	Sheesh!  See, this is what I was talking about earlier.  People 
can find hacks, cheats, cracks, etc, but they can't find FAQs.  It's 
amazingly inefficient.  Anyhow, here is this Serf City FAQ.  Also, I 
want to give a personal *THANKS* to the person who said he was starting 
a games FAQ site, and also to the person who actually wrote and distributes 
the Serf City FAQ.   
 
 
***************  End Of babble  *************** 
 
 
 
 
NOTE:  This FAQ is under construction.  If you are interested in helping 
with writing various sections or if you have suggestions, please do not 
hesitate to let me know. 
 
Jack Vinson 
vinson@unagi.cis.upenn.edu 
 
 
Last Update: 8 July 1994 
 
 
 
		Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about 
 
				 SERF CITY 
				 SETTLERS 
				DIE SIEDLER 
 
 
This is an older German game that has recently been ported to MS DOS and 
imported to the United States.  Written by Blue Byte Software and 
distributed by SSI in the United States.  For the purposes of this FAQ, I 
will call it Serf City. 
 
Jack Vinson 
vinson@unagi.cis.upenn.edu 
 
 
Contents: 
0) Thanks 
1) What is this game? 
2) Strategies 
	2.1) The Basic Strategy  
	2.2) Soldier strategies 
3) Questions and Answers (This is really the FAQ) 
  3.01) Redistribution of goods 
  3.02) Long roads or bucket brigade? 
  3.03) Geologists and ore veins 
  3.04) Depleting ore veins 
  3.05) Can you deplete nearby ore veins? 
  3.06) When is quarryman done? 
  3.07) Over fishing 
  3.08) Serf reproduction 
  3.09) How can I tell what produced items are lying on the ground?    
  3.10) How do I know when I can or cannot do something (tools/supplies)? 
  3.11) Which knights are used in raids? 
  3.12) How does knight training work? 
  3.13) How does knight morale change 
4) Game Operation Details 
   (for demo players and people who can't be bothered to read the manual) 
	4.1) Serf Buildings 
	4.2) Statistics Menu 
	4.3) Distribution Menu 
	4.4) The world map 
	4.5) Geologists, or How do you find a good spot for mines? 
	4.6) Transporting goods by sea 
5) Interesting Worlds  
6) Reported Bugs and Problems 
7) Where can I get this game? 
8) Differences between demo and commercial release 
 
 
0) Thanks 
 
Thanks to the following people for help with this FAQ: 
 
Richard Abbott 
Ake Possiel 
 
 
1) What is this game? 
 
Serf City (Life is Feudal) is a strategic simulation of feudal empires 
vying for space on the same "world."  You are the king and direct your 
serfs to expand your empire buy constructing a variety of buildings from 
farms, various mills, mines and guard posts.  These buildings give your 
serfs more food, raw materials, tools, etc so that you can continue 
expanding your empire. 
 
The game is played on a randomly generated world (which wraps in all 
directions).  The numbers used to create the world are given, so that you 
can reply the same world against different opponents, with different 
starting conditions, or challenge friends to play the same world. 
 
The game can also be played with two players working together or as 
opponents at the same computer (one on the mouse, one on the joy stick). 
 
So far, I can't tell whether the computer cheats, although it doesn't 
appear to do so. 
 
 
2) Strategies 
 
2.1) The Basic Strategy: 
 
[Thanks to Ake Possiel and the manual for the basic ideas here.  I've 
rewritten some things based on my experience.] 
 
The basic strategies are outlined in the manual.  There are several 
economic considerations happening at once in a fully developed game: 
	ranger --> plants new trees for lumber jack to cut down 
	logs --> lumber from the saw mill 
	stones and lumber --> new construction 
	wheat --> flour at windmill --> bread at baker 
	wheat --> pigs at animal farm --> meat at butcher 
	food (bread, meat, fish) --> mines (ore and stones) 
	coal and iron ore --> steel bars from steel mill 
	coal and steel --> weapons from weapon maker 
	lumber and steel --> tools from tool maker 
	coal and gold ore --> gold bars from gold smith 
	gold bars --> guard posts  
 
So, for a well-developed game, one must take all these factors into account 
and develop a road and storage network that doesn't get too clogged with 
goods moving back and forth.  Initially, you want to produce building 
materials, so you'll want to set yourself in a location good for these 
things. 
 
