Chalanging but fun
The game just look simple but it will require some serious strategy. It takes serious management to keep your population order in check. If you keep building an army to defend the settlement, you might forget to keep food production on and it will lead to crime which will destroy your economy and make you unable hire army. If you will keep yourself busy with managing the economy and crime, you will overlook that small band of enemy soldiers which by the time you waiting for your soldiers to appear, will already demolish half if not whole town. And even if you manage to balance inner and outer conflicts you still might realize that you didnt explore map and now you have no clue where to find new source of stone for your town. And you will end up spending ton of time finding the last stone on the map which is already almost all gone because rival settle was busy extracting it. Its fun!
However I want to point out that this is a cut version of the game. When I first got it (outside USA) the bugs had Tobacco and were smoking, instead of mushroom juice blue guys had Schnapps, and among animals which you can hunt for food had rabbits. Rabbits provided no more than one unit of food per rabbit, so they weren't very helpful, but I guess some people thought its to cruel to kill small cute rabbit. They even produce small sad sound when they die. At least they didn't remove dryads because of their open fashion and big trucks of land.
Also, there was entire expansion which adds fleets and sea battles to the game. Where is it???
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