User manual GAMES PC THE SETTLERS IV

[. . . ] ® TM ® www. bluebyte. net MANUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS © 2000 Blue Byte Software. Text, graphics, layout and logos are protected by copyright. Any reproduction, publication, transmission, performance, rental, resale or lending of the manual or parts of the manual without the approval of Blue Byte Software is strictly prohibited. Blue Byte and The Settlers are registered trademarks of Blue Byte Software. [. . . ] Personality-wise, your specialists are a flexible lot, since they are able to embark on a new career. You can turn them back into Carriers and thus make them available for other duties. 6. 4 The Military As with the other professions already mentioned, military units can only be trained if your settlement can provide the tools required. As far as the army itself is concerned, that means the various weapons, or, in the Squad Leader's case, his armor. If you've been planning carefully and have built up a suitable contingent of both these weapons and of available settlers, then you'll be able to make a request for the required units at the Barracks. Your settlers can then report for training. Unlike civilian occupations, you can give your military units direct commands. You can instruct them to attack a particular enemy military installation, or to occupy one of your own buildings. In the same way, you decide if your troops should roam around on patrol or simply stand guard over a specific area. In order to make directing the soldiers easier and also to simplify tactical plans, you can form your soldiers into groups ­ for more information, refer to section 13. 1. As with specialists, your soldiers can leave your own territory to go on combat or reconnaissance missions, thus having a look at what the enemy is up to. Soldiers can also perform the very useful function of rounding up Thieves and Saboteurs before they have a chance to make themselves really unpopular in your settlement. Military Units Using Specialists 6. 3 Specialists There are some occupations in THE SETTLERS IV that cannot be taken up automatically. These include the Pioneers, Geologists, Gardeners, Thieves and Saboteurs of your settlement. If one or more of your settlers are to take up one of these occupations, you'll have to make a special entry for this in the Specialists menu. It goes without saying that you must make whatever tools available that are required by your specialists. Your specialists are special in a number of other ways, too. You can select and control them directly as follows. To select a specialist, simply click on him with your left mouse button. Specialists can also be formed into groups, for more information on this see section 13. 1. When you send a specialist to a particular place on the map by right-clicking on that location, he will take himself off there and start doing what comes naturally to him. In other words, a Geologist will start looking for raw materials, a Thief will start stealing and a Saboteur will start attacking buildings. If you simply want your specialist to go to a particular place on the map without putting his special talent to use, then hold down the ALT key when you make your right-click. 34 35 CONSTRUCTING YOUR FIRST NEW BUILDINGS How To Construct Buildings CONSTRUCTING YOUR FIRST NEW BUILDINGS 7. Constructing Your First New Buildings Before going on to explain the precise interdependencies within your settlement, we should first have a look at buildings and the construction industry. [. . . ] · Transformation of Goods: "Wood to Gold" ­ The Midas touch is at work here, as part of your wood stocks are transformed into gold. · Food: "Gorgeous Growth" ­ Corn and agave plants will grow more quickly. · Terrain: "Shortcut" ­ An impassable mountain range (you can tell by the snow-topped summit) will shrink and become passable. · Defense: "Banish Foes" ­ Twenty enemy soldiers within the radius of the magic spell are sent off to where you would prefer them to be (you'll think of somewhere!). [. . . ]