Very quickly, you want to move towards mountains for mining.  For a 
successful game, you must find gold and iron (and coal, but that is the 
most abundant ore).  These raw materials are used to produce swords and 
shields for your ever-expanding army, and to pay your troops.  Once you 
find iron and gold, set up the mining operations and begin construction on 
the buildings that process these materials.  You may want to build the gold 
smith and steel mill before the mines get built as there is frequently some 
ore stored in the castle.  Once you have steel build a weapon maker and 
tool maker.  If you start several iron mines, you may be able to build 
multiple steel mill + tool maker combinations, but make sure they are near 
your castle or storage houses.  Weapons must go to storage to make soldiers 
(a sword and shield for each soldier).  You should only need one tool 
maker. 
 
Don't forget to have a food supply ready once you start mining.  Fishing 
huts are the easiest, but the farm combinations seem to produce more. 
The ideal situation is to have food go directly to the mines, 
bypassing the castle and store houses to lessen traffic congestion.  If you 
have difficulty finding clear areas for farming (crops), destroy any ranger 
huts in the area and build a lumber jack or two to clear-cut the forests, 
providing more land for farming.  Make sure not to build too many buildings 
near the farm. 
 
 
2.2) Soldier strategies 
 
I have found myself over building guard posts and running out of soldiers 
to populate new posts.  Solutions to this include not building garrisons 
which use up lots of soldiers and take too long to build (sometimes getting 
burned down by the encroaching enemy).  They are useful in protecting 
important real estate or in launching attacks on the enemy.  To get more 
soldiers, you'll need to get the weapon smith moving early along with the 
steel mill.   
 
If, at some point, your guard posts are not getting filled stop building 
new ones and concentrate on improving your transportation infrastructure. 
It may also be necessary to change the transportation priorities in the 
distribution menu so that weapons, steel, iron ore and coal move faster 
than building materials. 
 
To gain in soldier strength, you'll need to send existing soldiers back for 
training.  Training only works if there are existing better-trained 
soldiers already in your storage huts and castles.  (Someone please make 
this clearer, I'm not completely sure how when training helps.)  Also, 
giving your soldiers gold will make them happier and they will fight 
better. 
 
 
 
Okay, people, give me your best strategies!!!  You will get credit for the 
write up. 
 
Here are some ideas: 
 
What to do when an aggressive computer player is nearby. 
How to play with low initial supplies. 
How to best take advantage of mountains and lakes. 
 
 
3) Questions and Answers 
  3.01) Redistribution of goods 
  3.02) Long roads or bucket brigade? 
  3.03) Geologists and ore veins 
  3.04) Depleting ore veins 
  3.05) Can you deplete nearby ore veins? 
  3.06) When is quarryman done? 
  3.07) Over fishing 
  3.08) Serf reproduction 
  3.09) How can I tell what produced items are lying on the ground?    
  3.10) How do I know when I can or cannot do something (tools/supplies)? 
  3.11) Which knights are used in raids? 
  3.12) How does knight training work? 
  3.13) How does knight morale change 
 
In this section, we attempt to answer common questions about the game. 
This is really the FAQ... 
 
 
3.01) Redistribution of goods 
 
Q. Is there any way to redistribute goods from one storage facility to 
another?  I have three warehouses.  One has over 200 units of lumber, and 
the others have none.  So ALL construction has to wait for delivery from 
the first warehouse. 
 
A. Yes, but it is a bit tricky.  In the distribution menu, second row, right 
icon you get to specify which items are most important to get out of the 
castle or store house when it's being emptied.  Set that to what ever you 
want to get out of a particular storage facility, then special click on the 
facility and go to the third screen.  The top section lets you tell the 
serfs whether they should deliver to, not deliver to, or empty the 
facility.  If you tell them to empty (needs a special click), you will then 
see goods start piling up in front of the facility while it is emptied. 
When you want to stop, just go back into the menu and tell them to start 
picking things up again.  The stuff removed from the building will 
(generally) go to other storage facilities.  It may be wise to give 
transportation priority to the items you removed so they don't clog the 
road ways too long. 
 
3.02) Long roads or bucket brigade? 
Q. The manual leads me to believe that having one non-stop road is a 
more efficient way to get goods delivered from point 'A' to point 'B', 
but it seems to me that if you have lots of 'x' that has to be moved, 
you're better off having a sort of bucket-brigade method. 
 
