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Imp 1: Running out of money – 3

admin — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:40:21 +0000

Self sustainability is your #1 goal. Labor shouldn’t be your main focus, after all what’s the use of unused labor?

When I start playing I ask myself this: What resources do I have access too and what are areas I need to focus on? In every game there’s going to be a couple scarce and therefor ‘key’ resources you need to acquire. If you’re short on iron then you need to either plan on acquiring it by trade or military action.

While you begin to accumulate resources exploit those resources as quickly as you can. Startup costs for bringing the resources into your capital can be pricey, but they pay off BIG time in the long run (and the quicker you bring in the resources the more money it’ll pay out). Once you’re bringing in resources start to get your industry chugging along to keep pace, after all resources that sit in your vault don’t make you money. Obviously try and keep pace with labor as well, but you shouldn’t have much problems with that. For most games you should have easy access to food creating resources which tends to be the biggest obstacle (besides money) to get your labor supply moving (As a side note: Never let your workers starve if you can avoid it. Buy food if you have no other options… and if you’re playing a scenario where you know you’ll run out eventually make sure to stock up in advance).

As I mentioned before self sustainability is the ultimate goal. On the military side I tend to only build enough units to conquer minor non-capital territories and focus solely on my industry until around 100 dark blue labor (depending on the scenario and situation). If you have 50-100 dark blue labor being utilized (and a healthy supply of EVERY resource… Scarcity of even a single resource can greatly hinder economic development so resource acquisition can’t be stressed enough) but once you have enough resource self-sufficiency then you can focus your attention on global domination. At 100 labor you can replenish military units WITHOUT slowing down economic development too much. In fact, most games I play I end up making so much money and have so many resources that I can build insane amounts of military units every single game. But that only comes with time, planning, and patience.

Some scenarios are a lot trickier than others, but all of them are beatable. I’ve won as every single country on the map (including all the so called ‘impossible’ countries) in every single scenario. My priority is:

1. Resource acquisition (either by finding resources you have or finding and obtaining the resources elsewhere)

2. Resource exploitation (every set of trees you have in your territory that’s not being utilized is wasted monetary potential). A good rule of thumb is: Always be exploiting. More is better. Why settle for 10 iron when you can bring in 20 by building bigger mining plots?

3. Adequate industry and labor buildup to match resource exploitation (don’t let resources sit and accumulate spider webs in your warehouse!)

4. Self-sustainability. If you have to start the game by acquiring resources through trade, begin to transition your economy to near 100% self sufficiency. This will pay big dividends in the long run.

5. Dominate

– Zach

Imp 1: Running out of money – more

admin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:55:36 +0000

Imperialism 1 has such a diverse set of difficulties that what works on Introductory won’t work on Normal, and what works in Normal won’t work on Nigh on Impossible (NoI).

Here are a few guidelines that should be enough to carry you pretty well even through the harder difficulties:

- Setup trade consulates and subsidies with several minor nations. Make sure to check that you are doing this with minors that have the big 4 resources. Buy your big 4 resources (Timber, Coal, Iron, and Wool/Cotton) from them. It is better for you to buy resources (and gain the benefit of most-favored nation status) than it is to spend money improving your internal network and collecting your domestic resources.

- Sell Hardware, Furniture, and Clothing only. If your transported food can support it, raise additional workers instead of selling furniture and clothing. As soon as you earn enough through furniture and clothing, stop producing Hardware and use the Steel to make either industrial improvements or guns.\

- Look at everything upgrade not only in terms of how much it costs, but how much it will cost you in the long run. If you have 4 Steel and 4 Lumber in your warehouse that is going to be replaced before you need to use it, upgrade a factory. There is nothing wrong with having more factory capacity than your labor force can handle, because it doesn’t cost you anything. In fact, it is factored into your internal strength when the AI decides whether or not it wants to fight you.

- Remember that Military = Labor + Guns + Cash. It doesn’t cost you anything to keep Guns or cash around, and spare labor can even help once in a while. However, it costs money to maintain a standing military, and that military won’t do anything but eat money when you aren’t at war. So bulk your labor force to as much as your transported food can allow, but don’t build military units until you need them.

- The smallest standing army that you can use to defend yourself with is done entirely with heavy artillery. Unless you are invading elsewhere, heavy artillery is all you need.

- If you are an island, a strong navy is a great thing to have. Not only does navy not have maintenance costs, but it removes the need for you to have a standing army for defense. In times of war, you simply destroy opposing navies, and then blockade the hell out of enemy ports to steal precious manufactured goods and merchant marine ships.

