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You control a powerful and proud empire, whose greatness is equaled only by the Catena Empire. However, the Catena Empire is also your greatest enemy. For four hundred years both empires have been at war with each other. The world was split into two, territory and borders changed hands with every victory and defeat.
Then came the Great Fracture, the old world was gone, the great continental battlefields no more. Instead, the world was now just a myriad of shards, floating islands in the sky. Now it has become a race to control these floating shards and defeat the enemy empire before they do. Only one empire can rule the skies...
Starting a new game, you’ll be able to choose the games difficulty, Normal, Hard and Very Hard. Normal difficulty, the enemy’s power will grow at a slower pace, intervals between Corsair raids are also longer. This difficulty is for those who want to focus more on the city building and recommended for those inexperienced in 4X games. Hard difficulty the enemies power grows at a normal pace, this is how the games is supposed to be played and is for experiences 4X players. Very hard difficulty the enemy power grows at a faster pace and the Corsair attacks are also shorter. This is for those players who are looking for a bit of a challenge where every turn matters. There is also a check box to turn the tutorial on should you wish.
There are three Game Modes, Default, Builder and Sailor although before you can play the Builder and Sailor modes you will have to first complete the Default mode. Next, you’ll have to design your empire’s coat of arms, there are fifteen shield designs and one hundred one designs which you can add to the shield. There are three sections of the coat of arms which you can change the colours. The last step before your game starts is to give your empire a name.
The game is split into two sections, you have the World map and the Building Map, and you can switch between both at any point in the game. The build map shows you where you’ll start building your empire. You begin with three shards in which to start building upon. There are three types of shards, you have the Wetlands, Forest and Mountain, these three shards are the beginnings of your Capital Island. To get started you will have to place a Market, the market can only be placed down on either the forest or wetlands shards.
Each of the shards are divided into hexagon tiles ranging from one to three tiles. Not everything you build can be placed on certain shards, Food can only be grown on Wetlands, Gold is found in the Mountains and in the Forest, you have Production. These are your main resources in which to build your empire and defeat the Catena’s.
Other buildings can be built on wetlands and forests but first you will have to pave the land before being allowed to build on a tile. Most buildings can only be built on paved wetlands or forests, mines are built in the mountains. The market will bring in some resources each turn to help you get going but you’re going to more. Building farms on the wetlands will bring in Food, this will allow your population to grow thus allowing new citizens to arrive. Building a Sawmill in the forest will allow you to collect Production, this will allow you to build new buildings. Buildings require resources, gold and food and will cost some resources for their upkeep. Gold is mined from the mountains which will bring in some gold each turn.
Along with the farm, mines and sawmills you will need buildings such as the cartographer, warehouse, training camps and a lot more some of which will require you to unlock them the from Reseach Tree. One of the buildings you require is the shipyard, without one of these you’re not going to get anywhere. Once built you can produce three types of ships, the Galleon, the Settler and the Tug. The Galleon is your attack vessel and your main ship for travelling around the world, the Settler is for colonising new territory and the Tug is to link new shard parts in the world to your Capital Island and extending your territory.
Your Capital Island sits in one of many Archipelagoes that make up the world. To begin with you can only see your own archipelago, the rest of the world map is hidden and will require you to reveal the world by visiting one archipelago after another. Each archipelago is linked to another via a Strait, with each archipelago containing several floating islands.
The straits are controlled by the enemy, and you will have to defeat them to move into the next archipelago through the strait. You enter combat by moving on to the same tile as the enemy ships or on to a strait under the enemy control and selecting to fight. However, before selecting to move and start combat you can highlight the enemy to see if you’ll be victorious or defeated and it will tell you how many turns it will take to win or lose. Above your ships and the enemy’s ships, straits and some bases in red is their health and attack strength, this is linked together so as your health falls then so will you attack strength.
Upon entering a new archipelago, a new tile will reveal itself, moving on to the tile will reveal what is there. As with your starting archipelago you will have floating islands, on one of these islands there will be a Lair. Defeating the lair will allow you to secure the archipelago, although you will have to send a Settler boat to visit the location. Once the settler boat reaches the lair then the archipelago will turn from the enemies to yours.
Once you have control of the lair you can then decide what type of colony you wish to have. There are three types of colonies, Exploitation, Defence and Trading. Depending on which one you choose, it will give you different types of floating islands. Such as the Exploitation will allow you to turn the floating islands into farms, sawmills and mines give you resources.
A Defence will double the health of the colony and all buildings within that archipelago. It also allows you to recruit Regiments, which is helpful otherwise you’d have to make your way back to your capital for new recruits. You also get the chance to build Gunpowder Depots on the floating islands, this will increase the damage dealt by all towers in all archipelagoes under your control. Building a Trading Colony allows you to trade goods for gold it will also allow you to build Villages which will bring in gold each turn.
You move around the world moving from island to island, and to begin with you have two movement points. This will allow you to move from one island to another island, however found in the research tree is Lighthouse. Researching this will allow you to build lighthouses on each of the floating islands; this will then only cost one point instead of two to move allowing you to move further each turn. There is other research which will add a plus one movement points.
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Positives
+ Nice graphics
+ Challenging but enjoyable to play
+ Three game modes
+ Has achievements
Negatives
- No cards currently
Expand your capital by connecting floating shards of a broken world together, create growth in your population, create an armada and prepare for battle against your greatest enemy, the Catena Empire.
7/10
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