User Guide

Support Note

This early in the game, you’re still paying nothing to support your units.The first sev-

eral units are free of maintenance costs. How many? That depends on a few factors,

including your form of government and number of cities.However,once you’ve built

enough units, you’ll begin paying support from your treasury on each one over the

limit.

If you’re over the limit and you receive a unit from a minor tribe,you have to support

it, just as you support all your units. One coin from your commerce income goes to

the upkeep of the new unit each turn.If this makes your units (as a whole) too expen-

sive,you might consider disbanding the least useful of them.(The concept of disbanding

is explained later.) On the other hand, if you capture a unit, it comes free of charge.

Population Increase

We move the Warrior around for a few turns, exploring the area around Washington.

Pretty soon,two things happen. First,the population of the town increases to two. Sec-

ond,Washington completes the Spearman it was building.When we open Washington’s

City Display, we see that the Food Storage Box is now empty. Next turn, it will start

filling up again, accumulating food for the next population increase.

The Population Roster now contains two citizens.On the map of the City Radius (the

Resource Map),we can see that the new citizen is already at work; specifically,the cit-

izen is producing two food and one shield in the Grassland-Shield square northeast of

the city.That’s fine for now.So,although we can change assignments if we choose,we’ll

leave the citizen there.

As for production, it’s time to change again. This early in the game,one defensive unit

is adequate for city protection.We click the icon of whatever the city has decided to

build and select Settler from the Production menu. It’s time to start thinking about the

next priority: growth.In order to expand a civilization, you need to build other cities,

and for that, you need Settlers. Here’s a potential problem: when a city “builds” a Set-

tler, it gives up two of its population to the emigration.We have to check the number

of turns it’ll take to complete the Settler against the number of turns before the town

will grow to size 3. Luckily, the town will grow before the Settler is done,so there will

be enough people to go around. Relieved, we close the City Display.