SETTLERS
    (Or why I am obsessed with little men who wear blue.)

                           By Sox

I bought Settlers after trying an hour's demo on a free disk.
After a couple of days, I knew that I had to try the real thing,
because to say that this game is addictive is an understatement.
My brother and I discuss our various settlements with great
interest, and should I happen to have a spare hour I am almost
always found "Settlin'".  I am on Mission 12, all of the mission
levels have passwords, and have spent three days feuding with my
three neighbours who all seem to have better castle sites than me.
When you get past mission 10, the computer chooses where to site
the castle and so you have to make the best use of the resources
etc.

The Settlers themselves are reproducing very slowly and it's a
finite world this time so after a while there are no new Settlers
to become knights or miners.  As an unemployed transport worker
cannot become a blacksmith, (I expect it's something to do with
unionisation), it makes things rather tricky when all of the
knights have been killed in skirmishes with the red colony and the
armourer is still churning out swords.

Whenever I feel that I'm going round in circles, I go back to the
training missions where the enemy are wimps and the world is my
oyster. There's nothing quite as satisfying as owning so much gold
that bags of it can sit at a crossroads, whilst bread is passed on
the the mining community. Pass me that megalomaniac hat, I'm off
again!!

Settlers and low level power hunger, are so addictive that I have
been bloodshot and shaky with PC-abuse since July, what better
recommendation do you need?

@~Settlers comes from Blue Byte, RRP œ39.99, for the PC and Amiga.


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