First Reactions from the Immortal God-King of Saba

[robphx387]

FOG Empires has transformed Mr. Killian, History & Technology teacher on summer vacation, into Killian the Great, the immortal God-King of Saba.

And the king is pleased!

As someone familiar with AGEOD games, Civilization, civilization (the concept), Total War, and actual history, the basics have been easy to figure out. By carefully sucking up to my important neighbors, i have been able to absorb all my enemies without declaring a single offensive war. 120 years into my immortal reign, I own the Arabian Peninsula, Ethiopia, Nubia, Sudan, Palestine, Judea, and parts of the Iraq/Jordan/Syria area.

I like how, as I expanded, some territories were more pleased than others to be annexed into the empire. Ethiopia adores me more than my own people do. Those pesky Judeans however . . . it took about 20 years and four or five rebellions to settle them down, and loyalty still sucks.

Without my help in defeating their southern and eastern enemies, Egypt would have fallen 40-50 years ago, they keep trading epic defeats with Nasamones--each side attacking with armies half the strength of their opponent's and then losing. neither side bothers to mass their forces credibly and try to win. nor do they make peace. that’s kind of frustrating, as I really want to keep Egypt as a buffer between me and Africa/Mediterranean forces.

However, all is not well in Saba. Despite my building every culture building I can and over half my people working to produce culture--my capitol and adjacent provinces and threatening a revolt. Hopefully I'll figure out a solution to this, ideas?

Additionally, as I discovered while building a 6th and 7th army to react to a possible revolt; units that I used to be able to build in these provinces say I cannot build them because of missing facilities . . . yet those facilities still exist! Anyone know why that might be?

All in all, especially given I still don't have full grasp of all the mechanics yet, it’s been a fun experience that I think will make for great gameplay when I’ve decided to slack off on grading sometime after the 3rd or 4th week of the semester. Oh, and the importing of battles has gone very well too, though it has revealed just hope hopeless and pathetic all my generals are in Empires.