Emperor Bonus Campaign

   Download from http://emperor.sierra.com/downloads.jsp

                      Reviewed by Sue

Bev Truter told me about this download and I was a bit confused 
because when I went onto the UK site, I couldn't find it. The 
reason is that it isn't on all the sites. I found it on the American 
one, whose address is given above.

The download is 48.5 meg in size, which isn't a problem if 
you've got broadband but will take a long time with a modem. Of 
course, you'll also need Emperor installed. The campaign 
consists of events in the life of Emperor Jin Wudi (aka Sima 
Yuan) and has three parts. These concern the Kingdom of Wu 
and your efforts to bring it back under the Emperor's rule. 

The Battles of the Three Kingdoms raged for 40 years until your 
father brought victory to the Emperor's troops and crushed the 
leaders of the kingdom of Shu. Now only Wu stands alone, 
preventing China from being reunited. In the first part, you have 
recently taken over the town of Louyang. This is rich in silk but 
poor in cash. You must use its natural resources and industry to 
refill its coffers which are almost empty. You also have to 
increase the population, bring the standard of living up so that 
1000 of the people live in ornate apartments, and build a 
splendid temple. 

In the second part, you start the conquest of Wu. You must rule 
two cities and have a good production of weapons and wood to 
be a success. You start this part already ruling one city but its 
leaders soon revolt.  So you also have to bring them back under 
your thumb.

I haven't yet got to the third part so I can't tell you what happens 
in it.

As you know, I haven't got very far into Emperor, so in some 
ways I've leaped ahead trying these missions. I've seen a few 
features in them that I hadn't yet got to in the original game such 
as the lacquer industry. 

Essentially these extra missions are very similar to the full 
game. But I've enjoyed that so much that these have been a 
really nice bonus. I enjoy building monuments - that was one of 
my favourite parts of Pharaoh and Cleopatra. And though 
there's a fair bit of fighting in the second part, and it took a while 
to work out how to approach it, most of it takes place out of 
sight, so you don't actually have to manipulate troops very 
much. Yes, I'd recommend it.








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