The Horde
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(Sega Saturn - PAL, Action & Adventure)
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Developed by:
Activision
Published by:
Square Enix
Released On:
01 Jan 1995
Get ready to join The Horde , a action-packed adventure game where you play as Chauncey, a brave serving lad tasked with saving his kingdom from the evil Hordlings. The King rewards your bravery with Grimthwacker, a magical sword, and a village to protect. Your mission is to defend villagers, crops, and cows from the Hordlings' attacks, earning favor and bigger challenges along the way.
As you progress through the game, you'll encounter different types of Hordlings, each with their unique ways of causing chaos. Success is measured by how many villagers and crops survive each season's brutal attacks. With improved skills and equipment, you'll take on tougher challenges and face off against the evil High Chancellor.
UPC-A:
768964043425 (Germany)
UPC-A:
768964048123 (Germany)
Sega Region Code:
T-15909H-09 (Germany)
Part #:
T-15909H-18 (Germany)
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Manual
Game Guide
Extracted from the original game manual
A princely reward, this game casts you as Sir Chauncey the Brave, a former waiter knighted after saving a choking king. Manage your expanding lands by balancing income and defense against the relentless, flesh-eating Horde across diverse hazardous regions.
Story
A Princely Reward
Chauncey always did his best, be it pouring wine, passing the turkey, or clearing away the constant mess. He was serving nobility, who live on a higher plane than most mortals.
The courtly eaters were so entranced by stuffing their faces and entertaining guests with raunchy stories that no one paid attention. When King Winthrop started to huff and hack after a war story, Chauncey darted to the rescue.
Chauncey performed a Heimlich maneuver to match the King's epic proportions. He pounded the royal shoulders and squeezed the King around the middle until the unchewed morsel of turkey launched from His Majesty's throat. The King was saved!
The lofty company was shocked by the skirmish. The High Chancellor yelled for Chauncey's arrest, but the King sputtered a proclamation punctuated by flying turkey bits: "He saved my life. He is . . . a hero."
King Winthrop knighted the astonished Chauncey and handed over his mighty sword, Grimthwacker.
A Kind Herd of Wild Cows
Chauncey, who was once a skinny serving boy raised by a kind herd of wild cows, found himself to be Sir Chauncey the Brave. He now held vast tracts of land.
The bad news is that Kronus Maelor, the Evil High Chancellor, is a realm-snatching throne jumper who wants the King dead. This key-biting royal troublemaker now has to get rid of Chauncey too.
The good news is that with Grimthwacker and several other magical items, Chauncey may actually thwart the Evil High Chancellor's schemes. He can build his lands into a thriving community.
The Horde
Chauncey's lands are overrun with the Horde. These hulking, galloping mobs of loud, red, ravenous eaters perfume the air with a horrible aroma while gobbling cow flesh. They stuff anything they can shove into their unflossed maws.
Hordlings are pretty dang dumb, so there's still a chance that Chauncey can rid the land of the overwhelming, ever-chomping plague. He can become the most renowned hero in Franzpowanki history.
This is all possible, if he can stop tripping over his sword.
Building a Village
It is time to take possession of the lands handed over by the Evil High Chancellor.
Seasonal Reports
Like the farmer's wagon, the seasons start their roll. The seasonal reports tell you what's up, including:
β’
Your tax bite in Crowns.
β’
How many hirelings (knights and archers) you've employed.
β’
The fees that your hirelings will charge next season.
Rules to Rule By
To make your village prosper, keep in mind these two tried and true rules regarding how quickly Crowns slip away:
β’
Rule 1: Earn more money than you spend.
β’
Rule 2: Defend your holdings from the Horde!
Habitats
Shimto Plains
Adolescent Hordlings are a pervasive plague in Franzpowanki. You will face them early on in the Shimto Plains, where elves and barbarians can't even grow pumpkins in peace without being hassled.
Fetid Swamps of Buuzal
The Fetid Swamps of Buuzal are a murky territory with extremely fertile fields, if you can stand the stench. They are just the place for Hordlings with an odor problem.
Tree Realms of Alburga
Wield your Flamethrower with caution; if one tree catches fire, a whole section of forest is liable to burn. It is a good way to toss a few more Hordlings on the BBQ.
