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[City Builder]

First off let me invite anybody that is playing (should I say able to play) The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom, please feel free to add your own Hints, Tips or walkthroughs to this thread.  It will be stickied so that it's easy for anybody that is looking for it, to find.  I can't do it myself, my memory isn't that good.

Also use the icon that looks like a radiation symbol that appears in the row of icons above the message body when you post any tips, hints, cheats, walkthroughs etc so that people that don't want to immediately read it, won't have to, they'll have to click on the spoiler link in your post to read it.

Thanks,

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[City Builder]

I'll start off with Campaign Map 6 and 7 since they are both reasonably fresh in my mind how I managed to win the maps.  Remember there are multiple ways to win, and as such I'd welcome anybody else that wants to post hints, tips, walkthroughs on the same campaign maps, the more the merrier, it will be interesting to see how many different ways people managed to win the campaigns.


Campaign Map 6 [Expanding an Empire]

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Ok, I just finished replaying this one and while I got the victory again I want people to be sure they understand that there are multiple ways of winning this.  Anywho, this is how I did it. (a bit sloppy so my apologies.)

1. Buy as many troops as you can afford right starting into the game.

1A. Place down the basics to start earning you gold, i.e. farms with grain, and houses with breweries, a stone mine, a hunter.

2. Move your troops as far as they will go towards draconian, when you get to the sector two away from him (not the one with the iron, stone and fish, the one just west of that) upgrade it quick as you can to wood towers .

2A.  Wait for Draco to attack the sector with the iron, stone and fish, after the battle he should be down to about 1 or 2 pikemen only, so go in with your 6 to 9 troops (you should still have plenty of cavaliers) and wipe him out of that sector. You now own the sector right next to his, your new sector is the one with the iron, stone and fish.  Quickly build your towers to wood, and then again quickly to stone so that you keep him out.  With a stone tower he should never attack you.  However he will turn around and go for the VP at the top of the hill, that one large sector that gives him one VP.

3. In the meantime keep building  farms for grain, and breweries and noble houses with sausage makers.  You will also need to build the usual stuff like the stone miners, hunters and fisherman.  It's all about the beer.  Beer, beer, and more beer to sell for gold to buy the troops that you will need to move into the sector right next to Draco.

4. By the time you have taken over the sector right next to Draco, you should have 2 VP, because you are going to spam large prestige items everywhere you can so that you can get that VP for having more than Draco does.

5. To win the scenario you simply only need to build the traders building, and send the 15 sausages over to the Tree, then wait out the countdown timer.

You will win multiple "awards" for conquest, etc, what I did was to take almost all stone and lumber boards, and finally fancy food too. This ensured that I could upgrade my sectors with lumber or stone, and have a slight boost to the needed fancy food to give to the tree to get the VP.

The key here is to make it over to the sector next to draco and reinforce it with stone towers so that you essentially block him from attacking you.  But don't do it all by yourself, let draco come in with his troops to try to takethe sector with the stone, iron and fish for himself, you should already be in the sector right next to this one, and once he fights it out with the neutrals, he will be down to just a couple pikemen, so take your 6 to 9 troops and simply wipe him clean out of there, your 6 to 9 troops against his 1 to 2 is no match he will lose and you will gain the sector with only losing maybe 1 or 2 troops at most.  You are now firmly embedded in the sector right next to him.  Don't dilly dally with iron mines and the other junk, concentrate on food production to get the 15 sausages you need to get the VP from the tree.

I wish I could write up these walkthroughs better than this but its' really just not my thing I guess.  Anyway, i hope this helps.

Campaign Map 7 [Steam over the Meadows]

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I found Campaign Map 7 to be a real anxiety ridden map when the campagin 7 firrst started.  I was confronted with my opponent showing off her 18 military units as she wandered around the map taking over sectors to get into position to attack my main starting settlement, it had me doing some knee jerk reactionary buldings that probably could have been avoided.

What I found to be the single most important key to this map in the campaign was one simple thing, upgrading your settlement to the "rock" level (level 2).  It would appear that by the time that your opponent, (what's her name, Rovyn?) has traversed through the sectors to get to your front door, she should be down to about 10 +/- units in her military group I.

While I don't know what actual troops are in her military unit 1, I think I can safely say that it didn't contain anything powerful enough to break down my stone towers (2 on a settlement with stone walls) so she did nothing but stand there and stare at my stone walls while I tried to figure out what to do, and how to gain more rock now that my initial supply had dwindled quite low from the early upgrade of the settlement to level 2.  To gain access to settlement upgrade 2 I had to place a lot of prestige items, all of them of the large variety using 3 stone each which is why I was so low on stones by this point.

So, in the beginning what I did was to place many lodges, foresters, loggers and an occasional sawmill or two.  As soon as I had procurred some pikesmen and musketeers from the tavern I immediately took over the land south east of me (the one that doesn't have towers to protect itself) and built the gold mine, more lodges with loggers, foresters and an occasional sawmill.  I also built more farms to produce grains to produce fancy food to help with my musketeer enlistment.

When I had more units I then took over the lands across the bridge to the south, and built up some fisheries and store house.  I immediately went west since I had enough troops left over to overwhelm the neutrals to the west.

