“The Settlers: The Rise of an Empire” is one of the popular real-time strategies. The game was released by Ubisoft in late autumn 2007.
Official addition
In April 2008, the company released an addition to the game, which was called "Eastern Land". It added tropics to the game. The new territory is very fertile land and there is no winter.
But not everything is perfect: because of the rainy season, you can not cross the river, and fish are not caught in the water. Also, you can’t grow wheat and collect honey, because during the big rain the bees stay in the hives.
Missions 1-5
The debut mission of The Settlers: The Rise of an Empire is a bit of a textbook. Throughout the mission, the player receives all the necessary information in order to get the opportunity to play fully and not to feel the need for tips. Immediately you need to build a hut and a hunter's house. Both buildings should be improved. You also need to pave the way to an existing road so that settlers can quickly get to the warehouse. Then it is necessary to erect 2 tanner's houses. After that, you should improve the castle and send the main character to the market to get the title. At this moment, bandits will attack the settlement. Several warriors will come to the player, who, together with the main character of the game, will help repel the attack of the enemies.
In the second mission, it is necessary to expand the settlement, constructing new buildings. It is necessary to make several huts, a bakery and a farm. All the conditions of the game should be fulfilled so that the character succeeds in obtaining the rank of sheriff. Then it’s worth heading southwest and grabbing the land there. The character will receive the title of Baron. To protect the settlement, it is necessary to build walls. At the end of the mission, you will have to go to the monastery in order to assist in the construction.
The third mission also begins with the construction of new premises in the settlement. The main character will need to be sent to Janusburg when he becomes a sheriff. After that, he will have to visit three villages at the request of the local head. In the east and in the west you can find an iron mine and a lot of game, which can become food for the inhabitants of the settlement. The gamer will have to assemble an army and send him to defend a village called Moisten.
At the beginning of the fourth mission, it is necessary to build several huts and capture neighboring lands, which will again increase the title of hero. Next, you need to build the barracks of archers. The protagonist of The Settlers VI: The Rise of an Empire finds out that Hakim is in prison. It is necessary to assemble an army and free it.
In the fifth mission, Hakim should be sent to Tordal, who will ask to destroy several outposts. Returning to his settlement, it is necessary to seize land in the east. You must also fulfill all the conditions of the mission to get new titles for the hero. Then it’s worth building an apiary and sending an army to capture the outpost. At the end of the mission, you need to capture the Sabatt Castle, killing all the enemies in it.
Missions 6-15
The 6th mission is one of the few in the game "The Settlers 6: The Rise of an Empire" when you do not need to take part in battles. The player should focus on improving the economic condition of his settlement and on helping neighboring lands.
In subsequent missions, you need to build new structures in your settlement and capture neighboring lands, in which there are many animals and there are iron mines. Also, by orders of the heads of other settlements, the character of the game can engage in fights with thieves. In addition, it is necessary to fulfill all the conditions of the mission, so that the hero receives new titles.
Mission 16
This is the last mission in the passage of Settlers: The Rise of an Empire. It begins with the fact that the character should receive the title of baron, developing along the way his settlement. Immediately you need to build two quarries to get the stone. You also need to build a couple of lumberjack huts. Then you should send an army to seize territory in the northwest to get a source of iron.
After all these intermediate tasks are completed, it is necessary to break up several gangs and help neighboring lands with their own resources. Then it is worth going to the release of the Bishop, who is in captivity.
Neighboring settlements send 10 gold coins over and over again, but money does not always reach the recipient. In the way of gold are gangsters who appropriate other people's money. They must also be eliminated.
In this mission, you need to try to build your army as soon as possible in order to be able to fight back from enemy attacks. Over time, it will become necessary to attack foreign villages themselves. First you will need to attack the southern garrison. A successful army requires a powerful army.
Then, having completed several intermediate goals and received a new title, you should attack the Western garrison. It is necessary to send all the available army along with catapults and shells to the attack. During the sortie, the character frees the Bishop and destroys all the bandits.
The next target is the Eastern Garrison. To win a battle, own troops are not enough. You will have to use the army of the Bishop, and you also need to call for help from the harbor.
The final goal is Rosstorres. To win, you need to take a few catapults and carts with shells that were captured in three garrisons earlier. Having destroyed the walls of the city, you must enter your army there, which should destroy the warehouse in the center of Rosstorres. This is where the game “The Settlers: The Rise of an Empire” ends.
Cheat codes
Codes for "Settlers: The Prosperity of the Empire" provide an opportunity to get some advantages to simplify the passage of the game. To use the cheat, you need to open the options and go to the game menu. Next, enter the following codes: 1703848010 and 0025722953.
You can also press Shift + Ctrl in a single mission. Hold these two buttons, press the following keys: / * -. After this, you need to press the combination Ctrl + V. This will give the opportunity to prematurely end the mission.
To get access to all missions, you need to find a file in the documents with the name of the profile format .ini. It should be opened in notepad and change all the lines that begin with the word "Campaign" to the following:
Campaign = 1
CampaignC_c00 = 5345
CampaignC_c01 = 5344
CampaignH_c00 = 1805
CampaignH_c01 = 6722
CampaignT = P
Criticism
World critics ambiguously perceived the release of the strategy. Some focused on the high level of graphics, while other experts were greatly disappointed by the simplicity of the gameplay. In addition, the game had many bugs. In Russia, beautiful graphics were noted. The disadvantage of the game is its low complexity.
After the release of “The Settlers: The Rise of an Empire,” the game very often crashed for unknown reasons. As it turned out, the mistake was made by the creators of the strategy in the process of developing the game. It was possible to fix the problem with patch 1.7.1.