Lastly, this game is hard to Napoleon your way through. What I mean is that a pure militaristic stratagem will ultimately lead to you failing to keep up with other major powers. You NEED 3-4 Minor Nations to sell you resources early if you want to comfortably play through NoI. Trade and Diplomacy are far more important than military strength.

– Eric Nelson

Imp 1: Running out of money

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:54:22 +0000

The AI has *huge* advantage (as always) both in the money it can spend on diplomacy and in the starting diplomacy itself, so outbidding the AI to get good relations with the minor nations is impossible. The only solution is to find a source of gems in the New World and to conquer the province from the indians before the AI attack it.

Also don’t research the mundane techs, spy them. Go and research only light artillery – if you fall back behind the AI in it you are toast.

The truth is the initial turns are more like a chess, not a strategy. No1 will sell in the beginning anything else besides wood. But you can check what the minor nations have as raw resources and put a pud for them in the 1st turn. No AI buyers in the first turn so you can buy couple of mats which often are worth the whole game (but I admit this is kind of exploit although it is legal move).

Also dump the lonely peasant you have as an army – it is completely useless but will eat you precious food.

Once you conquer a province with gems start saving mats for port and fort. At this stage the AI often sells you some bronze.

Once you secure your province AND you do not fall back behind the AI in the light artillery you are relatively safe.

This is true and for lower difficulties of course but you have much more materials/food/money and the AI have much less advantages.

– Handel

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Imp 1 review from Gamespot

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:41:19 +0000

Imperialism succeeds in creating an engrossing simulation of naked power-mongering.

Balance is the key. That’s what’s most impressive about Imperialism, from SSI and Frog City: the delicate high-wire act of balancing military buildup, diplomacy, expansion, trade relations, and production. There are many successful empire-building games, but Imperialism reduces the concept to its essence – building an empire in the Age of Empire – and in doing so succeeds in creating an engrossing simulation of naked power-mongering. Ah, if only Cecil Rhodes could have lived to see it.

Imperialism takes place in the years between 1815 and 1915, when major nations treated minor nations like fruits for the plucking. With “Manifest Destiny” as the rallying cry, England, America, France, Holland, Germany, and Italy established colonies by diplomacy, treachery, or brute force to acquire the precious natural resources and trading partners they needed. Imperialism doesn’t deal with anything this specific. Its world is an abstract one of imaginary major and minor nations created on random maps.

Each major nation begins with some resources and a few special units that can improve the land. Engineers build a transport network to haul raw materials and goods, prospectors look for precious minerals, miners mine them, farmers, foresters, and ranchers improve production. Land and naval military units protect your holdings and expand your borders. The game is played across a series of screens that access all corners of your burgeoning empire.

A stylized main map shows you the whole world, allowing you to move units around to perform various functions. But the real gameplay is executed on four different screens that allow you to tend to economics and diplomacy. Here, you allocate transportation resources to various goods, set production levels, attempt to buy and sell goods, and conduct diplomacy. Each affects the others in a tightly woven set of relationships. For example, you must bring in coal, iron, trees, sheep, and cotton on the transport screen. On the production screen, you use labor, sheep, and cotton to make cloth. You use labor and trees to make lumber. You use coal and iron to make steel. Then you turn the cloth, lumber, and steel into shirts, chairs, and hammers that can be sold to your trading partners for a profit using the trade screen. As new technologies become available, you can also invest in these to improve your efficiency.

Of course, the quest for raw materials is never ending, and the interrelationships are complex. Adding more labor, specialists, and military units requires a long chain of goods and production. Any breakdown in the line, and the whole thing grinds to a halt. Adding to the challenge is the fact that you need to nurture relationships with trading partners each turn. This includes building embassies, providing subsidies, paying bribes, forging alliances, and going to war.

War itself can be handled either abstractly by the computer, or in a phased tactical combat mode. In tactical combat, you move units across a small map to attack the enemy. Military units develop throughout the ages, moving from minutemen and skirmishers to machine gunners and rangers. As a tactical combat game, it’s slight, but interesting enough to add some spice to the relentless economics of the rest of the game. A few more tactical maps would make battles more interesting.

The more bloodthirsty empire builder will find that Imperialism’s extended economic model might not be enough for him. Of course, this doesn’t mean the game can be played as an isolationist or pacifist. This is Imperialism, where the weak are crushed, and good riddance to them.