A. The computer decides when you are moving too much along a particular 
routes and assigns more transportation serfs to that route to relieve the 
congestion. 
 
3.03) Geologists and ore veins 
 
Q. I'm not too thrilled with the way a geologist tells you about the 
"underground riches".  In many cases, I'm looking for something in 
particular, like iron.  I'll send out a handful of geologists, and 
they'll tell me about all the stones and coal that they found, but 
is there any appreciable iron in the same locations?  They also tend 
not to dig where I want them to dig. 
 
A. The various types of ore tend to collect, mimicking ore deposits of the 
real world.  Geologists seem to do random walks, so I try to start them 
from a couple different locations in the same mountains.  Note how 
many mines can be placed on the mountain before laying paths and flags. 
This will give you some idea how many mines may appear.  It also seems that 
the more of the mountain you own, the longer the geologist will search. 
 
3.04) Depleting ore veins 
Q. Once you excavate all of one resource from a spot, is that spot 
useless for any other mining?  I could swear that at the beginning 
of my game, one area showed "Very Much" in all of the resources. 
Then after I exhausted the gold, the geologists planted blank signs 
in all those spots. 
 
A. Basically, yes.  Each spot only contains one type of ore and they become 
depleted, although I have been able to get up to 25% output from a second 
mine at the same spot (geologist told me there was more ore).  I don't 
trust the assessments at the beginning of the game, since they never seem 
to be completely accurate with the findings of my geologists. 
 
3.05) Can you deplete nearby ore veins? 
Q. If you set up one mine and exhaust that spot, do you also exhaust 
the surrounding sectors? 
 
A. No.  I've mined out one spot, destroyed the mine and surrounding paths 
and then been able to mine in nearby locations. 
 
3.06) When is quarryman done? 
Q. How do you know if/when a quarryman has exhausted all of the 
local resources? 
 
A. The easy solution is if all the rocks in the area have been removed.  If 
there are still rocks nearby and your quarry man has done nothing lately, 
destroy his house and build another somewhere else. 
 
3.07) Over fishing 
Q. They speak briefly of over-fishing an area.  How do you know if  
you've done this?  Is there some way to get the status of a lake? 
 
A. The Statistics menu can give you some idea of your fish output.  This 
would be the icon in the lower left.  Click on the fish symbol to see a 
graph of recent fish output. 
 
3.08) Serf reproduction 
Q. I'm a little confused about the way that serfs are generated.  Do 
you only have so many to draw on?  If I ask for 100 geologists, 
will I get them?  And if I only have a certain amount, how do I 
know how many I have?  What can I do increase my population? 
 
A. This depends somewhat on your initial set up.  Each player has three 
bars under their picture.  The first is supplies, the second intelligence 
(humans are always max intelligence) and the third is reproduction rate. 
If the reproduction rate is high, you will get Serfs faster than if not. 
Food has no affect on reproduction rate. 
 
3.09) How can I tell what produced items are lying on the ground?    
 
A. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to find out.  If there is 
a serious log jam, it will show with a minus on the flag's status screen 
(special click the flag).  Create more paths from that flag or make more 
routes that bypass the area.  The serfs will use them, if they need/can. 
 
3.10) How do I know when I can or cannot do something (tools/supplies)? 
 
Q. I built several mines at one point and since my city was rather large at 
the time, I just let them go on their merry way.  It was nearly an hour 
later when I noticed that two of the mines weren't producing because they 
didn't have miners.  This was due to the fact that there weren't any 
available picks.  Is there somewhere that will tell me if something cannot 
happen due to a lack of something else? 
 
A. This isn't easy, but the statistics menu, top row has information 
telling you (via those dials) whether your production is high or low.  This 
is talked about in the section about the statistics menu, but not very 
well.  It may be better to just check your current storage to see if you 
have to tools/supplies required for the particular job.  I've also noticed 
that if the tools are far away from the structure it takes quite some time 
before the serf gets there. 
 
3.11) Which knights are used in raids? 
 
Raids are conducted by those knights which are nearest the enemy guard post 
being attacked.  Each of your guard posts will let a number of knights go, 
depending on their capacity information which you can set from the 
distribution menu.  For example, a hut on the frontier has a default 
setting of Full/Good which says that in normal situations there should be 
three knights (full), but on raids and for training there can be two 
knights (good).  Therefore, if you raid an enemy near that hut, one of the 
three knights will attack.  Similar checks are made for all posts that are 
close enough and they will supply the number of knights you request in the 
attack menu (one each from several huts). 
 
