Empires and Allies: Getting Started and Learning The Ropes
Zynga themselves refer to this game as “Cityville meets Risk” which is pretty accurate but I personally think that the game is much more than that. There are other new features such as multiple commodities such as wood and ores. Add to that a real single player campaign with a loose storyline that is a lot of fun and it is little wonder that this game is currently taking the world by storm.
The basic idea of the game is to build and expand your empire, fighting along the way as you go. There is no free ride to glory so the main constraints are money/resources such as coins, wood, oil and ores, an entire micro-economy. You need these things to construct buildings, build military vehicles and more. Luckily, this guide will show you how you can maintain a healthy supply of these things and expand your empire limitlessly.
The other thing you are limited by is “energy”. You basically use up energy any time you perform an action such as clearing space, firing bullets or doing most things in the game. Unfortunately, you cannot store surplus energy so the name of the game is to try to never run out of energy (like always having gas in the tank). Luckily for you I can show you how to best do that in a new guide called Empires Conquest.
As you do expand and fight, you’ll earn “XP” along the way (experience points). Every time you reach a specific amount of XP you will advance to the next level. This lets you get access to better buildings, better military vehicles and more.
The best way to quickly get going and learn the menus in the game is to play it for an hour as you will be guided through them as part of the regular missions (the icons on the left hand side of the screen). You will basically be told which buttons to click and have your held until you are ready to play without further assistance.
I could carry on but to be honest it would be better for you to check out this information for yourself. Trust me, the tutorial is actually pretty good and doesn’t leave too much out. You’ll eventually learn that the main activities in this game are:
1. Building your military.
2. Building your industry (so that you can do both of the above).
3. Fighting.
4. Constructing buildings throughout the map
This article is a preview to a guide called Empires Conquered which is the only underground guide for Empires and Allies. All the rest are all the same just different covers but this really gets into the ‘nitty gritty’ of the game.
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