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Colonization

Sid Meier's Colonization is a turn-based strategy game themed on early european colonization. In Colonization, players set out to discover and explore the New World, establish colonies, and finally achieve independence from Europe. This is easier said than done, as there are many challenges along the way. - Colonization Fans

Excellent game, classic in every respect, and actually reasonably educational in that it seems to simulate colonial existence pretty well while still being enjoyable. I have only some minor complaints: I've always had stability problems with it, and it virtually completely fails to run under 9 or classic. Neither the French, nor, especially, the Spanish have special abilities nearly as useful as the English or Dutch (and the Dutch, in some ways, have the best, which is interesting, considering the Dutch colonization effort was nowhere near as heavy an influence on later history as the other three.). Resource management is tricky. And the game as a whole is VERY difficult. Not so much in a computer cheats sort of way, like Civ III is difficult, but just plain hard: it's difficult at best to raise any sort of fighting force, and one that compares to the home country's army when you declare independence, harder yet. And even simple colony raising is quite hard with the multiplicity of resources and necessary tasks for a limited pool of colonists.

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