identities can be established and compared with that of the suspected arms ship. Photography is accomplished automatically by approaching to within 1500 feet of the ship and training your binoculars on it (by choosing it as a target), BUT be careful not to sink them Sinking one of these vessels will result in an international incident, and will immediately end the mission in failure. Use your two SeaHawk helicopters to scout out the cargo ships. Some of the dictators forces are believed to be in this area, so try to identify any ships you find at as long a range as possible. Watch your fuel usage!! Objective: Find and photograph all eight cargo vessels in the Caribbean without sinking any. Rank Attainable: Rear Admiral. Enemy Vessels: Cargo ships, OSA II missile boats. Strategy Tips: The cargo ships move slowly, but they are scattered all over the sea and will eventually reach a safe port. Move fast, and use your helicopters to find them as soon as possible. 8) Jihad Your mission is to escort a supply ship out of the Persian Gulf. The only complication: a war is going on [christ, thats all?], and innocent ships are being fired upon without warning. The supply ship is trying to evacuate western workers from the war zone, but the captain is too frightened to try and escape through the maelstrom of warring factions that fill the Gulf. You will need to make your way through the Straits of Hormuz to Kuwait where you will rendezvous with the supply ship. The supply ship will respond to your controls in the same was an auxiliary helicopter (see Part III). Try to avoid conflict if possible. Enemies are less likely to attack if you are peaceful. However, if you take hostile action or if you get too close, they will pass the word to their fleet to attack. The supply ship will be a tempting target for them at all times, so guard it well. In any case, remember that your primary mission is to get the supply shit out safely - damage to your Hydrofoil is important only insofar as it compromises that mission. Use your Seahawk helicopters to provide you with critical info on ship movements. Objective: Escort the supply ship safely into the Indian Ocean. Rank Attainable: Admiral Enemy Vessels: OSA I and OSA II missile corvettes. Strategy Tips: You're on your own for this one... Part III: Hydrofoil Operation Introduction: The Hydrofoil is an all weather, high speed, compact weapons system, making it ideal for strike, patrol and surveillance missions. Because of its fully submerged foils, the Hydrofoil is capable of sustained high-speed runs across heavy seas, with a maneuverability of a 76mm gun, missiles, and chaff for radar deflection. As Hydrofoil commander, you can switch between the view from the Hydrofoil bridge and a top-down view of the operations map. Each uses its own set of the keyboard and joystick controls. Specific operating instructions are given in the command summary card, included in your information packet. [what a joke] The View From The Bridge: The top half of the screen shows the view from bridge. The cross is the aiming cursor, while the blinking little line is the aim correctors light, and the think that looks like a shoe is the binocular view. The bottom half shows the Weapons indicator on the lower left side (where it says gun, chaff, HASM) the middle where the circle is, is the radar screen, and on the right side, the damage indicators appear. The bottom has the time compression on the lower right half of the screen. The Hydrofoils Instruments are composed of: Gyrocompass - Indicates Hydrofoil current bearing; north being straight up RPM - Indicates Hydrofoils engine speed Speed - Indicates Hydrofoil speed in knots Radar - Shows all craft within Hydrofoils radar range Weapons Status - Indicates which weapons are currently active and the number of rounds remaining Fuel - Indicates the amount of fuel remaining Warning Indicators - Red warning indicators show a potential problem Depth - Indicates danger of running aground. Flashes when heading towards land Lock - One or more enemy missiles are locked onto you. Fired or are about to be fired upon by enemy ships Damage - Shows which parts of the ship (yours) are damaged. Operations Map: The Operations Map shows the helicopters, convoys, and the Hydrofoil. The circle with one dot is helicopter 1. If it has 3 dots, its helicopter 2, the diamond is a convoy, and the small circle is your ship. You can switch from the view from the bridge to a map of the surrounding area. The map shows the entire area of operations for the current assignment. It shows all the major land masses, the borders of the assignment area, the current location of the Hydrofoil, the locations of all the friendly forces and its radar range. In addition, the operations map shows the locations of your helicopters. Control of such helicopters or an escorted convoy is maintained from the Operations Map. Weapons and Defenses: 76mm cannon: Its fire rate is 90 rounds per minute, its effective against Aircraft and missiles, its range is about ten miles. Because of the needed time for a shell to travel to its target, the effective range against moving targets is approx. six miles. Thus, even though your fire control radar allows you to lock on to a target, you will need to 'lead' your cannon ahead of moving targets further then one or two miles away. Chaff rockets: These allow you to fire exploding rockets filled with aluminum foil into the air. When they explode, the rockets disperse their chaff into the air, attracting