Last but not least, the combat takes place on a separate screen, where you place your units in a grid with your enemy and then take turns moving and attacking. There are probably small tiles that play a role underneath the visuals, but to the player, the movement seems real time, to a degree. Explores and ships expend their movement slower than military units, of course. Instead, each unit has a certain distance it can travel over the map during your turn, which is portrayed as a bar that is slowly emptied as your unit moves. More importantly, while the game is turn based, the movement of units is not tile based. The more labor force you have, the more production buildings you can support at full capacity.
Your population is important, but not as city size. The tiles themselves provide yields, but only in the form of how effective certain buildings are on certain tiles.
Pictured: A typical Conquest of the New World town, a bit later in the gameįirst of all, your cities are built more like Anno. As I said, though, it’s only similar to a 4x game. Of course, you also need to build up your commerce to collect goods and most importantly, provide living room for your citizens.Įventually, you get to build more towns, conquer the towns of your enemies, cooperate with or destroy the indigenous population, basically anything that comes to mind in a 4x game. Large, open areas are good for farms, the regions near mountains should contain gold and metal mines, while the wooded areas are perfect for logging. Your town collects resources, based on the buildings you have and where you’ve built them. Once you explore enough, your homeland sends you a settler and you get to build your first town. You set out exploring, hoping you’ll find a good spot for a future colony. Basically, you start out with a ship, a small army and an explorer on the coast of an unexplored land. The premise is similar to a 4x game, but it plays quite differently.
You can use diplomacy, conquer the competing countries, even start an independence war if the taxes you’re paying to your homeland become too much of a nuisance. Your final goal is to dominate in any way possible. Pictured: The start of a Conquest of the New World Campaignįrom this point on, you continue to explore with your ships and your settlers, but also start building up your town and setting up your defenses.
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