The Settlers III/Roman mission 1

This is a rather simple mission, really. At the start of the level, your military is strong enough to attack the enemy base immediately. So just grab your army and push to the north-west and take down their towers.

Or you can, take the time to learn Settlers in this mission. As time isnt critical, and youre not at risk. Which can be the case in later missions. Settlers is a game of trying different things and learning. doing again what works, and stoppign what doesnt. Dont hesitate to try different things. You can learn here, by building up the food economy. Build the Grain Farms 2-3 Recomended around a central area Build the Grain Mill to Grind the Grain to Flour Build the Waterworks close to a stream to gather water in buckets, transporters take to the Bakery and Pig Farm. Build the Bakery to take the Flour and Water to make Bread. The Bread is than taken by the Transporters to the Coal Miners to Feed them.

Build the Pig Farm to take the Grain and Water to to Raise Pigs Build the Slaugherhouse to turn the Pigs into Meat The Meat is than taken by the Transporters to the Iron Ore Miners to Feed them. Build the Fisherman to catch Fish. The Fish is than taken by the Transporters to the Gold Miners to Feed them.

Build up the Mines Scout out the mountain with Geologists Click Find Resources to have them find all the mineral wealth in the mountain Build Mines on the Minerals indicated as appropriate.

Build up youre Heavy industry Build as close to the Mine as is practical Build the Iron Ore Smelter to turn Coal and into Iron Ingots Build the Tool Smith to turn the Iron Ingots and Coal into whatever Tool you need. Build the Weapon Smith to turn the Iron Ingots and Coal into Weapons Build a Barracks to convert the Weapons together with the Free Settlers into Soldiers.

Build a Gold Smith to Convert Gold Ore and Coal into Gold Ingots. Build a place to store all the Gold Ingots or else, when the Gold Smelter reaches 8 he stops untill Gold is      picked up. You need many Gold Ingots to raise the combat effectiveness of youre men. Buiild up a Storage Area to store 6 Clumps/Groups of 8 Gold or whatever you set to store there, look at the options in the completed Storage Area. Build up youre Mana Generating Industry Build up the Building Generating whatever Alcholic Drink youre God Likes. In Romans its wine. Build as many Buildings as necessary to create a lot of wine, try different number of building to see what works for you. After Wine Production is up. Build a Small Temple to offer wine to youre God and generate Mana, and upgrade youre soldiers. Upgrades only affect Future soldier recruited not existing ones. Build a Large Temple, this will allow you to recruite priests, who can cast spells (call for Divine Spells). The Description of the spells is in the manual, you can find a button that links to it in the game screen when you enter, or on the Uplay Screen.

As you can see there is a lot to build, and youre limited in space, the better you get at it, the better you get at settlers, and now you see what you need to make soldiers. So this is a perfect, sandbox mode to learn how to do it safetly, with little chance of defeat. Later you learn on this Variations with the Asians and Egyptians. You also learn how to do this Faster, in later missions, with needing to tech race youre opponent the Computer AI. So that you can produce soldiers before him when he sends endless waves of soldiers against you.

Explore try differnt options in settlers, and dont hesitate to save, and if 1 startegy failed, try a different one, untill you see one that works. Also check out the online Game Manual you can find in Uplay or through the entrance Menu, it can help explain alot of complex concepts.