EmperorRotMK Campaign tips/review #1

While playing this game I noticed many gaming tips and tricks that are posted on the internet, but there were no really helpful tips for completing the campaigns. Some of them can be really hard, even on very easy, and can take up many hours to even figure out.

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So here are some tips:

General tips:

• Always start off slowly: do not rush any industry or agricultural buildings.
• Start with a basic housing block, there are many different ways to do this so try each out till you get one you like. I prefer to do the one that you will see in each post. This is just a basic housing loop.
• Improving buildings is key to getting max productivity in your town and will allow you to easily go into the agriculture phase.
• Only once you have a steady sustainable flow of food into your housing blocks can you move over into the industrial phase.
• Once in the industrial phase, start off slow by building only a few buildings as needed, better to keep your unemployment under 50 and have never have employees needed.
• Once all of this is checked off it is time to start getting the trading and military going.
• Always keep enough troops at base to defend it, once you have more armies than your enemy you will be able to demand trading and goods, if they refuse then a simple attack will make them bow down before you.

Campaign Tips

For each campaign I will be giving tips based on the campaign and how to get through it smoothly, keep the general tips in mind as you run through these tips.

• Before starting make sure to read through the information section given in the box, not only does it tell you more about the land/area but also gives some useful tips on what items you have and who to trade with.

• Make sure to look at the map and decided where you are going to put your buildings.
• The mountains and river take up a lot of the map so using the less fertile soil areas for building houses is a good idea.
• Stay clear of the river as It floods often, only build farmlands or buildings that are not as important.
• Low population makes it hard to have mass production so keep an eye out on the workforce you have.

• You do not have much money to start off with so avoid having to remove many things and try get some trading going asap.
• Avoiding debt is key to keeping everyone happy

*Start off getting your first objective complete.
*Stock up warehouses with items for trading, this will help you complete the second task really quickly
*Getting up to 13000 is really difficult and can take a lot of time, make sure your taxes are at 100% collection and that you avoid buying things for your town that are not needed.
*You will not be able to create a massive army to demand goods so keeping traders happy is key, select the best cities to trade with, not all are needed.

Review:

This campaign is really short compared to the others. The river seems to flood very often which can be really annoying as it blocks the road from the salt mines to the rest of the city.

Fun: I would give it a 6/10, I found it a waste of time as it is not my kind of gaming style.
If you enjoy keeping people happy, giving gifts and trading, then you might find this campaign more exciting.

Design: This level with its objectives was well thought out as you needed to buy things for the city to improve the houses in the housing block. This brought an element of budgeting as you had to carefully buy items and make sure that you are also selling enough and also keeping your trading partner happy. 8/10

Interaction: you have to deal a lot with the other cities in the world map to be able to open trade with them. As AI in gaming goes they don't have that human element to them and you can easily figure out the pattern that is needed in this campaign level to keep the other cities happy. 7/10

Story: The story and this levels objectives came together really well, most game's campaigns generally have a well flowing story that takes you through different parts of the map(game world) but sometimes you end up in a level in an area and you not quite sure how it fits into the big main story. 9/10

If you are looking to download this game check search GOG where you can download the game and it will work on your new windows pc or mac. You can also download it for free at a few places.