Some little bugs have crept into the final code, and I had to play with my drivers so that the game would stop crashing. A list of all your units is desperately needed, so that you can check on their status and jump to them easily. There’s a bit of a mid-game slump, where it seems like all you do is twiddle with trade and try to expand industry. I also found that at one point, everyone in the game waged war on me in the same turn because I hadn’t built up a strong enough military. That didn’t strike me as particularly real, since most were already fighting with each other.

But, in the end, the damn thing is so addicting that I just played and played, when I should have been writing this review. The AI is good and aggressive, and Internet play appears stable. The most striking thing is the way all the disparate elements integrate and interplay, coming together in one fluid gaming experience that empire wonks will find a refreshing change of pace.

By T. Liam McDonald

An Imp1 guide

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:22:23 +0000

This guide is based on version 1.1.7 of Imperialism

This game has probably stolen more time from my life than any other game I’ve played. That is saying a lot considering that the other games I play often like pool, chess, etcetera, are, for me at least, very time consuming. Grades did suffer. I blame it (the game) that my grammar am bad, and my spelling is less then stellar.

This game has gotten (from what I’ve seen) zero recognition despite being a thoroughly well programmed game. This guide is basically meant to be one last nod, an epitaph perhaps, as it drifts into oblivion. As for the guide, a lot of the information can be found in the manual I think.

Some background information for first time players –

This game is meant to be played using the European scenarios, but you should probably do a random map on the introductory difficulty for your first game. The computer players are incompetent, to say the least, but they have a habit of ganging up on humans; new players, as a result of their slow start, are especially at risk.

The manual is your best crutch when you don’t know the game mechanics. If you don’t have yours, you’re screwed. My best advice is to expand the lumber mill early, as wood is used for EVERYTHING early on. Don’t be afraid to place bids for lumber instead of trees; two trees produce one lumber, so buying lumber will save you valuable shipping space. As an added bonus, this will improve your relations with other great powers. More on this later.

Here is the plan for building up a decent country.

1. Get an engineer to build a port or depot over in a big forest. Ports cost more, but get you wood faster as you don’t have to build connecting rail from your capital like you must do with depots. They also get you more food that will be valuable later one, though not so valuable now.

2. Expand all of your industries. I once thought that you should only expand the industries that your country is strong in, i.e. if your country has lots of timber you should concentrate on the lumber yard/furniture expansion, but the early expansions cost so little that it really is no trouble to expand them.

3. Expand the merchant marine/build a navy & trade. This is tough, because the cheap ship, the frigate, is worthless, yet it takes 5 guns to build the useful ship of the line. Not only that, but building them expends wood that you need for expanding the merchant marine. The navy takes precedence over the merchant marine, however your country will suck without an initial expansion of the merchant marine. Don’t bother selling commodities the first few turns; the price will get driven up due to low supply in a year or two. Two or so ship of the lines should keep other powers from gang-raping you before you’re on your feet.

4. Always expand labor. Period. Even if you have nothing for them to do, you should still be hiring new workers as well as training them. You should also recruit some regular soldiers and invade some nearby minor nation with resources that you need. This will familiarize yourself with the battle system and battle books while giving your army some needed experience and giving you control of a market (you have to take the capitol to control the market) so you can sell commodities you produce every turn.

Those are the only vital things that come to mind. Don’t be confused by the numbering; these can be done in any order. I’ve numbered it so I can quickly filter through it.

Don’t forget diplomacy, either. It is often much easier to build a trade consulate and grant subsidies to control a market rather than invading. Subsidies also let you buy raw materials, taking pressure off of your transportation network. Speaking of which, don’t worry too much about the network. It is easy to expand the network, and it isn’t under much pressure early on. In fact, don’t worry much about anything. Even if your workers have nothing to do because you didn’t import any raw materials, you will have plenty of time to catch up to the computer. Just worry about finding out the game mechanics.

Now, on with the real guide.

Trade Markets
This game is all about gaining control of trade markets. The best indicator of the strength of a great power is the number of trade markets they control. All attributes on the statistics screen such as military might, diplomatic strength, and even minor things like transportation either affect the number of trade markets one controls or are effected by the number of trade markets one controls.

There are basically two ways to control a trade market: declare war on and take the capital of a minor nation (I don’t think great power capitols will buy goods, though I tend to leave great powers standing as they may be future allies against the dominant great power later, so I wouldn’t know), or simply establish a trade consulate in a minor nation. Diplomacy is faster, although in my opinion somewhat less effective than the sword (just like in real life, but not).

