WELCOME TO LASER SQUAD NEMESIS
Laser Squad Nemesis (LSN) is the new multiplayer turn based strategy game from the makers of X-com. Laser Squad Nemesis is an online strategy game for two players that is easy to learn yet requires skill and tactics to win. Each game takes place between two players who plot moves and then view the results before planning their next turn. Email is used to send orders and receive results from the central game processing server. You can play anybody, anywhere in the world as long as they have an email account.
The game uses a unique system for plotting orders, testing them and viewing results. Although the game is played through a distinct sequence of game turns, the simulation runs in real time. Each game turn represents 10 seconds of real time. The video controls allow you to rewind a game to the beginning and view the whole battle from start to finish.
Advanced Tactics & Gameplay Principles
The sections you find within this online manual are much more than simply how to move your force, they are critical thinking guides that will let you dominate and devastate your enemy. These have been collated and assembled from sources such as Sun Tzu's Art of War, the US Army's Small Unit Tactics Field Manual, personal military training and lots of veteran LSN player accounts. They also provide screenshots of the principles in action and use proper terminology. See Assembling A Fire Team as an example. They will make you more deadly, and change your gameplay from the novice to the expert in a very short time.
Alternatively, this manual combined with the LSN game becomes a highly effective Small Unit Tactics trainer... For those of the military persuasion, it will keep your tactical mindset sharp as a whip while still providing much more entertainment than field exercises.
GAME MECHANICS
LSN features a brand new game system that is significantly advanced from the original Laser Squad and X-Com games. Players issue orders to their units that are submitted to our central game server for the game turn to be processed. Each player then receives a results file that shows the action in simultaneous, real time mode.
There are a number of features provided by the game system:
The ability to test your orders before you send your turn. You can use this to see where your units may finish their move, but it is particularly useful for tricky timing situations. You may, for example, want to simultaneously enter a room from three different points in order to maximize firepower against the enemy units inside.
The ability to replay each turn, or the whole game using VCR style controls. The ability to review any part of the game played so far enables you to analyze the combat in as much detail as you want. At the end of the game you can keep the game file so that you can review it in the future. If you play against an opponent you have played before you can go back and analyze the games in order to devise some counter strategies.
Site Navigation
The navigation available includes an Index, Table of Contents, Glossary, and Search components. Most new users prefer to read chapter by chapter with the Table of Contents view. For quick results, please use the Search function.
Updated March 21, 2006:
CoDo games are Julian Gollop, Nick Gollop and Stephen Moorhouse. These individuals were responsible for the X-Com series of games with the brothers Gollop the minds behind such classics as Rebelstar Raiders and the original Laser Squad. With such a well respected and mature heritage, Co-Do games was formed in 2001. Their remit; to provide games directly to the people who matter, you the gamer. With a business model circumventing a publisher’s stranglehold, Co-Do released the natural and only real successor to Laser Squad and XCom; Laser Squad Nemesis.
With rave reviews, a loyal and supportive following and continued development the game can proudly sit alongside their previously successful backcatalogue of seminal titles.