Thanks to JuBuanArt for making the settler art in the thumbnail! Check them out in the top link in the description 😎

The way these pioneers move each individual post to move your border outwards was the most interesting thing to me back then.

When i read "race" i needed to proofcheck it. In German it is called "Volk" wich translates as "people". And the narrator voice is just simple High-German (Hochdeutsch) without any acting.

7:15 In german publications this effect was called the "Wuselfaktor" and became a genuine factor in judging city builder games. "Cultures" has a similar Wuselfaktor.

People joke about game manuals, but when you just bought a boxed game with your parents and read the (sometimes very elaborate, for example C&C TIberium Sun and the original Cossacks each had an amazing) manual for the game in eager anticipation to get home and sit through 10 mins of installation, it honestly felt a little magical. There is something about delayed gratification.

finding out im a year older then you was an experience

Settlers 3, 4 has a forever spot in my heart for it's streamlined, yet surprisingly satisfying gameplay loop. There's something special about watching little dudes carry around materials, work, or build, that makes the game enjoyable even in the most mundane moments of your campaign. I've yet got to play a game that bests the satisfaction I get from conquering enemies and then planning out the land under new management. This video certainly brought back some great memories, I wish more people covered the early settlers games on youtube, but what can I expect when the entire series essentially belongs in a museum lol
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Fantastic game, Iove the video

Race historically had a meaning closer to a group of kinsmen than the broad groups we use it for today.
Going to an 1883 dictionary, the example for race it uses is the "Alban race", meaning the Scottish.

The amount of details and animations in this game is amazing.

1:16, the one and only😈

Egyptians are considered the hardest because 1. They rely mostly on stone, which is not renewable, so they need to keep expanding territory to keep the supply available, 2. Their buildings are larger than other races', they need more space, and take longer leveling the ground. 3. Having stone be the main building material is troublesome in that if you need more than 8 of it then often the building proces will be interrupted in wait for more stone. Wood is used first, then the stone, so when there finally is space to put more stone all the stone gets used before another brick gets transported. 4. Beer is hard to make efficiently and doesnt give extra promotion points unlike rice wine.

The copy protection on this game was hilarious. If it was detected that you played a pirated copy, the game would turn gold into pigs and leave you bewildered as to why your stock of pigs was growing so much while you couldn't ever get gold produced.

i played the settlers a lot back then and i allways ran short on ham. good times.

Amazing. true peak content, underrated youtuber, very entertaining to watch

This is a great video and a great game

The thing i remember most about settlers series was the insane economy web

good shit bro!!!! WORTH THE WAIT

hell ye, it was my first RTS game too, the demo to be precise

I started with the 5th and 6th games in the settler franchise, i really gotta get around to playing the older ones.