There are advantages to both. The advantages and disadvantages of a military coup are rather extreme, so I’ll explain that first.
With a military takeover, you risk loosing troops, which isn’t a big deal, but you also loose respect among other minor nations, making them less likely to trade with you, which is a big deal. That is probably the biggest disadvantage to a hostile takeover, as being ostracized by the other minor nations kills you twice by forcing you to subsidize trade more to retain control of minor nation markets and by limiting your ability to sell finished goods to get money (yes, this is actually redundant, but I must emphasize this). Also, the markets you take by force will only buy goods at their starting rate i.e. 900 for furniture et cetera instead of the usually inflated price of goods. Taking a market by force takes time to do as well. It takes a couple turns to build the attacking force. The bare minimum attacking force (there can be quite a bit of variation) would be along the lines of two infantry, one light cavalry, one light artillery, and one heavy artillery since you start with it. This is quite a lot early on in terms of lost labor, and even this force needs experience to have a 50/50 chance against a minor nation capitol even at lower difficulty settings, and you will have to personally command them to keep them from loosing. Having extra light artillery works wonders, though.

The advantages of a hostile takeover are tremendous, however. Despite what I said about loosing trade, the hostile takeover is extremely cost effective. You put some money and resources up front for the takeover and building of depots, rail and transportation and you get the resources of the minor nations land permanently. Another great thing about taking a minor nation is that they develop factories. This is not obvious because no extra buildings develop in the town, but you will notice the change in the transportation screen. Since the factories don’t show up on the map, it makes the resource rich provinces less of a target to other great powers (humans only, of course). It is kind of funny when you ship in four or five units of furniture from a province just to sell it back to their original capitol. (It still buys goods after being taken. Very nice.) Obviously getting furniture for free is a lot better than having to pay for mere trees. Another big advantage that isn’t obvious until the end of the game is that you get the food of a province after you fight for it. It doesn’t seem like much, but I have kicked myself after getting a colony and realizing I didn’t have enough food to expand my work force. It pays in the end when you have 600 expert workers and are trying to build up masses of (un)trained workers in anticipation of new military technology. A cool incentive to military takeover is the fact that taking a minor nation’s capitol (either directly from the minor nation or from another great power) lets you recruit soldiers with a starting experience of 1 medal (out of four). This is nice at the end of the game when the turnover rate for soldiers is, to say the least, extreme.

Taking control of a minor nation by diplomacy is much easier and much faster. You simply establish a trade consulate and raise subsidies until you are the minor nation’s most favored trade partner. This is uberschnell, which is the claim to fame for this method of taking markets; one turn and five hundred dollars later, you have a market. Doing diplomacy, as opposed to military coups, keeps your relationships with other minor nations high, and also improves your diplomatic strength, which is important if you are trying to “steal” a council of governor victory early on, as diplomatic strength translates to minor nation votes. The relationship with the market you control will improve significantly due to your dominant trade status with them, allowing you to invite them into your empire as a colony. This gives you the guard troops of the former country, which can be obscenely large for the random worlds at higher difficulty settings. The first country to capitulate to you gives you two clipper ships as well.
The only disadvantage to a colony is you have to use up merchant marine and money to get the resources, but this is can also be an advantage if you are low on transportation. Merchant marine is cheaper than transportation in terms of resources early on anyway, so this isn’t a big deal.

Both methods have practically identical ends; you get to move troops through the provinces and get free resources. Because of this, it really doesn’t matter which way you take a country. Just make sure you get the capitol so you have a place to sell your finished goods. Also note that while there aren’t any critical disadvantages to diplomatic absorption of markets, there aren’t many incentives to diplomatic takeovers either. Two clippers’ Pathetic. I wish you could declare war on colonies.
A side note for both of these methods: You probably won’t be able to take over trade markets with your military in the higher difficulties in random worlds. You probably don’t want to anyway. You see, the brilliant strategy behind the computer’s declarations of war involves randomly selecting a trade market and declaring war on whoever controls it. If you control a bunch of markets, declarations of war will swamp you. This gets exacerbated by not having a lot of arms (which is common on higher difficulty levels). I’ve lost games because of it.