Which knight in the post attacks?  You can tell your posts to send out the 
strongest into battle, or keep them at home (for defense) and send the 
weakest into battle.  This is done from the bottom middle icon of the 
distribution menu (knight running amok).  Within this menu, there is an 
icon in the lower-middle section which has a check-mark and a "-".  The 
default check-mark is in the top for "stronger knights stay home." 
 
3.12) How does knight training work? 
 
Knights can be trained by sending them back to storage houses (or the 
castle) which have excess knights.  To train knights and find whether there 
are extra knights in storage, open the "knight running amok" menu from 
within the distribution menu.  The number of knights awaiting assignment 
is found in the top half, to the right of the percentage which indicates 
your troops' morale.  Training is conducted by clicking on the icon in the 
lower right which shows a picture of soldiers going to and from the castle. 
 
Troop morale is also affected by taking enemy castles or by losing your 
own. 
 
Knights may also train while sitting in the garrisons without clicking on 
the training button. 
 
3.13) How does knight morale change 
 
As far as I can tell, the morale of your troops is only affected by how 
many gold bars is in storage at the guard posts (and in storage 
facilities).  When knights take over enemy guard posts, morale only goes up 
if there is gold in that hut.  The reverse happens if a hut with gold is 
lost. 
 
Morale is indicated in the knight training and recruitment screen as a 
percentage.  The number just below morale is how many gold bars are in 
storage and at the guard posts. 
 
4) Game Operation Details 
 
This is basically information that is available in the manual and not 
written as well.  Also, the European release has 132 pages (with 20 blank 
pages) to the US release with only 50, so eventually there may be some 
information from that as well.  If you have the demo, this much more than 
the one page README. 
 
4.1) Serf Buildings.   
4.2) Statistics Menu 
4.3) Distribution Menu 
4.4) The world map 
4.5) Geologists, or How do you find a good spot for mines? 
4.6) Transporting goods by sea 
 
 
4.1) Serf Buildings.   
This section describes each building that can be built in Serf City, along 
with what it creates and what their inhabitant need to be able to do his 
job.  Buildings are listed by screen and then left to right, top to bottom. 
The buildings in the second and third screens take up more land and must 
have the land leveled (by a shovel-wielding "leveller") before construction 
may begin. 
 
FIRST SCREEN: 
 
Quarry man - he goes out and cuts up the rocks surrounding, brings back 
some stone for building.   
Needs a pick.   
Two loads of lumber to build. 
 
Guard hut - they push the boundary out, and keep you safe. 
One lumber and one stone to build.  
Holds max of three guards and two gold bars.* 
 
Lumber jacks house - he chops down trees, and brings back logs.  These can 
go to the lumber mill to be made into lumber for building.   
Needs an axe. 
Two lumber to build. 
 
Ranger hut - cutter will run out one day, so he replants them. 
Two lumber to build. 
 
Fisher - he goes fishing if water nearby and increases fish in castle, need 
that to retain birthrate.  Also need food for miners.   
This guy needs a fishing pole.** 
Two lumber to build. 
 
Windmill - Takes the wheat from crop farmer and grinds them into flour 
bags (for the baker). 
	 
Boat maker - Makes boats from lumber (not logs).   
Needs a hammer.*** 
Two lumber to build. 
 
SECOND SCREEN: 
 
Butcher - takes dead pigs and makes meat (food).  Needs a butcher knife. 
 
Weapon maker - takes coal and steel to make swords and shields.  Needs 
hammer and pliers 
 
Steel - Takes coal and iron ore to make steel for the weapon maker and tool 
maker.  Needs hammer? 
 
Lumber mill - cuts up logs to provide lumber.  Needs a saw. 
 
Baker - takes flour bags and makes bread (food). 
 
Gold - takes coal and gold rocks and makes gold bars to pay the soldiers, 
making them fight better.  Needs hammer (?) 
 
 
THIRD SCREEN: 
 
Tool maker - takes steel and wood to make tools.  Needs hammer and saw.**** 
 
Farmer (crops) - creates wheat for pigs farmer or wind mill.  Needs scythe. 
 
