asc(6)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, meet asc — that's Advanced Strategic Command, a turn based strategy game 💖 (and yeah, this whole page is asc(6), living its best life in the Games Manual, section 6 💅)

🎀 SYNTAX 🎀

asc [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, this program is a free (GPL) turn based strategy game, and it's giving very much BattleIsle 2/3 tradition, no cap 🔥

you can play against a human or against the computer — pick your fighter 👑

the whole thing happens on a 2-dim. map, and the map is tiled into hexagons, which is where the units get placed. hexagons. hexagons everywhere. it's iconic 🐝

the object of the game changes from map to map, like every map has its own little agenda 😌 the most commonly known goal is to completely eliminate an opponent by destroying all of their units. yes, all of them. periodt. 💀

👑 OPTIONS 👑

the following options are supported, bestie, and I'm gonna walk you through every single one because we don't skip ✨

• -x, --xresolution <value> (640..., default=800) — sets the horizontal resolution to <value>. widen that girl up 🌈
• -y, --yresolution <value> (480..., default=600) — sets the vertical resolution to <value>. give her some height 💅
• -l, --load <string> — loads a map, a saved game, or an email game on startup. she comes preloaded, main character energy 🎀
• -c, --configfile <string> — use the given configuration file. your config, your rules 🦋
• -r, --verbose <value> (0...10, default=0) — sets the verbosity level to <value>. wanna know everything? crank it 📢
• -w, --window — disables fullscreen mode. windowed era 🙈
• -f, --fulscreen — enables fullscreen mode, and yes it overrides the config file (she does not take no for an answer) 🔥
• -q, --nosound — disables sound. silent but deadly 🤫
• -h, --help — displays help information. when in doubt, ask her 🫶
• -v, --version — outputs the version. flex the build, bestie ⭐

ngl, the range values are written exactly like the original page has them — 640..., 480..., 0...10 — so don't come for me about the dots, that's just how she is 💜

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

go read her friends, they're all in section 6 and they all ate:

• asc_demount (6)
• asc_makegfx (6)
• asc_mapedit (6)
• asc_mount (6)
• asc_weaponguide (6)

💜 AUTHORS 💜

the ASC game is developed by Martin Bickel <bickel@asc-hq.org> — thank you king 🫶

this man page was written by Bartosz Fenski <fenio@o2.pl> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (and lowkey some parts were grabbed from Michael Moerz's work), but it may be used by others too — sharing is caring, bestie ✨

and that's the tea, babe — this is version 1.15.0 of asc(6) from the Games Manual, so go forth and hexagon 💖🎀🦋 slay responsibly, ily 🫶