As for diplomacy, I often get a minor nation liking a rival great power and me. For some reason, they tend not to join either of us, and we have a form of dual ownership of the country. It is really cool to see, although it is kind of annoying when the other great power doesn’t develop the minor nations resources they control in a timely fashion.

Civilians & Specialists

What I used to do is build only one miner, one engineer, et cetera. This is stupid. Go all out and keep building these things even if there is only a slight demand for them. You can never go overboard with these guys since you can send them back into the work force. Once I had 30+ prospectors sweeping Africa for oil. I always have at least 5 to 10 foresters and ranchers for the European scenarios. If you have a large labor pool, hiring lots of them can’t hurt you, as their cost is practically nothing when compared to the cost of getting the expert laborer in the first place. Two paper is not that bad, and after your country gets underway, the money is chump change.

You have to balance your civilians with your labor, though. If you have civilians sitting around doing nothing and have a labor shortage, send them back into the labor pool, even if it is clear you will need them in the near future. An experienced worker makes 4 units of work a turn. In one turn, they can repay the paper cost for their recruiting. In two more turns, they can more than repay the monetary cost for their recruiting. Often I disband civilians only to rehire them a couple turns later. The experienced worker is often far more valuable than the specialist is. The perfect example of this is you have an engineer who can’t build a port because you are poor. Also, you have a labor shortage but can’t bring in a new worker because you can’t spare the shirt and chair. Just disband him. Building the new port wouldn’t help since you don’t have the labor to take advantage of the resources. The extra labor will accelerate your growth and ultimately let you get the port out quicker and have a stronger country for it.

Military strategy/tactics

You should get a good navy off the bat. Even if you have an unbeatable army, you will still lose wars because of crap navies. Every time I have lost this game it was because of my ignorant snubbing of navies. They take precedence over everything. Getting taken off the sea early on is brutal, and pumping arms into ships to increase your diplomatic strength is cheaper than making a land army. You should build whatever ship has the greatest range of the era. Later in the game you will need an army, but remember the navy comes first. There is no real strategy for navies. Usually naval wars are just an arms race with ships. Spread your ships everywhere. This lets you capture merchants from your opponents quickly even if you are forced into war. Instead of having to send your ships all the way over to the other country’s port to blockade, you can intercept next to the various ports they are trading with. If someone blockades your harbor, then do not send all your ships back home; the opponents grouped navy will destroy them. Blockade their harbor and they should send their navy in piecemeal against your grouped navy. If they don’t, you are at least even. If you get blockaded heavily, you may want to consider not offering goods or bids to save your merchant marine. Also, if one of the seas around one of your trade partners is heavily patrolled, don’t trade with them. You lose access to resources but save merchant marine. I know it’s obvious, but I find myself ignoring this all the time. For some reason I think that even though the last 5 shipments of wool or whatever have been sunk, maybe the next one will make it. That is a waste of ships. You have to know when to give it up.

One thing that is hard to deal with is having the ports that your engineers built become blockaded. Once again, I’d just blockade the other countries main port. That is more damaging than just losing some resources.

A problem with spreading out your ships is they get killed by groups of ships roaming about. This shouldn’t happen unless you are fighting the computer or are for some reason not blockading their harbor, though, so it isn’t an issue.

Another sea strategy is to keep your ships grouped at all times. You will generally not lose many ships because of their tremendous group firepower, but you will not be able to guard your resources as well or attack as quickly. If all you care about is keeping your ships alive, then you might want to keep them grouped, although the resources lost through blockades will probably outweigh the saved ships. Also, it takes forever to attack a port on the other side of the map from your ships.
If you haven’t noticed, tactics in land battle are pretty simple. However, strategies build around the tactics, so they are actually kind of important.

All of the units have a damage rate (ranged and melee), absorb rate (I personally think the value on the chart is misleading), movement rate, and most importantly, a priority level.

The damage rate is about the same for all units. Yes, this is a lie, but damage seems pretty irrelevant in my experience. The other factors are all more important.

The most important factor is priority. Because defending artillery gets extra range, the attackers must get hit before even being in range to hit enemies. Priority lets you send light cavalry (high priority) in front of cannon to draw fire from your light artillery (high priority, but not as high as light cavalry), which can then shoot up the opposing artillery unmolested. The big advantage to high priority armies is that they get to reinforce/attack before low priority armies. In other words, an army of 2 light cavalry and 3 light artillery can attack a province before the reinforcements of 6 heavy artillery arrive. The artillery will still reinforce, but it occurs in a different battle in which the light units are defending. From experience I can tell you that despite the superior numbers of the heavy artillery, they will get cut to pieces by the light cavalry alone. Remember, in fights, the defenders move first, so the cavalry and light artillery will run up and dice the slow units before they even fire a shot.