the enemy missiles and deflecting them from your ship. Your best strategy on using the chaff rockets is to fire them when you are moving at a right angle to the oncoming missile. Chaff is best fired when the enemy missile is about a mile away. Harpoon Missiles: These are the most accurate and most potent weapons. They will hit their target 90 per cent of the time and will destroy most small ships with a single hit. Because your radar is likely to be more accurate over a greater distance than enemy's, you can destroy an enemy vessel by firing a Harpoon at your maximum (40 mile) sighting range even before the enemy has a chance to launch against you. Gabriel Missiles: This missile has a shorter range then the Harpoon missiles, but their guidance systems are reputed to be slightly more accurate then those of the Harpoons. They carry a 400 pound high explosive warhead. Use these suckers against ships beyond gun range. Exocet Missiles: Same as Harpoon Missile. Radar: Your radar system's range is about 40 miles, although it is greater from the front or the back of the Hydrofoil. You can take advantage of this by turning the Hydrofoil towards the target. Your Hydrofoil is represented by a flashing 'blip' in the center of the display. If this 'blip' isn't flashing, another ship is very close to you. Auxiliary Craft: Some assignments involve the use of search helicopters. In such cases, helicopters are controlled from the Operations Map, same applies to Convoy ships. Damage: Your Hydrofoil is capable of operating even if it sustains damage. Hull Damage: The Hydrofoil's hull is separated into six watertight compartments. Light damage to any or all of the six compartments does not affect the ship, but serves as a warning that continued hits will cause heavy damage. Heavy damage to a critical number of compartments can sink your Hydrofoil. This critical number varies among the different Hydrofoils, as follows: the PHM can sustain heavy damage to four compartments before sinking, the Israeli Flagstaff II will sink after heavy damage to two compartments. System Damage: 76mm Cannon: Light damage may cause your gun to misfire; heavy damage will disable it completely. Radar: Light damage restricts your radar to 20 miles; heavy damage restricts the range to 10 miles. Chaff: With light damage, the chaff rockets may misfire, expending a round in vain. With heavy damage, they will not work at all. Missiles: Light damage causes misfire, while heavy damage knocks them out all together. Fuel Tanks: Light damage increases fuel drain; heavy damage increases it even more. Engines: Light damage decreases your max speed; heavy damage decreases it even more, sometimes to the point of immobility. Operating Instructions: You can operate your Hydrofoil either from the Bridge or from the Operations Map. To switch from one to the other, press 'V' on the keyboard. From the Bridge you can maneuver the Hydrofoil, or select, aim, and fire your weapons. You can also adjust your radar scanning range from 2.5 miles to 40 miles. From the Operations Map you can control your aux. vessels, or you can set your Hydrofoil on a course using automatic pilot. Some operations are available in either mode. Thus, from either the Bridge or the Operations Map you can pause and restart proceedings, you can quit and select a new mission, and you can speed up or slow down the passage of time. You can speed time up to 128 times; thus, when you do so, every element is affected equally. Bridge: Maneuvering the Hydrofoil: You can maneuver your Hydrofoil with either the keyboard or joystick. Moving the joystick forward speeds up the ship, while pulling it back slows it down. Moving the joystick right or left moves your ship that way [Duh..]. See the command summary card for the keyboard equivalents. Note that maneuvering the Hydrofoil manually from the Bridge has the effect of disengaging the automatic pilot. Aiming and Firing Weapons: You can also use the joystick to aim and fire your weapons. Pressing the toggles the joystick between maneuvering the hydrofoil and aiming your weapons. To aim at a target, you first need to select it from among the enemy craft within your radar by pressing T several times until the target is bracketed on your radar screen. At that point the target vessel appears in the binocular view at the top of the screen. To aim your gun, move the aiming cursor so that it is over the target in the binocular view. Move the joystick forward to move the cursor up, and move it back down to bring the cursor down. Moving the joystick left or right moves the cursor left or right [duh..]. To fire weapon, press the fire button on the joystick or strike on the keyboard. You can correct you aim by using the 'aim corrector': move the aiming cursor toward the aim corrector and fire again. Note that you only need to aim your gun once. Missiles automatically go toward the ship in the binocular view at the time of firing, while chaff affects all incoming missiles depending on their distance from the Hydrofoil. You select among the available weapons from the keyboard, see your command summary card for details. [ok..] Operations Map Automatic Pilot: To set a course for hydrofoil, first make sure that the Hydrofoil is selected by pressing the appropriate key. Next, move the cross hair to your destination point and press a key (1 through 5). Pressing 5 moves the Hydrofoil to its destination at full speed, while 1 moves the Hydrofoil at its slowest speed. If you already have a speed