Store House - exactly what it sounds like.  When you city/kingdom get big 
these are nice to have.  Probably not necessary for demo.  Very necessary 
in the full game. 
 
Farmer (animals) - raises animals (pigs) using wheat from crop farmer. 
Produces dead pigs for the butcher. 
 
Garrison - guard post, hold maximum six knights and four gold bars.* 
Two lumber, two stone to build. 
 
BIG garrison - holds maximum of twelve knights and six gold bars.* 
 
 
NOTES: 
* To get soldiers you need a sword and a shield (for each soldier) in your 
castle or store house. 
 
** Fishers can deplete lakes, but large lakes can handle two or three 
fishermen. 
 
*** Boats are pretty cool when you have lots of water in your world, 
although you generally don't need more than what is already in the castle. 
See below for how to use them. 
 
**** The tool maker makes all the tools.  For the demo he may or may not be 
needed, depending on how many supplies you start with.  You can control 
which tools he makes, or at least the proportion of tools that he makes in 
the distribution menus (click on 'computer icon' and then the middle-left 
icon with a picture of a guy and some tools). 
 
 
4.2) Statistics Menu 
Icon with a picture of a graph (second from right).  This menu gives you 
the statistics of your kingdom. 
 
The top row describes your capabilities with those small dial-like 
indicators.  Red shows that you don't have the possibility to perform a 
particular function (no serf, wrong equipment, bad routing), green is that 
you probably have too much. 
 
The middle row shows how much you have in storage (left), what buildings 
you have and are constructing (middle) and what your serfs seem to be doing 
(right). 
 
The bottom row shows you things like your supply of every one of your goods 
(bottom left), and your overall comparison to the other kingdoms (bottom 
right). 
 
4.3) Distribution Menu 
 
Icon with a computer and a bunch of arrows (right icon).  This menu allows 
you to set various distribution and job priority preferences. 
 
 
4.31) Raw material distribution 
 
The top row directs raw material distribution.  For each type of product 
there is a bar and a picture of the building where it can go.  If you want 
all the steel to go to the Weapon Maker, make his bar completely green and 
turn off the one for the Tool Maker.  The size of the green bar gives you 
some indication of what proportion each building will get.  If the bar is 
twice as big for the weapon maker as it is for the tool maker, the weapon 
maker will get twice as much steel. 
 
In all of these distribution menus there is an icon with two very small 
arrows (up/down) which you can click to get back to the default settings. 
 
 
4.32) Tool maker priorities 
 
The second row, left is for the tool maker and tells him what his 
priorities should be for the various tools.  As above the amount of green 
indicates relative production rates. 
 
 
4.33) Delivery and emptying priorities 
 
The other two icons in the middle row indicate transportation priority. 
The one in the middle tells the "transporter serf" which things they should 
pick up first, and the one on the right tells the serfs in the castles 
which things they should take out of buildings first when they are being 
emptied. 
 
 
4.34) Knights:  Manning guard posts 
 
The icon on the bottom right (two soldiers and arrows) lets you decide how many 
soldiers should be at their posts.  There is a maximum and minimum value 
which both range from "full" to "bare minimum."  There are also four levels 
of 'closeness' for each guard post, from close to the enemy (frontier) to 
very far away (interior defense).  This can be important for attacking the 
enemy and your strategy for defending your kingdom.  The default settings 
tell you knights to heavily defend the frontier, and leave interior guard 
posts less well-defended. 
 
4.35) Knights:  Training and recruiting 
 
The bottom-middle icon (with the crazy soldier) gives you a menu with several 
functions.   
  - At the top, you can select the percentage of serfs that become soldiers. 
  - Below that are a pair of numbers: the morale (%) of your soldiers (100% 
is not the limit) and how much gold (total) is in storage and at your guard 
posts.  
  - To the right of that there is information about how many 
serfs can become soldiers according to the number of jobless serfs and the 
amount of weaponry in storage. 
  - The square with the numbers 1/5/20/100 allows you to "force recruit" 
soldiers from your existing serfs.  Clicking on the number recruits that 
many new soldiers, limited by the number of swords & shields (need both for 
each new soldier) and the number of jobless serfs. 
  - Near the bottom and middle is an icon which indicates whether the 
stronger soldiers defend your guard posts (top half) or be used for 
attacking. 
  - The icon near the bottom-right allows you to send your less-trained 
soldiers to go back to the castle/store houses for training. 
  - The bottom two numbers indicate how many soldiers remain in the castle 
for defense.  The top number is how many you wish to have in the castle, 
and the bottom is how many are currently there.  Click on the +/- to change 
the top number. 
 
