/vr/ - Retro Games

Literally about 4/5 of this entire game is utterly meaningless from a mechanical perspective if you want to play to win. It's the sort of game where you usually win by conquering the map, and to do that you need a military. Soldiers are raised, and then go to forts to train, where they increase in combat by virtue of having a general with good leadership.

Then they decided to graft on to it this really complex and on its own quite interesting set of mechanics for economic activiity, mining, trade, manufacture, research, etc., but after you have enough cash to support your army, the rest of it really means very little.