Military Madness

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TurboGrafx-16 PC Engine
Military Madness
System(s): PC Engine, TurboGrafx-16, Virtual Console (Wii)
Publisher: Hudson Soft NEC Technologies
Developer: Hudson Soft
Genre: Simulation
Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code JP 1989-02-09 ¥5,8005,800 HC63016 US 1990-02 TGX030015 JP ▼ 2006-12-20 600pts600 US ▼ 2006-12-18 600pts600 EU ▼ 2006-12-22 600pts600 AU ▼ 2007-07-06 600pts600
Non-NEC versions X68000

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Military Madness, known as Nectaris (ネクタリス) in Japan, is a turn-based strategy game for the PC Engine and TurboGrafx-16.

Story

The year is 2089, and mankind has attempted to colonise the Moon, however two military forces are now at war with each other over the Moon's limited resources. The player is assigned as commander of the Allied Forces, and is tasked with fighting the AXIS Army (Gaichi Teihoku (ガイチ帝国) in the Japanese version) on the Moon's surface to prevent them from completing their doomsday weapon, "S.A.M." ("MOA" in the Japanese version), which will potentially destroy Earth.

Gameplay

In Military Madness, players take turns to direct a variety of units, including aircraft, artillery, foot soldiers, and other forms of military equipment, using tactics and strategy to defeat the opposing force. To win, a player must either capture the enemy's prison camp, or completely destroy all of the enemy's forces on the map. The game can be played solo, with the player commandeering the Allied Forces (blue) against the computer-controlled AXIS/Gaichi (green), or played in two-player mode, with the second player controlling the AXIS/Gaichi.

During their turn, the player may move their units across the map and/or attack the enemy, with all movement and attacking performed on a hexagonal grid. Moving units is performed with the "SHIFT" command, and the player may move as many of their units as they like, however each unit can only be moved once in a turn. Attacking is performed with the "ATTACK" command, with two different kinds of attacking depending on the type of unit: direct and indirect. Direct attacks can be performed after a shift, and will attack an opponent's unit from the hexagon adjacent to the player's unit. Indirect attacks can be performed from a distant hexagon. The distance between units can affect how effective indirect attacks are, and how effective a unit's defense is, though the type of terrain can have other effects on offense and defense. After moving and/or attacking, the player must select "END" to pass their turn over to the enemy.

Digital manuals

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  PC Engine mini JP manual

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  PC Engine mini US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Military Madness/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

PC Engine version

PC Engine, JP
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50x50px50x50px Card File:MilitaryMadness PCE HuCard JP Manual.pdf Manual

TurboGrafx-16 version

TurboGrafx-16, US

Technical information

ROM dump status

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✔	CRC32 93f316f7 MD5 03d0442df107c97bb04c32de7cb7f5bc SHA-1 01cf6be3fc11af874d25fc64bfb74f2f044f1bce	384kB		Card (US)