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Micromanagement heaven!

The Settlers 3: Ultimate Collection, an all-time favorite civilization-building strategy bundled with the Quest of Amazons and Mission CD add-ons, is available on GOG.com, for only $9.99

Only a true regent will recognize this sound. It's a little like the ticking of a clockwork mechanism, with all the cogs and sprockets placed carefully, but firmly, in their places. Or like the humming of the bees, flying about in a seemingly chaotic manner but unified by a common purpose ever-present in their hive-mind. There's also a hint of children's laughter and a distant sound of farm animals. A distinctive note of golden coins jingling against each other in the treasury. Finally, an ominous, almost inaudible distant uproar of armed men gathering near the borders. All this, in a perfect unison, is the sound of a living kingdom, and can only be heard from the top of the highest tower of the royal castle. You know this sound quite well, don't you?

In The Settlers 3: Ultimate Collection your goal is to lead a nation to power and glory and your work begins at the very basics. There are many factors and details you need to take into account while you try to establish a working economy and provide your tiny subjects with a superb infrastructure that will allow the state to flourish. The third installment of this cult series no longer requires you to build roads and gives you direct control over your military units. This makes the gameplay a little bit different, but just one look at your tiny loyal settlers going about their tasks and building all those nice little structures will make you feel right at home. The Ultimate Collection comes with the Quest of the Amazons expansion and the Mission CD add-on.

Become the regent supreme and indulge in all the joys of royal micromanagment in The Settlers 3: Ultimate Collection, for only $9.99 on GOG.com.
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Protoss: Also, in Settlers 3 you have limited resources at any time, i.e. no warehouse where you can stock unlimited resources in. There is however a warehouse for limited resources, but that also takes micromanagement, and is mostly useful for gold. Gold now passively boosts the soldiers' power, instead of being used up to upgrade them. Upgrades are done as a side-effect of creating mana - a new resource that is used by priests to cast spells - but don't apply to old soldiers, i.e. it is more resource efficient to build the army late, but the enemy might build it early and overrun you.

In the campaign, if you survive long enough, you'll win easily on most maps.
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overread: You'll nearly always need to produce troops early on since whilst you can hold back, you'll lose swordsmen for the whole time you expand your base outward. So what was first a body of troops is suddenly spread out through the towers and puts pressure on you to make a least a handful of warriors and bowmen to drive off any attacks.
Against the AI it is usually enough to expand with pioneers and build several fortresses close to each other as the only military defense. Although then they can conquer your territory with their towers...
Thankyou sooooo much for making this available! I haven't been able to get this to run reliably for years :D

With the news of Age of Empires 2 getting a facelift I smiled looking forward to getting it, then find out it's shackled to steam :(

Settlers 3 made available drm free - instant buy!
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Hicks233: Thankyou sooooo much for making this available! I haven't been able to get this to run reliably for years :D

With the news of Age of Empires 2 getting a facelift I smiled looking forward to getting it, then find out it's shackled to steam :(

Settlers 3 made available drm free - instant buy!
I've never played this but is it like Age of Empires II or Rise of Nations? If so, it's an instant buy for me.
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Hicks233: Thankyou sooooo much for making this available! I haven't been able to get this to run reliably for years :D

With the news of Age of Empires 2 getting a facelift I smiled looking forward to getting it, then find out it's shackled to steam :(

Settlers 3 made available drm free - instant buy!
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RevGalen: I've never played this but is it like Age of Empires II or Rise of Nations? If so, it's an instant buy for me.
Sort of but not quite. Combat in the game is similar in that it happens in real time with you controlling the troops. However the core of the game is focused around town management and resource management. So a large part of the game is expanding your town over the map with towers and establishing resource structures to harvest and then process the resources.

I think there might be a demo of the game out there on the net; try searching places like Gamershell to see if you can find it.
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overread: I think there might be a demo of the game out there on the net; try searching places like Gamershell to see if you can find it.
I think that demo was bugged, at least in Germany. It gave me a DDraw error when I tried it back in 1998. When I got the full game on christmas 1998, it worked.

Also I wouldn't bet on getting the demo working on a modern system. You can alternatively watch some Youtube Let's Play videos, however.
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Always love the settlers series a good game and some great music.