Appernetly many are playing Empire total war here, one maybe have
to purchase it, can anybody tell me a little about it, I have searched
the net but cannot get any detailed information, for instance do you
build your own ships? how does recruitment been handled? What about
manufacture? Money handling and so forth.
http://www.totalwar.com/empire/
1. Yes you have to build your own ships.
2. Recruitment is handled by recruiting in your cities but how many you can recruit from a region/city is dependent on the population of the region and how much gold you have of course. As well as the type of soldier-unit you can recruit is based on what military buildings you have constructed in the city.
3. Manufacturing is held by the various new things you can build within a region (Iron Mines, fur pelt trapper hut, farmstead, bawdyhouse, church etc) and build them up to get greater revenue or effect as you also research new technology in your Manufacturing tech tree.
4. Money Sources come from taxes on the lower and noble classes as well as trade between your various provinces, other nations (that you have acess too and the goods you make/have from working on manufacturing), and if your navy ships control certain 'special trade' areas on the seas in certain trade zones (Brazilian coast, Ivory coast, Strait of Madagascar, and East Indies).
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Hmm read up abit on Cossacks...maybe if they revolted and caused Russia and Poland-Lithuania abit more trouble....they would be distracted from Sweden quite abit.