Except far soldiers soldier, unquestioningly sacrificing themselves at the click of a mouse button. A graphical facelift wouldn't really be enough to justify a sequel though, and thankfully there are some more fundamental changes. A lot of the prepublicity has harked on about this feature, but to some extent it is a red herring. The logistics are essentially the same, regardless of which bunch you decide to play as, it's just that each race has slightly different needs and structures.
For instance. Egyptians use more stone in their buildings, whereas Asians must build rice farms to make alcohol, required to keep military morale high. Each civilisation also has its own god, which it must placate with temples, priests and sacrifices. Pleasing the gods is an important strategic goal, because if you treat them well they will punish your enemies with plagues and so forth.
The combat system has also been updated, giving you more control over your troops and their positions. Soldiers can gain experience and promotions, and the game incorporates sea battles, with a variety of warships at your disposal.
Settlers III is a complex web of dependencies and production lines, and one misjudgement can lead to your city grinding to a halt. Whatever happens though, it's your fault, and if you try harder you can eventually unblock the bottleneck, even if it means destroying buildings in order to re-use their raw materials - the equivalent of getting a mortgage in Monopoly.
Of course, by the time you've worked out what's wrong, the enemy are swarming all over you like flies round shit, firing gigantic catapults at your settlement while you're still trying to work out which end of the spade to use.
A fine balance is required between keeping your people fed, watered and armed. Invading the enemy's territory is also crucial, as capturing buildings enables you to steal resources from the surrounding area.
Although they're doing exactly the same to you, and the game is constantly ebbing and flowing, with numerous battles shaping the landscape. Chronic addiction is the order of the day, then, as the London traffic outside would appear to confirm. This is Class A gaming, and not to be messed with by the inexperienced.
But if you can handle the pace, it could feasibly see you through another British Winter. Settlers 3 it's the next best thing to hibernation. You certainly won't get far by rushing in and making hasty decisions; careful planning and patience is the key to a thriving economy, which then enables you to expand and produce loads of troops to defend your territory. If you can get your basic industry working as fast as possible you can expand and mine minerals, and eventually produce iron bars, weapons, gold and tools.
And don't worry about starting with plenty of weak soldiers, because when you've expanded you can build temples to upgrade them. So let's start with the first steps to getting your settlement on the right track. Your economy is based on constructing the right buildings to produce the right products in the right quantities. It's about balancing what buildings to construct, and when and where to build them.
There are tour main types of building: resource, food, military and miscellaneous. You must keep in mind that the various races need wood and stone in different proportions as they have different architectural styles. For example, the Romans are well-balanced and need stone and wood in roughly equal amounts, whereas the Asians need considerably more wood than stone.
Top tip: to speed up building construction, press F Always build a woodcutter next to the trees, then construct a sawmill nearby. It's wise to build two woodcutters and a forester together to ensure you never run out of trees for your woodcutters. For a successful community you need lots of trees, so make sure you have multiples of these building groups two woodcutters and one forester all over your land.
For every three of these groups you need a sawmill. Next, look for grey rocks standing inside your borders and build one or two quarry huts near them; you can also change its working space with the multi-coloured sphere. Be careful though: once the rocks are gone from around the huts, your workers become idle and you run out of stone.
Finally, make sure that you build additional quarry huts in other rock-infested areas when you expand your borders. It's advisable to send some soldiers out to scout for the best place to expand.
Also, areas need to be flattened for such purposes as grain farms. It's worth remembering that you can demolish a settler's residence when it's empty; you lose half the material, but it gives you another place to build if things are getting tight in terms of how much land you have left. Construct your barracks as soon as possible so that you're prepared for any sudden attacks - remember that it's much easier to defend rather than launch an assault.
Build an ore smelter, weaponry and then a barracks. Place them close together and near a mountain to gain extra coal and iron. Next, get your geologists to explore the mountain regions. The information they come up with tells you exactly where you should build your mines.
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You can get success to promote in levels by the good strategy. What the hell is that all about? Did the designers think that this would encourage people not to reload their game when something went horribly wrong? All it serves to do is waste time. The quirky disc swaps make this problem even worse as you are often prompted to insert a different disc when you go back to the main menu from the campaign you are playing.
Also, like so many other games in this genre, Settlers III basically comes down to micro-management of resources. Instead of offering up a really unique playing experience, Settlers III thrusts you in the role of 'Slider King' as you are constantly changing resource allocation to get the perfect mix of efficiency and speed. You don't have any real control over your individual units and you can't physically direct settlers from one building to another.
It reminds me a lot of Colonization. It's a great game, but you spend most of your time cycling through each and every building to check production. I also ran into some problems with the AI, both with my units and the enemy units.
Often times enemy soldiers will wait at your border and not enter your territory, so you can take them out with bowmen from afar. And your own troops will wander off to conquer enemy buildings if you don't continually tell them to hold their positions when you're in enemy territory. Plus, half the group will often totally ignore your orders and attack an enemy tower that you didn't want them to get anywhere near.
This often causes you to lose a number of units to sheer interface stupidity. Perhaps my biggest problem with Settlers III, though, is the lack of a decent printed manual. The online guide is fantastic and outlines every feature of the game, but you can't access it when you're playing the game and it's nice to have a reference that will tell you what every resource affects when you're playing a game this complex.
Overall, Settlers III is an entertaining and brain-heavy game that is unfortunately hampered by a number of problems. It's not much different from Settlers or Settlers II, but that's not really a bad thing since the other two were solid games. It does have a high learning curve, though, so don't expect to jump right into this one unless you've played the previous versions.
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