Kar-Nyar Desert
A nice place to tan, if you've got the time. But your job is getting crops to grow and workers to immigrate so you can pay your tax burden. Don't you hate it when you get sand everywhere?
Frozen Wastes of Vesh
Ice Hordlings are only one of the obnoxious hazards in this arctic territory loaded with irritations. Add frostbite, tundra, permafrost, ice blindness, and wet socks, and you will just want to smash something.
How to Play
Getting Started
Set up your Sega Saturn by following the instructions in its hardware manual. Plug in one or two controllers.
Turn on your TV or monitor, and then turn on the Sega Saturn by pressing the POWER button. Soon, the Sega Saturn logo will appear on screen, followed by the Sega Saturn on-screen control deck.
If nothing appears on screen, turn the Sega Saturn OFF. Check the hardware manual to make sure the system is set up correctly, and then turn the unit ON again.
Open the CD tray by pressing the OPEN button. Place THE HORDE CD in the tray, label side up. Lightly press it into place. Close the tray lid by pressing it down gently.
Press the controller's Start button, and wait a short time while the game loads. In a few moments, you'll see the Sega Saturn planet icon, and then THE HORDE title screen.
Press Start again to begin.
Cultivating & Defending the Land
Use the first part of each season to cultivate your village and set up defenses. Everything you need can be found in the Toolbox. Press Button B to activate the Toolbox.
Use the D-Pad to select as many items as you feel you need or can pay for, and move them onto the village map.
Item Outline
The outline is a silhouette of your selected item. Move it around, and press Button A to set items in place.
Village Map
Your village enlarges with each passing season. You can toggle between Zoom and Eagle's Eye map views (D-Pad up/down when the Toolbox is active), and set items in place in either view.
Crowns (Ready Cash)
You'll spend some ready cash every time you use a tool. Buying cows and planting trees gets expensive. But the more tempting you make your village, the more villagers you'll attract. They like nothing better than to build huts, make roads and plant crops. Their constructive activities will earn profits for you at the end of the season.
Hourglass
Take advantage of two full minutes (real time) to plan, build and set your defenses. When the sands run out, the Horde attacks!
Toolbox
Pick out various tools and items for building up and defending the village.
Tools
To place an item on your land, select it from the Toolbox, move its silhouette onto the map, and press Button A.
β’
You can remove most items from the map by clicking on them once with any silhouette.
β’
You can replace an item by double-clicking on it with a different silhouette.
β’
Every time you use an item (that is, place it on the map), its cost is deducted from your Crowns. When you remove or replace an item on the map, its cost is added back.
β’
Exceptions: Water costs Crowns to build and Crowns to remove; pits give you no Crowns back and you must use DIG to remove them.
β’
If you can't afford an item, its picture will be grayed out.
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Most items have limits, which you will discover as you use them.
You start with only a few items. At the end of each year (four seasons) you can buy rights to additional items if you've earned enough Crowns.
Dig
DIG lets you expand and shrink channels of water, remove pits and rubble (may take several tries), pick up objects such as cows and trees, and eradicate kudzu.
Kudzu is a red fungus that can invade your land and destroy your crops. In Building mode, Chauncey can pick any item from the Toolbox and cover the weed to destroy it. He must use the DIG tool to remove the fungus. In Battle mode, Chauncey can destroy dangling kudzu weeds by walking over them.
Dig Pit
Spike-lined pits provide temporary obstacles to the drooling, chomping invaders.
Plant Tree
With enough trees, you can transform an empty region into a woodland! Increase your wealth by planting saplings (cost: 1 Crown each) and then, later, removing the grown trees (return: 5 Crowns each).
Buy Cow
Cows are just about the most valuable improvement you can make. They're expensive, but they earn back a goodly sum of Crowns. Wouldn't you know it, cows are also the Hordlings' favorite snack!
Erect Walls/Fences
Extend a barrier of stone to hold out the enemy.
Employ Knight/Archer
Knights slash with spiked maces, and archers launch an avalanche of arrows to stop the greedy attackers. Once in place, your army will turn to face the onrushing waves of Hordlings. You will be charged every season for the services of your knights and archers.
End Turn
The hourglass gives you two minutes of peace to work on your defenses before the Horde's invasion. If you're ready sooner, or you run out of Crowns, you can βtake the Horde by the horns.β
Select the running Hordling in the Toolbox to bring on those ravenous invaders!
