Great underrated game. If funding and development hadn't been limited on the developers side I think this game engine would have gone far. Here's some tips: 1. You got to build up kind of slow with stability. All 3 citizen classes will be content with little as long as nothing is taken from them. Loss of access to food or goods they previously had will result in them leaving the city, pretty much all mass migration from your city early in the game is a result of this. 2. Try to keep raw materials and industry close together. Warehouses can also help, if making armor set a nearby warehouse to accepting 1/3 iron, 1/3 wool, and 1/3 armour. 3. Trade depots/ports are just big warehouses. If you need those goods in your city also, limit the amount of goods the depot is accepting in the building's menu and this will force workers to take the goods elsewhere. This applies even if you have set limits with the trade advisor. 4. As you build more farms you'll need more granaries. Granaries seem to work better if they only accept one food type. Also don't forget to build another market or two as your city gets bigger.
I made the mistake of thinking that this game would be like the other medal of honor ww2 games of its time like rising sun or the D-Day one. Which was mostly just running around in various environments blasting enemies with an old school submachine gun. Alas, you will never get such simple straight forward mechanics in this game. Instead it will be the enemy blasting you from a distance, behind some foliage where you can't see them, with expert accuracy that never misses and the ability to cycle a bolt action rifle at 3x the speed of your character. Honestly, I never figured out how they wanted you to play this game, I felt no better at it in the end than I did in the beginning. If you go counter strike style, stay standing and try to be fast, the AI will whittle your life down to nothing in no time. Playing more in a crouched position will help with not getting hit as much but it slows down your reticule to the point where you can't check your flanks and the enemy will inevitably bayonet attack you until you're dead. Trying to strike a balance between the two positions didn't offer up any better results for me. The only positive thing I have to say in this review is I'm grateful to gog for making these older games available. Although maybe it didn't have to be this game. But hey, maybe I missed something here or I'm just the world's worst player at this game, I'm willing to accept either one of those explanations. Nonetheless it's my opinion that there are way better games available from this era.
