User`s manual

Pacification / Assimilation
 As soon as a village is pacified (destroyed, bribed, or allied with), their villages in the region
stop spawning armies. It you have a city in the region containing this village, the Minor
Faction can be assimilated into your empire.
Assimilating a faction costs you Influence points. You may have to wait a few turns until you have
the necessary points, then open the Empire Screen to manage your assimilated faction.
Assimilating a faction has many benefits:
 It provides you with a new unit type, which can complement your own faction’s units
 It provides beneficial trait(s) to your empire. Some traits depend on the number of pacified
villages you control; this encourages the player to pacify as many villages of this Minor
Faction as possible in all the regions of the world.
There is a limit of the number of Minor Factions you can assimilate (only 1 at the beginning of the
game), and even though this limit is increased with research, you should still be careful about
choosing the most useful Minor Faction for your empire.
A clearer perspective
If you have difficulty locating Ruins, Strategic or Luxury Resources, or Minor Faction villages, do
not forget you can zoom out to the simplified 2D view where icons representing these critical
locations can be easily seen.