OP2 Online Manual

Welcome What Has Gone Before

Welcome to the Outpost 2 Online Manual. We hope you enjoy playing this game even more than we enjoyed making it!

This Online Manual has been designed to give you all the information you need to begin playing right away. We hope you find it useful and informative. For new players, we recommend you look through the Getting Started and Tutorials sections first.
For additional information on missions, units, strategies, and research, see our Strategy Guide.
This collection of five documents will give you the inside story on how to win at Outpost 2. Shortcuts to open these documents are in the Outpost 2 program group, available from the Start menu.
Getting Started tells you about System Requirements, Installation, how to start Campaign, Colony, and Multiplayer Games, and the game menu screens.
The Tutorials teach you, step-by-step, how to command your colony.
The Rules section explains how to manage your resources, structures, and vehicles.
The Interface Guide shows, in detail, how all of the components of the game interface work.
The Unit Reference describes all of the structures, vehicles, and weapons available in Outpost 2, including color illustrations and Tales of New Terra.