All you need to win Serf City is a strong military.
This is easy. Just make sure your fiefdom's farmers are growing enough wheat to feed the hogs and keep the windmills churning out flour for the bakers. You need bread and meat for the miners - otherwise they'll go on strike. Those miners provide coal for forges, iron ore for tools and weapons, gold ore for paying soldiers, and granite for buildings. Anyway, eventually your well-fed and armed soldiers are supposed to crush your computer opponents.
Serf City is Lemmings with microeconomics. Or maybe it's Sim City with knights. Whatever this strange game is, it's hugely engrossing. You lay out roads, direct your serfs to construct buildings (there are 24 different kinds), and then sit back and watch as they go about completing their tasks. The forester wanders about plugging seedlings into the ground. Busy porters carry supplies from one building to the next.
Setting up armies is dangerously mesmerizing. Spend too much time watching the geologist dig test holes, and the armed forces of your neighbor will show up at your gates and hand you your butt.
Serf City: Life Is Feudal for DOS: US$49.95. Strategic Simulations Inc.: +1 (408) 737 6800, fax +1 (408) 737 6814.
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