In the game you gain money for every enemy you shot down. You invest your money in better weapons and ship upgrades to succeed in next harder missions. This is the key rule for every hero with ambition to win this formidable campaign. You can buy weapons in weapon or missile/bomb tab during the shopping breaks and put them into free slots on your ship. But you cannot put any weapon into any slot. (Just like in role playing games - you cannot put sword on a head or helmet on a foot of your hero.) There are four weapon types (and corresponding slots on your ship) in the game: FRONT WEAPONS FRONT / REAR WEAPONS MISSILE WEAPONS BOMBS Green fighter you start with offers you just two FRONT slots, so you can install only two FRONT guns into it. Later you will fly with a warbirds capable of being fully equipped with a higher variety of weapon types. The side picture shows on of the ships and list of the offered weapons on the right side. Most of the weapons are of FRONT or FRONT/REAR type. You can support them with MISSILES and ground targets can be destroyed effectively with BOMBS. BOMBS add a new indicator to your ship's displays. Left from the heat display will appear a bomb-meter. It takes some time to reload the bomb bay after you empty it and this meter shows, how the reloading is getting allong. You can bomb anytime the bomb bay is not empty. You do not have to wait until it's fully reloaded. ## WEAPONS – BUYING AND SELLING Weapons are listed on the hypershoping tab on the right side. You can see five of them at once and browse through the rest of the list by pressing the up/down arrows of page up/page down keys on keyboard by using wheel on your mouse by clicking the arrow buttons or slider on the right side of the list. These arrows indicate when you are on the top or bottom item of the list (they fade to dark). List shows a small weapon picture and the name and price of each gun on the first level. In every next shopping break you get some new guns. These are marked by a "new" sign on their icon. The price of a weapon is shown in red when you do not have sufficient cash. When you select the offered weapon in the list... Click the item in the list to see the info page of the desired gun. When buying a weapon you will see an advertisement picture with detailed info about weapons power, heat and fire speed (shots per second) and weapon description. You buy the weapon by clicking the BUY button here (bottom right corner of the info page), or by clicking an empty slot in cargo or next to the ship's picture. Note that when you select a weapon, some slots will start to glow while others turn red on your ship - they indicate, where you can and where you cannot insert the selected weapon. When you select an owned weapon in the cargo or ship's slot... ... you will get picture similar to this one with a weapon info page on the right side of the screen. Yellow glowing front and rear slots shows, that this is a FRONT/REAR type of gun. Again you get a description and power/heat/speed parameters here. Top picture of the weapon is no longer an advertising one. It offers these functions: Symbol in the red circle in the top left corner shows the gun ammo. Move mouse cursor over it to get a short description. Some weapons have another symbol under the first one. Sextant (like the one on the example) shows, that the weapon can be turned by the rotary cage device (see paragraph about devices). The symbol of a magnet shows, that gun projectiles have a homing or auto-tracking feature. Weapon class meter on the right side of the picture shows the level of a weapon. Plus and minus buttons rise and lower the level.. Level changes the weapon's features significantly. Try changing the level, hide the menu by 'ESC' key and test it yourself. However, upgrading takes more money (price appears above the cash indicator when you move the cursor over the plus or minus button) so choose wisely what to buy and what to upgrade. There is a small level indicator on the right side of the icon of every weapon and device to get a quick review of all your stuff. You sell weapons by pressing SELL button, or by pressing CTRL+left mouse button on the weapon. Note: You buy/upgrade for exactly the same money as you sell/degrade. There is no money lost, so you can repeat and cancel your actions as many times as you wish to find the optimum combination of weapons.