By this point I had thought for sure that Rovyn would have been chomping at the bit to attack me so I moved my forces back to my main settlement, and by this point I had completely run out of rock and had no sectors nearby that had rock, but after a while I calculated up the odds of winning and went back over the bridge and went two sectors to the west where I found a stone quarry and so took over both sectors.

I gathered up more forces  (aproximately 13, with 3/4th of them musketeers, the rest pikesmen) and attacked the observatory, who had about 8 by this time and cleaned them off for the last remaining victory point.

If you have any questions please post and i'll see if I can remember what you want to know about his map if possible.

[pad11]

Don't Fall Victim to Economic Panic, or "How I drank myself rich!":

The one thing that I have found to be a saving grace when various maps or scenarios make it difficult to get your economy going is BEER.

Beer can be used to recruit acolytes who can convert territories w/out military action.  Beer can be used to trade for gold in the tavern.  Beer is good.  Beer can make you smile, and beer makes Homer a passable father and husband!

Beer is like...well...magic!

So anytime you're saying to yourself, damn, where is the copper, where is the gold....just remember, if you plant two farms w/ five fields, a windmill and a residence w/ two breweries and a bakery, you've got yourself a mighty fine start to economic stability!

later,
pat!

[City Builder]

Great Tips Pat, I'm going to try them out tonight when I get home from dinner with the parents.  I generally fall victim to economic panic myself when I don't see needed resources close enough to me to help.

I guess I really need to think outside the box more.

[MickyD]

I'll start off with Campaign Map 6 and 7 since they are both reasonably fresh in my mind how I managed to win the maps.   

kewl. . . cant wait for map 6 im stuck and am its driving me nuts

[Nefartari]

One thing that I discovered yesterday is the ability to make miners, hunters, fishers, etc.  work in other areas without having to tear down the lodge and rebuild it somewhere else.

If you click on the work camp you will see a little set of brackets with arrows.   If you then click in that bracket area you can then click somewhere else on the map that contains the resource and the people from that work camp will go to that area and continue working.

Another great hint is unlocking the geologist.   Once unlocked if a mine runs out of resources and you change all the miners to geologists, the miners will continue to work that mine and even though it takes longer will continue to be able to pull resources from it along with occasionally bringing out stone which will help if you are running low on stone.

My last hint is with prestige.   If you need prestige and you have a church, then create your clerics and let them do some technology upgrades.   You will get instant prestige.   For a big prestige upgrade try unlocking the ornamental area of the tech.   It raises you two points or more.

[City Builder]

The thing with Geologists is that I babysit them, what I mean is that I keep an eye on them and the resources that they are geolosizing (not a real word Im sure), so that when their mine is back up to full amount of the ore that it originally had I change them back to full time mining so as to maximize the ore instead of getting more rock in there.  Of course it depends on whether i need rock too and don't have any stone mines to get it from in which case I just leave them to geologist so that I get both.

And when I need a mass amount of rock for say a public works project like converting all roads to streets, then all miners get changed into geologists to maximize the amount of stone since it takes a lot of stone to pave the streets.

Edit Oh and sorry about campaign map 6, I forgot about it for so long that now it's not fresh in my mind to write it up, but if I have the time and desire I'll replay campaign 6 and then do it.  Or if anybody else wants to do a write up for campaign 6, feel free.

[Nefartari]

Oh I wasn't aware that the mines would replenish on their own.   I thought when the mine ran out, that was it.   So they do replenish on their own?

[City Builder]

They only replenish with the use of a geologist.  You can let them sit there on their own without a geologist from now until doomsday and they will stay empty, but once the geologist goes to work in the mine he does one of three things (maybe it's only 2 things)...
1. He finds stone and brings out a piece of stone
2. He finds the ore that was in the mine and now the mine that said 0 ore will now say 1 ore.
3. He doesn't find stone or ore.

The thing that I am unclear on, is whether the geologist leaves the ore in the mine and only brings out the stone.  I wonder this because I've tasked a geologist onto one of my mines, and when I finally got around to looking to see what was going on with that mine it showed that it had 40 pieces of ore inside of the mine, this leads me to believe that the geologist simply found more ore in the mine but didn't bring it out like he did the stone in which case you'd either want to babysit the mine and turn the geologist back into a miner or have a second (or 2nd and 3rd) miner that you do not make into a geologist.

Of course there is another possibility, which is that he found more than one piece of ore.  And since he was on regular or no food he only brought out one piece of ore and over time it built up to the point where the mine was full again.  I'm going to assume that it's just that he discovered the ore but didn't bring it out and that the geologist while finding stone or ore only brings out the stone while working as a geologist.

So in a nutshell, no the mines don't auto replenish on their own, they need the geologist to discover more ore inside of them.

[Nefartari]

They do continue to bring ore out.   I tasked 3 miners as geologists on an empty gold mine and about every 3rd trip they would bring out gold ore.   The other trips would be nothing or stone.

Now what I do is task one of the geologists with finding more minerals and the other 2 to continue mining as geologists.   I think when you do that there is a possibility that they might find an additional vein of ore.