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Hey folks. Welcome.
I am going to try yet another test video
If you've seen my previous test videos
I'm just slowly working on my skills
at creating Let's Plays.
So this time I'm trying out a new
headset and a new microphone.
The previous microphone was picking up a little too much
sound from my mouth.
And I didn't like hearing it when I played it back
so I'm trying a new headset.
This time I've got Promoted Games enabled.
Last time we tried Kingdom Rush.
This time I was going to try Pirate 101
but that requires a Windows computer
and I'm not playing on a Windows computer
I'm on a Mac. So I was going to
try Empire as the other option for promoted games.
Free online strategy game.
Now, I've never played this before. This is the
first time I'm giving it a shot. So this is all a
brand new experience for me.
What should be my player name?
If I'm building an empire?
I'll edit out my username and password.
OK, well "Emperor Nero" didn't work, but
"Emperor Mark" does,
so we're going to try that.
Does this allow us to...
resize?
Yes, it does.
So I'm going to actually reisize this video
Now I should be at a video size
that should be acceptable for
for me to just turn off
How do I turn off this?
Hang on, I'll just pause this
and then when I come back
I'll figure out how to turn off
the extraneous window decorations.
OK, I searched for about 5 minutes
and couldn't find a solution
The things I've read indicated...
said that you can't remove this bar
or the tabs
Maybe if I search more, I'll find it
but anyway I was more interested in getting
this thing going. So we're gonna
see what we can do here.
I'll play through a little bit of this game
Maybe I'll spend about 10 minutes playing
and see how far we get.
All right, just following along here.
So I need to construct a building.
Pulling up a construction menu...
Just following along with the...
It's telling me to put it righ there. Can I put it out here?
No, it's got to be inside the walls.
All-righty.
Have to close it. That's good.
Go to the world map. Now that we have barracks.
The castle of the king's *** is right in front of us.
This means attack. OK.
We can attack the traitor from three sides.
I'm glad our army is big enough.
"I'll take the flanks, you take the front." OK.
"Move your fighters to the frontal attack."
Use all.
So, so far I'm just clicking what they're telling me to click.
I'm not… I don't know if I'm learning anything
other than how to use the UI.
And now, NOW, after we've won
we get to create a coat of arms.
Yeah, I like that one.
Ugh.
Agh.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
Icon layout.
Yeah, that was pretty good.
Change the icon.
Ooh, it's the windo… the command key.
We have a wolf,
a bear,
a boar
eagle
bat
and then we have symbols.
Keys, sickle, scythe, sword,
crossed swords. Yeah.
Then we can change the color of that sucker.
Yuck.
Black crossed swords - there we go.
Yeah, we'll go with the black.
No, won't do random. Anything else? OK.
I've been granted my own castle.
And one of my first steps is to kill this guy, right?
'Cause obviously he wants to take over.
New assignments.
Build Woodcutter… oh, this is like
Warcraft.
Put him in the castle.
Stone quarry.
Put him in the castle too?
Or do I put him…
I guess, yeah, he's gotta go in the castle.
All right.
"Your plants are now starting to produce resources."
"Here's a small reward."
I have a "plant"?
OK, now I can build barracks level 1, and a tower.
Didn't I already… wasn't I already able to build them?
Click on the tower.
Click Upgrade.
And now I have New Assignments.
It's too bad that the arrow… the mouse cursor
isn't going away.
What do I need to do here?
Oh, I see.
It costs me 5 stone and 31 wood
and how much stone and wood have I got now?
Is there a way to see that?
"Every time you extend the castle wall
you will have more space for buildings."
Uh oh.
OK, good.
All right, so I have to build barracks.
Uh, what's this doing here? Complete, Building Info,
Relocate, or Rotate. OK.
I've already read that one.
Can I build another… oh.
"We can now start training soldiers". OK, please do.
All right, I have to recruit them first.
OK
Aw, I was going to build another tower here.
But I can't close it. It's not letting me close it!
Now it's letting me close it.
Now we've got a farmhouse, a dwelling,
and a defense workship.
Whelp, it's not letting me upgrade that. OK.
So now I need to build a farmhouse.
It's saying go here. Build a farmhouse.
Stick it over there.
Can I upgrade the tower now?
Five stone, 11 wood.
How much stone and wood have I got?
Does it say anywhere?
Yeah, I've got 160
Yeah. Make sure you always
produce more food than your soldiers consume. OK.
Sounds like a good thing.
Man, it's not letting me do anything on my own.
OK, build a dwelling.
Oop, didn't work.
There we go.
But should I...
What's the difference if you move this one
or that one, from one another? OK.
So I'll expand that
that way.
Collect taxes. Yay!
"Click on the money bag to open the tax window."
OK
Thanks for letting me know.
How do I expand this thing?
Oh, I can upgrade it at level 11. OK.
Why are they asleep?
"Rumor has it a band of deserters is sacking your estates
and torching entire villages." OK
How do we do that?
OK, build a defensive workshop
Gotta go to the construction menu.
And go over here
And we can build our defense workshop.
Oh, NOW it's letting me expand.
Twenty-three and seventy-nine.
I have 191 and a hundre….
OK, I can… good.
Oh, new assignments.
"Start production Defense rocks."
Yeah, all right all right.
Right, we're producing defense rocks.
"We are now ready to organize our defenses."
"Open the military menu."
Wow, this is all just...
Hey.
I'm level 4.
Castle Castle.
What? I can't do anything on my own, here.
Woodcutter. Upgrade to level 2.
See, now if I want to do this tower here
it's not letting me upgrade.
"Quest progress required."
New assignments. Build storage level 1.
Wow, this is just like...
Right, where's storage level 1?
No, no, no
No...
How do I build storage level 1?
Oh good. And just when I need 'em...
Yeah, I clicked there.
Oh.
That's what I missed - is these little arrows here.
Storage level 1.
Throw that sucker over there.
Expand this out? Yay.
Boom. How do I expand this wall?
OK, do I have any new assignm… ah, I do.
New message.
OK, well what am I supposed to do?
Oh, I have to build an encampment.
Oh, uh, the encampment has to be within the walls?!
Why does that seem...
…dumb to me?
OK, we're building the encampment. 20 seconds.
Can't do that - I have to get quest progress.
Available from level 6. Available from level 8...
Available from level 16.
These guys are asleep. Why are these guys asleep?
What can I do? I need to do somethign.
"Every army deployed on the world map
needs a commander to lead it."
So I have to build a siege workshop now.
Construction menu.
Siege workshop
Augh, why did that do that?
Put that right there.
Oh, I need 138 wood, OK.
I have plenty of stone… oh, no I've got 368 wood.
So I can either buy it with gems,
or buy it with...
Oh, I have to own a maceman now.
Recruit menu...
Buy some macemen.
It cost 225.
How many coins do I have?
I have 240 gems and 375 coins.
I can… all right.
Sounds good to me. We have 5 macemen.
But how do I do....
See, it's greyed out, so it's probably saying
I can't expand any more.
Oh, available from level 5. Oh, OK.
Interesting. All right. So now we just hang out.
All right, this seems like a good place to pause the game.
Where can I pause the game?
Log out
Zoom out.
Settings… help
Zoom in… forum… logout. OK.
Well, we'll call it a night.
So long!