User Guide

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GAME mANUAL
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has a red flag-like item fluttering above it. This is actually three things: the build-
ings represent your capital city, and the fort defending it. The red flag-like item is
called a battle standard, which represents a Cohort of Roman soldiers. Youll learn
about Cohorts soon.
Next, scroll around the area to find four small huts around the edges of the
province. These are small towns; while you dont control or build them, they will
be important to your provinces success. Finally, a find a large gray shape along
one of the edges of Province Level; this is your junction with the Imperial highway
system, a route of trade and culture with the rest of the Empire.
Putting a Cohort on Patrol
Now, before we start building your capital city, lets defend it from barbarian
invaders. Your province is assigned one Legion of Roman soldiers, which is
divided into Cohorts. Right now, you only have one Cohort, the Prima Cohors,so
all your soldiers are in it. The eagle atop the battle standard is its symbol; barbar-
ian armies will be represented by their own battle standards. You can command
Cohorts using the last three icons of the toolbar: Patrol, Attack and Go Home.
For now, youll start your Cohort on patrol. Make sure youre in command mode
first. Then, left-click (click with the left mouse button) on the patrol icon  its
the third icon from the right, with a drawing of a two-headed arrow on it. The
pointer will jump to the middle of the screen, and will change into diagonal
crosshairs; youre in scroll mode again, as youll be for any building or Cohort
commands. Point to the base of the Cohort and click the left mouse button; if
you were pointing in the right place, the pointer will turn blue. If you missed,
then the pointer will try to center on the base for you, and will turn blue if it
does; in this case, youll have to click the left mouse button again to confirm. If
you missed completely, you may have to move the pointer closer before it centers.
Next, click onto a location on the map, and the Cohort will start heading towards
it. Click on a second location, and the Cohort will move into a patrol route
between them. You will probably want to choose a route closer to the city, so that
the Cohort will be available to defend it from attack. Some kinds of terrain will
be obstacles for your Cohort, so you may need to give it new patrol orders; on the
other hand, barbarian armies will have just as much trouble reaching your city.
A few points before we move on: First, your legion (and thus your Cohort) is
very small right now. You might feel more secure to skip ahead to Visiting the
Forum Again to learn how to gain more men; return here to continue the tutor-
ial. Second, if a message comes up later in the game announcing Barbarians
Sighted, your Cohort should intercept them; meaning that you will be moved to
Selecting an Icon
To select an icon while in command mode, point to it with the mouse and click
the left mouse button. Lets use this to move to the Provincial Level. Click on
the first icon on the left  the one with a arrow drawn on it. Notice that the
words Go to Province appear briefly in the top-right corner of the screen, and
disappear as you release the mouse button. The name of an icon appears for as
long as you hold the left-button down; if you ever choose the wrong icon, just
move the pointer off of it before releasing the button.
The Provincial Level
The screen should change to another area of terrain, with a new toolbar of icons
at the bottom. This is the provincial level. Change to scroll mode, and look
around the province. Remember the Empire map? The shape of your province,
as shown there, determines the shape of this terrain. In some cases, your
province may only be an island in the middle of this area. This terrain is also
shown in the Position Indicator in the upper-left of the screen; the part of it
youre looking at is shown by a large red rectangle. (Note: The pause command
also works on Provincial Level; you may want to use it while you study the
province.)
Now, look for some structures on your province. First, find the structure which
Provincial Level
Position
Indicator
Prima
Cohors
Lake
Imperial Highway
Junction
Capital
City
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