Empire Total War Manual (PDF Download)Until those nice people at Steam headquarters can be bothered to put a manual for us digital-download customers online (grrr!), I have taken the scanned jpg-pictures which Stiboo has so nicely has made available and put them into a single file, added an index page and turned all into a PDF ready for easy offline browsing or printing.
Copyright Notice: All content property Activision and SEGA, pages scanned by Stiboo (original thread here, layout and index by me.)
Bah. First version is missing a page, and I cant edit my posts
Please use this link instead:
Maybe a mod can change the original download link?
03-05-2009, 05:13 #3
Many thanks, it is a nice read for those who did digital download and those of us not getting the game for a bit.
The full manual is available online at steam nowLike a wooden man facing flowers and birds. 03-05-2009, 10:34 #5
Good work Susanna , although it looks like CA have one-upped you.
~ I LOVE DEMOS ~
03-05-2009, 14:16 #6
Originally Posted by Sir Beane 
Oh nooo, all that work. err. I mean, that's great! Good that CA listens to costumers. Just. *sigh* Exuse me while I go sulk in a corner.
03-05-2009, 14:23 #7
Bah. It says "the file is damaged and could not be repaired". On Steam, that is.
"Whose motorcycle is this?", "It's a chopper, baby.", "Whose chopper is this?", "Zed's.", "Who's Zed?", "Zed's dead baby. Zed's dead." - Butch and Fabienne ride off into the sunset in Pulp Fiction.
03-05-2009, 14:49 #8
Well Susanna's still works and it is a download so you won’t loose it.
See she didn’t do it for nothing.
Education: that which reveals to the wise,
and conceals from the stupid,
the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
Originally Posted by Vlad Tzepes
Right click = "Save as. " It worked for me.
First of all thanks to all who scanned/posted.
Now, what a sorry excuse for a manual. Really Forty pages long and only 36 pages of actual game related content. Just sad.
I've posted before that game companies should just forgo a printed manual in favor of a PDF version with actually useful content.
I just cannot believe that anyone at CA is at all proud of this sub par effort.
(BTW, I too have my Falcon 4 spiral bound 300+ page monstrosity. Those were the days )
"Après moi le déluge" 03-05-2009, 16:13 #10
thanks for doing that Susanna
I was thinking of doing something like that in case the uploads i did couldn't be read very well, as it is, it's easier to read the manual on screen than in the actual small rubbish real manual !
I would prefer to pay an extra £10 or so to have a nice big quality box with a glossy colour manual/books and stuff, i remember the old days and huge boxes and great manuals from the likes of SSI, even the games on the ZX Spectrum in the 80's had better box art and manuals.
As so many people are buying games online and downloading them now, prehaps there's a market for quality over price? - the high street stores can't compete with online prices, so prehaps they should go the other way and look at providing the same game but with higher quality packaging and manuals?
