Guides
How to play well: the mechanics that are easy to miss, and what to do about them.
- Military settings and keeping your economy movingHow the eight military sliders, the wood-to-boards chain, and the way military buildings claim land all fit together to explain how fast a settlement can grow.
- Settlers II editions, and where to actually play themA guide to the Gold Edition, 10th Anniversary and History Edition releases of The Settlers II, where to legitimately buy each one, and a no-install browser alternative.
- Settlers II keyboard shortcuts and game speedThe complete key table this port actually binds, read straight from the source, plus how its 80ms-to-10ms game-speed ladder works and why there are no typed cheat codes here.
- Where you can buildBuilding quality explained — why a node offers a hut but not a castle, why mines are a category of their own, and how to read the construction aid.
- Roads, flags and carriersHow the transport network actually works — why flags matter more than roads, what a carrier does with two wares at once, and how a busy road earns a donkey.