selected, you can press the joystick button to move the Hydrofoil to the new destination at the currently selected speed. Pressing 0 stops the Hydrofoil. When you return to the Bridge, changing direction (w/keyboard or joystick) disengages the automatic pilot and returns you to manual control. You can, however, change the Hydrofoil's speed from the Bridge by pressing keys 1 though 5 without disengaging the automatic pilot. To re-engage automatic pilot, return to the Operations Map, select the Hydrofoil, then press the joystick button or select a speed as before. Your Hydrofoil will then move toward the previously selected destination. Messages on the Bridge and Operations Map indicate current status of the automatic pilot. Controlling Aux. Craft: When you are in the Operations Map you can also control the aux. craft that are available to you. Depending on the assignment, these can include helicopters, or a convoy of ships. To control an aux. craft, first select it by pressing the key for that craft (see command summary card AGAIN!!! would of been easier to just do the Q-ref card it self) and then move the cross hair to the destination point. Press 1 though 5 to set the aux. craft's speed and start it off towards its destination. Aux. Craft in the Operations Map are color-coded: Helicopters are green, and the convoys are gray. Each aux. craft is also identifiable by its own icon. To display the aux. craft icons, press D. this changes the display from radar circles to the vessel icons. This feature is particularly useful if many enemies are nearby. Time Compression: You can use time compression to speed up events in the Operations Map until you get to the center of the action. You can then slow events back down, or you can leave them speeded up. If you compress time to more than eight times normal, any action from the enemy (such as missile or cannon shot) will automatically slow it back down to eight times. This way you can use time compression to make your assignments more challenging. PHM Command Summary Card (Quick Ref.) OVERVIEW PHM Pegasus is a simulation requiring both strategic and tactical ability. The object is to complete each mission by achieving it's main objective in as short a time as possible. See your Manual for details on the assignments. Hydrofoil operation is by means of keyboard and joystick. You can use either to control the hydrofoil's movement, weapons aiming and firing, and any auxiliary craft. Use the keyboard to pause and resume play, to increase or decrease time compression, to switch between the Bridge and the Operations Map, and to select weapons or auxiliary craft. Two main viewing "modes" are available at any time - the Bridge and the Operations Map. The key table that will follow shows the effect of each keystroke under each of the two modes. GETTING STARTED Let's skip this. SPOTTER CARDS The identification cards in the center of your Manual can help you spot and identify the vessels and aircraft that are active in each mission. Shooting friendly vessels can make you very unpopular with the Commodore (I almost barfed when I saw that word too) so it is particularly important that you identify the vessels in each mission. This way you won't end up shooting the convoy you are trying to rescue. To use the cards, CAREFULLY remove them from the manual by tearing the center perforation, and then tear out each card individually. Before you start an assignment, read the mission description in the Manual and select the card for each vessel in the mission. Keep the cards as handy as you proceed with your assignment, and refer to them when you need help identifying one of the vessels. KEYBOARD COMMAND SUMMARY (Note: some of the following commands are accessible through the joystick. Such commands are marked with an asterisk *. See Joystick Control section following.) P Pause/Resume play Same Ctrl-Q Quit Same V Toggles view between Operation Same Map and Bridge + or = Each press doubles time rate Same up to 128 times real time - Each press halves time rate Same down to real time N Returns time rate to real time Same 1-5* Sets hydrofoils max. speed Set max. speed for hydrofoil or aux. 0* Stops hydrofoil N/A Ctrl-R Each press doubles radar scan N/A from 2.5 miles to 40 R Each press halves radar scan N/A down to 2.5 miles T Selects targets for view in N/A binoculars Ctrl-S Toggles sound on/off Same D N/A Toggles radar circle & vessel icons 6 Selects cannon Selects hydrofoil 7 Selects chaff rocket Selects helicopter 1 (when avail) 8 Selects missiles (harpoon or Selects helicopter 2 (when avail) Exocet) 9 Gabriel missile (when avail) Selects convoy (when avail) SPACE Toggle between maneuver and N/A weapons aiming modes RET* Fire currently selected weapon N/A IJKM* Aim weapon up, down, left, right Move destination cursor COMMA* Turn hydrofoil left N/A PERIOD* Turn hydrofoil right N/A W Toggle among weapon types N/A JOYSTICK CONTROL You can use the joystick either to control the hydrofoil or to aim and fire your weapons. From the Bridge, in Movement mode, you can control the hydrofoil's movement by moving the joystick left or right, and its speed by moving it forward or back. In Weapons mode, use the joystick to move the aiming cursor around the binocular view. Fire your weapons in either mode by pressing the fire button. You can toggle between Movement and Weapons mode by pressing the spacebar. From the Operations Map, use your joystick to set your destination cursor, and the fire button to set off on your course. -END-