User Guide

Garrisoning

Now the Spearman unit is flashing. In order to protect the city, the Spearman must

remain inside Washington.Units provide the best protection when they are garrisoned.

We garrison the unit by clicking the Garrison Order button or by pressing [F]. Gar-

risoned units remain in their city until you manually reactivate them.For now,the Spear-

man should be left alone to guard Washington.

The Waiting Game

Soon,our wise men discover Pottery.In addition to opening up a further research pos-

sibility (Mapmaking), Pottery allows us to build Granaries, which store half the food

when a new citizen is produced in a city.This city improvement greatly speeds the growth

of towns and cities.

Our goal now is to develop Monarchy. In order to do so, we must first research War-

rior Code,Ceremonial Burial,Mysticism,and Polytheism.Monarchy is a more advanced

form of government that helps to increase our productivity. It also makes possible the

Hanging Gardens Wonder of the World,which helps improve the attitude of our entire

population.

Now that we have a long-term research goal, we can use the Tech Tree’s Queuing

feature. We use the Big Picture option to open the Science Advisor’s report. Rather

than choosing Ceremonial Burial as the next advance to research, we click on Monar-

chy. The intervening advances are marked as #1 (Ceremonial Burial), #2 (Warrior

Code),#3 (Mysticism),and #4 (Polytheism).Monarchy is #5.A click on the Done but-

ton, and we’re in business.

We need to move forward a few turns now, so we’ll just move our Warrior around to

explore a bit. Soon enough, we’re notified that Washington has completed the Settler

it has been building.We choose the Zoom to Washington option in the notification box

to open the City Display.Once there,we change production so that Washington is build-

ing a Granary.

Washington’s population has dropped to one. That’s because, as we mentioned earlier,

Settlers represent citizens who leave the city in order to establish a new city.The pop-

ulation will soon increase again, so the town’s reduction in size is only temporary.We

close the City Display.