Total Annihilation Kingdoms
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Description
Massive armies will clash. Forests and cities will burn. Tremendous magical forces will level entire castles in the blink of an eye.
In these epic quests, four sibling monarchs are locked in a massive campaign to rule the land of Darien. Build your legions of armies, hone your magic skills and gather your resources to wage war on an epic field of battle.
The balance of power lies here in your hands.
• Play as the monarch of one of four unique civilizations, each with its own combat strategies.
• Command vast armies of skeletal archers, undead foot soldiers, magic-casting wizards and dragon riders.
• Campaign through 3D environments that include lush forests, marshes, rolling hills and swamps.
• Lay siege to castles and cities filled with wandering monsters and magical life forms.
• Hardware support provides enhanced graphics and special effects.
Game Information
System Requirements
Cover Art
Front Cover
Hints & Cheats
These hints and cheats have been gathered from the old sold-out.co.uk and mastertronic.com websites via the Wayback Machine. I haven't personally tested them all, but since they appeared on the official sites back in the day, they should be pretty reliable.
Here's how to ally with the computer in skirmish
Play a skirmish when you get to the player screen example:
Player arm 1000 1000, computer core 1000 1000 in between player and arm is an ally symbol. Now pick 3 players now click the ally symbol.
Make sure you have the same as the one as the computer if not you will be destroyed in battle. Note: You can't ally with 3 or the computer will say you can't ally with 3 ok. Now what you do is find the one or the last player possible and make sure he's got a different ally symbol from yours and your teammate. When you and your teammate have allied by having the same symbol and the enemy has a different one, your ready to play any level. But before you do you have to know whose who. Ok here's what to do: Pick a color for my commander like RED and my team mate BLUE and the enemy BLACK.
Now when I play look at the radar to see the color.
Find the blue team then go to him and you now have allied notice a few things:
• You can repair his units and he can repair yours
• Your teammate will NOT fire on you
• You can help your teammate build things fast
• Make sure you build as well as his units are not very much so help him by building defenses the more you and he builds the better and armoured your base is.
Rename Selected Units
To rename any unit, press ENTER while playing, then type +rename X, where X is the name of the unit you wish to rename.
Use Multiple Dragons
How to play with multiple dragons. You must play as Aramon. Use the Monarch to kill other sides build unit such as a shamen then resurrect him from the dead and use him to build that sides dragon. Possible to have all four dragons. Only tried this in skirmish mode.
Campaign mode mission select
Click on the "Single Player" icon. Type drdeath at the single player game screen. A Cavedog Entertainment bone symbol will appear between the "Load Game" and "Previous Menu" icons on the right side of the screen.
Click on the bone to enter the mission select screen.
Ten player skirmish
Type [Asterisk]X at the opponent/ally selection screen.
To specify another number of players substitute "X" with a roman numeral from 3 to 10. For example, [Asterisk]III will result in a three player skirmish.
Cheat mode
Begin a game in skirmish or multiplayer mode. Press [Enter] to display the message box. Press [Plus] and enter one of the following codes. Press [Enter] to activate the corresponding cheat function. Note: Enter the code again to de-activate.
Cheat Codes
| Code | Effect |
|---|---|
| atm | 1000 metal and energy |
| bigbrother | Units say different things when moved |
| bps | Show the data transfer in multi player |
| cdstart | Start CD music |
| clock | In-game clock |
| combustion | Kill all other players' units |
| contour | Display a 3D contour type |
| AI control | Control a different skirmish |
| dither | Dithering instead of line of sight |
| doubleshot | All weapons do twice damage |
| halfshot | All weapons do half damage |
| honk | Units honk when stopping |
| ilose | Instant loss |
| infrared | Toggle fog of war |
| iwin | Instant win |
| kill | Kills specified player |
| light | Hide shaded object; all buildings dark |
| logo | Change colour |
| lushee | Limited resource increase |
| makeposter | Screen shot of map in .BMP format |
| mapping | Dark screen |
| meteor | Random meteor shower |
| nanolathing | Nanolathing and metal using doubled |
| noenergy | No energy |
| nometal | No metal |
| noshake | No screen shaking during explosion |
| nowisee | Full map; disable line of sight |
| radar | 100% radar coverage |
| reloadaiprofiles | Reload AI |
| screenchat | Toggle chat text in multi-player |
| seti | Toggle radar mini-map |
| sfx | Toggle sound effects |
| sharemapping | Share radar information |
| shareradar | Share radar information |
| shootall | Units target all enemies |
| showranges | Hold [Shift] to show range of pointed unit |
| sing | Units sing when given orders |
| switchalt | Press number keys to change squads |
| tilt | Maximum men and material |
| view | View selected players metal and energy |
| zipper | Faster unit building |
Steal technology
When a Mage Builder, Priestess, Beast Tamer or any of the other builders approach your base, kill them then take your monarch out to resurrect them. You will be able to have the other team's technology.