This leads to one of the few strategic elements of war in imperialism: DO NOT ATTACK WITH HEAVY INFANTRY/HEAVY ARTILLERY.

That’s it. Those units are great on defense, though, so do make some. The idea is to make death squads of light units so you can run rings around enemy units. With light units, you can attack a province before it is reinforced, which lets you not only have an easier battle taking the province but nets you loads of free kills on the reinforcements since your fast units move at the beginning of the battle. Heavy units with support from light units are more dynamic on offence, although I never find myself needing them.
Also, don’t take provinces you don’t need when attacking a great power. It just spreads your soldiers thin. The only times I ever take a province is to get much needed resources or to take control over a key province. Think Alsace/Lorraine; if you take a province that reduces your border size, you get more soldiers in each province. This also makes it cheaper to build forts. Speaking of which, don’t ignore the forts. They let you win battles you shouldn’t win. Build them on the border with great powers that you can’t invade and in your rich provinces on the sea. Eventually you will want them everywhere.

This information is pretty pathetic, and probably self evident, but hopefully I have got you thinking about army construction as opposed to mindlessly cranking off 20 heavy artillery.

A very effective trick once you have unlimited resources and some experience with the game is to build up units in anticipation of a technology upgrade. For example, the Bessemer converter lets you recruit and upgrade awesome sharpshooters and worthless scouts. If you build up 40 or so light infantry before the technology is introduced, you can upgrade them all on the turn that you get the technology while everyone else is recruiting them. You will get them one turn early! If you remember to declare war early, you can wreak havoc for one turn! The most effective upgrade is to level 3 artillery. If you are loaded on gas and arms, the upgrades will make your military invincible for a turn. I fought thirty or so battles once after pulling this trick with level three light artillery and won them all.

Alliances, public relations, and some economics

Be careful who you ally yourself with, as you don’t want to get dragged into a war. Good allies are countries that share borders with a country that is a threat. That way, if you get dragged into war, the dangerous border countries will be tied up fighting your allies. Prussia and Italy can gang up on France for example. Or France can ally with A-H if the Huns have a solid alliance with the Russians. An Italy-Turkey alliance blows.

Also, an alliance is worthless in my opinion if it isn’t put to use. Get a couple of nations together and beat down on the less popular, weaker nations. It kind of reminds me of high school. My favorite target is France.

You’ll notice that the computer players have different strategies. I Didn’t notice this until I started playing as Italy every game. Try playing as one of the wannabe Great Powers (Italy and the Ottoman Empire) and just watch the computer go at it. I think Britain is the best computer player; its diplomacy is awesome. If you’re playing against the computer, you should take their strategies into account when making alliances (i.e. ally with Britain fool!).

An alliance is usually built on good relations. To get these you need to trade with a great power. This means you’ll actually want to subsidize great powers. Normally a great power only sells crap like clothes. But if you put out a bid for steel for several turns, great powers will start offering you steel. These subsidies let you get first dibs on the steel, since once there is steel up for bid other great powers will want it. Also, if you are not a great power, like Italy, you shouldn’t act like one. Put your raw materials up for sale if you can’t process them. It gets you cash and improves relations. Subsidies I think help computer great powers buy from you. Alliances will naturally stem out of trade relations.

Tyggermeltdown’s Imp 1 scenario utilities

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:13:38 +0000

MapCreator — Create new Imperialism I maps from bitmaps
MapEditor — Edit Imperialism I maps cell by cell
ProvinceChanger – Change a province from one country to another.
RailWriter — Edit rail lines on Imperialism I maps, cell by cell

To compile the text file that MapCreator builds, you will also need ImpEdit v2. This zip includes two simple programs; compile.exe and decomp.exe, plus simple documentation, that allows for relatively easy modification of the scenarios that come with Imperialism. These files are all available in the Files section of Imp_list. Help in using these utilities can be found on Imp_list.

Dr Spet’s world map

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:00:58 +0000

Thanks to Dr Spet, there is now a world map for Imp 1. He has also provided three scenarios using the map. They are all available from the Yahoo Group’s files section. (You’ll need to join the group to access the page.) The map and scenarios were created using Tygger’s MapCreator utilities, which are also available for download from another folder in the files area.