My high school history teacher had us play CIV as a history lesson. He was weird!
Anyways to respond to the post, I definetelly played Romance 3 to death. I beat it with Cao Cao on the first scenario once. I played multiple original rulers (my favorite).
The interface is old and does not tell you what is going on very well, i just downloaded it today, havent played it in 10 years, but I spent all day with it. You should consider there are 3 main things to worry about, your cities, your armies and your leaders. To get more leaders, you can search, capture (in war), sometimes recruit a wandering guy, or spy on enemy and recruit. Loyalty is the number 1 rating you should worry about, and rewarding leaders is what you will do all day. When you leave a city behind (you cant manage more than 1 or 2 at a time otherwise the game is SLOWW) you want to make sure his loyalty is 100, otherwise an enemy might recruit him (steal city bloodless).
Second is city itself. Developing the 4 areas help 2 resources, food and money. Food can be made into money, but basically you want just enough so your troops dont starve (about 100k for 20-30k troops is minimum). After that, develop the economy. Money buys advanced weapons, horses and the 2 crossbows, money also drafts troops. Developing, training or whatever, is most efficient when you spend more time doing it, 6 months is max. Civil officers can do civic things for 6 months, military officers can train 6 months, advisors and generals can do both, but only 1 month at a time. When possible, have 3 civil officers develop for 6 month spans. Harvest comes in July, taxes come in January, you will get a feel for the development cycle.
Lastly troops. Have enough to defend at first, and build up your city. Once you get some cash, buy xbows or horses at 40gp or less and outfit as many soldiers as you can with them. Train them to 100, and rally them to 100 moral. Remember drafting takes citizens out of your city, and decreases the aproval rating. Give food in small doses, 100-1000 multiple times to get it back up.
Spy on your foes, take their leaders by recruiting, know when you can attack and when you should build. Spying for 6 months will let you see loyalty!!! It is a very easy game once you get the flow, and its addictive!!!
PS you buy the advanced weapons so you can take a like sized force, say 40,000 troops, and devestate a 40,000 troop army who is defending, and only lose 20% or so. Tactics are important if you want to roll your oponents!!
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