 
4.4) The world map 
 
In the demo version you can only have worlds sized 1, 2 or 3.  In the 
commercial release, you are able to go from size 1 (very small) to size 8 
depending on how much RAM you have.  I have 4 meg of ram and am limit to a 
size 5 world. 
 
In any case the map does "wrap" so that if you take over the world, your 
kingdom is contiguous and touches on all sides.  If you look at the 
overview, a size 5 world will just fit in the entire over view window. 
(According to the manual). 
 
 
4.5) Geologists, or How do you find a good spot for mines? 
 
If you watch the computer players, you will notice that they have little 
guys in white hats running around the mountains with a pick and placing 
flags indicating ore veins (black for coal, red for iron, yellow for gold, 
white for stone, and blank for no ore).   
 
To get this geologist, place a flag in the mountains and build a road to 
it.  Click on the flag, and you will see an icon of a serf with a white 
hat.  Click on him and a geologist will leave your castle/store house and 
start looking.  The geologist will not come out if there are no picks in 
storage (he won't have anything to dig with). 
 
 
4.6) Transporting goods by sea 
 
To use the boats, place a flag at two points along a lake and then 
construct a path over the lake connecting them.  Any sea lane that runs 
against the shore is illegal.  The sea lane will show up as a slightly 
different color line on the lake.  They can help ease congestion if there 
is lots of traffic.  They will not transport serfs, just material. 
 
 
5) Interesting Worlds 
 
This section was suggested by Bob Kollmeyer so that we could describe our 
favorite "interesting" worlds.  Each world can be described by the 16 digit 
starting code and the world size, resulting in something like 10^16 * 8 
different worlds. 
 
If you want to add to these, just send the 16 digit code, the world size 
and a one line description of why it was so interesting (geographically). 
 
For instance,  
xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx  - 50% water, 1 huge lake, no desert. 
 
 
6) Reported Bugs and Problems 
 
People have complained that the game will occasionally hang with Gravis 
Ultrasound.  The (repetitive) music can be turned off so that you only hear 
the sounds of construction and fights. 
 
Some have complained that the computer hangs because they have just barely 
enough memory.  The suggestion from SSI is to create a boot disk (floppy) 
that doesn't load anything besides the bare minimums.  I've had to do this 
with a few games and have not had any problem, yet. 
 
Doesn't seem to run well under some versions of OS/2. 
 
 
7) Where can I get this game? 
 
This is a commercial game by Blue Byte Software in Muelheim, Germany where 
it is called "Die Siedler".  In Europe it is "The Settlers" and is 
distributed by Kompart UK Ltd.  It is distributed in the USA by SSI and 
available and various software stores.  (Some have had it faster than 
others, i.e. Electronics Boutique.)  Price is around $40 US. 
 
There is also a demo version which limits you to one hour of play and does 
not allow for saving or have some of the features of the commercial 
release.  The demo version is available at some FTP locations.  (If you 
don't know what ftp is, ask around your local site.) 
 
 
ftp.wustl.edu  /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/games/settlers.zip 
               /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/games/settlers.txt 
[note, this site is often overloaded.  your best chances are during off-hours.] 
 
ftp.funet.fi   /pub/msdos/games/gamedemos/settlers.zip 
               /pub/msdos/games/gamedemos/settlers.txt 
[yes, this is Finland.] 
 
 
8) Differences between demo and commercial release 
 
The biggest difference is that the demo only runs for 1 hour.  This really 
changes how one plays the game as some strategies just cannot develop over 
the course of an hour of play. 
 
Other features in the commercial release that are not in the demo: 
  - SVGA mode: smaller pictures showing a larger playing area 
  - Save and load game features 
  - Wide variety of sound cards are supported 
  - Combats with other kingdoms: add a wonderful dimension to the game 
  - Training/practice games are available 
  - "Mission games" where you accomplish a given task 
  - Worlds up to size 8 (really huge), the demo world is size 1,2 or 3 
  - Messages about happenings in other parts of your kingdom 
 
 
 