Popping the Horde
Hordlings live to eat! For the most part, they have a vocabulary of two words: βFOODβ and βEAT.β They are extremely excitable, with the table manners of starving hyenas. Whenever they get the idea of FOOD or EAT, every other thought in their tiny brains is immediately driven out, and replaced by the chant βFOOD! FOOD! FOOD! FOOD! FOOD!β Then they all rush down and attack the village.
Invasion Update
Just before the invasion, you'll get a battle order.
Controls
Start/Pause Button
Start; pause/resume
Any action button
Skip video sequences
Button A (while a saved game is highlighted)
Load a saved game
D-Pad (with map active)
Move around the map
Button A (with map active)
Set an item in place
Button B
Activate/deactivate Toolbox
D-Pad right/left (with Toolbox active)
Cycle through items
Button A (with Toolbox active)
Choose displayed item
D-Pad up/down (with Toolbox active)
Toggle to Zoom or Eagle's Eye map view
Button B (when in Zoom view)
Slow time to half speed
D-Pad in any direction (with map active)
Move Chauncey
Button A (when controlling Chauncey)
Use a weapon
D-Pad right/left (with Weapons Box active)
Cycle through items
Button A (with Weapons Box active)
Choose displayed item
D-Pad up/down (with Weapons Box active)
Toggle to Zoom or Eagle's Eye map view
Button B (during combat when in Zoom view)
Slow combat to half speed
Items & Weapons
Grimthwacker
Your avenging blade, the gift of Good King Winthrop.
Mystic Morningstar
Spin around with this weapon, smashing all enemies in your path. Can be a dizzying experience!
Flamethrower
Grilled Hordlings, anyone? Also grills your own stuff, so be careful where you light that fire.
Ring of Teleportation
Zip from here to there through thin air.
Boots of Boogy
Beat feet to round up the Horde before they chomp your herd.
Haunch of Meat
The short-range aroma of this putrid bait can lure Hordlings to a gooey end. Make them cross a moat or spiky pit to get it.
Bomb
Walk to the bomb to kick it at a Hordling.
Healing Rock
Not an imitation! This naturally occurring antidote restores some of Chauncey's 'heart.'
Roscoe
This magical beast gleefully torches all Hordlings around Chauncey. Caution: Roscoe often gets carried away! He's wild - and dumb - enough to torch everything, including huts, villagers and cows!
Flute of Schmegu
Serenade the Hordling masses and lull them to a watery demise.
Trident
Chauncey's 'good news, bad news' doomsday weapon. The good news is that the Trident firestorms an entire section of the map, destroying everything in reach. The bad news is that it leaves behind a barren waste of rocks and rubble.
Enemies & Characters
Sir Chauncey the Brave
A gawky and clumsy royal serving boy who became the boss of his own realm after a gagging royal changed his fate.
The Evil High Chancellor
Kronus Maelor, the King's Number One, is a villainous politician with a packed schedule of shady schemes who has his stupid henchmen do the dirty work.
Good King Winthrop
Formerly the great hero Bran the Barbarian, he is now an old, fat, and sleepy king who prefers lazing around the banquet table to protecting the kingdom.
Adolescent Hordlings
Voracious and stupid critters with wide gaping mouths and tiny brains, often seen charging down hillsides in vast numbers.
Piranha Hordlings
Enthusiastic mutts of Hordlingdom with vise-like locking jaws that bite and swallow everything they see, ahead of the pack due to their acute sense of smell.
Swamp Hordlings
Slow on land but rapid swimmers that snort gutturally and leave behind an aroma of spoiled pastrami and mustard on rye.
Forest Hordlings
Highly irritating pygmies and leprechauns that pop out from trees to shoot victims with plunger-like blowguns before swallowing them whole.
Shaman Hordlings
Old, moldering shamans that teleport, hurl fireballs, and hypnotize hirelings, with the main task of reconstituting Hordlings from eyeballs.
Desert Hordlings
Mole-faced Hordlings that burrow beneath sand and emerge to hop and bray, being particularly threatening because they cannot be popped until they wiggle out.
Ice Hordlings
Frosty and abominable Hordlings whose only concern is getting a hut, villager, or cow into their mouths as quickly as possible.
Juggernaut Hordlings
Slow, lumbering, and nearly invincible brutes that keep trying to lurch forward until an obstacle breaks.
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